6 Ups & 1 Down For Star Trek: Lower Decks 5.4 — A Farewell To Farms

When it comes to references, throwbacks, and Easter eggs, I am very much the cha'DIch (second, aide) to Seán's wa'DIch(first). I refer you, brave warriors, to his most honourable Ups & Downs. Oh dear, I have gone full-on Klingon, after all. QI'yaH! (You can translate that one on your own.)

Also getting into the spirit of things this week, Bradward Boimler, in his "Klingon phase". Tenuous link alert, but that reminded me a little of The Doctor's holographic son and his teenage trysts with Klingon culture in the Star Trek: Voyager episode Real Life. It certainly sounded like that acid punk band from A Farewell To Farms was playing live in Jeffrey's room.

Now, sing along with me, won't you?

'ej HumtaH 'ej DechtaH 'Iw (And the blood was ankle deep.)

'ej Doq SoDtaH ghoSpa' SIqral bIQtIq… (And the River Skral ran crimson red…)

Well, if it's in a drinking song, it has to be true! The colour of Klingon blood is practically the stuff of legend — red everywhere, except for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and the Star Trek: Discovery episode Point of Light, in which it was a pink-purple. Klingon blood ran "as reddish-pink as ever," as per Ma'ah when we first met him in wej Duj. It was distinctly pink again in A Farewell to Farms, seen flowing from the stabbings of Ma'ah and Bargh.

And don't forget, you can always have some of that extra bloody bloodwine!