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Mix-and-Match Critters: Apparently all animals on Areolus have wings, resulting in goats and pigs with wings (and owl beaks).MacGyvering: Impressively, even for an Exocomp, Peanut Hamper makes a rudimentary starship out of the broken-off Cerritos warp nacelle and some power units.and then it's revealed it was all engineered by her and she's been stringing along her fiance while planning to have their village destroyed for her own selfish purposes. After spending months with the Areore, supposedly falling in love with their civilization, and falling in love with Rawda to the point where she's ready to marry him. Higher-Tech Species: Even though they haven't used technology in generations, an Areore ship has weapon systems completely unknown to the Cerritos, and outclasses them in firepower and shielding.Subverted when it turns out she was deliberately faking her Character Development all along. Heel Realization: Peanut Hamper seems to have this at one point, admitting to Rawda that she abandoned her 'flock' in order to save herself and needs to make amends.Gunship Rescue: When the Areore fighter has the Cerritos on the ropes, Rawda arrives in a Areore capital ship and easily shoots the fighter down.

#ANCIENT SPACE TV TROPES ZIP#

Get Out!: After Peanut Hamper tries to fool the Areore into thinking her betrayal was part of her plan to help them, Rawda and his father tell her to zip it and leave their planet.The opening sequence is also missing, using original footage focused on Peanut Hamper as the title and credits play over it.

About 3/4ths of the episode is just on Peanut Hamper and her interactions with the Areore, with the Cerritos crew showing up for just the last few minutes.

Formula-Breaking Episode: This is A Day in the Limelight for Peanut Hamper, the Exocomp crewman whose main action was to be introduced and then abandon the Cerritos crew in the same episode when things got tough.

This is because they still know about technology, they've just decided not to use it.

Even though the Areore seem like a pre-warp, agricultural civilization, none of them act too unfamiliar with Peanut Hamper being a technological being.

She never grows out of this in spite of all appearances.

Peanut Hamper created Sophia for company, but quickly disposes of 'her' to save her own chassis when convenient.

Five-Second Foreshadowing: Once Peanut Hamper is locked in the Daystrom Institute with the other evil computers, next to her is another computer that has a familiar design to a certain computer that previously antagonized Mariner and Boimler, and it's none other than AGIMUS.

All and all, it seems the Areore must have had a gift for incredibly intuitive user interfaces at some point in their history.

Falling into the Cockpit: While Rawda may have perhaps had some previous familiarity with his people's ancient technology, the Drookmani are able to effortlessly pilot and use the weaponry of the fighter they steal within seconds of taking off.

Evil Is Petty: After the Areore cast out Peanut Hamper for her betrayal and the Cerritos crew refuse to welcome her back as a crew member, Peanut Hamper tries to summon the Borg to assimilate everyone there.

Her whole ruse is blown when the Drookmani take one of the fighters over, and they reveal that she contacted them and led them to the planet under the pretense that they could take the ships without resistance.

Were it not for the ancient ships still being functional, she would have succeeded.

Engineered Heroics: It turns out that Peanut Hamper contacted the Drookmani scavengers so they would come to Areolus to take the ancient ships, and then Peanut Hamper would contact Starfleet for help and have them witness her saving the inhabitants so that they would take her back into Starfleet.

Double-Meaning Title: 'A Mathematically Perfect Redemption' not only riffs on Peanut Hamper's 'mathematically perfect' name, but also foreshadows that her supposed 'redemption' was calculated.

Attempting to call the Borg would similarly have backfired too, because while they turn humanoids into cyborg drones, they eat technology and she'd be dissected along with the organics.

Didn't Think This Through: Peanut Hamper's habit of throwing other people under the bus at a moment's notice destroys whatever goodwill she may have gotten from the Areore or Starfleet.

A Day in the Limelight: Peanut Hamper returns and gets an entire episode dedicated to herself with the Cerritos crew only coming in near the story's end.

Crying After Sex: Peanut Hamper callously admits that Rawda cries during sex after he cries over her betrayal of the Areore.

Peanut Hamper is stored at the Daystrom Institute along with AGIMUS, who notes that 'Peanut Hamper' is a mathematically perfect name, which is exactly how and why she picked it.

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