History Recap / StarTrekLowerDecksS2E07WherePleasantFountainsLie

* ImagineSpot: As Agimus goes into EvilGloating mode he envisions an endless army of {{AttackDrone}}s at his command as he perches triumphant atop a mountain of NothingButSkulls.

* BitingTheHandHumor: At the very end, one of the computers that boot up to mock Agimus bears the CBS eye logo.

* TheDogBitesBack: After discovering Mariner was the one who got him reassigned to a different mission because she thinks he's not ready for it, Boimler gets fed up with Mariner and tackles her to get to Agimus when she keeps underestimating him. During the struggle, when Boimler pulls out his phaser on her, Mariner thinks he doesn't have the guts to shoot her but she's immediately proven wrong when he stuns her. It turns out it was all the trick from Boimler to gain Agimus's trust to use him.

* AbdicateTheThrone: Billups reveals that he did this in his BackStory. The bulk of his subplot concerns his mother trying to Ctrl-Z that decision.

* BodyguardCrush: Exaggerated. Queen Paolana makes a triumphant proclamation about how Billups' bodyguards were trained in the seductive arts "from birth". (She makes no commentary on [[SkewedPriorities whether they can actually guard him]].)

* EmbarrassingFirstName: Lt. Cmdr. Andy Billups has not let on that his first name is Andirithio.

* FireForgedFriends: this is the first time Boimler and Mariner take on a situation as equals, a marked change from prior episodes which were more like an EscortMission on Mariner's part.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Mariner can't understand why Boimler is making such a fuss about her injured arm -- it's only fractured!

* {{Expy}}: Billup's mother is similar to Lwaxana Troi, famous ambassador for Beta Zed and mother to Deanna Troi. Dialogue implies that this isn't the first time the ''Cerritos'' has encountered her nor her plans to make Billups have sex so he can take the throne. Lwaxana had similar machinations about getting her daughter married, although they rarely conflicted with Starfleet duties.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: To Creator/WilliamShakespeare's poem ''Venus and Adonis''. "Where pleasant fountains lie" is specifically a reference to oral sex.

* MyBelovedSmother: Billups’s mother is always trying to get him to lose his virginity so that he can become king and resign from Starfleet. For this occasion, she fakes her own death to try making him ascend the throne.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: {{Subverted}}. Billups doesn't get laid, and no aspersions are cast on him for refusing carnal knowledge by either the characters or show.

The ''Cerritos'' foils a standard ''Star Trek'' plot: a sentient computer, Agimus, that has taken over its world. Mariner and Boimler, tasked with transporting it back to the Daystrom Institute, are stranded with it on an uninhabited planet. Meanwhile, back on the ''Cerritos'', Lt. Commander Billups must prove his engineering abilities to an old adversary: his mother, the queen of the RenaissanceFair planet Hysperia, who wants him to succeed her as queen and is willing to do anything to make it happen -- including get him laid.

* NegativeSpaceWedgie: A gravitational anomaly disables the shuttle and sends it crashing into the planet.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Queen Paolana's plan to trick Billups into having sex would have succeeded if it wasn't for Tendi tracking down Rutherford's cybernetic implant to locate his body, only for her to discover the Queen's ruse. She also didn't anticipate Billups having trouble "rising up" for the occasion, which gives Rutherford enough time to stop him.

* TookALevelInBadass: Precisely how many levels Boimler has taken is certainly up for debate -- when Mariner points out that his conduct on the desert planet is justifying her concern for his capabilities, [[JerkassHasAPoint she's not wrong]] -- but he gets a chance to show off the ones he has. In the show's second episode, it was Mariner scamming him (for his own good). This time, ''he's'' the one pulling the scam on her. Beyond that, he's a far cry from the panicky ensign we saw back then; he's clearly become, at the very least, Mariner's equal as a Starfleet officer.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: to Creator/WilliamShakespeare's poem ''Venus and Adonis''. "Where pleasant fountains lie" is specifically a reference to oral sex.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Queen Paolana's plan to trick Billups into having sex would have succeeded if it wasn't for Tendi tracking down Rutherford's cybernetic implant to locate his body only for her to discover the Queen's ruse. She also didn't anticipate Billups having trouble "rising up" for the occasion which gives Rutherford enough time to stop him.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: It looks as if Boimler was tricked by Agimus, but he was actually manipulating the computer into letting him use his power source while making sure he wasn't wired into anything of value.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Agimus is yet another evil computer that manipulated a species into war. Starfleet has so many at this point, they file them in the Daystrom Institute like books.

* BitingTheHandHumor: At the very end, one of the computers that boot up to mock Agmus bears the CBS eye logo.

* ShipTease: While Tendi and Rutherford have always been friends, there are hints that her feelings for him are somewhat stronger than that.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: {{subverted}}. Billups doesn't get laid, and no aspersions are cast on him for refusing carnal knowledge by either characters or show.

* TheDogBitesBack: After discovering Mariner was the one who got him reassigned to a different mission because she thinks he's not ready for it, Boimler gets fed up with Mariner and tackles her to get to Agamus when she keeps underestimating him. During the struggle, when Boimler pulls out his phaser on her, Mariner thinks he doesn't have the guts to shoot her but she's immediately proven wrong when he stuns her. It turns out it was all the trick from Boimler to gain Agamus' trust to use him.

* ManipulativeBastard: Agamus tried to make Boimler turn on Mariner by showing him footage of her getting him reassigned from a mission he wanted to be on. He continues preying on Boimler’s anger towards Mariner to get plugged into a computer to resume his evil plans.

* TookALevelInBadass: precisely how many levels Boimler has taken is certainly up for debate -- when Mariner points out that his conduct on the desert planet is justifying her concern for his capabilities, [[JerkassHasAPoint she's not wrong]] -- but he gets a chance to show off the ones he has. In the show's second episode, it was Mariner scamming him (for his own good). This time, ''he's'' the one pulling the scam on her. Beyond that, he's a far cry from the panicky ensign we saw back then; he's clearly become, at the very least, Mariner's equal as a Starfleet officer.

The ''Cerritos'' foils a standard ''Star Trek'' plot: a sentient computer, Agimus, that has taken over its world. Mariner and Boimler, tasked with transporting it back to the Daystrom Institute, are stranded with it on an uninhabited planet. Meanwhile, back on the ''Cerritos'', Lt. Commander Billups must prove his engineering abilities to an old adversary: his mother, the queen of the RenaissanceFaire planet Hysperia, who wants him to succeed her as queen and is willing to do anything to make it happen -- including get him laid.

* ARealManIsAVirgin: {{subverted}}. Billups doesn't get laid, and no aspersions are cast on him for refusing carnal knowledge by either characters or show.

Mariner and Boimler are stranded on an uninhabited planet with a sentient computer. On the ''Cerritos'', Lt. Commander Billups must prove his engineering abilities to an old adversary.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Agamus is yet another evil computer that manipulated a species into war. Starfleet has so many at this point, they file them in the Daystrom Institute like books.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Queen Paolana's plan to trick Billups into having sex would have succeeded if it wasn't for Tendi tracking down Rutherford's cybernetic implant to locate his body only for her to discover the Queen's ruse. She also didn't anticipate Billup having trouble "rising up" for the occasion which gives Rutherford enough time to stop him.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: It looks as if Boimler was tricked by Agamus, but he was actually manipulating the computer into letting him use his power source while making sure he wasn't wired into anything of value.

* MyBelovedSmother: Billups’ mother is always trying to get him to lose his virginity so that he can become king and resign from Starfleet. For this occasion, she fakes her own death to try making him ascend the throne.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Billups' mother, the Queen of Hysperion, is constantly scheming to get Billups to ascend to the throne, which means she tries to trick him into having sex.

* ThreeWaySex: Billups almost has sex with a male and female guard.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Queen Paolana's plan to trick Billups into having sex would have succeeded if it wasn't for Tendi tracking down Rutherford's cybernetic implant to locate his body only for her to discover the Queen's ruse.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Queen Paolana's plan to trick Billups into having sex would have succeeded if it wasn't for Tendi tracking down Rutherford's cybernetic implant to location his body only for her to discover the Queen's ruse.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: It loks as if Boimler was tricked by Agamus, but he was actually manipulating the computer into letting him use his power source while making sure he wasn't wired into anything of value.

* AIISACrapshoot: Agamus is yet another evil computer that manipulated a species into war. Starfleet has so many at this point, they file them in the Daystrom Institute like books.

* StarshipLuxurious: The Hysperion flagship ''Mona Vine'' looks like a palace on the inside, and is appropriately gaudy on the outside.