History Recap / StarTrekLowerDecksS2E02KayshonHisEyesOpen

* PuppetPermuation: Kayshon becomes a hand puppet during the episode.

* CloningBlues: Played for laughs with Boimler's transport clone. When Boimler returns to the ''Titan'' and sees he was accidentally transporter cloned, his clone remarks "''I'm'' the transporter clone? Boo." He doesn't seem to mind afterwards though, when he gets to stay on the ''Titan'' while the original is transferred back to the ''Cerritos''.

* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Kayshon is a Tamarian, a species encountered in the ''TNG'' episode "Darmok" whose species talks exclusively in metaphors and was impossible for the concurrent UniversalTranslator to parse out (everything was contextual based on the story being referenced, so others could understand nouns, verbs and adjectives but came across as unrelated phrases). It's said Kayshon has learned a more standard language to interact with the crew, but he frequently stumbles on certain terms and defaults to a Tamarian metaphor.

* TakeThatUs: Rutherford notes that Jet has two pips on his collar at the end of the episode. He responds that it's just a corn kernel, and if it appears that someone has the wrong rank, it's because someone has corn on their collar. This is a response to some crew members having different ranks in different episodes of the season without it being mentioned.

The ''Cerritos'' is tasked with doing inventory on a Collector's Guild vessel, while Boimler finds himself tiring of the constant action on the ''Titan''.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Lt. Kayshon is a Tamarian, and while he does use metaphors, he is more-or-less fluent in Federation Standard and thus can speak normally with the crew, with only occasional lapses.

** Kayshon is a Tamarian, the species that speaks in nothing but metaphors from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E2Darmok Darmok]]". He's learned Federation Standard, but slips into metaphors every so often.
--->'''Kayshon:''' Rapunki, when he joined the seven. …Ah, sorry. The universal translator doesn't always-- What I meant was, uh, it is my honor, Captain.

** Among the collection of skeletons is a giant humanoid skeleton wearing the tattered remains of a TOS-era science officer's uniform. This is most likely the remains of Spock 2 from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E7TheInfiniteVulcan The Infinite Vulcan]]" and fake space Lincoln who still had the spear sticking through him from "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain The Savage Curtain]]".

* CollectorOfTheStrange: The Collector's Guild is an entire guild of people who collect random crap.

* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Kayshon is a Tamarian, a species encountered in the TNG episode "Darmok" whose species talks exclusively in metaphors and was impossible for the concurrent UniversalTranslator to parse out (everything was contextual based on the story being referenced, so others could understand nouns, verbs and adjectives but came across as unrelated phrases). It's said Kayshon has learned a more standard language to interact with the crew, but he frequently stumbles on certain terms and defaults to a Tamarian metaphor.

* GenderIsNoObject: The guys and gals of Beta Shift shower naked together with no hint of discomfort.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Kerner Hauze boobytrapped his collection so that anyone who tried to plunder it for the more valuable items would become ''part'' of it-- namely, by using some kind of energy beam to turn them into a hand puppet.

* SpeakIllOfTheDead: When Freeman expresses sympathy to Siggi, he snaps that Hauze wasn't his friend and his collection was far inferior to Siggi's own. Turns out that everyone in the Collector's Guild hates each other and are engaged in a constant war of one-upsmanship.

** At the end of the episode, when the lower deckers ask him what the ''Titan'' was like, Boimler deadpanned “It was a bunch of complex characters thrown into heavily serialized battles, which always ended in mind-blowing twists which made me question the basic tenets of my reality,” you could read the line as ''Lower Decks'' poking fun at the season-long plot structures of its sister shows ''Discovery'' and ''Picard''.
** A subtle one is also delivered to the ActionizedSequel nature of the TNG movies, with the other ''Titan'' officers mocking the ''Enterprise''-D's carrying families, its more scientific and exploratory mission profile, and the officers taking time out to do things like perform concerts. However, Boimler later reminds them that science and exploration have always been Starfleet's main priorities, and in a subsequent scene, Riker all but confirms that he has much fonder memories of his time aboard the ''Enterprise''-D than he does of the ''Enterprise''-E, which was much more of an out-and-out warship than its predecessor.

* BalefulPolymorph: Kayshon gets turned into a doll by the defense system on the Collector's ship. (He gets better by the end of the episode.)

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: We never see how the other Boimler managed to escape the Pakleds and get the shuttlecraft off the planet.

* EloquentInMyNativeLanguage: Kayshon is a Tamarian, a species encountered in the TNG episode "Darmok" whose species talks exclusively in metaphors and was impossible for the concurrent UniversalTranslator to parse out (everything was contextual based on the story being referenced, so others could understand nouns, verbs and adjectives but came across as unrelated phrases). It's said Kayshon has learned a more standard language to interact with the crew, but he frequently stumbles on certain terms and defaults to a Tamarian metaphor.

* TemptingFate: Mariner scoffs at the Roombas turning evil, sarcastically asking if they'll suck them to death. When one grabs her face hard enough to leave a bruise, she realizes that they'll do exactly that.

* GreaterScopeVillain: It's mentioned that the Pakleds may be working on behalf of someone else, as their recent string of thefts have targeted materials that they cannot use themselves.

* TheWorfEffect: Kayshon is the only officer to be hit by the collection's security system.