• As the episode opens, we see DOT-7 robots repairing the hull of the USS Enterprise; this is the first we’ve seen the DOTs on SNW, though the “Ask Not” short did show that the Enterprise was equipped with them.

• Spock records the stardate as 2251.7 in his personal log.

    • Spock states that it is three months following the events of “Hegemony, Part II” which was a continuation of the events of “Hegemony”, and that was stardate 2344.2, so the SNW stardate madness would seem to continue.

    • At the beginning of the episode, it is three days until the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Federation.

• In stationkeeping at Starbase One, we see:

    • A vessel of the same spaceframe as the USS Archer, seen in “Strange New Worlds”

    • A spaceframe inspired the Larson-class destroyer from the “Demand of Honor” module published by FASA for their “Star Trek: The Roleplaying Game” in 1984.

    • A Nimitz-class starship with updated nacelles, first seen in “Battle at the Binary Stars”

    • A Malachowski-class starship with updated nacelles, first seen in “Battle at the Binary Stars”

    • A vessel of the same spaceframe as the USS Kelcie Mae, seen in “Under the Cloak of War”

    • A vessel of the same spaceframe as the USS Hiawatha, seen in “Brother”

    • A Bellerophon-class starship, first seen in “A Quality of Mercy”

    • A Shepherd-class starship with updated nacelles, first seen in “Battle at the Binary Stars”

• La’an is teaching Spock to dance, recalling the scene from “Data’s Day” where Doctor Crusher teaches Data how to dance. Both are too stiff.

• ”Perhaps that is why Vulcans, as a rule, do not dance.” Tuvok insisted ”Vulcans do not dance” in “Homestead” before performing a small dance later in the episode.

    • In “Whom Gods Destroy” Spock stated that Vulcan children do dance in nursery school.

    • In “Fusion” Kov claimed that Vulcans dance, “Only when it’s part of some tedious ceremony.”*

• Scotty is still aboard the Enterprise and he arrives to operate the transporter. Scotty was frequently in charge of the transporter in TOS, and though it has yet to be said on screen, the phrase, ”Beam me up, Scotty,” is an intrinsic part of Trek pop culture.

• This is the first we’ve seen La’an wearing the skant style uniform.

• It’s Doctor Roger Korby! From Star Trek! Except this would be the first actual appearance of Korby, as the Roger Korby seen in “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” was an android whom the original Korby transferred his consciousness into to save his own life, but removed all his human flaws.

    • Apparently Korby also removed his accent during the transfer, and somehow Chapel did not notice. Granted, she will have also lost all semblance of a personality by that point.

• We learn that Korby has published 234 papers on archeological medicine. In “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” Spock states that Korby was ”often called the Pasteur of archeological medicine.”

• Spock is surprised to learn that Korby is there as Chapel’s date, but from “What Are Little Girls Made Of?”, we know that when he goes missing, presumably later this same year, Korby and Chapel will be engaged to be married.

• Pike claims he doesn’t know what all the medals he has are for. In “Choose Your Pain” Pike was included in a list of five of Starfleet’s most decorated officers, when we see Pike’s service record in “Brother”, he has 17 different awards listed, including a Cardassian Legate’s Crest of Valor.

• Chapel attempts to return the book that Spock gave her, and he says he still desires for her to have it. In “Star Trek Beyond” Spock told Uhura, ”It is not the Vulcan custom to receive again that which was given as a gift.”

• It’s Trelane! From Star Trek! Maybe! Trelane was originally portrayed by William Campbell in “The Squire of Gothos” and the Wedding Planner is played by Rhys Darby here. Also, we briefly see the Wedding Planner’s Vulcan appearance in a reflection, and for that moment he was portrayed by Myles Dobson who also played a Vulcan waiter in “Strange New Worlds”

    • According to Akiva Goldsman, the character credited as The Wedding Planner is Trelane. Certainly they have similar appearance, including Trelane’s distinctive muttonchops and medals but there are some notable differences as well.

      • In “The Squire of Gothos” Trelane’s appearance, affect, and the home he created on Gothos are implied to be based on the 14th century because Gothos is 900 lightyears away from Earth, and Trelane’s information was based on his observations at the time.

      • Trelane claims he did not believe humans were capable of space travel in “The Squire of Gothos”, again basing his information on observations of Earth 900 years out of date.

      • Trelane’s preoccupation in “The Squire of Gothos” is strictly martial. He claims to be a retired general, and wishes to speak with Kirk about matters of death and war. He views humans as a predator species.

      • In “The Squire of Gothos” Trelane does not recognize Spock, nor does he appear to be familiar with Vulcans, asking Spock if they’re predatory when they first meet.

    • There is a chiming sound effect associated with the Wedding Planner similar to, but not identical to the one used in “The Squire of Gothos” to indicate a usage of Trelane’s powers.

• The Wedding Planner references the Vulcan kal-if-fee, a ritual combat in which the woman who declared the kal-if-fee becomes the property of the victor. This was first seen in “Amok Time”

• ”Perhaps an improbability field. We once entered one that made us…sing.” Spock is referring to the events of “Subspace Rhapsody”.

• Spock tells Sam that ”No one likes your moustache,” once again demonstrating the common wisdom that Vulcans cannot lie is nonsense.

• Pike claims that one of Spock’s favourite dishes is jumbo mollusk. Spock, like most Vulcans, is depicted as vegetarian, and in “All Our Yesterdays” is upset with himself when he regresses to an earlier point in Vulcan evolution and consumes animal flesh.

• ”Honestly, I’m not really much of a drinker.” By the time of TOS, Scotty is practically a functioning alcoholic who was tasked with drinking an alien cosmic horror under the table in “By Any Other Name”.

• The morning of the wedding the Wedding Planner is in the bed beside Spock, recalling the time Captain Picard woke up next to Q in “Tapestry”.

• He says if I don’t play along, he’s going to wish us all into a cornfield.” Korby alludes to “The Twilight Zone” episode, “It’s a Good Life”.Trip mentioned “The Twilight Zone” in “Carbon Creek”, and two Trek guest stars, Bill Mumy who played Kellin in “The Siege of AR-558” and Don Keefer who played Cromwell in “Assignment Earth” appeared in “It’s A Good Life”.

• We see Scotty wearing a kilt, with the same white and black tartan he was depicted wearing in “Is There In Truth No Beauty?”

• An energy cloud voiced by John de Lancie arrives to the wedding. In “The Squire of Gothos” , timely intervention by Trelane’s parents also interrupted his childish antics.

    • Again, according to Akiva Goldsman, this episode is supposed to make canon the connection between Trelane and the Q Continuum first posited in the novel “Q-Squared” written by Peter David, and published in 1994. And again, there are some issues/

      • If we accept the fact that the Wedding Planner is Trelane, it is uncommon for a Q to be named anything other than Q. Quinn adopted the name to differentiate himself from Q for the sake of the USS Voyager’s crew. Amanda Rogers was raised as a human. Every other member of the Continuum we’ve met has gone by Q, including Q Junior.

      • The Wedding Planner/Trelane is presented as being a child of their or his species. We’re told he’s 8,020 years old, Q Junior had the mannerisms of a teenager at four human years of age.

      • In “The Q and the Grey”, Q claims that he is not cut out for raising a child himself, stating he’s more of ”An ideas man.”

      • We see both Trelane’s parents in “The Squire of Gothos” as energy beings, but in “The Q and the Grey” Q claims that two Q have never mated before.

• The bartender hired for the Federation Day celebration is an Edosian, notable because the species has only previously appeared in animated form, first showing up in the TAS premiere, “Beyond the Farthest Star”.

    • Previous Edosians we’ve seen have had three fingers on each hand, but this individual has very human, five fingered hands.

• The episode begins where “Hegemony” ended, with Captain Pike [Anson Mount] in a state of shock as the Gorn starships attack the USS Enterprise.

• Number One [Rebecca Romijn] suggests jamming the Gorn communications so they can’t co-ordinate attacks, similar to how in the Kelvin universe, the the crew aboard the USS Franklin was able to override the drone swarm’s signal in “Star Trek Beyond”. Presumably due to budgetary constraints, Uhura uses a Beastie Boys soundalike as opposed to actually broadcasting “Sabotage” this time.

    • It was established that the Gorn use light for ship to ship messaging in “Memento Mori”

• Spock [Ethan Peck] suggests tagging the Gorn destroyer with an element called wolkite that will allow it to be tracked through subspace. In “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country” Spock put a viridium patch on Kirk’s uniform so that he and Doctor McCoy could be tracked after being taken prisoner by the Klingons. And, in “Star Trek Beyond” Spock suggests a necklace he gave Uhura could be used to locate her thanks to its unique radiation, though he claims he did not originally intend to gift his girlfriend a tracking device.

• Season three opening credits changes:

    • There is a slightly different angle on the close up of the bussard collector

    • At approximately 42 seconds in, the season two opening featured a port side profile the saucer bathed in an orange light, whereas the season three iteration shows the ship traveling through a green gas cloud

    • At approximately 51 seconds, the season two opening showed a close-up of the secondary hull as the sEnterprise travelled away from a glowing orb at about a ¾ angle, and in season three, we have a low angle on the starboard side of the secondary hull which pulls out to reveal the ship traveling away from a fiery burst

    • Season two’s opening showed the Enterprise traveling through the atmosphere of a planet with what appears to be extremely large plant stalks at 55 seconds, and season three’s intro does the same, but this time it appears to be at night, whereas season two’s was in the morning

    • About 67 seconds into the season two opening, the Enterprise is flying towards a tower in a planetary atmosphere, and in season three, we see it traveling through planetary ring with a Klingon D7 battlecruiser in the foreground

    • At 70 seconds in, on the season two opening, the Enterprise is flying through the planetary ring, but there’s no Klingon ship and the asteroids are on fire, and in the season three sequence, the Enterprise is flying towards the aforementioned tower, but the landscape is snow and ice, as opposed to clouds or mist

    • Approximately 72 seconds in, and the Enterprise is flying through an asteroid field in the season two opening, and in season three it’s is flying in orbit of a tiny green planet

    • Season two’s opening has the same tiny green planet sequence at approximately 75 seconds, and season three’s intro features a shuttlecraft leaving the shuttlebay before the Enterprise warps away

    • At 77 seconds, in season two, the Enterprise is flying above some glowing green volcanoes or craters, and in season three we see one of Starbase One’s biome pods with some mountains surrounded by water, with the shot eventually zooming out to show more of the starbase and the attending fleet; In addition to Enterprise and other Constitution-class, or Sombra-class starships, spaceframes featured include:

      • What appears to be design inspired by the NX-01

      • A freighter with a number of cargo pods

      • A starship with underslung nacelles and a dorsal mission pod

    • Approximaety 80 seconds in to season two’s opening, we see a Starbase One biome pod with a snowcapped mountain

• When the Enterprise drops out of warp into the fleet, we see the USS Pablo Picasso, which is the same spaceframe as the USS Kelcie Mae from “Under the Cloak of War”.

    • There appears to be Nimitz-class starships with new, cylindrical nacelles, as part of the fleet.

• In Pike’s ready room we see a close up of the star map, featuring part of the Gorn Hegemony’s claimed territory, and just outside that territory is the Cestus system; a colony on Cestus III being attacked by the Gorn in “Arena” was that episode’s inciting incident; the Gorn captain claimed that the Federation colony were invaders into their space.

• Pelia [Carol Kane] and Scotty [Martin Quinn] attempt to integrate the device he created to hide his shuttle from the Gorn, as mentioned in “Hegemony”, into the Enterprise systems.

    • Martin Quinn has been added to the cast as one of the stars of the show.

• La’an has flashbacks to her time as prey on a Gorn breeding world as an adolescent, which we learned about in the series premiere, “Strange New Worlds”.

• George Samuel Kirk [Dan Jeannotte] speculates that the digestive chamber that he and the rest of the away team were placed in breaks down living bodies to create fuel for the Gorn destroyer, which would indicate that a bunch of rendered humanoids can somehow power an absolutely massive ship capable of warp, and with seemingly impenetrable shields. Guess the Federation should feel silly for relying on matter/anti-matter reactions.

    • Doctor M’Benga [Babs Olusanmokun posits that the digestive chamber might simply be making food for the Gorn. What both he and Sam fail to realize is that the Gorn are using the biomass to create a giant, Kaiju sized Gorn that they’ll need to assemble a team to go on a suicide mission to defeat, but if they’ve got enough Paragon or Renegade points they’ll be able to complete the mission without losing anyone.

• Chapel [Jess Bush] and Spock speculate they could use a Number One’s genetically modified Illyrian DNA to fortify Captain Batel’s [Melanie Scrofano] human system to give her a chance of surviving the Gorn parasites hatching. We learned that Number One is Illyrian and her genetic modification is able to prevent all sorts of problems, up to and including a warp core overload, in “Ghosts of Illyria”.

• The screen in Pike’s ready room shows a map of the Finibus system, the Galdonterre system, and the Kessik system.

    • Enterprise visited Finibus III in “Memento Mori” and found that the colony there had been attacked by Gorn.

    • The Albino hid on Galdonterre III and escaped before Kor, Koloth, and Kang could locate him, as per “Blood Oath”

    • We learned in “Prophecy” that B’Elanna Torres was born on Kessik IV.

• ”Uhura and I have been pouring over all available data on the Gorn.” When Kirk asked Spock about information regarding intelligent life in the region of space near Cestus III, Spock replied, ”Nothing specific, Captain. Unscientific rumours only. More like space legends.”

• Number One tells Pike that Gorn sightings correlate to coronal mass ejections, something Sam speculated in “Hegemony”.

• Chapel and Spock wear red biohazard suits, seemingly inspired by the ones worn by the away team that visited the Psi 2000 Federation outpost in “The Naked Time”

• ”If this goes sideways, it’s Valeo Beta all over again.” The *Enterprise was dispatched to Valeo Beta V in “All Those Who Wander” and found Gorn.

• ”Enterprise, against an entire armada? We wouldn’t stand a chance.” Enterprise and the USS Discovery held off an armada of automated Section 31 starships, including Enterprise covering Discovery’s escape through a time portal, in “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”.

• La’an’s brother, Manu, was previously mentioned in “Memento Mori” and “All Those Who Wander”.

• This is the first instance of Gorn text being seen on screen. The TNG comic, “The Gorn Crisis” also featured a Gorn alphabet, but it was not the same symbols as shown here.

• Enterprise was able to beam out ”several hundred” surviving Parnassus colonists from the Gorn destroyer in a matter of less than a minute, through critical levels of radiation, and their own shields. In “Crisis Point”, Rutherford exclaimed, “It’s a movie. You can beam whatever you want. You can do all sorts of beaming stuff in a movie.”* No, wait, that doesn’t actually apply here.

• ”I can’t help wondering if we didn’t create a problem for someone else to solve later.” “Arena” takes place about seven years after this episode, and by that point the Federation will have apparently have forgotten all knowledge of the Gorn.

• ”I’m Erica Ortegas. I fly the ship,” Ortegas’ [Melissa Nevia] catchphrase originated in “Among the Lotus Eaters”.

• Pike begins to pray after saying his father won. We learned in “New Eden” that his father taught comparative religion.

• Batel objects to Number One’s genetically modified Illyrian DNA being used in her treatment. Batel was responsible for persecuting the case against Number One for lying on her Starfleet application.

• This is the 40th, and ostensibly final episode of “Star Trek: Prodigy”.

    • During the episode, Wesley Crusher tells Dal that the reason the Protogies have to stick together ”hasn’t happened yet.” Maybe we’ll get some more PRO stores in comics or novels.

• The swarms of Loom flowing out of the wormhole above Solum is reminiscent of the extragalactic synths reaching through the portal in the PIC season one finale, “Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2”.

• ”Once more into the breach,” Janeway misquotes “Henry V”. General Chang got the quote right in “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country”, and a season seven DS9 episode also used the correct quote as its title.

    • In “Equinox, Part II”, Janeway described a message meant to communicate with nucleogenic lifeforms as ”Not exactly Shakespeare,” and apparently she’s an expert on that topic.

• The EMH back-up module was first mentioned in “Living Witness”.

• Dal places his combadge on the floor of the USS Protostar’s bridge for the younger Rok-Tahk to find, as she did in “Lost and Found”.

• We get a mini-clipshow, featuring scenes from: “Lost and Found”, “Starstruck”, “Dreamcatcher”, “Terror Firma”, “Time Amok”, “Supernova, Part II”, “Asylum”, “All the World’s a Stage”, “Crossroads”, “Masquerade”, “Preludes”, “Last Flight of the Protostar, Part I”, “Observer’s Paradox”, “Is There in Beauty No Truth”, “The Devourer of All Things, Part I”, “Last Flight of the Protostar, Part II”, “Cracked Mirror”,

• We see Tars Lamora again as the Protostar sets down. The series began here with the Protogies as slaves in “Lost and Found”.

• Janeway records the stardate as 62134.8 in her personal log.

• The crate two Vau N’Akat load on to a shuttle has the Daystrom Institute logo on it.

• Doctor Crusher’s desk features a plaque commemorating her away team being declared honourary citizens of Cor Caroli V, as mentioned in Allegiance. The plague was previously seen in “The Next Generation”.

• Doctor Crusher introduces Wesley to his brother, who we learned about in “Disengage”. The scene cuts before we see Doctor Crusher asking Wesley if he can use his Traveler powers to alter time so she wouldn’t be 60 year old woman raising a toddler whom she conceived with a 79 year old man who doesn’t even know he’s a father.

• Zero and Maj’el do Vulcan finger touching in a disgusting public display of affection. The practice was first seen in “Journey to Babel”.

• ”Jankom is practically royalty. Again!” Jankom first decided he was Tellarite royalty in “Asylum” after learning Tellarites were founding members of the Federation.

• ”I heard Admiral Janeway first wanted to be a science officer.” Janeway did serve as science officer on the USS Al-Batani.

• A display shows news coverage of the synthetic attack on the Utopia Planitia shipyards, as seen in “Maps and Legends” and “Children of Mars”.

• The Starfleet admirals we see have switched to new uniforms, first seen in the flashback in “The End is the Beginning”. Both Picard and Raffi were wearing the uniform there, despite her not being an admiral.

• Jellico states that due to the synth attack on Mars, Starfleet has lost personnel and materiel such to the point that they have so few resources they don't have enough combadges to upgrade half the fleet. In "Maps and Legends" Admiral Clancy stated that they didn't have enough ships left to maintain the Federation and continue to assist in the Romulan evacuation.

    • They apparently do have enough resources for new uniforms, though.

• Jellico claims Picard did not take the news of Starfleet halting their aid of the Romulan evacuation well. We learned in “The End is the Beginning” that he resigned his commission in protest.

• Janeway assigns the Protogies to crew a new Protostar-class starship, the USS Prodigy NCC-81084.

    • The Protogies are also given field commissions to ensign.

    • The Emergency Janeway Hologram refers to the Prodigy as the “Protostar”.

• The EJH has been upgraded from training hologram to emergency training hologram, an idea the Doctor first suggested in “Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy”, which he alludes to.

• The Protogies get an entirely new, entirely hideous uniform of their own to end the series.

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• Dal unpacks his original combadge which he received aboard the USS Protostar in “Dreamcatcher”

• Zero calls back to the Protogies time travelling aboard the Infinty to save Gwyn in “Temporal Mechanics 101”.

• Tysess informs Admiral Janeway that there’s ”Not nearly enough,” quantum torpedoes to stop the Vay N’Akat ships from traveling to through the wormholes to attack Starfleet outposts, without giving a specific number. This is a reference to the fact that in “The Cloud” it was stated that the USS Voyager had 38 photon torpedoes at its disposal with no way to replace them, and ended up firing over 90 through the course of the series.

• I believe this is the first time it’s been explicitly states that Solum is in the Delta Quadrant.

• Maj’el, Rok-Tahk, Wesley Crusher, and Zero recount the events of “Lost and Found”, “Supernova, Part 2”, and “Who Saves the Saviors” in brief.

• ”Small changes to time don’t matter as long as we make sure the big stuff still occurs.” Spock established in “Tomorrow is Yesterday” that removing someone who provided no ”relevant contribution” to history would not alter the timeline.

    • What Rok actually describes is a bootstrap paradox. not making insignificant changes to history.

• Ascensia fights Gwyn with her own heirloom. Gwyn lost the heirloom to Ascensia in “Who Saves the Saviors” when they performed that Va;Lu’Rah duel.

• The episode title is likely a callback to the TNG season two finale, “Shades of Gray”.

• Janeway records the stardate as 62091.1 in her personal log.

    • We learn that it is also the 14th anniversary of Janeway receiving her first command, the USS Voyager. We saw Janeway’s first day aboard the Voyager in “Relativity*, but no stardate was given for that date.

• ”This isn’t your first rodeo.” Chakotay is referring to the VOY episode, “Rodeo” where the Voyager encountered the ancestors of a group of humans who’d been abducted to the Delta Quadrant from the American west in the 19th century, and assimilated by the Borg.

• The conversation in Janeway’s ready room took place before the the cliffhanger of the previous episode, “Brink”, which we then seen repeated here.

• The Emergency Janeway Hologram expresses envy regarding the Doctor’s mobile emitter. Though the Doctor’s emitter originated on the 29th century timeship, the Aeon, mobile emitters are in use in the early 25th century, as seen in PIC season three, some 16 years after this episode.

• ”It’s been a while since I piloted, uhm, anything.” Wesley Crusher frequently served as conn officer while he was an acting ensign aboard the USS Enterprise D.

• ”I’m a doctor, not a covert operative.” The Doctor is padding out his stats as the character who uses the ”I’m a [occupation], not a [different occupation]” construction the most across all of Star Trek.

    • The Doctor did serve as a spy for Overlookers in “Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy”, and again in “Renaissance Man”.

• ”Before you were a Traveller, you were a Starfleet officer…” While Picard did make Wesley an acting ensign in “Where No One Has Gone Before”, and then a field promotion to ensign in “Menage à Troi” he did go to Starfleet Academy as a cadet in “Final Mission” and technically never actually graduated.

    • ”...and from what I hear, a heck of a good one.” A large percentage of the officers on Voyager were former terrorists pressganged into being her crew, so Janeway’s standards might be a bit skewed.

• The Doctor disguises himself as Admiral Janeway to distract Ascencia. He did so previously in “Renissance Man”.

• ”As we used to say on the farm, ‘Let’s free the chickens from the coop.’” Ignoring the fact that no one has ever said that Janeway was established to have ”grown up around farmers” in “Resolutions”.

    • Riker claimed in “Lonely Among Us” that humans ”no longer enslave animals for food purposes.”

• Janeway set her combadge to overload, causing an explosion. We’ve previously seen combadges used to create a personal forcefield in “A Fistful of Datas”.

    • Janeway claims the exploding combadge was an old trick from her time at the Academy, which would explain why she had to repeat her second year three times, as we learned in “In the Flesh”.

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• The episode opens with flashback featuring a chyron informing us the stardate is 61914.3, setting the scene sometime between “Last Flight of the Protostar, Part II”, and “Ascension, Part I”, assuming stardates increase with the passage of time, as they show.

    • We get to see Wesley captured by Ascencia and the Vau N’Akat, which was revealed to be his status in “Ascension, Part I”.

• Gwyn records the current stardate as 62083.5 in her personal log.

• ”Sounds like they’re…playing poker.” We’ve seen that the senior staff of both the USS Enterprise D and the USS Cerritos enjoy playing poker in their off hours.

• With the expedition of Zero, the Protogies all return to wearing their civilian clothes from season one.

• The Protogies have an emergency site to site transporter with power for one beam-out. The appearance looks to be based on a similar device used by the Tom Paris of an alternate universe in "Non Sequitur".

    • Data used a similar device in “Star Trek Nemesis” to save Captain Picard, but that prototype emergency transport unit could only transport one person, whereas this one should be able to move the entire group.

• ”Wesley Crusher told us we must stay together.” Maj’el is referring to events depicted in “The Devourer of All Things, Part II”.

    • Later this episode, Wesley clarifies that he meant they needed to maintain physical proximity at all times. The Protogies have split up in: "Last Flight of the Protostar, Part II", "A Tribble Called Quest", "Cracked Mirror", and "Ascension, Part I".

• The other Vau N’Akat imprisoned with the Diviner are the Elders who were depicted in “Into the Breach, Part II” as being Solumn’s heads of state.

• To avoid detection by some guards, Zero puppets an unconscious Vau N’Akat while Gwyn provides a voice. In “The Magnificent Ferengi’ Rom and Nog come up with a way to remotely puppet the corpse of a Vorta and temporarily fool some Jem’Hadar and Iggy Pop.

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