Captain Freeman and the others arrive onboard the Cerritos while it is still in spacedock. As soon as Freeman arrives on the bridge, she gives the order to get underway and the ship is suddenly outside of spacedock and going to warp. The ship would not have left the dock without its captain on the bridge giving the order to depart.
Jet is shown with one pip - an ensign. But in "Cupid's Errant Arrow", he was a full lieutenant, with two pips. It is explained in a Season Two episode the '2nd pip' was a kernel of corn he had dropped on his collar.
When Tendi exits the holodeck, the "blood" from hologram Shaxs disappears, but she is still wearing her "slave girl" outfit. Either her outfit was changed as part of the simulation, in which case it would have just been a projection and should have changed back to her standard uniform when she left the holodeck, or she physically changed clothes, in which case she left her uniform on the holodeck.
When Capt. Freeman wants Mariner beamed back up to the ship, she taps her communicator badge and says, "Freeman to Cerritos: One to beam up." Mariner is then beamed up a few seconds later.
However, all throughout "Star Trek" lore, when a character makes such a simple beam-up request, that character has been the person or among the people being beamed up. There's no way in this case that the transporter operator would've known to beam up Mariner instead of Freeman.
However, all throughout "Star Trek" lore, when a character makes such a simple beam-up request, that character has been the person or among the people being beamed up. There's no way in this case that the transporter operator would've known to beam up Mariner instead of Freeman.
Boimler says that he uploaded 7 years worth of personal logs for every member of the crew to inform their holographic simulations. Many of the crew members have not served for 7 years. Included at ops, for example, is Ensign Barnes, who is roughly the same age as the 4 main cast members, most of whom are fairly fresh out of the academy and on their first assignment. Boimler himself has not been serving for 7 years.
The simulation of the Cerritos crew includes Ensign Fletcher, who left the Cerritos and was discharged from service earlier in the season.
Within the simulation, Vindicta has been impersonating a Starfleet vessel, but her ship is clearly Klingon in design.
Mariner is weirded out by Boimler's simulation of the ship's crew. Many training programs have been seen before that utilize reproductions of the ship's crew, in this and other Star Trek shows.
Mariner, as the character Vindicta, refers to "Bionic-5" (played by Rutherford) as "half man-meat, half robot-meat." Rutherford is very clearly mostly human, with only a portion of his skull replaced by artificial implants.