In Covenant, we have a bunch of Star Trek characters ready to commit suicide to set their spirits free and join their gods. In real life, the year before Covenant aired, a bunch of Star Trek enthusiasts committed suicide to set their spirits free and join the UFO behind Comet Hale-Bopp. Kind of a disturbing parallel.

Three light-years is really not that far, on a stellar scale. The sun's nearest neighbor is around four light-years away. This episode seems to have inadvertently established that Empok Nor is just a stone's throw from DS9.

That "Like fifty times I asked you!" line immediately called to mind a scene from another Adam Reed show, Frisky Dingo:

Aw, raspberries.

Have they ever been referenced between that episode and this one? Not that I can remember, they haven't, but if so the writers sure didn't bother reminding us of what the Pah Wraiths are.

Groin-grabbingly transcendent, even.

Related from "Big Daddy": "I know you're gonna be missing me when you got that big, white, wrinkly body on top of you, with the…loose skin, and old…balls…Gross!"

I want Banana Man to encounter the Graybles guy. Two of my comedy idols meeting would blow my mind.

Jake's "thumbs-up tree" reminded me instantly of his "FRACTAL GLOB JAKE" move from the comic book.

Has that barbed-wire-wrapped bat been seen before? I've just been catching up on the Walking Dead comic book, and the series's latest adversary Negan carries a similar-looking weapon which he calls "Lucille" (and which he used to bash in the skull of a popular character in issue #100).

I speak a little Mandarin too. I couldn't make out Charlie's first utterings, but then he didn't seem to be enunciating clearly. I called my Mandarin-speaking wife over for a translation, but she couldn't understand him any better than I could. She's sometimes balked by strongly-accented Mandarin, but that…

I stumbled across A Spell for Chameleon as a preteen, and quite enjoyed it, as well as the next several books in the series. Golem in the Gears (the ninth) is the last one I remember liking unreservedly; the next three, which I read in college, seemed to offer steadily diminishing returns, until I finally abandoned…

In the same collection where I read In the Barn, there was another story called On the Uses of Torture. It's one of the very few stories that almost made me feel physically ill just to read it. Even as my regard for Anthony has waned over the years, I still kind of have to give him props for that accomplishment.

Has the death-beam-chord-effect been used somewhere else too? They seemed very familiar to me, but I couldn't place where I might have seen something like them before, and I've never played Mass Effect.

When Vaatu told Wan "Enjoy your remaining days!" did anyone else find themself muttering:

She said pussy! It's funny because she's a woman!

Why is six afraid of seven?  Because seven ate nine!

Aw, now you've made me miss the Klingon restauranteur all over again.

The Magnificent Ferengi should really have been titled Weekend at Moogie's.

Well, I dunno… There was one episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Malcolm's oldest brother chases a rat under the house, then breaks through a partition, releasing a horde of rats that rushes over his prone form.  It was still kind of sweet.