ā€¢ Like many Trek episodes, this oneā€™s title was inspired by a great work of art, specifically ā€œGarth Marenghiā€™s Darkplaceā€.

ā€¢ The Ferengi lower deckers we see are cataloguing Cardassian, Klingon and Romulan handheld disruptors before apparently throwing them out.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Cardassian weapons were frequently called phasers, not disruptors in dialogue in DS9, such as in the episodes ā€œProfit and Lossā€, though in ā€œReturn to Graceā€ Kira refers to them as ā€phase-disruptorā€ weapons.

ā€¢ The Ferengi have a scaled down Genesis device which among the weapons theyā€™re discarding. In ā€œStar Trek: The Search for Spockā€, Commander Kruge believed Genesis was designed as a Federation weapon.

ā€¢ The Mysterious Threat appears again, making this the fourth attack since its introduction in ā€œTwovixā€.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ The Ferengi, Jeef, implies that he was aware that the Mysterious Threat was going to be there and heā€™d made a deal with whomever is operating it.

ā€¢ The bridge of the Ferengi ship appears to be a recreation of the one seen aboard Quarkā€™s shuttle, Quarkā€™s Treasure in ā€œLittle Green Menā€, which was later used for Bruntā€™s shuttle in ā€œThe Magnificent Ferengiā€.

ā€¢ As is tradition with Ferengi episodes, weā€™re going to get some Rules of Acquisition. The Rules of Acquisition were first mentioned in ā€œThe Nagusā€.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Rule 62: ā€The riskier the road, the greater the profit.ā€ - ā€œRules of Acquisitionā€

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Rule 10: *ā€Greed is eternal.ā€ - ā€œProphet Motiveā€

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Rule 8: ā€Small print leads to large risk.ā€ - This is the first time itā€™s been said in canon, but was included in the ā€œThe Ferengi Rules of Acquisitionā€ reference book written by Ira Steven Behr

ā€¢ The USS Toronto NCC-70494 is a Parliament-class starship. We first saw the USS Vancouver in ā€œCupidā€™s Errant Arrowā€.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Despite the fact that Parliament-class ships appear to all take their names from Canadian capital cities, the USS Winnipeg is a Daedalus-class, and the USS Regina is an Oberth-class, seen in ā€œAn Embarrassment of Dooplersā€ and ā€œFirst First Contactā€ respectively.

ā€¢ Capā€™n Freeman records the Stardate as 58901.5 in her log.

ā€¢ This is our first view of Ferenginar from orbit.

ā€¢ Admiral Vassery was introduced in ā€œMoist Vesselā€.

ā€¢ ā€It makes Moab IV inside the dome look like Moab IV outside the dome.ā€ Moab IV was a human colony built as a planned society fostered with eugenics introduced in ā€œThe Masterpiece Societyā€.

ā€¢ Itā€™s Rom! From Star Trek! Rom is played by Max GrodĆ©nchik, who played Rom in DS9, showing up in the series premiere, ā€œThe Emissaryā€.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ GrodĆ©nchik played several other Frenengi as well: his first Trek role was as Sovak in ā€œCaptainā€™s Holidayā€; he played Par Lenor in ā€œThe Perfect Mateā€; finally he appeared as Grand Nagus Gint in Quarkā€™s dream in ā€œBody Partsā€.

ā€¢ Itā€™s Leeta! From Star Trek! Leeta once again portrayed by Chase Masterson. The character first appeared in ā€œExplorersā€.

ā€¢ Rom and Leeta are accompanied by a Hupyrian attendant, as both Zek and Brunt were when they were Grand Nagus. This one is the first female Hupyrian weā€™ve seen.

ā€¢ The Ceremonial Invoice for the Bust of Good Fortune features Ferengi script, first seen in ā€œMĆ©nage Ć  Troiā€.

ā€¢ We see the Lower Deckers working on the Sequoia, the shuttle introduced in ā€œSecond Contactā€. This is the first time weā€™ve seen the shuttle this season.

ā€¢ Mariner is weathering a self-sealing stembolt, a device introduced in ā€œProgressā€ which use has never been made entirely clear.

ā€¢ ā€The Cerritos *is statistically the horniest and least romantically committed crew in Starfleet,ā€ Iā€™d like to know what metrics they use for gauging that, but Starfleet is a notoriously horny organization. See: All of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, and SNW.

ā€¢ ā€Maybe I should have Honus and nurse Westlake take a crack at it.ā€ Honus, Westlake, along with Matt are Ransomā€™s self described ā€Friends for life.ā€

ā€¢ The skyline of Ferenginar includes the Tower of Commerce, first mentioned in ā€œProphet Motiveā€ and seen in ā€œFamily Businessā€. The angle here is different, showing more of the capital city and less marshland.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ It is raining pretty heavily on Ferenginar. According to Quark in ā€œLet He Who is Without Sinā€¦ā€ there are 178 different words in the Ferengi language for types of rain.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Thereā€™s a Ferengi shuttle flying over the city. The first Ferengi shuttle on screen was seen in ā€œThe Priceā€

ā€¢ Among the business and billboards we signs for:

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ All You Can @#$%!

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Slug-O Cola - ā€œProfit and Laceā€

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Acquire Pour Homme

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Now Playing: Latinum Lost

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Maximum Oo-Mox Rub Dungeon

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Uncle Quarkā€™s Youth Casino

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Lobeā€™s Lodge

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ The Museum of Gambling

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ The Museum of Haggling

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Slug-Nasium

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ The Ferenginar Historic Public Library

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Quarkā€™s Federation Experience Bar & Grill

ā€¢ One of the ships parked at Lobeā€™s Lodge is one resembling the ship the Ferengi used when they attacked the NX-01 Enterprise in ā€œAcquisitionā€.

ā€¢ There are payboxes for several amenities on Ferenginar for depositing latinum, which we saw introduced in ā€œFamily Businessā€.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Shuttle parking

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Mini bar

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Hotel bed

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Toilet

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Bathroom access

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Hotel viewscreen

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Brunch restaurant

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Dressing rooms

ā€¢ The confetti canon Parth fires off is shaped similar to a Ferengi hand phaser, like the ones seen in ā€œMĆ©nage Ć  Troiā€.

ā€¢ The viewscreen in in Boimlerā€™s hotel room is very suspiciously familiar, but I canā€™t quite put my finger on it.

ā€¢ Mariner meets up with Quimp whom we previously saw in ā€œEnvoysā€ helping her to scam Boimler into believing he was a capable officer.

ā€¢ ā€I never thought youā€™d dig your way out of crashing that Oberth.ā€ Was it the USS Regina? We may never know.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Presumably the incident with the Oberth-class happened prior to the start of the series, which means that Mariner has been promoted and demoted at least once since then, during the events of ā€œMoist Vesselā€, and Quimp is merely unaware that happened.

ā€¢ Mariner Orders two shots of Cardassian tequila, which presumably can only be produced in the Tequila region of Cardassia Prime.

ā€¢ Mariner also orders a ā€dagger of the mind on the rocks.ā€ ā€œDagger of the Mindā€ was a first season TOS episode, but also part of a line from ā€œMacbethā€.

ā€¢ ā€I like baseball. Itā€™s fun.ā€ Rom was the worst player on the Niners in ā€œTake Me Out to the Holosuiteā€ but Max GrodĆ©nchik played in high school and was good enough that he considered going pro before pursuing a career in acting. During the filming of ā€œTake Me Out to the Holosuiteā€ he had to play left handed because he couldnā€™t convincingly look bad while playing the game with his dominant hand.

ā€¢ Boimler is watching ā€œPog & Dar: Cop Landlordsā€ and one of the tenants has a dog-like pet with horns and antenna like the one seen in ā€œThe Enemy Withinā€

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Pog, Dar, and the tenant all have Ferengi hand phasers, which were last seen in the TNG episode ā€œBloodlinesā€.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ The tenant has muttonchops, and is the only Ferengi weā€™ve seen to have hair of any kind.

ā€¢ ā€Haha, they put commercials in the shows? Itā€™s like mind control.ā€ When Boimler says this line, the wall art of a mountain with some stars above it twinkles, and I canā€™t quite place why itā€™s familiar.

ā€¢ Quarkā€™s Federation Experience Bar & Grill is based on Star Trek: The Experience, a now defunct attraction that used to be at the Hilton in Las Vegas, which did include a Quarkā€™s Bar. Among the features here are:

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ Models of the USS Enterprise D and the USS Voyager hanging from the ceiling, both of which were in Star Trek: The Experience.

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ A Mugato - ā€œA Private Little Warā€

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ The Guardian of Forever - ā€œThe City on the Edge of Foreverā€

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ A Vulcan wedding venue/gladiatorial arena - ā€œAmok Timeā€

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ One of the primitive peoples encountered on Taurus II - ā€œThe Galileo Sevenā€

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ A holodeck arcade - Ferengi generally refer to them as holosuites

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ A rack of red shirts

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ A Jefferies Tube entrance

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ A Ten Forward exhibit

Ā Ā Ā  ā€¢ A ā€blind boxā€ shaped like a Class-F shuttlecraft

ā€¢ Production Error: Despite what the sign says, Rutherford refers to it as *ā€The Starfleet Experience Bar & Grillā€.

ā€¢ One of the Ferengi women eating in the background of Quarkā€™s Federation Experience is nude. Before Zek changed the law leading to the events of ā€œProfit and Laceā€, it was illegal for Ferengi omen to wear clothes.

ā€¢ Rom and Leeta host Vassery and Freeman in the Chamber of Petitioners, seen in ā€œFerengi Love Songsā€.

ā€¢ Capā€™n Freeman tricks Rom into signing a contract which hinges on him bringing Qoā€™noS into the Federation. In the TNG episode, ā€œSamaritan Snareā€, Wesley asks Picard ā€œWas this before the Klingons joined the Federation?ā€ regarding a story of his Academy days, and in ā€œHeart of Gloryā€ we see a Klingon bridge displaying the Federation Emblem alongside that of the Klingon Empire.

ā€¢ Rom reveals that his outrageous demands were all part of a test to see if there were those in the Federation who would respect Ferengi culture. Captain Pike realized the delegation from the Rā€™ongovian Protectorate were doing something similar in ā€œSpock Amokā€.

ā€¢ The Ferengi ā€local authoritiesā€ is wearing a simplified version of the Ferengi uniform introduced in ā€œPeak Performanceā€ and has a military tattoo on his forehead, which we havenā€™t seen since ā€œBloodlinesā€. Heā€™s also wielding an energy whip, introduced in ā€œThe Last Outpostā€.

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    The viewscreen in in Boimlerā€™s hotel room is very suspiciously familiar, but canā€™t quite put my finger on it.

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    The question about Cardassian weapons got me trying to remember what they used in STO. Even though itā€™s not canon, I though it might be of interest:

    the Cardassian Keldon Cruiser is well-engineered to tackle nearly any combat scenario. It comes pre-equipped with Spiral Wave Disruptor Beam Arrays. These fire a unique energy type that combines the special effects of Phasers and Disruptors, as well as having slightly higher damage and accuracy than other beam weapons.

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      Interesting. Cardassian starship weapons are most frequently described as phasers arrays. I canā€™t say for certain itā€™s never said in an episode that they also carry disruptors, but I do know that every time I can remember a shipboard armament on a Cardassian vessel being mentioned, itā€™s a phaser.

      The DS9 Technical Manual says the Cardassian ships have spiral-wave disruptor arrays and a large aft disruptor cannon ā€“ presumably thatā€™s what the pincer like structure on the back is supposed to be ā€“ but the DS9 Tech Manual is alsoā€¦not up to the standard of quality established by the TNG Technical Manual.

      Now I kinda want to check.

      Edit: Obviously also not canon, but the Star Trek Adventures Core Rulebook lists the Galor-class as having both phasers and disruptors.