She’s Captain Wynonna Earp to me.

“Excuse me, ma’am. There’s no smoking allowed on Starfleet vessels.”

The therapist was obviously meant to be Julian Bashir’s never-mentioned-before adopted brother who also joined Starfleet.

Jay Karnes also played an officer on the Federation timeship Relativity so maybe the FBI agent isn’t what he seems to be especially given exactly when he shows up.

I’m sure there are plenty of viewers like me who never played the games and don’t know the lore. I’m glad they’re not rushing things so we can learn and keep up as they go.

Yup. It’s looking more and more likely that the veiled Borg Queen from the first episode will turn out to be Agnes of Borg.

That would be cool if that’s where they’re going (and it looks so far like it is). The Queen would be basically trying to seduce Agnes since I suspect that unlike becoming an assimilated drone, becoming Queen may require consent at some level.

Did anyone else catch that the episode was directed by Lea Thompson, who knows a thing or two about time travel shenanigans?

I was thinking about that too. Why hide the face if it was the same Borg Queen we see later?

I really want to see where the thing with Agnes and the Borg Queen goes. Is the Queen looking to make Agnes a companion like the Queen from First Contact wanted to do with Data? Or perhaps make Agnes a back-up or replacement Borg Queen? Of course, if the first season is any guide, they’ll probably take whatever…

That’s a good idea but since it’s Star Wars and everything has to be connected, we’ll end up with Jay Skywalker and Silent Bob Palpatine.

Though I doubt it happens, they could do that with Strange New Worlds. A plot point in many of episodes of the original series was that Kirk’s Enterprise was far from any support and messages might take weeks to reach Starfleet meaning the ship was effectively on its own most of the time. Presumably Pike’s Enterprise…

When I wake up in the morning

Yeah, I would definitely watch Star Trek: XB (ex-Borg for those who forget the term from Picard S1).

It might not be The Mandalorian that shows up but maybe another Mandalorian for hire.

Zero’s race actually first appeared on an episode of The Original Series so it’s a nice deep cut reference for the older folks watching the show.

The writers probably had the TV on in the background and one of those Cerritos Auto Square commercials came on. Yes, Cerritos!

So Boimler managed to get… the best of both worlds.

she called Omega (in a moment absolutely meant as a callback to Princess Leia asking Obi-Wan Kenobi for help in A New Hope)