History Recap / StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E14LowerDecks

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Sito regains the trust of Picard, but dies during her assignment in the end.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Worf gives Sito one by blindfolding her and ordering her to block his attacks. She eventually protests that the test isn't fair, which turns out to be the entire point of the lesson, to speak up when being judged unfairly. This motivates her to do the same to Picard for his earlier TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, which it turns out was the same sort of test.

* IKnowYouKnowThatIKnow: Geordi and Taurik on damaging the shuttle craft to appear as if it had been attacked.

* TrojanPrisoner: Sito was to pretend to be the prisoner of the Cardassian spy in order to allow him to cross the border in a Starfleet Shuttlecraft. Everthing goes well until her escape pod is destroyed.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The writers considered bringing back Sito on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', having been found imprisoned in a Cardassian prison and struggling to re-adjust to life in Starfleet. This was abandoned when they decided the highly moving ending of "Lower Decks" would be compromised in retrospect. The story was eventually reworked into the season 4 episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E19HardTime "Hard Time"]], an "O'Brien must suffer" episode. So as far as anyone is concerned, Sito is dead.
** Had TNG been renewed for an 8th season, Taurik would've become a recurring character. Alexander Enberg, who played Taurik, would play Vorik on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', who is [[{{Expy}} essentially the same as Taurik except with a slightly different first name]].

We’re trying something a little different this time around. This particular episode, the TropeNamer for the LowerDeckEpisode, is focused less on the main crew and more on some of the overlooked junior officers of the 'Enterprise'' - specifically, Nurse Ogawa, a human helmsman named Sam Lavelle, a Vulcan engineer named Taurik, and a Bajoran security officer named Sito Jaxa (who we've actually seen before in "The First Duty"). Don’t worry, the main crew is still there, doing what they always do, just on the other side of a minor PerspectiveFlip. The main driving force of the episode comes from those four lowly ensigns. At the moment, their biggest concern is the looming crew evaluations, which may or may not lead to promotions for them. Things get interesting when their friend Ben, a bartender at Ten Forward, overhears Riker and Troi discussing both Lavelle and Sito as candidates for the same position at ops.

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Why the Cardassian agent is helping TheFederation.

* ReformedButRejected: Sito to Picard.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when it turns out that Picard's rejection of Sito is actually a...
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Worf gives Sito one by blindfolding her and ordering her to block his attacks. She eventually protests that the test isn't fair, which turns out to be the entire point of the lesson, to speak up when something is obviously wrong.
** Picard does this as well; see above.

Worf picks up an object on the ship’s sensors, which he identifies as an escape pod floating in Cardassian space. Picard orders that the occupant be beamed directly to Sickbay, and Doctor Crusher orders Nurse Ogawa to leave. Ogawa finds Sito standing guard to keep anyone but the senior staff out of Sickbay (so anyone else who gets sick will just have to walk it off, I guess) but neither one of them knows what’s going on. Picard comes by and orders Sito to follow him back to his ready room, where he suddenly starts to chew her out for the incident she was involved in at Starfleet Academy. He tells her she should have been expelled for it and says that he has no idea how she ended up on the ''Enterprise''.

** Had TNG been renewed for an 8th season, Taurik would've become a recurring character. Alexander Enberg, who played Taurik, would play Vorik on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', who is [[ConvenientReplacementChacter essentially the same as Taurik except with a slightly different first name]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The writers considered bringing back Sito on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', having been found imprisoned in a Cardassian prison and struggling to re-adjust to life in Starfleet. This was abandoned when they decided the highly moving ending of "Lower Decks" would be compromised in retrospect. The story was eventually reworked into the season 4 episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E19HardTime "Hard Time"]], an "O'Brien must suffer" episode. So as far as anyone is concerned, Sito is dead.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The writers considered bringing back Sito on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', having been found imprisoned in a Cardassian prison and struggling to re-adjust to life in Starfleet. The story was eventually reworked into the season 4 episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E19HardTime "Hard Time"]], an "O'Brien must suffer" episode. So as far as anyone is concerned, Sito is dead.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The writers considered bringing back Sito on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', having been found imprisoned in a Cardassian prison, and struggling to re-adjust to life in Starfleet. The story was eventually reworked into the season 4 episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E19HardTime "Hard Time"]], as an "O'Brien must suffer" episode. So as far as anyone is concerned, Sito is dead.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The writers considered bringing back Sito on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', having been found imprisoned in a Cardassian prison, and struggling to re-adjust to life in Starfleet. The story was eventually reworked into the season 4 episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E19HardTime "Hard Time"]], as an "O'Brien must suffer" episode.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Worf gives Sito one by blindfolding her and ordering her to block his attacks. She eventually protests that the test isn't fair, which turns out to be the entire point of the lesson, to speak up when something is obviously wrong.

We’re trying something a little different this time around. This particular episode, the TropeNamer for the LowerDeckEpisode, is focused less on the main crew and more on some of the overlooked junior officers of the 'Enterprise'' - specifically, Nurse Ogawa, a human helmsman named Sam Lavelle, a Vulcan engineer named Taurik, and a Bajoran security officer named Sito Jaxa (who we've actually [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E15TheFirstDuty seen before]]). Don’t worry, the main crew is still there, doing what they always do, just on the other side of a minor PerspectiveFlip. The main driving force of the episode comes from those four lowly ensigns. At the moment, their biggest concern is the looming crew evaluations, which may or may not lead to promotions for them. Things get interesting when their friend Ben, a bartender at Ten Forward, overhears Riker and Troi discussing both Lavelle and Sito as candidates for the same position at ops.

We’re trying something a little different this time around. This particular episode, the TropeNamer for the LowerDecksEpisode, is focused less on the main crew and more on some of the overlooked junior officers of the 'Enterprise'' - specifically, Nurse Ogawa, a human helmsman named Sam Lavelle, a Vulcan engineer named Taurik, and a Bajoran security officer named Sito Jaxa. Don’t worry, the main crew is still there, doing what they always do, just on the other side of a minor PerspectiveFlip. The main driving force of the episode comes from those four lowly ensigns. At the moment, their biggest concern is the looming crew evaluations, which may or may not lead to promotions for them. Things get interesting when their friend Ben, a bartender at Ten Forward, overhears Riker and Troi discussing both Lavelle and Sito as candidates for the same position at ops.

As the crew goes through some battle simulations, Picard suddenly enters from his ready room and orders a change in course, then calls a conference with his senior staff. When they’re gone, Sito notices that the change in course will lead them near the Cardassian border. Later in Ten Forward, Ben tells Lavelle not to be so intimidated by Commander Riker, and recommends getting to know him a little better when they’re not on duty. The plan goes a little awry, though, because Ben mistakenly informs him that Riker is Canadian, and that’s the topic he chooses to start the conversation with. When Riker explains that he’s actually from Alaska, Lavelle notes, "Well, they both get a lot of snow," and awkwardly shuffles away.

Worf picks up an object on the ship’s sensors, which he identifies as an escape pod floating in Cardassian space. Picard orders that the occupant be beamed directly to Sickbay, and Doctor Crusher orders Nurse Ogawa to leave. Ogawa finds Sito standing guard to keep anyone but the senior staff out of Sickbay (so anyone else who gets sick will just have to walk it off, I guess) but neither one of them knows what’s going on. Picard comes by and orders Sito to follow him back to his ready room, where he suddenly starts to chew her out for an incident she was involved in at Starfleet Academy three years earlier (the same one that Wesley Crusher was involved in). He tells her she should have been expelled for it and says that he has no idea how she ended up on the ''Enterprise''.