History Recap / StarTrekLowerDecksS4E04SomethingBorrowedSomethingGreen

* TheReveal: Tennis backstory and mysterious past is finally revealed.

* TheReveal: While we've had Orions in the franchise since its early days, we finally get to see their homeworld, Orion, and more details on their culture.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: In the ColdOpen, an Orion twirls around a TOS-era Phaser pistol before being told to just throw it away. (Of course, it's possible it simply didn't work anymore.)

* CleavageWindow: The Orion outfits given to T'Lyn sports a prominent cleavage window. T'Lyn complains about the "inefficient" use of material.

* RunningGag: Every time a dagger is thrown, Mariner ends up being hit in the shoulder. The third time, she ducks behind a console and it still manages to bounce into her when D'Erika misses her throw at Tendi. Mariner even notes that it happened again offscreen during the daddy-daughter-dagger-throwing ritual.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: D'Erika's mad at Tendi because she turned around and bailed for Starfleet the second she could. Tendi realizes that, while she meant well, not explaining herself to her sister really hurt her.

* EveryoneAlreadyKnew: Tendi spends much of the episode trying to keep up appearances that she ''isn't'' Orion royalty and trained as an assassin with a ceremonial title, but when her statements are along the lines of "We are barely the 5th largest syndicate family" it generally doesn't work (in addition to the fact she demonstrates advanced combat skills in "Hear All, Trust Nothing" last season under similar denial). When she decides to admit it, Mariner and T'Lyn have been so engaged with the spectacle it barely recognizes.

* TheReveal: While we've had Orions in the franchise since its early days, we finally get to see their homeworld, Orion, and how it works.

* CleavageWindow: The Orion outfits given to Mariner and T'Lyn sport a prominent cleavage window. T'Lyn complains about the "inefficient" use of material.

* ArrangedMarriage: The wedding is the culmination of one of these, which will merge the Tendis with another powerful Syndicate family. [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage D'Erika doesn't seem to mind, however.]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: The Orions. While they've been part of the franchise since "The Cage", Orion society has never really been fleshed out beyond the Orion Syndicate and its criminal activities across multiple eras. Tendi's presence on the ''Cerritos'' has slowly laid groundwork, leading inevitibily to this kind of episode and the most extensive canonical world building the Orions have received over the preceding half a century.

* TakeThat: Mariner claims that Orion pheromones were made up by Starfleet, as an excuse to explain [[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E04Borderland a captain getting taken out by some Orion showgirls]].

* TheWorfEffect: Shaxs gets a rare Worfing when he throws himself at the Chalnoth Captain, struggle briefly and the captain tosses him aside.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: In the ColdOpen, an Orion twirls around a TOS-era Phaser pistol before being told to just throw it away.

* EatingTheEyeCandy: Mariner unabashedly engages in this with Niall. [[NotSoAboveItAll Even T'Lyn agrees that the man is]] ''[[NotSoAboveItAll "aesthetically pleasing."]]''

* LivingAphrodisiac: Tendi once again clarifies that only ''some'' Orion women possess the ability to release mind-controlling pheromones and that she is not one of them. The ladies wind up meeting one who can when their search for Niall brings them to a sex dungeon.

* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: As soon as the girls leave the ''Cerritos'', Boimler and Rutherford's buddy-buddiness goes completely down the crapper thanks to their bonsai tree.

* TakeThat: Mariner claims that Orion pheromones were made up by Starfleet, as an excuse to explain [[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E04Borderland a captain getting taken out by some Orion showgirls]].

* WorthlessGoldRocks: In the ColdOpen, an Orion twirls around a TOS-era Phaser pistol before being told to just throw it away.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The Orions. While they've been part of the franchise since "The Cage", Orion society has never really been fleshed out beyond the Orion Syndicate and its criminal activities across multiple eras. Tendi's presence on the ''Cerritos'' has slowly laid groundwork, leading inevitibily to this kind of episode and the most extensive canonical world building the Orions have ever received.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The Orions, who get considerably more fleshed out beyond the previously established Orion Syndicate and other bits of world-building here and there across the preceding 57 years.

* TheReveal: "Mistress of the Winter Constellations" is actually the title given to the eldest sister in the family who is trained as a deadly assassin. There's a good reason anyone who hears that name fears Tendi.

* PetTheDog: When Tendi asks T'Lyn to not report the theft of a shuttle, T'Lyn tosses her entire report out the window, reasoning that it would unethical to file it without the subject's consent.

* GilliganCut: Boimler and Rutherford notes that they have been forbidden to use the Mark Twain holoprogram after attempting to use it to resolve the dispute with the Chalnoth captain. Tendi suggests they could just share their feelings with each other. Cut to the two cosplaying Mozart and talking out their problems.

* LivingAphrodisiac: Tendi clarifies that only ''some'' Orion women possess the ability to release mind-controlling pheromones and that she is not one of them. The ladies wind up meeting one who can when their search for Niall brings them to a sex dungeon.

* DrowningMySorrows: Niall seems to be indulging in the Orion equivalent of this in order to forget his feelings for D'Erika, accepting being a boy toy in a sex dungeon in exchange for being able to blitz out on the owner's pheromones.

* MafiaPrincess: Tendi turns out to be one of these ''on top'' of being a trained pirate assassin. Despite her protesting that her family is only the ''fifth'' most powerful in the Syndicate, her parents are clearly loaded, possessing both a vast estate and dozens of loyal servants.

* GilliganCut: Boimler and Rutherford notes that they have been forbidden to use the Mark Twain hologram after attempting to use it to resolve the dispute with the Chalnoth captain. Tendi suggests they could just share their feelings with each other. Cut to the two cosplaying Mozart and talking out their problems.