[58] Here's the one that isn't. Scopolamine is a derivative of deadly nightshade that was once popular as a "truth serum".

[60] A trephine is a surgical saw for making circular cuts in bone. Its primary use, as its name suggests, was in trepanning - that is, cutting a hole in the skull. Dr. McCoy's opinion on cutting holes in skulls as a medical treatment is on record (in Star Trek IV).

[76] "There are things known and there are things unknown, Doctor, and in between... is Raoul Duke."

[107] It was pointed out to me that the Surprise really should have been called the Sophie, after Jack Aubrey's tiny first command in Master and Commander (the book, not the movie), and that's true as far as it goes; but Surprise fits the dialogue much better, and it can be construed as a reference to several things, not least the future class of IPSF warship (fitting it into Gryphon's habit of naming new ship classes after previous commands).

[115] Cosmo Buchanan was the name of the captain in the very earliest attempts I ever made at writing Star Trek fanfiction, back in the... God... sixth or seventh grade. Owing to my utter misapprehension of what the word means, he was the captain of the starship Invidious. In my defense, I was perhaps 11 years old, and the stories were comedy-oriented anyway. The Invidious was a hard-luck ship in the mold of the USS Sea Tiger, the pink submarine in the classic WWII film Operation Petticoat, not a shining example of the best Starfleet had to offer.

[171] The Surprise crew's brown trenchcoats may be the only deliberate Firefly reference you ever see in this shop. Savor it. :)

[172] The Starfleet commando sweaters remain one of my favorite things about the much-maligned Star Trek V.

[240] The revision of the antagonism between Gryphon and Kei - so that they act more like adults than demented sixth-graders who aren't getting their Ritalin - was one of my favorite, and also one of the most challenging, aspects of this rewrite. In the end, I really enjoyed the balance of tension and nonchalance that I managed to strike between them here.

[260] There you go, Secrets fans (all, er, three of you). Julian Amberson does still exists in the UF universe - he's even still the 3WA marshal on Tantalus V.

[279]
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less the rather absurd early-'80s costuming.

[379] We see Jantzen again, still (or again) doing the job of captain's steward, aboard Challenger in Reflections in Transition.

[436] The H/V Surprise jackets are based on the F/V Time Bandit jacket Johnathan Hillstrand wears on Deadliest Catch. They don't appear again mainly because the next time we see people leaving the Surprise, they're expecting to end up in a fight, and they don't want to get their nice jackets trashed.

[528] Maia is Grissom's principal contact in the "conspiracy" to uncover the truth about the Musashi Incident; she recruited him (based on Queen Asrial's recommendation) and took point on the actual Musashi expedition.

[683] Queen Shiva Square is a Times Square-esque major crossroads downtown; it's not the same place as Queen Shiva Park, which we see later on. Shiva, Asrial's mother, was a very popular figure on Salusia during her long reign as Queen Mother, and remains very fondly remembered after her passing. Many places and things on Salusia and in the colonies are named for her (as will be the main drag in New Avalon's Salutown when it's built).

[726] In this scene, she's wearing the microdress uniform, though when she joins the landing party in part 5, she opts for the version with pants (as seen in the TOS pilot episodes).

[760] This is, indeed, the same Griffon that we see Corwin driving in the Symphonies of the Sword. It had belonged to Gryphon before - it's the first production unit, No. 007 - and the reason why Eleanor City Fine Autos wanted so little for it is because as soon as anyone found that part out, they wouldn't buy it (and by this point, it had grown so decrepit from sitting on the lot that it wasn't worth much more than that anyway). Jamie is slightly unkind in calling it a "used car lot" - it is that, but the phrase sets expectations, and ECFA is the kind of place that has used Rolls-Royces and whatnot, not old beat-up Pontiacs.

[791] As perceptive Forum users surmised, the Rift Conflict is one of those things, like the Clone Wars were in the original Star Wars, that's not supposed to be looked at all that closely. (Mind you, that didn't last where the Clone Wars were concerned, but... )

[814] The curtiss (Cs) is the Standard System unit of dimensional subquantum resonance. It's named for Freespacer officer Theresa Curtiss, one of the earliest documented Dimensionally Displaced Persons to go on to public prominence in the modern UF universe.

[821] A correlation can be observed between the resonance rates of various dimensions and their Gallifrey Chronal Catalog numbers, not that Grissom knows this.

[849] After I wrote this, I realized that it reads like the tech-specs quote for some kind of Autobot Judge Advocate General officer.

[871] The phrase "the Queen's warrant" can have several different meanings depending on the context. In this case it refers to a document issued by the Home Office which designates a mercenary organization as sufficiently trustworthy to be employed by Her Majesty's Government or the Royal Salusian Armed Forces. The WDF holds H.M. Mercenary Warrant #0.

[907] Grissom's comm callsign is based on a Canadian postal code that used to adorn those write-in ads for K-TEL record collections and whatnot on CHSJ out of Saint John when I was a kid, though it seems not to be in use now (or perhaps I've misremembered it).

[966] This line was again mistakenly written as, "on Musashi." There was speculation in the studio about this becoming more of a running outtake/annotation gag, but it was not to be.

[971] Douanier is a fancy (French, in fact) word for a Customs agent.

I had in fact misremembered it. It's E2L 4J9. Rather than adjust Manhunt, though, I'll give the correct code its own little place on the UF mantelpiece somewhere else soon.

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