This review plays into that: https://www.gamegrin.com/reviews/star-trek-prodigy-supernova-review/
"Dal makes frequent references which literally boil down to “[Thing] is like [Star Trek species] [noun]!”. A direct quote is “We’re up a Romulan river without a paddle”, another is “He’s trying to trap us like Caitians”. We’ve been told that Dal has little knowledge of the Alpha Quadrant… But he somehow knows how hot a Cardassian fire pit is? I’ve seen every Star Trek show and movie and I didn’t know that Cardassia even had fire pits. And on another note what makes a Betazoid fridge specifically cold in relation to an ice planet to make Dal reference it, rather than one of the ice worlds in the Alpha Quadrant? These kids are trying to be Starfleet cadets, the ice planet of Andoria is a founding member of the Federation, come on! The writing just feels all kinds of sloppy, which is a shame because the overall story is pretty good — it’s what I’d expect a Star Trek game to be about. But Dal saying he’ll do something “by Worf’s beard!” is simply stupid since the only Enterprise-D crewmember he’s even aware of is a hologram of Beverly Crusher."
I think the reviewer has a point that this particular part of the writing is not good. All those references seem formulaic and out of character for Dal (who indeed has never heard of Worf and has never been to Cardassia). A Prodigy staff writer contributed to the game, but I doubt she was involved with those random passages (possibly more of an editing role to make sure that the character beats were correct and the main story gets neither spoiled too much nor contradicted). If anything, Dal references should come from Tars Lamora or from places he visited with Nandi.
