History Recap / StarTrekLowerDecksS3E06HearAllTrustNothing

* HappyEndingOverride: The episode goes out of its way to do it for Quark in a way that perfectly fits his TheChewToy status from ''Deep Space Nine''. ''Picard'' has the titular character visiting a Quark's, establishing that it's become a franchise, and the upscale nature of the place implies that Quark has finally hit it big. This episode reveals that as a result of yet another get-rich-quick-scheme gone awry, Quark was forced to sign over the lion's share of the profits to the Karemma after he stole their technology for the attractions. Meaning that regardless of how successful the franchise is, Quark himself is just as miserable as ever. Though knowing Quark, he'll likley find some way to recoup his losses eventually.

* HappyEndingOverride: The episode goes out of its way to do it for Quark in a way that perfectly fits his TheChewToy status from ''Deep Space Nine''. ''Picard'' has the titular character visiting a Quark's, establishing that it's become a franchise, and the upscale nature of the place implies that Quark has finally hit it big. This episode reveals that as a result of yet another get-rich-quick-scheme gone awry, Quark was forced to sign over the lion's share of the profits to the Karemma after he stole their technology for the attractions. Meaning that regardless of how successful the franchise is, Quark himself is just as miserable as ever.

* Shaxs reunites with his old friend Col. Kira Nerys... but the two immediately get into arguments over who owes whom after a long chain of saving each other's behinds during their tenure in the Bajoran Resistance.

* IOweYouMyLife: Kira and Shaxs have an argument on who presently owes the other for saving their life, with both trying not to be the one who is owed. The back-and-forth gets increasingly hostile as they try to one-up each other. Kira eventually "wins" thanks to Shaxs pushing Kira out of the path of the Karemma's EMP device, much to his dismay.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: If the Karemma had simply told the crew that they were arresting Quark instead of using an [=EMP=] to disable the station and the ''Cerritos'', they would have been able to start working out a deal immediately, instead of spending time in the brig sorting out the misunderstanding. The Karemma were such snobs that talking things out instead of taking matters into their own hands didn't occur to them, either.

* HappyEndingOverride: The episode goes out of its way to do it for Quark in a way that perfectly fits his TheChewToy status from Deep Space Nine. ''Picard'' has the titular character visiting a Quark's, establishing that it's become a franchise, and the upscale nature of the place implies that Quark has finally hit it big. This episode reveals that as a result of yet another get-rich-quick-scheme gone awry, Quark was forced to sign over the lion's share of the profits to the Karemma after he stole their technology for the attractions. Meaning that regardless of how successful the franchise is, Quark himself is just as miserable as ever.

Chronologically followed by Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS2E07ThoseOldScientists.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Shaxs is revealed to be an old resistance buddy of Kira's, with the two of them keeping a running tally of the times that they've saved each other's lives. Mariner is also recognized by both Kira and Quark (who remembers her outstanding tab), and it is implied again that she either served on the station or on a ship that was at [=DS9=] often enough for her to be a regular during the Dominion War, since Kira asks if she and Quark are exchanging old war stories.

* BigNo: Quark screams this when Captain Freeman asks if he's happy being poor instead of arrested.

* CluelessChickMagnet: Mariner learns a number of the women at the party have an interest in Boimler. [[INeedAFreakingDrink She decides to finish the bottle]]. This comes after the season premiere which shows him similarly [[ObliviousToLove oblivious to female interest]] back on Earth.

* {{EMP}}: The Karemma toss a device at a panel in Quark's. Not only does it shut down the entirety of Deep Space 9, but the ''Cerritos'' as well.

** Boimler has always been good at games and tests, and that extends to games like Dabo. And because of the moneyless society of the Federation, he is ambivalent towards the massive payout and happily takes a Quarks Reward card in its place. This infuriates the Ferengi pit bosses.

'''Quark''': I have standards!\\
'''Kira''': No you don't!

* AwkwardFirstSleepover: Mariner hanging out with Jennifer's friends has shades of this, with her showing up in her uniform instead of sweatpants and t-shirts like the rest. It doesn't help that said friends are into IncrediblyLameFun.

* IncrediblyLameFun: Jennifer's friends enjoy candle-making, storytelling, and interpretive dance, much to Mariner's dismay. Jennifer likewise isn't that enthused, and invited Mariner because she hoped that Mariner would be her usual self and tear into them.

* ShadowArchetype: Mesk is one for Worf. Both were aliens raised by humans from races with long histories of conflict with humans. Worf decided to learn everything about his Klingon heritage, and embraced only the best parts of it, making him a better Klingon than most Klingons. Mesk just learned the ThemeParkVersion of Orion culture from dubious sources and walks around pretending to be a stereotype to cover up his insecurities, essentially a shallow parody of the worst of his species.

* VocalEvolution: 20 years later and Nana Visitor and Armin Shimerman have noticeably aged voices compared to back when DS9 ended. Time, what are you gonna do? With this case though, fans suspected that Shimerman recorded his lines without the Ferengi prosthetic teeth. Shimerman replied with a bit of playful offense, saying that he had kept a pair of the prosthetics just in case he had to break out Quark again.

* IOweYouMyLife: Kira and Shaxs have an argument on who presently owes the other for saving their life, with both trying not to be the one who is owed. Kira eventually "wins."

* ShadowArchetype: Mesk is one for Worf. Both were aliens raised by humans from races with long histories of conflict with humans. Worf decided to learn everything about his Klingon heritage, and embraced only the best parts of it, making him a better Klingon than most Klingons. Mesk just learned the ThemeParkVersion of Orion culture from dubious sources and walks around pretending to be a stereotype to cover up his insecurities.

* YouOweMe: Shaxs and Colonel Kira fought together in the resistance and spend much of the episode arguing over this. Humorously [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in that they both insist that they owe the other person ''more.'' Kira "wins" when Shaxs pushes her out of the way of the Karemma's EMP device.

* BadassBaritone: When she shifts into "Mistress of the Winter Constellation" mode, Tendi's voice deepens and gets rougher than her normal chipper tone.

* CreepySouvenir: Subverted when Tendi considers keeping the [[GoldTooth latinum tooth]] she extracted in order to rig the Karemma's navigation system... but decides on second thought that it's kinda gross. Quark, by contrast, doesn't skip a beat.

* GoldTooth: One of the guards on the Karemma ship has one that Tendi rips out and uses to hotwire their thrusters. However, she calls it a latinum tooth, which suggests that the gold is just a case for it.

* VocalEvolution: 20 years later and Nana Visitor and Armin Shimmerman have noticeably aged voices compared to back when DS9 ended. Time, what are you gonna do? With this case though, fans suspected that Shimmerman recorded his lines without the Ferengi prosthetic teeth. Shimmerman replied with a bit of playful offense, saying that he had kept a pair of the prosthetics just in case he had to break out Qwark again.

** Mesk, the Orion Starfleet officer Tendi and Rutherford meet on [=DS9=], is a walking stereotype of Orion pirates and makes Tendi ''extremely'' uncomfortable. It's not until they actually need some pirating skills to escape the Karemma ship that he admits he's an adoptee who grew up in Cincinnati and everything he knows about Orion culture is from trashy holonovels ("The really bad ones with boobs on the cover"). Tendi empathizes, telling him he's better off being the man he wants to be instead of what he thinks others expect him to be.

* BigNo: Quark screams this when Captain Freeman asks if he’s happy being poor instead of arrested.

* HaveIMentionedIAmADwarfToday: Mesk constantly plays up being an Orion pirate, much to Tendi's annoyance, because he's overcompensating for being a human-raised Orion whose sole source of knowledge on his people are smutty holonovels.

* RulesLawyer: Mesk managed to convince Starfleet that his [[PlanetOfHats Orion pirating multi-tool is a religious icon]], and thus allowed to carry it wherever he wants.

* SwissArmyWeapon: Mesk carries an Orion pirate tool, which he convinced Starfleet was a religious item, and it has features ranging from bypassing electronic locks to disemboweling someone. The device does apparently have multiple features that ''aren't'' pirate related, as Tendi does wonders with the wine bottle opener function (using it to pin a guard's badge to a security scanner, opening the lock).

* TooDumbToLive: When the ''Cerritos'' loses power from the EMP and Mariner, Jennifer, and Jennifer's friends are trapped in a room together, Mariner quickly realizes all the candles in the room are [[AlmostOutOfOxygen consuming the oxygen quicker]]. She tries to fix this by simply blowing them out, but [[SkewedPriorities Jennifer's friends won't let her since that will ruin their activity]].

** Mesk, the Orion Starfleet officer Tendi and Rutherford meet on [=DS9=], is a walking stereotype of Orion pirates and makes Tendi ''extremely'' uncomfortable. It's not until they actually need some pirating skills to escape the Karemma ship that he admits he's an adoptee who grew up in Cincinnati and everything he knows about Orion culture is from trashy holonovels ("The ones with the boobs on the cover"). Tendi empathizes, telling him he's better off being the man he wants to be instead of what he thinks others expect him to be.

** [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E25E26WhatYouLeaveBehind Kira still has Sisko's baseball.]]

* ShipTease:
** Present between Tendi and Rutherford. Tendi tells him that she'd prefer to just spend time with him as opposed to her fellow Orion Mesk, while Rutherford accepts Tendi's past as a pirate without question, saying he finds it to be a fascinating aspect of her and he would like to know more.

* SidelinedProtagonistCrossover: Although Mariner is the primary protagonist of ''Lower Decks'' and is established to have pre-existing connections to [=DS9=], she spends most of the episode in the B plot, not interacting with [=DS9=] and its cast until the very end. Much the same is true of {{deuteragonist}} Boimler, who gets DistractedByTheGoldSaucer and stays that way.

* SidelinedProtagonistCrossover: Although Mariner is the primary protagonist of ''Lower Decks'' and is established to have pre-existing connections to [=DS9=], she spends most of the episode in the B plot, not interacting with [=DS9=] and its cast until the very end.