Reference jokes they should've done

[WarpTenLizard]

"Star Trek: the Lower Decks" really spoiled us with hilarious in-jokes and shout-outs. But there was still so much more they could've done.

So imagine there's going to be one more season, and you can submit your ideas for a reference joke or amusing shout-out to another series. Show us what you got.

Off the top of my head:

• Tendi has an anxiety dream about the Dog dying; Dr. T'Ana gives the eulogy at the funeral in the rain, which turns into a steamy decontamination dream about Rutherford.
• Vash shows up, and among her "found" artifacts is an authentic suit of armor from the Terran Empire, late Georgiou Dynasty.
• Boimler crashes a shuttle craft on Qo'nos, landing in a field of purple alien corn, and gets chased by the Klingon farmer.
• A subspace gossip tabloid makes outrageously false claims, including Seven of Nine getting magically cured of all her Borg implants, and Khan having a daughter who captains a ship of "renegades."
• Some temporal and spacial anomaly hits the Cerritos's warp core, mergining engine rooms from different ships across time. While B'Elanna and Jett Rengo insult each other, Hemmer tries Geordie's VISOR, and Seska impregnates Trip Tucker with Andy Billups' DNA.
• We should've seen at least one Aenar officer somewhere!

Gimme more.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I wish they'd followed up on my favourite TAS episode, "Magicks of Megas Tu" and revisited the magic universe at the centre of the galaxy.

I would have said the Delta Triangle too, but the comics are following up on that and they're really good so far.

 

[fireproof78]

Giant inflatable Enterprise.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

Giant inflatable Enterprise.

I've always thought DS9 would make a great inflatable water float for sitting on.

 

[korblborp]

-a certain pair of consultants, their assistant not-an-exocomp, and their other assistant , a big cat

-naraht

 

[somebuddyX]

If they didn't do "More Trials, More Tribulations" then what was even the point.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Someone in engineering or the shuttlebay should have gone, "wow it's massive in here, I don't know how all this fits inside!"

 

[somebuddyX]

Voyager museum tour where they see the shuttle manufacturing bay, where shuttles are assembled like IKEA furniture by pit crews.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

I've always thought DS9 would make a great inflatable water float for sitting on.

This could be floating in Matt and Kimolu's tank:

 

[somebuddyX]

This could be floating in Matt and Kimolu's tank:


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I wish there were artwork for all the series in this style. I also wonder how much Benny Russell's DS9 differs from the real series. Like the artwork has DS9 as a USAF station

 

[Tosk]

I also wonder how much Benny Russell's DS9 differs from the real series. Like the artwork has DS9 as a USAF station

That was just the drawing that inspired Benny's tales though, so we don't know if he carried that detail over.

 

[Hawku]

Would love to have seen them do a "Yesterday's Enterprise" with the a second contact ship from the 23rd century.

 

[somebuddyX]

I thought there was a chance they'd do a story that starts in SNW, continues in Lower Decks and capped off in Discovery.

 

[somebuddyX]

Hey, did they ever do a bar scene or something where "Faith of the Heart" is playing on a jukebox or is otherwise diegetic music?

 

[Will_Carter]

This could be floating in Matt and Kimolu's tank:


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[That's not a toy! That is a backup comms relay!]
[It also squeaks when you poke it!]

 

[Phoenix219]

-a certain pair of consultants, their assistant not-an-exocomp, and their other assistant , a big cat

-naraht

i do not understand the reference.

 

[korblborp]

i do not understand the reference.

someone (or several someones) on TNG's production staff was a fan of the anime *The Dirty Pair*

Dirty Pair - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Kei and Yuri, the titular pair, have a number of minerals, personnel, floor symbols, and even planets, named after them (most relegated to computer displays, some of which couldn't really be discerned until the HD versions. also mirroring the anime series in a way, as the TOS cast names made multiple appearances on computer screens, as well as at least one not-erprise)

The name of their ship, which is also their official codename, "Lovely Angel", was used as the name of a wargaming simulation where picard and riker faced off against each other (two planets in the system were named after them; a third after Totoro)

the most obvious one, though, is the exocomps. Peanut Hamper is an exocomp. exocomps are based directly on the Pair's robotic assistant Nanmo.

I do not think any references have been made to Mughi,their big alien cat "pet". unfortunately


so i figure if any trek production was going to just have them show up as federation agents, or even just in a crowd somewhere, it would be lower decks

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

A Watership Down holoprogram, complete with ridiculous looking bunny costumes.

Or a King Kong holoprogram, with a Ferengi cosplaying as Kong.

Gorilla suit

A gorilla suit was a costume designed to give the wearer the appearance of a gorilla. A gorilla suit was featured in a joke that Geordi La Forge told Data in 2364 during the Farpoint Mission. The punchline of said joke was "The clown can stay, but the Ferengi in the gorilla suit has to go."...

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[WarpTenLizard]

A Watership Down holoprogram, complete with ridiculous looking bunny costumes.

Or a King Kong holoprogram, with a Ferengi cosplaying as Kong.

Gorilla suit

A gorilla suit was a costume designed to give the wearer the appearance of a gorilla. A gorilla suit was featured in a joke that Geordi La Forge told Data in 2364 during the Farpoint Mission. The punchline of said joke was "The clown can stay, but the Ferengi in the gorilla suit has to go."...

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A parody of "Watership Down" with tribbles instead of rabbits. "Enterprise Down" maybe.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Somebody actually getting their head caught in a mechanical rice picker, or using one to trim their ears for their Vulcan disguise ("Come on! It's the 24th century and nobody's come up with anything better than this?" "Stop moving your head around so much, or you'll get a nose piercing, too!" *sigh* "Okay, mom." "If you make me foul this up, just remember, we're fresh out of missionaries, so you're stuck with me, capisce?")

A court show, but in keeping with the short length of LD episodes, a Judge Judy-style courtroom instead of the typical court martial.

Transporting and guarding an immortal like Flint for the Immortal Protection Program (helping immortals of normally non-immortal species start new lives, make aliases, etc), only to keep running into people from their previous past lives.