History Recap / StarTrekLowerDecksS3E01Grounded

* MindProbe: Commander Tuvok used his [[{{Telepathy}} abilities]] to extract the memories of a data fabricator which led him to discover the Pakleds' capability in their homeworld's destruction.

* MindProbe: Commander Tuvok used his [[{{Telepathy}} abilities]] to extract the memories of a data fabricator which allowed him to discover the Pakleds' capability in their homeworld's destruction.

* MindProbe: Commander Tuvok used his [[Telepathy abilities]] to extract the memories of a data fabricator which allowed him to discover the Pakleds' capability in their homeworld's destruction.

** TheUnfavorite gets a similar deconstruction, at least from Mariner's perspective. She assumes Starfleet would throw her mother under the bus because she commands a ''California'' class vessel, which most everyone in the organization treats as less than nothing for doing not-so prestigious work. Her assumption leads her to hijack the ''Cerritos'' so she can prove her mother's innocence, which turns out to be AllForNothing; Starfleet knew Freeman was innocent, and were using the trial as a means to fool the responsible parties into thinking their plan worked. Starfleet may give more prestige towards certain ships and captains than others, but it doesn't abandoned its own. It does, however, land Mariner on her last chance to stay in Starfleet, and one more mistake will result in her being kicked out.

** The ensigns visit [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact Bozeman, Montana]], now a national monument/theme park. The statue La Forge mentioned is there, a replica of the ''T'Plana-Hath'' serves as a playground for kids, replicas of the ''Phoenix'' do warp tours of Cochrane's maiden flight, and there's plenty of musical references.

** Captain Freeman's trial was never real; it was a sham to expose to the Pakled's scheme.

* ShamefulSourceOfKnowledge: Subverted by Boimler, who has no hesitations offering up his [[TooMuchInformation overly-detailed]] personal logs if they contain entries that help Captain Freeman's case. He doesn't feel self-conscious until he sees Mariner's reaction to them and her dismissal of them as "a joke" and "a freaking blooper reel". (Which fits her pattern of mistrust towards Starfleet, presuming that they they would disregard it as evidence solely on the basis of its embarrassing content.)

* BaitAndSwitch: Shots of a vineyard being watered by automated drones eventually focus on a character working in the vineyard with a large hat, obscured by a large LensFlare. Evidentially trying to imply this would be a [[Series/StarTrekPicard Picard]] cameo, as he would be in his family home about this era, instead it is ''Boimler'' having returned to work at his family vineyard. Instead of wine, they produce raisins.

* ShamefulSourceOfKnowledge: Subverted by Boimler, who has no hesitations offering up his [[TooMuchInformation overly-detailed]] personal logs if they contain entries that help Captain Freeman's case. He doesn't feel self-conscious until he sees Mariner's reaction to them and her dismissal of them as "a joke" and "a freaking bloober reel". (Which fits her pattern of mistrust towards Starfleet, presuming that they they would disregard it as evidence solely on the basis of its embarrassing content.)

'''Boimler's Log:''' The alien atmosphere is giving me insane gas... ''(beep)'' Gotta be better about hiding my purple hair dye. Nobody knows my real hair color is... ''(beep)'' An alien bird ate my combadge! ''(beep)'' ...dropped my tricorder in the toilet again! ''(beep)'' I actually woke myself up, these gas pains are so bad. I just wish i could fart!

* ShamefulSourceOfKnowledge: Subverted by Boimler, who has no hesitations offering up his [[TooMuchInformation overly-detailed]] personal logs if they contain entries that help Captain Freeman's case. He doesn't feel self-conscious until he sees Mariner's reaction to them and her dismissal of them as "a joke". (Which fits her pattern of mistrust towards Starfleet, presuming that they they would disregard it as evidence solely on the basis of its embarrassing content.)

'''Boimler's Log:''' The alien atmosphere is giving me insane gas... ''(beep)'' Gotta be better about hiding my purple hair dye. Nobody knows my real hair color is... ''(beep)'' An alien bird ate my combadge! ''(beep)'' ...dropped my tricorder in the toilet again!

** Despite the urgency of their situation, Mariner can't bring herself to knock Dennis out, especially after he tears up mentioning his late wife.

* FreezeFrameBonus:
** The news crawl mentions that [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E10ChainOfCommand Admiral Jellico]] has banned the [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E06TerminalProvocations Zebulon Sisters]] from active-duty starships, while there was an incident involving 12 teenagers being injured at a [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E25TheNeutralZone Sonny Clemonds]] concert.
** The first of the three female vineyard workers flirting with Boimler strongly resembles the Sun-Maid Girl.

* {{Leitmotif}}: A number of musical cues from ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' as used as the characters visit Boseman, Montana.

* SwissCheeseSecurity: Zig-zagged. When taking over the ''Phoenix'', Mariner and Rutherford override the autopilot (which presumably allows Gavin to take control afterwards), which is hardly out of the realm of possibility for a Starfleet engineer of Rutherford's skill when hijacking a glorified theme park ride. That no one is supervising said ride raises its own questions. When Mariner decides to hijack the ''Cerritos'', she's able to pilot the ship out of dry dock with no apparent need to bypass any security. It's only when Rutherford deliberately locks the helm that she's foiled, which makes one wonder why that hadn't already been done.

'''Rutherford:''' [[LampshadeHanging Did you-- did you time your entrance to say that?]]\\