ā€¢ The episode title of course refers to a popular party game. In the PRO episode, ā€œMindwalkā€, the Protogies where had to communicate with Dal using charades, because he didnā€™t learn any Morse code.

ā€¢ Both Nurse Chapelā€™s and Spockā€™s personal logs gives us a stardate of 1789.3.

Episode Stardate
ā€œThe Broken Circleā€ 2369.2
ā€œAd Astra per Asperaā€ 2393.8
ā€Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrowā€ 1581.2
ā€Among the Lotus Eatersā€ 1630.1
ā€Among the Lotus Eatersā€ 1630.3
ā€Among the Lotus Eatersā€ 1632.2

ā€¢ The USS Enterprise is travelling to the Vulcan system, first seen in ā€œAmok Timeā€.

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ Alternatively, one could argue that the first visit to the Vulcan system was when the Enterprise visited the planet Delta Vega to affect repairs after sustaining damage attempting to travel through the Galactic Barrier in ā€œWhere No Man Has Gone Beforeā€. Delta Vega is also the planet that Nero marooned prime Spock on (and Kelvin Spock marooned Kelvin Kirk on) in 2009ā€™s ā€œStar Trekā€, and Spock was able to watch the destruction of Vulcan. In an interview, Robert Orci claimed they ā€movedā€ the planet for the film because the easter egg of the name was more important than coming up with a new name fans wouldnā€™t be familiar with.

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ Both the 2011 Kelvin universe ā€œStar Trekā€œ comic series, and ā€œThe Enterprise Warā€ novel attempt to reconcile this by claiming there are two Delta Vegas.

ā€¢ We learn of the Kerkhov moon, and the fact that there was an ancient civilization there that vanished at one point. Other ancient civilizations which have disappeared from the galaxy leaving behind only ruins and mystery are:

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ The Greek Gods

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ The Arretans

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ The Preservers

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ The Tkon Empire

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ The Iconian Empire

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ The Dā€™Arsay

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ The Hurā€™Q

ā€¢ The Vulcan Science academy was first mentioned in ā€œJourney to Babelā€.

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ On Vulcan they preface everything by distinguishing that itā€™s Vulcan because itā€™s important to them that the rest of the galaxy be aware that itā€™s theirs.

ā€¢ ā€What are Korbyā€™s three principles of archaeological medicine?ā€ Spock mentioned Roger Korby is referred to as the Pasteur of archaeological medicine in ā€œWhat Are Little Girls Made Of?ā€

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ Roger Korby will be Chapelā€™s future fiancĆ©e.

ā€¢ The notion that Vulcans use nasal suppressants to overcome how debilitatingly pungent humans are was introduced in ā€œThe Andorian Incidentā€.

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ ā€Not to be indelicate, Captain, but the scent of humans is something most Vulcans must becomeā€¦used to.ā€ Spock grew up with a human mother, and human adopted sister.

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ In ā€œBroken Bowā€ Archer comments that Vulcan females specifically have a heightened sense of smell, but in ā€œThe Andorian Incidentā€ it is a male Vulcan monk who comments that the smell aboard the NX-01 ā€œmust be intolerable.ā€

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ Later in this episode, Tā€™Pril repeats the claim that Vulcan women are more sensitive to odours.

ā€¢ ā€I am still not speaking to my father.ā€ It was established in ā€œJourney to Babelā€ that Spock had not spoken to Sarek in 18 years, which would mean their communication ceased nine years prior to this episode.

ā€¢ The shuttlecraft Spock and Chapel take to scan Kerkhov is the Cervantes, which was previously used on the mission to investigate the USS Peregrine after it was divested by Gorn hatchlings in ā€œAll Those Who Wanderā€, and transported Captain Pike, Laā€™an, and Doctor Mā€™Benga down to Rigel VII where they lost their memories and were subject to a Starfleet yeoman turned Tyrant in ā€œAmong the Lotus Eatersā€, and maybe they should leave the *Cervantesā€ in the shuttlebay next time.

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ The Cervantes is also the shuttle Ortegas pilots herself, Chapel, and Uhura in back to the anomaly when they revisit it.

ā€¢ ā€The Vulcan Science Academy would be lucky to have someone of your experience.ā€ ā€œBattle of the Binary Starsā€ established that as of 2249, ten years earlier, Michael Burnham was the only human to have attended the Vulcan Science Academy. However, in ā€œBrotherā€ in 2257, Paul Stamets had accepted a full time teaching position there, so they werenā€™t entirely opposed to the idea.

ā€¢ After the Cervantes crash, Spock had to be healed by the Kerkhovians who made him fully human. In ā€œFacesā€ a Vidiian scientist split Bā€™Elanna Torres into two separate beings, one fully human, and the other Klingon. The Klingon died to save her human counterpart during the escape, and the Doctor was later able to restore Bā€™Elanna to her hybrid self using genetic material from the deceased Klingon.

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ In ā€œSpock Amokā€ Spock had a dream that he was human, fighting a fully Vulcan counterpart, but he later lied and claimed that in his dream he was the fully Vulcan half.

ā€¢ The episode cuts off before Spock can finish saying, ā€œWhat the fairly intriguing development.ā€ As we all know, Spock was unfamiliar with profanity until visiting Earthā€™s 1980s in ā€œStar Trek: The Voyage Homeā€ despite living on a starship and closely working with one Doctor Leonard McCoy.

ā€¢ As a human Spock chooses to eat bacon despite most Vulcans including himself being vegetarian. In ā€œAll Our Yesterdaysā€ Spock appears to be disgusted with himself for enjoying consuming animal flesh after being transported to the past causes him to regress to an earlier stage of Vulcan cultural development. As we all know, all humans eat meat, and this scene certainly didnā€™t disgust any vegans who might be watching and then later writing a point form list of how the episode ties in to other Trek canon.

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ According to Tā€™Pol in ā€œBroken Bowā€, Vulcans also do not touch food with their hands, but we see Spock picking up the bacon with his fingers here. Of course, Spock also touched his food with his hands in ā€œAll Our Yesterdaysā€ as well as his marshmallow in ā€œStar Trek: The Final Frontierā€ so perhaps thatā€™s a cultural practice that fell out of usage between ENT and DIS/SNW/TOS.

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ Later this episode, Sevet does not hesitate to go in on some tevmel with his hands.

ā€¢ ā€I just thought that my field work would be relevant.ā€ In ā€œJourney to Babelā€ Kirk argued to Amanda Grayson that Spockā€™s time aboard the Enterprise was ā€œa better opportunity for a scientist to study the universe than he can get at the Vulcan Science Academy.ā€

ā€¢ ā€She did seem awfully enthusiastic about purchasing dilithium.ā€ The Federation of this era is a moneyless society, as established in such episodes as:

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ ā€œMuddā€™s Womenā€ - The character of Harry Mudd is transporting three women around to find them husbands out of the goodness of his heart, and lithium miners on Rigel XII offer to give the crystals to the Enterprise for free.

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ ā€œErrand of Mercyā€ - Kirk intimates to Spock that Starfleet would not be troubled by their potential deaths, because their training cost nothing.

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ ā€œCatspawā€ - Lieutenant DeSalle says he would make a bet on the effectiveness of their strategy, but there is no money and hence no gambling.

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ ā€œThe Trouble With Tribblesā€ - Cyrano Jones gives away exotic animals, and no one pays for drinks at the bar, because what would they pay with?

Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ ā€œThe Escape Artistā€ - We see several android duplicates of Harry Mudd captured by concerned citizens intending to hand him over to Federation authorities, because thereā€™s no need to collect a bounty when everything is free. Also, Mudd doesnā€™t complain about Federation taxes, because what would they tax?

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    ā€¢ Spock shows up wearing a toque to cover his rounded ears and eyebrows. In TOS Spock used a toque to hide his pointed ears in ā€œCity on the Edge of Foreverā€, ā€œBread and Circusesā€, and ā€œPatterns of Forceā€.

    Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ The delta on Spockā€™s toque is flipped backwards, perhaps implying that he hastily adhered it to the cap himself.

    ā€¢ The Vā€™Shal dinner appears to be a series of petty tests intended to determine the fitness of both individuals in a Vulcan relationship to join the otherā€™s family, as determined by their parents. In ā€œYou Are Cordially Invitedā€ the Lady Sirella put Jadzia through a similar ordeal before she could marry Worf and join the House of Martok.

    Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ It is worth noting that we learned in ā€œAmok Timeā€ that Spock and Tā€™Pring were not just betrothed to one another, but psychically linked as children by arrangement between their families.

    ā€¢ ā€Plus you arenā€™t a practiced liar.ā€ Spock lies all the damn time.

    ā€¢ The traditional Vulcan teapot has Vulcan script on it that appears to be composed of a fan-made alphabet based on what was seen on screen. Part of the lettering reads ā€J O I N E D T O G E T H E R.ā€

    ā€¢ Tā€™Pringā€™s ring looks very similar to one the character wears in ā€œAmok Timeā€.

    ā€¢ This is the first time Tā€™Pril and Sevet have been seen on screen. Perhaps not surprisingly given the events that unfold, they were not in attendance for the Koon-ut-kal-if-fee in ā€œAmok Timeā€.

    ā€¢ Captain Pike has apparently offered the use of his quarters for the Vā€™Shal dinner. In ā€œSpock Amokā€ Tā€™Pring noted that Spockā€™s quarters were too human.

    ā€¢ Pikeā€™s wrap tunic is not the same one he wore in ā€œA Quality of Mercyā€. That one had leather for the yoke and outer sleeves, where as this one does not. It does, however, add white piping parallel to the edge of the closure.

    Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ Kirk wore three different wrap tunics during the course of TOS.

    ā€¢ Pike claims the Enterprise ā€runs at a hotter temperature than a typical Vulcan kitchen.ā€ Vulcan is notably a hot world, so much so that it is uncomfortable for humans. Apparently they take pains to keep their kitchens cool.

    ā€¢ On one of the Cervantesā€™ displays we see a map of the Vulcan system, and series motion graphics designer shared the map to his twitter account. It confirms the long held theory that Vulcan shares its orbit with another planet, and names that world Tā€™Khut. We also learn that Vulcan has two other stars in the system, 40 Eridani B and 40 Eridani C, which orbit around the primary, 40 Eridani A.

    Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ We know from another display, that Kerkhov is a Class-J planet orbiting Eridani C.

    Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ No indication on the map of where Delta Vega is.

    Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ When Ortegas suggest contacting the Enterprise, Uhura claims she canā€™t reach anything more than a light year away with all the interference. The diameter of our solar system is about .00127 light years.

    ā€¢ Restored, Spock is able to mind meld with Amanda to complete the Vā€™shal ritual. In ā€œDagger of the Mindā€ Spock tells Bones he had never melded with a human before, and that it could be dangerous to do so. Of course, he also melded with Gabrielle Burnham prior to this, as seen in ā€œPerpetual Infinityā€.

    Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ The memory Amanda shares with Spock is of the first time Vulcan children asked him to play with them. In ā€œYesteryearā€ we saw that other Vulcans bullied Spock as a child, specifically claiming that by marrying Amanda, Sarek brought shame to Vulcan.

    ā€¢ Spockā€™s reaction to Tā€™Pril referring to Amanda as a ā€handicapā€ echoes Kelvin timeline Spockā€™s reaction when the ministers of the Vulcan Science Academy called Kelvin timeline Amanda a ā€disadvantage,ā€ resulting in his refusing admission to the Academy.

    ā€¢ ā€We have shared katras.ā€ Tā€™Pring is referring to the events of ā€œSpock Amokā€.

    ā€¢ Tā€™Pring and Spock decide to take time apart, but we know this isnā€™t permanent, as they are still involved in ā€œAmok Timeā€.

    Ā Ā Ā Ā ā€¢ Of course, in ā€œAmok Timeā€ Chapel is surprised to when Spock reveals to the bridge crew that Tā€™Pring is his wife. That is the first time she says to Spock, ā€œI donā€™t know. Shut up.ā€

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      claiming there are two Delta Vegas.

      I have no problem with this solution. See for example, the other Paris.

      Archer comments that Vulcan females specifically have a heightened sense of smell, but in ā€œThe Andorian Incidentā€ it is a male Vulcan monk who comments that the smell aboard the NX-01 ā€œmust be intolerable.ā€

      You can reconcile this: To Vulcan males we really smell. To Vulcan females, we really, really smell.

      so perhaps thatā€™s a cultural practice that fell out of usage between ENT and DIS/SNW/TOS

      Thereā€™s a tendency to treat every alien race as a monoculture, but maybe Spock and Tā€™Pol just came from different parts of Vulcan.

      As a human Spock chooses to eat bacon

      I actually kind of assumed that it might have been facon. While I can see the Enterprise growing real plants on its five year mission (hence Pikeā€™s preference of real herbs), I canā€™t see it breeding real pigs.

      Tā€™Pring and Spock decide to take time apart, but we know this isnā€™t permanent,

      The real question is, when Tā€™Pring finds out about Spock and Chapel getting it on, will his excuse be that they were on a break?

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        I have no problem with this solution. See for example, the other Paris.

        There are plenty of examples of cities in different countries, or even different territories in the same country having the same name. I feel like itā€™s different when weā€™re talking about a planet.

        Thereā€™s a tendency to treat every alien race as a monoculture, but maybe Spock and Tā€™Pol just came from different parts of Vulcan.

        That tendency is built into Trek, for good or ill, and I would say it even applies to humans.

        I actually kind of assumed that it might have been facon. While I can see the Enterprise growing real plants on its five year mission (hence Pikeā€™s preference of real herbs), I canā€™t see it breeding real pigs.

        In ā€œCharlie Xā€ Kirk does say to the galley chef, ā€œOn Earth today, itā€™s Thanksgiving. If the crew has to eat synthetic meat loaf, I want it to look like turkey,ā€ which would seem to imply that in this era fake meat is not outside the norm. The question is though, is Pike such a foodie that he would throw his weight around be certain that there is a supply of real bacon on the ship for him to use vs. whateverā€™s coming out of the food synthesizers.

        And thereā€™s a whole other debate to be had about whether or not replicated meat would qualify as plant based which I donā€™t feel like the body of the post is the appropriate place to get into it. My personal opinion is that replicated meats would still not be suitable for a vegan diet, because at some point there was an original source that the replicator pattern must have been based upon.

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          Pike is absolutely the kind of foodie whoā€™d keep a supply of real bacon aboard. The good stuff keeps a while and theyā€™ve probably got stasis fridges. Iā€™m sure heā€™s got a whole network of food purveyors across the quadrant to restock with meat and dairy every starbase visit.

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          I feel like itā€™s different when weā€™re talking about a planet.

          I suppose I kind of figure that planets in the Star Trek world are more analogous to cities/countries in our world. Also, ā€œDelta Vegaā€ is such a generic-sounding, human-centric designation anyway that in my head canon the full, formal designation of a planet in the Federation catalogue of stellar objects might be a lot longer, with ā€œDelta Vegaā€ in this case just one part of the full name. Think about the billions of stars that Starfleet has catalogued, and thousands of planets containing life. Thereā€™s surely room for more than one ā€œDelta Vegaā€. Not to mention that planets have different names used by different groups or contexts, just like Earth is also referred to as Terra, Sol III, Die Erde, La Monde etc. So I figure thereā€™s different Delta Vegas around, and people know which one is being talked about from context.

          That (monoculture) tendency is built into Trek, for good or ill, and I would say it even applies to humans.

          Agreed, and put me down ā€œfor illā€, but I like the idea of explaining apparent canon contradictions by expanding the universe beyond the monocultures we usually see. One of my favourite little moments in Picard was Laris tapping Shaban on the Westmore appliance and calling him a ā€œstubborn northernerā€. In just those two seconds the Romulan culture got a lot more interesting.

          The question is though, is Pike such a foodie that he would throw his weight around be certain that there is a supply of real bacon on the ship for him to use

          If we ever see an episode where he hunts down a boar, guts it, dresses it and serves it to his crew with a nice sprig of coriander, weā€™ll know for sure. ;-)

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    Of course, he also melded with Gabrielle Burnham prior to this, as seen in ā€œPerpetual Infinityā€.

    And was totally fine, with absolutely no adverse effects.

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    Is Earth/the Federation explicitly moneyless at this time? Even by DS9 we still see currency being used in the form of latinum. I interpreted this line as the chief going out to strike a deal with a non-Federation, independent supplier. Presumably using whatever budget Starfleet provides.

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      Well, I did list all those instances from the TOS era where they explicitly didnā€™t use money, so you can draw your own conclusions.

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        Iā€™m not familiar with those examples you listed, however I did not mean that people make money like we do now. I thought in ST that governments still had their own currencies.

        I remember in one of the episodes of DS9 where Sisko visits his father, he makes a point that his father used a large portion of his monthly transporter credits to travel a large distance on Earth. And as for the DS9 station, I assumed Starfleet crew had stipends since they hang out at Quarkā€™s, and I doubt he offers services free of charge.

        Another user also claimed itā€™s probably not best to take Peliaā€™s cash-less society remark at face value, could have been sarcasm. Sheā€™s probably older than Earth currency!

        More likely your needs and most of your wants are covered, but not everything. So currency exists for what is not provided by the government. Or in the case of something important like transporters, an arbitrary limit to prevent abuse. Also there are plenty of profit-driven characters we see even if they are a species from the Federation.

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            No. We find out in ā€œBar Associationā€ that the station doesnā€™t charge Quark rent, and hasnā€™t since the Federation took over administration duties on behalf of the Bajoran Provisional government, however in season twoā€™s ā€œArmageddon Gameā€, when it is believed that Doctor Bashir and Oā€™Brien are dead, Quark toasts them by saying, ā€œWe may have had our differences, but Iā€™ll say this for them, and itā€™s no higher tribute I can think of: they were good customers. They always paid their bar bills on time.ā€

            Notably he specifies that Bashir and Oā€™Brien paid their bills, not the Federation or Starfleet paid on their behalf. Now, maybe Starfleet officers serving on DS9 or other places where the civilization still use a form of currency have access to an account that Starfleet is takes care of everything, but based on the language Quark uses it does seem like Bashir and Oā€™Brien were the ones making sure the money got put into Quarkā€™s hands.

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              Youā€™re not wrong, but you ever try to argue with an older person whoā€™s convinced of some nonsense because they got sucked down a facebook conspiracy theory rabbit hole? Sometimes you have to choose your battles, and I imagine Laā€™anā€™s battle at that moment was trying to ascertain if Pelia actually rightfully owned all of those artifacts, and not whether or not the Federation is putting chemicals in the food slots to turn children into genderless energy beings or whatever.

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      Iā€™ve always interpreted the ā€œno money in the Federationā€ thing non-literally. I think thereā€™s still a financial and economic system operating in the background (otherwise this would be the most radical bit of world building Star Trek has ever done - and Star Trekā€™s world building has never been particularly innovative), but itā€™s just that ā€œmoneyā€ doesnā€™t have the same primacy in peopleā€™s lives as it does in the real world today.

      I imagine there would be an electronic system of debits and credits (hence ā€œcreditsā€ being the currency) moving around in the aether, with money in its physical form having entirely disappeared. Less ā€œevolvedā€ societies like the Ferengi would still use a form of cash (latinum), as would backward societies like 20th century Earth (hence Kirk saying ā€œTheyā€™re still using moneyā€ in The Voyage Home).

      But even more than the term ā€œmoneyā€ being associated with physical currency (a concept thatā€™s increasingly being phased out even in the real world), to Federation citizens ā€œmoneyā€ would be associated with the archaic mindset of capitalism, greed and exploitation - the accumulation of financial wealth for its own sake. As opposed to 24th century people who (with just about all physical needs like health, food and shelter met by virtue of tech like replicators and advanced medicine), can focus on bettering themselves as a goal in its own right. So you might study medicine or law, not because it pays well, but because youā€™re interested in that field. You might go for a promotion in your job, not because it pays better, but you seek the satisfaction of having more responsibility.

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        @Prouvaire @startrek Given that replicators seem to be able to produce literally anything (*except* latinum), it really seems like the Federation is an actual post-scarcity culture, where money would have little to no utility.

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          Exactly. ā€œMoneyā€ (or ā€œcreditsā€) would still exist to address whatever scarcity remains. Eg replicators canā€™t replicate starships (although in Prodigy we get pretty close IIRC). Or if you want to own that genuine Rembrandt (even if you could replicate a very good fake). Or if you want to trade with societies that still use money. But it would be confined to edge cases like that.