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	There are fourteen varieties of tomato soup available from Voyager's Mess Hall replicator.
	Stadi tells Tom Paris that Voyager is an Intrepid-class starship with a sustainable cruise velocity of warp factor 9.975, and that it has fifteen decks, a crew complement of 141, and is equipped with bio-neural circuitry - gel packs containing synthetic neural cells that organise information more efficiently and speed up response time.
	The Volnar Colony is a settlement in the Bajor sector. Lobi crystals are common in the star-system.
	A tricorder can detect sporocystine lifeforms.
	Voyager's armoury includes compression phaser rifles.
	TNG's "Journey's End" was written deliberately to establish that Native Americans left Earth to live in space, preparing viewers for Chakotay in Voyager - not just his presence but his people's ancestry and history (which would later be explored in depth in the Season 2 episode "Tattoo").
	The Cardassian species and the Maquis versus Cardassian struggle is first introduced in TNG, as an introduction for DS9 and the species features strongly in DS9. Deep Space 9 was originally a Cardassian space station called Terek Nor before being taken over by Starfleet and the Bajorans.
	In the Federation Penal Settlement, one of the inmates is seen wearing a security anklet. This is a device, introduced in the pilot used by Starfleet authorities to track the whereabouts of a criminal or other prisoner. It is worn around the ankle of a humanoid prisoner and, as we learn in "Non Sequitur", the anklet contains a transponder and cannot be removed, except by authorized personnel, although Kim manages it (all in an alternate reality).
	The brief appearance of Gul Evek is part of the symbolic 'baton'-passing. In 2370, he led a mission to planet Dorvan V to survey the buildings and equipment that would be left behind when the Native American settlers evacuated. When the colonists refused to leave, it appeared an armed conflict would ensue. Evek, who had lost two of his three sons in the war with the Federation, agreed to withdraw his troops from the surface until some solution could be reached. (TNG: "Journey's End").
	In "Caretaker" and throughout Season 1, Voyager's crew use the tricorder model TR-590 mark VII, as used by the crew of USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D from 2366 onwards (it was introduced in TNG's Third Season).
	The hand-phaser in use is the type-2, as used in DS9, renamed type-2a after an upgrade (the type-2b) is introduced in Season 2.
	Voyager carries tricobalt explosives and uses them to destroy the Caretaker's Array. Tricobalt explosives were used as weapons in the war between the planets Vendikar and Eminiar VII in TOS's "A Taste Of Armageddon". Although none of the tricobalt devices were used for some 500 years, simulations were used in the computer war between the two planets, a war that Captain Kirk ended in 2267. In those simulations, a mathematical attack launched by Vendikar on Eminiar VII in 2267 was based on a simulation of a tricobalt satellite, and Kirk's starship, USS Enterprise NCC-1701, was declared a casualty of that attack. Arne Darvin, in 2267, used a tiny tricobalt explosive device hidden in a tribble in an attempt to murder James Kirk. The bomb was discovered by Benjamin Sisko and Jadzia Dax, and it was beamed into space, where it exploded harmlessly, in DS9 "Trials and Tribble-lations".
	The Kazon-Ogla mine cormaline - the Ocampa planet crust has rich deposits of this mineral substance. Starfleet also mines cormaline. Rich deposits of cormaline are found on planet Torga IV in the Gamma Quadrant in DS9 "The Ship".
	Janeway once served under Tom Paris' father, Admiral Paris, as science officer, aboard USS Al-Batani during the Arias Expedition.
	Tom Paris' middle name is Eugene. This is a tip-of-the-hat to Eugene 'Gene' Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek.
	71325 is the designation of the shuttlecraft that Stadi pilots when conveying Tom Paris to Deep Space 9, showing him en route what the starship Voyager is like which they are both assigned to. The shuttlecraft's designation, being a five-figure number rather than a name as well as not bearing the name of the 'mother' facility or starship, has led to confusion and some controversy with canon sources either not agreeing with each other or omitting mention of it altogether. It is possible that 71325 is not a Voyager shuttlecraft, although it begs the question as to why Stadi is piloting it.
	Tom Paris was cashiered out of Starfleet after admitting to falsifying reports in an accident caused by his own pilot error that resulted in the deaths of three officers. Paris served aboard USS Exeter before his stay in the New Zealand Penal Settlement ("Non Sequitur"). This USS Exeter is not to be confused with the 23rd century Constitution-class USS Exeter mentioned in TOS "The Omega Glory".

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