ā€¢ The episode title is a reference to the spaghetti western, ā€œA Few Dollars Moreā€.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ ā€œA Few Dollars Moreā€ was the sequel to ā€œA Fistful of Dollarsā€ which TNG referenced with title of season sixā€™s ā€œA Few Datas Moreā€.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Badgey as introduced in ā€œTerminal Provocationsā€. Jack McBrayer reprises the role here.

ā€¢ The Kalla system was first seen in ā€œFirstbornā€, and itā€™s where the USS Cerritos fought the Pakled clumpship ā€œNo Small Partsā€.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Here we see Drookmani scavengers collecting Rutherfordā€™s lost implant. We already saw this happening at the end of ā€œThe Stars at Nightā€, but the scene ended before revealing it was the Drookmani collecting the implant.

ā€¢ The Drookmani captain is voiced by Fred Tatasciore, the actor who voices Shaxs.

ā€¢ The Droomani lower decker is voiced by Paul Scheer, the actor who voices Billups.

ā€¢ The bisected circle emblem on the Bynar ship as also seen on the high tech fanny packs the Bynars wore in ā€œ11001001ā€, as well as this episode.

ā€¢ The Bynars are speaking in the language we heard in ā€œ11001001ā€, and we see their text shown a display, also from that episode.

ā€¢ While we never saw a Bynar ship in any previous iteration of Trek, I did think it worth pointing out that they are a species where two individuals are linked and act in unison, and here we see what would be a single captainā€™s chair on almost any other speciesā€™ ship is actually a loveseat, occupied by two Bynar.

ā€¢ The Mysterious Threat adds the Bynar ship to itā€™s collection.

ā€¢ Badgey appears to be controlling the Drookmani who salvaged him via glowing cybernetic implants, which immediately invokes the Borg. It also makes me think, however, of the fact that after having been beamed into space in ā€œDataloreā€, we learn in ā€œBrothersā€ that Lore was rescued by Pakleds.

ā€¢ Rutherford has outfitted the Sequoia shuttle with a grappler. The NX-01 Enterprise was equipped with grapplers as seen ā€œBroken Bowā€, and so were its shuttlepods, which we saw in ā€œSimilitudeā€.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Boimler expressed excitement over the NX-01ā€™s grapplers in ā€œThose Old Scientistsā€, as did Laā€™an.

ā€¢ The Daystrom Institute was first mentioned in ā€œThe Measure of a Manā€, and is named for Richard Daystrom from ā€œThe Ultimate Computerā€.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ The view of the Daystrom Institute is recreated from the PIC episode, ā€œRemembranceā€.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ The Daystrom Instituteā€™s Self-Aware Megalomaniacal Computer Storage room was first seen in ā€œWhere Pleasant Fountains Lieā€.

ā€¢ Peanut Hamper was introduced in ā€œNo Small Partsā€ and given over to the custody of the Daystrom Institute in ā€œA Mathematically Perfect Redemptionā€.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Peanut Hamper is played by Kether Donohue.

ā€¢ AGIMUS was introduced in ā€œWhere Pleasant Fountains Lieā€, where we also saw him placed in Daystrom Institute custody.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ AGIMUS is portrayed by Jeffery Combs, who has played a number of roles across DS9, VOY, and ENT, including:

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Tiron - ā€œMeredionā€

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Penk - ā€œTsunkatseā€

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Krem - ā€œAcquistionā€

ā€¢ Lord Tyrannikillicus was first seen in ā€œWhere Pleasant Fountains Lieā€ and is voiced by Shaxsā€™ voice actor, Fred Tatasciore.

ā€¢ We saw AGIMUSā€™ drones in ā€œWhere Pleasant Fountains Lieā€, but only depicted in a mural on a world he had conquered, or in a fantasy he had; this is the first weā€™ve seen an actual drone.

ā€¢ AGIMUS states the Mysterious Threatā€™s attack on the Bynar ship occurred on stardate 58934.9.

ā€¢ The Drookmani ship is outfitted with a number of canons. In ā€œTerminal Provocationsā€, the first episode to depict the Drookmani, their ship has no weapons at all, and uses a tractor beam to throw space junk at the Cerritos.

ā€¢ ā€Almost as noble as the time you snapped my [beep]ing neck!ā€ Badgey is still upset about the events of ā€œTerminal Provocationsā€ when Rutherford had to ā€killā€ him in order to save his and Tendiā€™s lives.

ā€¢ Rutherfordā€™s hug causes Badgey to split into two separate entities, one of whom is named Goodgey. In ā€œThe Enemy Withinā€, Captain Kirk was separated into his good and evil halves.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Perhaps worth noting that Goodgey is silver, similar to the combadges worn by the Cerritos crew.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Badgey also splits off his logical aspect in Logic-y. Spock dreamed about being split into his human and Vulcan halves in ā€œSpock Amokā€.

ā€¢ ā€This stuff is great! All we have on Orion are, like, sharp little pebbles.ā€ It as established in ā€œSecond Contactā€ that there is no sand on Orion.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ It was also established that sand gives Boimler a rash, but he doesnā€™t mention it here.

ā€¢ Tendi is barefoot in this scene in Ecuadorā€¦ Unrelated, this scene is also lifted directly from the pitch for the proposed Quentin Tarrantino Trek film that was being talked about back in 2017.

ā€¢ ā€Do you guys want to take a root beer float break?ā€ Root beer is like the Federation, so bubbly and cloying and happy. Itā€™s insidious.

ā€¢ The EMH used neurazine gas to incapacitate the Romulans whoā€™d hijacked the USS Prometheus in ā€œMessage in a Bottleā€.

ā€¢ The Tyrus VIIA research station was seen in ā€œA Quality of Lifeā€. Itā€™s where the Exocomps were created by Doctor Farallon and developed sentience.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ The interior of the Tyrus VIIA research station is recreated from ā€œA Quality of Lifeā€.

ā€¢ Badgey develops a plan to travel at warp 9.9 and transfer himself across subspace to the entire Federation. In ā€œThresholdā€ we learned that an object traveling at warp 10 exists at all points of the universe simultaneously.

ā€¢ We are introduced to Peanut Hamperā€™s father, Kevin. In ā€œNo Small Partsā€ Peanut Hamper declared that the only reason she joined Starfleet was to upset Kevin.

ā€¢ Among the Federation material we see Badgey infect are:

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ A subspace relay which appears to be identical to the ā€œancient space capsuleā€ the USS Enterprise D located in ā€œThe Neutral Zoneā€ which contained three surviving humans from 20th century Earth who had been cryogenically frozen.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ The Cerritos

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ The USS Vancouver where we see Barbra Brinson from ā€œCupidā€™s Errant Arrowā€

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ The VCF Shā€™vhal from ā€œwej Dujā€, commanded by Sokel

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Starbase 25, first mentioned in ā€œThe Slaver Weaponā€ and seen in ā€œAn Embarrassment of Dooplersā€

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Deep Space 9 from DS9

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Douglass Station which was introduced in ā€œSecond Contactā€

ā€¢ Badgey, now all powerful, turns a light blue tone, and exists simultaneously across his past, present and future. He departs to an empty dimension to create a universe.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Badgey expresses that he has become tired of Earth. These people. Being caught in the tangle of their lives. Also, for some reason he now has human genitals fully visible on screen.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Badgey ascends as Oā€™Connor did in ā€œMoist Vesselā€; he has six arms, and the outline of a great bird appears around him, with three circles at its head. He says he might hang out with the Q Continuum, introduced in ā€œEncounter at Farpointā€ or check out the Black Mountain, which Shaxs told Rutherford of in ā€œWeā€™ll Always Have Tom Parisā€. As he ascends, we see he is travelling towards the Koala. Why is it smiling? What does it know?

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      1 year ago

      I donā€™t disagree, but the AGIMUS drones are not the exact same design as the Echo Papa 607s, nor is there any explicit connection between AGIMUS and the Minosians, so I donā€™t think it qualifies.

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      THATā€™S what it was! I kept thinking they looked so familliar but couldnā€™t put my finger on it. I was totally thinking of those dudes.