


This is a nod to the fan response to "Move Along Home", which is light years away from being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's best episode.

The description of the Chula game is typically tongue-in-cheek for Lower Decks as Rutherford explains that it traps you inside until " you solve its annoying challenges". JGs borrow a Wadi Chula game with the intention of trapping Dirk inside. Using their access to the anomaly storage room, the three Lt. Dirk after they become convinced he's hazing the newly promoted officers. In Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 3, "In the Cradle of Vexilon", Lieutenants Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), D'Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) and Samanthan Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) plot revenge against Lt. In Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, another unfortunate Starfleet officer is forced to play the Chula game, and they're far from happy about it. The Wadi's Chula game caused chaos for the DS9 senior staff, and irritation for the viewers at home. The first Gamma Quadrant species to be officially welcomed to the Alpha Quadrant were the Wadi in the episode "Move Along Home". The introduction of the wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant allowed Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to fulfill the original mission to seek out new life, but many of the visitors from season 1 weren't particularly memorable. Just one week after their sequel to the controversial Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tuvix", Mike McMahan's Lower Decks turns its attention to DS9, with a subplot that continues the story of a notoriously bad episode from season 1. As an affectionate tribute to Star Trek's 1990s golden age, Lower Decks is never afraid to provide continuations of some of the more obscure episodes from the canon. The most recent episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 is a sequel to the worst episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, over 30 years after it was first broadcast.
