7 Ups & 1 Down From Star Trek: Lower Decks 5.1 — Dos Cerritos

In The Cage, Journey to Babel, AND even in The Time Trap, it's pronounced 'Or-EYE-on'. Then, all of a sudden in The Pirates of Orion, it's pronounced 'Or-EE-on'… and they're also blue!? I feel a song coming on, but let's not call the whole thing off. There's only this season of Lower Decks to go.

In fact, only Lower Decks could pick up on, and point out, such an odd discrepancy in prior Orion naming practices and colour schemes with such deadpan aplomb. More than that, Dos Cerritos adds the mismatch back into canon, making it not a mistake, but a fact. There are blue Orions, and they say "Or-EE-on". There are green Orions, and they say "Or-EYE-on". Got it?

Lower Decks has added more to Orion lore than most. For example, aside from the obvious, we first saw the Orion homeworld in last season's Something Borrowed, Something Green. Coming in reckoning the Collector's Guild right up the Veltan lust idol, Dos Cerritos very much belonged to D'Vana Tendi too.

We learn yet more in the season five opener as D'Vana is sent by sister D'Erika to take possession of an Orion ship "from the time of the great plague over 300 years ago". The Alva IV vessel's design first appeared in the remastered version of Journey to Babel, and then again in Those Old Scientists. On it, as well as blue, there was also a lot of PINK laughing gas. If you know, you'll have been laughing along too!