9 Ups & NO Downs From Star Trek: Lower Decks 5.7 — Fully Dilated

"I waited in a cave until Captain Picard, myself, and some guy in a silver jumpsuit dug me out," said purple Data's head to Tendi. That was one hell of a reference to the cold opener of Time's Arrow. Speaking of purple, in addition to the blue/grey issues, that might have been a reference to the distinctive colour of the NX-01 jumpsuits in season one of Star Trek: Enterprise (before they were toned down a shade).

"Please do not shut me down mid-conversation," was Data's request to Tendi, in quintessentially polite fashion, after she had reactivated him with her antennae. In fact, as we found out in Datalore, the Data from our universe (and so probably the purple one too) had an "off switch" in the middle of his back. The evil twin made terrifying use of it later in that episode.

Others have also turned Data off, whether he liked it or not. You could no doubt excuse Riker for doing so in The Measure of a Man (rock and a hardware place). Hopped up on Ktarian entertainment, Doctor Crusher also deactivated Data mid-expression in The Game. That's not to forget the electrifying manner by which Data was shut down to become a travelling museum piece in The Most Toys.

Finally, continuing the great Lower Decks tradition of bringing beta into alpha canon, at the start of Fully Dilated, T'Lyn states that her "home was in an outcropping of jagged rocks in the Viltan Flats". The Viltan Flats were an area on Vulcan introduced in selected modules of the Last Unicorn Star Trek Roleplaying Game.