- Pidge: I guess it's like Ryner said. We're all made up of the same cosmic dust.
While doing repairs to the castle, Team Voltron encounters a wave of space spores. Pidge studies them and finds that they contain a distress signal. This leads them to the planet of the Olkari, an alien race that specializes in technology. They have to save the people and their king before the Galra releases a new weapon against Voltron.
Tropes for this episode include the following:
- Awesome by Analysis: Pidge within a few minutes manages to figure out which parts of the castle that Coran is talking about using her innate tech savvy abilities.
- Broken Pedestal: The Lions out the King of Olkarion as a traitor to his people, which leads to them all looking at him with disappointment.
- Catch and Return: The cube takes Team Voltron's attacks and then fires it back on them.
- From Bad to Worse: Lance suggests cutting the cube in half, since firing directly on it leads to Catch and Return. This ends up creating more cubes for them to fight, smaller and deadlier.
- Gadgeteer Genius:
- Pidge shows off what she can do with Olkari tech in creating weapons meant for fighting the Galra.
- The Olkari are this as a whole, having switched to working with plant life when cut off from metal and resources.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Pidge's vine powers end up taking down the replicated cubes in one hit.
- I Have Your Wife: The Galra take King Lubos hostage, and make the Olkari think he is being tortured so they would finish building the cube. It turns out that he's defected for luxury. The moment the rest of the Olkari learn of this, they launch the revolt that the Galra were using his hostage status to avert.
- Luxury Prison Suite: The team finds the Olkari king sitting in an easy chair, eating snacks and watching a soap opera.
- Not So Above It All: Coran uses the Olkari cube he received to repeat "Coran, Coran, the gorgeous man" multiple times.
- Poor Communication Kills: The team nearly breaks the ship while performing maintenance because they don't understand what the Altean terms Coran and Allura are using to describe what to do mean.
- Rock Bottom: As the team scrambles for a way to defeat the cube, Lance suggests slicing it with their sword. Shiro replies that it can't make things worse. Cue the cube regenerating after being sliced, creating more cubes.
- Shout-Out: The cubes multiplying when cut is a reference to Fantasia.
- Snowball Fight: The team has one with bio-luminescent space spores.
- Tempting Fate: Inverted when Pidge feels down about visiting the forest of a planet with Gadgeteer Genius people, only to find that they are there.
- Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Shiro's plan plays out as he narrates it. It goes well up to the point where they find the king, because he doesn't want to be saved.
- Unwanted Rescue: The King Lubos doesn't want to be saved because the Galra captors are treating him well.
