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

When Adira asks Zora to scan through the personnel files to find anyone with expertise on ancient manuscripts to help with the latest Progenitors' clue, they are a bit surprised by the result. But of course, it's Jett Reno, the match for "rare and antiquarian bookseller" on the "curriculum vitae"! No further questions needed. Let's go find the Commander!

By her own admission, Reno's résumé has more padding than a Ferengi tax return, particularly regarding the bookseller gig. Nonetheless, back in those 23rd century days, Reno did, it seems, "move hard to find folios for a shady antiquarian archivist." "Try saying that one five times fast," Reno adds to Tilly and Adira in the corridor as she, ever the engineer, prepares Discovery for the imminent arrival of the Breen. Perhaps you can give that tongue twister another go, too, when you've had a few of Reno's "Seven of Limes"!!

Reno is and was already one of Star Trek(:Discovery)'s most delightfully colourful and engaging characters, although not without her own dose of tragedy in the loss of her wife during the Federation-Klingon War. You simply can't help but fall for Tig Notaro's deadpan comedic twists and turns in the role. The extra backstory for Reno in Erigah was as glorious as it was hilarious.

Her other odd jobs on the reams of résumé — to be taken, no doubt, with the same pinch of salt before a 'Seven of Lime' — were "VIP shuttle pilot," "deep mercury welder," and "bartender at a cosy little dive on Aschelan IV" (now there's an Easter egg! See: Cetacean Observations). Reno even joked (?) that she had a guest shift Red's Lounge aboard Discovery that very evening. Reno's conversation with Adira and Tilly is cut short by the very large Breen ship entering overhead, but not before she has provided them with some vital information towards solving the clue.