8 Ups & 2 Downs From Star Trek: Discovery 5.7 - Erigah

Quite the week for Easter eggs, and otherwise noddily nods to Trek lore! We got everything Breen and in-between — from Tribbles to Tellar Prime — and a bit of Betazoid too. Seán will still cover them all most comprehensively, but here are a few to whet your appetite:

 - Cause of L'ak's death tricordrazine, a cordrazine derivative, was first mentioned on screen by Doctor Pulaski in that episode, Shades of Gray.

 - Commander Rayner's "My suggestion: We install thoron emitters on the hull, used with duranium shadows" was a direct reference to similar trickery employed in Emissary, and then most definitely not in Way of the Warrior.

 - Doctor Culber's research into "The Dominion War era" was a doff of the cap and a tip of the dermal regenerator to… well, the Dominion War era…

 - … and did anyone think Flotter (Adventures of…) and/or Trevis when Commander Reno made a comparison to a "holodeck adventure for the littles"?

Speaking of Commander Reno, she had a few more Easter eggs in her arsenal. In fact, if her CV is anything to go by, she probably used to make them too! For this Star Trek: Voyager fan and obsessive, one particular part of Reno's work experience section caught my attention — "bartender at a cosy little dive on Aschelan IV."

Aschelan V was the Cardassian target that B'Elanna Torres had reprogrammed into missile Dreadnought before it then mysteriously disappeared in the Badlands (sound familiar?). Dreadnought had, in fact, been scooped up by the Caretaker, who left it for Voyager (and mostly B'Elanna) to deal with in the Delta Quadrant. In the TrekCulture Infinity Room, we did joke that perhaps Reno meant to say Rakosa V instead! No more 'Seven of Limes' for us!