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* ContinuityNod: Shari is a Pandronian, the same species as [[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS2E2Bem Commander Ari bn Bem]], and like him, tends to refer to herself as "[[ThirdPersonPerson This One]]".

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* ContinuityNod: Shari is a Pandronian, the same species as [[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS2E2Bem Commander Ari bn Bem]], and like him, tends to refer to herself as "[[ThirdPersonPerson This One]]".One]]" and has come aboard to run efficiency tests on the crew.


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* PlanetOfHats: The simulated Borg Queen insists on assimilating Bradward, even after finding out he's just a PunyHuman with a host of medical conditions and allergies, because assimilating people is "kind of our thing".


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* WhatTheHellHero: Mariner curses out her mother and the rest of the bridge crew for leaving her and her friends stranded in space for 6 hours when they warped away to answer a distress call.
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**When presented with the new replicator, Boimler excitedly asks about the lobster mac and cheese, his favourite from the first season.
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*CurseCutShort: Mariner is about to curse when her line is cut off by the Sickbay doors closing.
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* UnbeatableTrainingScenario: Shari deliberately set up her simulations this way. Not as a SecretTestOfCharacter, but to make the crew of the ''Cerritos'' fail the tests so she can keep her consultant job.

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* UnbeatableTrainingScenario: UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: Shari deliberately set up her simulations this way. Not as a SecretTestOfCharacter, but to make the crew of the ''Cerritos'' fail the tests so she can keep her consultant job.
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* UnwinnableTrainingScenario: Shari deliberately set up her simulations this way. Not as a SecretTestOfCharacter, but to make the crew of the ''Cerritos'' fail the tests so she could keep her job.

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* UnwinnableTrainingScenario: UnbeatableTrainingScenario: Shari deliberately set up her simulations this way. Not as a SecretTestOfCharacter, but to make the crew of the ''Cerritos'' fail the tests so she could can keep her consultant job.

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A consultant arrives on the U.S.S. Cerritos to run drills that require the lower deckers and bridge crew to swap duties.

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A consultant arrives on the U.S.S. Cerritos ''Cerritos'' to run drills that require the lower deckers and bridge crew to swap duties.



** Freeman orders to fly Cerritos towards [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E12Datalore a crystalline entity]].

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** Freeman orders to fly Cerritos ''Cerritos'' towards [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E12Datalore a crystalline entity]].



* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Shari's job is to train and evaluate Federation starship crews on how to do their jobs efficiently. However, all her training programs are simply copied from past adventures of other crews throughout Starfleet history, she's never actually served on a starship and doesn't understand the need to adapt and overcome challenges herself. When Shari is exposed to actual danger by Captain Freeman (namely facing off against a Crystalline Entity and a NegativeSpaceWedgie) she completely panics.



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The crew hanging out at the bar don't even bat an eye when Cerritos encounters a crystalline entity. Even more so, they just keep going once they escape.

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* SpannerInTheWorks: Boimler's obsessive need to get a 100% score on his Borg Encounter test program ends up derailing Shari's EvilPlan to deliberately flunk the ''Cerritos'' crew. She can't submit their failing grades until the tests are completed, and Boimler has been running his over and over again to get the best possible score, giving Freeman and Mariner a chance to turn the tables on Shari.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The crew hanging out at the bar don't even bat an eye when Cerritos the ''Cerritos'' encounters a crystalline entity. Even more so, they just keep going once they escape.escape.
* UnwinnableTrainingScenario: Shari deliberately set up her simulations this way. Not as a SecretTestOfCharacter, but to make the crew of the ''Cerritos'' fail the tests so she could keep her job.

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* AchievementsInIgnorance: The hologram programs are designed for everyone to fail, but Boimler spends the entire episode not knowing this and getting his score up to 94%. Ultimately, TheComputerIsACheatingBastard and forces Boimler to fail, getting him assimilated by the holo-Borg.

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* AchievementsInIgnorance: The hologram programs are designed for everyone to fail, but Boimler spends the entire episode not knowing this and getting his score up to 94%. Ultimately, TheComputerIsACheatingBastard and forces Boimler to fail, getting him assimilated by the holo-Borg.



* BitchInSheepsClothing: The drill instructor chose Cerritos on purpose and rigged the drills to have them all fail and prove that her drills are still necessary.

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*TheBGrade: Boimler, being the perfectionist that he is, wasn't satisfied with his 79%. He kept repeating his drill until he could achieve 100%. This turns out to be a blessing, as him still running the drill meant that the final scores couldn't be submitted until he was finished.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The drill instructor chose Cerritos the ''Cerritos'' on purpose and rigged the drills to have them all fail and prove that her drills are still necessary.



*BrickJoke: A meta-example. The title, "I, Excretus", only makes sense at the end of the episode, when Boimler is converted into a Borg in the simulation and calls himself Excretus.



** Names of the drill scenarios reference [[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles some of]] [[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime Captain Kirk's ]] and [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E11HeroWorship Captain]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E10ChainOfCommand Picard's]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect adventures]].

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** Names of the drill scenarios reference [[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles some of]] [[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime Captain Kirk's ]] Kirk's]] and [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E11HeroWorship Captain]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E10ChainOfCommand Picard's]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect adventures]].



** Later the joint exercise involves [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock stealing the the ship and going to Genesis to save Spock]].
** Mariner orders to fly Cerritos towards [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E12Datalore a crystalline entity]].
** Boimler encounters [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact The Borg Queen]] during his drill.

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** Later Later, the joint exercise involves [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock stealing the the ship and going to Genesis to save Spock]].
** Mariner Freeman orders to fly Cerritos towards [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E12Datalore a crystalline entity]].
** Boimler encounters [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact The Borg Queen]] during his drill. drill.
*TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Shari rigged all the tests so that everyone must fail. Despite that, Boimler still managed to get a passing grade.



* GilliganCut: From Mariner saying that the command crew must be realizing how tough they have it to them just chilling in the bunk beds.

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*FreezeFrameBonus: Pausing when the pods are first introduced shows the last names of all the crew, and several episode names from the series.
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** When the lower deckers were left on a satellite in their space suits, Tendi suggests they'll all have a laugh about it once the ''Cerritos'' returns. Six hours later, they're huddled together and shivering.
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From Mariner saying that the command crew must be realizing how tough they have it to them just chilling in the bunk beds.



* SecretTestOfCharacter: What Captain Freeman thinks the drill was really about. She's wrong.
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** Mirror-Boimler howls at Mariner like a [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978 Pod Person]] when he realizes she's not one of them.

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* RightForTheWrongReasons: When Freeman and Mariner confront Shari, they say that they know what she's up to. She was up to something, but not teaching the lesson in teamwork they thought it was.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: What Captain Freeman thinks and Ensign Mariner think the drill was really about. She's They're wrong.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: What Captain Mariner thinks the drill was really about. She's wrong.

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* SecretTestOfCharacter: What Captain Mariner Freeman thinks the drill was really about. She's wrong.

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* AchievementsInIgnorance: The hologram programs are designed for everyone to fail, but Boimler spends the entire episode not knowing this and getting his score up to 94%. Ultimately, TheComputerIsACheatingBastard and forces Boimler to fail, getting him assimilated by the holo-Borg.



* HolodeckMalfunction: Poor Boimler gets stuck fighting off Borg at one point and his pod doesn't open up until Billpus blasts it open. [[ButtMonkey Poor guy gets assimilated for his troubles]].

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* HolodeckMalfunction: Poor ThePerfectionist: Boimler gets stuck fighting off Borg at one point is so annoyed that he can't get a perfect score and keeps doing his pod doesn't open up until Billpus blasts it open. [[ButtMonkey Poor guy gets assimilated for his troubles]].event over and over. Ultimately, the program decides to outright cheat just so he can lose.

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* HolodeckMalfunction: Poor Boimler gets stuck fighting off Borg at one point and his pod doesn't open up until Billpus blasts it open. [[ButtMonkey Poor guy gets assimilated for his troubles]].



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The crew hanging out at the bar don't even bat an eye when Cerritos encounters a crystalline entity.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The crew hanging out at the bar don't even bat an eye when Cerritos encounters a crystalline entity. Even more so, they just keep going once they escape.
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* EvilLaugh: Shari lets out a long one when Mariner and Freeman suggest that the drills were a SecretTestOfCharacter, revealing that, on the contrary, she set them up to fail on purpose.
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* ContinuityNod: Shari is a Pandronian, the same species as [[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS2E2Bem Commander Ari bn Bem]], and like him, tends to refer to herself as "[[ThirdPersonPerson This One]]".
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* ShoutOut:
** Mirror-Boimler howls at Mariner like a [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978 Pod Person]] when he realizes she's not one of them.

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* AnimalsHateHim: Mariner gets thrown off and trampled to death by a horse in one simulation despite having two and a half years of horse riding as a child, and [[NotMeThisTime Shari reveals she had nothing to do with that.]]



* SecretTestOfCharacter: What Captain Marriner thinks the drill was really about. She's wrong.

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* SecretTestOfCharacter: What Captain Marriner Mariner thinks the drill was really about. She's wrong.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: The drill instructor chose Cerritos on purpose and rigged the drills to have them all fail and prove that her drills are still necessary
* BrainBleach: Mariner's reaction to The Naked Time scenario
* CallBack
** Names of the drill scenarios reference [[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles some of]] [[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime Captain Kirk's ]] and [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E11HeroWorship Captain]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E10ChainOfCommand Picard's]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect adventures]]
** When we actually see the crew go through their drills, Mariner has to [[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror escape from the Mirror Universe]] and [[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS03E09NorthStar survive on a Wild West Planet]], Tendi needs to [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E16Ethics grant an injured Klingon an honorable death]] and Rutherford must [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan manually prevent a warp core breach]]
** Later the joint exercise involves [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock stealing the the ship and going to Genesis to save Spock]]
** Mariner orders to fly Cerritos towards [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E12Datalore a crystalline entity]]
** Boimler encounters [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact The Borg Queen]] during his drill
* GilliganCut: From Marriner saying that the command crew must be realizing how tough they have it to them just chilling in the bunk beds

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: The drill instructor chose Cerritos on purpose and rigged the drills to have them all fail and prove that her drills are still necessary
necessary.
* BrainBleach: Mariner's reaction to The Naked Time scenario
scenario and she purposely chose to fail her drill to stop seeing it.
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** Names of the drill scenarios reference [[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles some of]] [[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime Captain Kirk's ]] and [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E11HeroWorship Captain]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E10ChainOfCommand Picard's]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect adventures]]
adventures]].
** When we actually see the crew go through their drills, Mariner has to [[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror escape from the Mirror Universe]] and [[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS03E09NorthStar survive on a Wild West Planet]], Tendi needs to [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E16Ethics grant an injured Klingon an honorable death]] and Rutherford must [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan manually prevent a warp core breach]]
breach]].
** Later the joint exercise involves [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock stealing the the ship and going to Genesis to save Spock]]
Spock]].
** Mariner orders to fly Cerritos towards [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E12Datalore a crystalline entity]]
entity]].
** Boimler encounters [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact The Borg Queen]] during his drill
drill.
* GilliganCut: From Marriner Mariner saying that the command crew must be realizing how tough they have it to them just chilling in the bunk beds beds.



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The crew hanging out at the bar don't even bat an eye when Cerritos encounters a crystalline entity

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* SecretTestOfCharacter: What Captain Marriner thinks the drill was really about. [[spoiler:She's wrong]]

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* SecretTestOfCharacter: What Captain Marriner thinks the drill was really about. [[spoiler:She's wrong]]She's wrong.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: The drill instructor [[spoiler: chose Cerritos on purpose and rigged the drills to have them all fail and prove that her drills are still necessary]]

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: The drill instructor [[spoiler: chose Cerritos on purpose and rigged the drills to have them all fail and prove that her drills are still necessary]]necessary
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: The drill instructor ||chose Cerritos on purpose and rigged the drills to have them all fail and prove that her drills are still necessary||

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: The drill instructor ||chose [[spoiler: chose Cerritos on purpose and rigged the drills to have them all fail and prove that her drills are still necessary||necessary]]



* SecretTestOfCharacter: What Captain Marriner thinks the drill was really about. ||She's wrong||

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* SecretTestOfCharacter: What Captain Marriner thinks the drill was really about. ||She's wrong||[[spoiler:She's wrong]]
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*BitchInSheepsClothing: The drill instructor ||chose Cerritos on purpose and rigged the drills to have them all fail and prove that her drills are still necessary||


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*SecretTestOfCharacter: What Captain Marriner thinks the drill was really about. ||She's wrong||
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**Mariner orders to fly Cerritos towards [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E12Datalore a crystalline entity]]
**Boimler encounters [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact The Borg Queen]] during his drill
*GilliganCut: From Marriner saying that the command crew must be realizing how tough they have it to them just chilling in the bunk beds
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure: After swapping places with the lower decks crew and eating what they eat, the senior officers end up giving them a replicator with better food programmed into it.
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**Later the joint exercise involves [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock stealing the the ship and going to Genesis to save Spock]]
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*BrainBleach: Mariner's reaction to The Naked Time scenario
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**When we actually see the crew go through their drills, Mariner has to [[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror escape from the Mirror Universe]] and [[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS03E09NorthStar survive on a Wild West Planet]], Tendi needs to [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E16Ethics grant an injured Klingon an honorable death]] and Rutherford must [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan manually prevent a warp core breach]]
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** Names of the drill scenarios reference [[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles some of]] [[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime Captain Kirk's ]] and [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E11HeroWorship Captain]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E10ChainOfCommand Picard's]][[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect adventures]]

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** Names of the drill scenarios reference [[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles some of]] [[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime Captain Kirk's ]] and [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E11HeroWorship Captain]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E10ChainOfCommand Picard's]][[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect Picard's]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect adventures]]
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** Names of the drill scenarios reference [[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles some of]] [[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime Captain Kirk's ]] and [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E11HeroWorship Captain]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E10ChainOfCommand Picard's[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect adventures]]

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** Names of the drill scenarios reference [[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles some of]] [[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime Captain Kirk's ]] and [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E11HeroWorship Captain]] [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E10ChainOfCommand Picard's[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect Picard's]][[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect adventures]]

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[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect adventures]]

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[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect adventures]]
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