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* ContinuitySnarl: Despite the above, a few do crop up.
** A registry number of "NCC-1701-A" is briefly visible on what's supposed to be the refit original ''Enterprise'', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E4Relics no bloody A, B, C or D.]]"
** When Dot is fighting fires on the refit ''Enterprise'' following the attack by Kruge's Bird-of-Prey, the engine room of the ''Enterprise'' is still depicted in its Original Series configuration.


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* SeriesContinuityError: Despite the above, a few do crop up.
** A registry number of "NCC-1701-A" is briefly visible on what's supposed to be the refit original ''Enterprise'', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E4Relics no bloody A, B, C or D.]]"
** When Dot is fighting fires on the refit ''Enterprise'' following the attack by Kruge's Bird-of-Prey, the engine room of the ''Enterprise'' is still depicted in its Original Series configuration.

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* ArtShift: This, along with "The Girl Who Made The Stars", is an animated rather than live-action episode.



* OutOfGenreExperience: This, along with "The Girl Who Made The Stars", is an animated rather than live-action episode.
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* MamaBear: Ephraim follows the ''Enterprise'' on a SternChase spanning two decades and an entire quadrant of space in order to protect her eggs.

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* MamaBear: [[MamaBear Mama Space-Waterbear]]: Ephraim follows the ''Enterprise'' on a SternChase spanning two decades and an entire quadrant of space in order to protect her eggs.
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* AdaptationalWimp: The space tardigrade species itself. Ephraim may be TheDeterminator when it comes to safeguarding her eggs, but she's not the unstoppable death machine that Ripper was when pissed off.
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* HeroicBSOD: Ephraim looks heartbroken when the ''Enterprise'' is destroyed and she thinks her eggs were lost.
* MamaBear: Ephraim follows the ''Enterprise'' on a SternChase spanning two decades and an entire quadrant of space in order to protect her eggs.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: When Ephraim thinks that her eggs were destroyed, she's about to tear Dot apart until the droid reveals that it saved the babies.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: There was never any indication in the original series or even the more futuristic ''The Next Generation'' that Starfleet ever had anything even remotely close to autonomous, technologically advanced robots like Dot on board their ships (Data, who came almost 100 years later, was a unique prototype and frequently described as exceptional). The most logical explanation is that he's a retcon based on the droids seen in ''Discovery''.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: A mild case. Space Abraham Lincoln was the perfect gentleman in "The Savage Curtain", whereas here he seems quite annoyed by the ''Enterprise'' buzzing past his head and shakes his fist angrily at them.
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** Ephraim and Dot's fight in the engine room has several elements of Kirk and Khan's fight in the same room in "Space Seed", along with the iconic fight music from "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Amok Time]]".
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** When Dot is fighting fires on the refit ''Enterprise'' following the attack by Kruge's Bird-of-Prey, the engine room of the ''Enterprise'' is still depicted in its TOS configuration.

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** When Dot is fighting fires on the refit ''Enterprise'' following the attack by Kruge's Bird-of-Prey, the engine room of the ''Enterprise'' is still depicted in its TOS Original Series configuration.

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* ContinuityNod: ''Several''

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* ContinuityNod: ''Several''''Several''.



* OutOfGenreExperience: This, along with "The Girl Who Made The Stars", is an animated rather than live action episode.

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* ContinuitySnarl: Despite the above, a few do crop up.
** A registry number of "NCC-1701-A" is briefly visible on what's supposed to be the refit original ''Enterprise'', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E4Relics no bloody A, B, C or D.]]"
** When Dot is fighting fires on the refit ''Enterprise'' following the attack by Kruge's Bird-of-Prey, the engine room of the ''Enterprise'' is still depicted in its TOS configuration.
* OutOfGenreExperience: This, along with "The Girl Who Made The Stars", is an animated rather than live action live-action episode.
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** While fleeing down a maintenance corridor, Ephraim gets [[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles pelted with Tribbles from an overhead compartment]].

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** While fleeing down a maintenance corridor, Ephraim Dot gets [[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles pelted with Tribbles from an overhead compartment]].
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** After being ejected from the airlock and during her pursuit of the ''Enterprise'', Ephraim sees [[Recap/StarTrekS2E2WhoMournsForAdonais a giant green hand]], [[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine the planet killing machine]], the ''Enterprise'' trapped in [[Recap/StarTrekS3E9TheTholianWeb a Tholian web]], a [[Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain giant Abraham Lincoln]], the refit ''Enterprise'' and the ''Reliant'' [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan doing battle]], and [[Film:StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock a Klingon Bird-Of-Prey attacking]] the refit ''Enterprise''.

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** After being ejected from the airlock and during her pursuit of the ''Enterprise'', Ephraim sees [[Recap/StarTrekS2E2WhoMournsForAdonais a giant green hand]], [[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine the planet killing machine]], the ''Enterprise'' trapped in [[Recap/StarTrekS3E9TheTholianWeb a Tholian web]], a [[Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain giant Abraham Lincoln]], the refit ''Enterprise'' and the ''Reliant'' [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan doing battle]], and [[Film:StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock a Klingon Bird-Of-Prey attacking]] the refit ''Enterprise''.

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* OutOfGenreExperience: This, along with "The Girl Who Made The Stars", is an animated rather than live action episode.

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* ContinuityNod: ''Several''
** Audio clips from [[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed "Space Seed"]] and [[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime "The Naked Time"]] are used along with new animation of those scenes.
** While fleeing down a maintenance corridor, Ephraim gets [[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles pelted with Tribbles from an overhead compartment]].
** After being ejected from the airlock and during her pursuit of the ''Enterprise'', Ephraim sees [[Recap/StarTrekS2E2WhoMournsForAdonais a giant green hand]], [[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine the planet killing machine]], the ''Enterprise'' trapped in [[Recap/StarTrekS3E9TheTholianWeb a Tholian web]], a [[Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain giant Abraham Lincoln]], the refit ''Enterprise'' and the ''Reliant'' [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan doing battle]], and [[Film:StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock a Klingon Bird-Of-Prey attacking]] the refit ''Enterprise''.
* OutOfGenreExperience: This, along with "The Girl Who Made The Stars", is an animated rather than live action episode.episode.
* TimeyWimeyBall: The events Ephraim sees and experiences are both compressed in time ''and'' not seen in the original order they happened, which brings up the question of whether tardigrades don't experience linear time like we do or if it's a case of UnreliableNarrator.
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Ephraim, a humble tardigrade, is flying through the mycelial network when an unexpected encounter takes her on a bewildering adventure through space.

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* OutOfGenreExperience: This, along with "The Girl Who Made The Stars", is an animated rather than live action episode.

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