History Recap / StarTrekLowerDecksS1E09CrisisPoint

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When Vindicta fights Holo-Mariner, she says that she knows everything about her, including how she fights, how she dressed as Toby Targ every Halloween, and how she knows that she actually [[CallBack loves the warp core]].
-->'''Holo-Mariner:''' Take that back! The warp core's lame!

* MsFanservice: Tendi's role in Mariner's "film" is mean to play on both Orion stereotypes: First, that all Orions are pirates, and second, that Orion ''women'' are all sexy seductresses. As such, her costume is noticeably skimpier than the others', showing a lot of cleavage and [[BareYourMidriff midriff]].

** Bingston, who put on a one-man show in "Moist Vessel", returns for essentially a cameo in the movie.

After getting assigned to therapy, Mariner decides to blow off some steam by casting herself as the villain Vindicta in a holomovie featuring the crew.

* AnachronismStew: Tendi and Rutherford shooting skeet with Leonardo Da Vinci.[[note]]Though gunpowder, firearms, and ceramics did exist during Da Vinci's time, the sport of skeet shooting is recognized to have been created in the 1920s.[[/note]]

* {{BFG}}: The holographic Shaxs wields a phaser bazooka that fires giant phaser blasts.
* BoardingPod: Vindicta uses this to board the ''Cerritos'' while they're busy watching a recording of her ranting.

** Da Vinci returning at the end of the episode to shoot Vindicta.

** Boimler made his interview prep program by accessing the personal logs of all the ship's personnel to recreate them with the highest degree of accuracy possible. Characters in other Trek shows have also recreated the crew for various reasons, but the other ensigns treat it as a creepy invasion of privacy rather than a mild irritant. It gets worse when Mariner gets way too into blasting up her crewmates (not unlike Barclay's programs when he routinely beat up on his superior officers) and drives Tendi to leave.
** The FantasticRacism that comes about by treating different species as a PlanetOfHats turns out not to reflect well on Starfleet. And although Mariner does apologize for her behavior at the end, there's also a blink-and-miss it of one of the holo-crew making a disparaging remark about Orions that upsets Tendi. (And if Boimler's simulation is as accurate as it seems in all other areas, that guy really is prejudiced against Orions.)

* DudeNotFunny: Tendi has this reaction the further they get into the movie. Mariner wrote her into a sexy Orion pirate role, something she has been trying to [[KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect avoid in her Starfleet career]]. Then during Mariner/Vindicta's assault on the ship she seems to be having too much fun [[BloodyHilarious slaughtering holographic versions of real people]], which causes Tendi to bow out.

* JustJokingJustification: This episode gets really close to the question of how much the holodeck can be a harmless fantasy with no lasting consequences when the fantasy is based on people that you know. Mariner justifies it as just being fake; she and Boimler consistently treat it as a fiction with no concern for the holo-carnage that they are inflicting or witnessing, but Tendi is clearly distressed by inflicting violence on simulations of her shipmates.

* KirkSummation: Holo-Mariner and Vindicta each give one to each other, which allows actual Mariner to come to terms with her being onboard the ''Cerritos'' and understand her relationship with her Mom.

** Before the movie begins, Mariner screams "Therapy!" as the camera pulls back. Akin to ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''.

** While initially contacting the holographic ''Cerritos'', Vindicta's actions are reminiscent of two Klingon villains from the TOS movies-- aside from using a Klingon Bird-of-Prey as her vessel of choice, she distracts them by hammily quoting Shakespeare (a la General Chang from ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'') and blasts a subordinate on the bridge so hard that he visibly disintegrates after said subordinate screws up (reminiscent of Kruge from ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'').

* StealthPun: The ''Cerritos's'' counsellor is some kind of duck alien species. That combined with him being a lousy therapist clearly makes him a '''quack'''.

* AccentUponOnTheWrongSyllable: Vindicta makes a point of addressing the captain as "Free Man", a common trait of various alien races.

* AccentOnTheWrongSyllable: Vindicta makes a point of addressing the captain as "Free Man", a common trait of various alien races.

* StylisticSuck: During some of the holodeck simulation, film striations can be seen. There's even a point where the circular dot that indicated a reel is nearing its end appears.

* ArtShift: The "movie-ized" holodeck simulation is portrayed with sharper lighting, LOTS of {{Lens Flare}}s and even an AspectRatioShift.