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"Lower Decks, Issue 9" is the ninth issue of IDW Publishing's ongoing Lower Decks comic series. Author Tim Sheridan and artist Vernon Smith begin the story arc A Pound of Flush, which features D'Vana Tendi.

Description

On a mission to collect gormangander [sic] excrement, the USS Cerritos is attacked by a Ferengi warship! The Ferengi are hot on the tail of a debt dodger who owes them a fortune — D'Vana Tendi. But as a member of Starfleet, Tendi has no way to earn the money to pay them back, and if she tells her family in the Orion Syndicate, they’ll simply murder her to clear the account.

One thing is for certain: If Tendi can’t devise a way to clear her ledger, the Lower Deckers are going to find themselves in deep sh*t, regardless of whether they find any gormaganders.

References

Characters

Antos (dream) • Andy Billups • Brad Boimler • Liam Boothby • Carol Freeman • Glom • Kayshon • Beckett Mariner • Gabers Migleemo • Raffaela Musiker • Jack Ransom • Sam Rutherford • Shaxs Drazon • Jennifer Sh'reyan (dream) • T'Ana • Taylor (Kzinti) • B'Rt Tendi • D'Erika Tendi • D'Vana Tendi • Shona Tendi • T'Lyn • moopsy (dream) • unnamed USS Cerritos personnel

Referenced only

Rom

Starships & vehicles

USS Cerritos (California-class) • Chelsea (type-6A shuttlecraft) • FMS Enterprise (D'Kora-class Ferengi marauder) • unnamed Ferengi starships

Locations

the galaxy

Referenced only

Antares Maelstrom • Earth • San Francisco • Risa

Races and cultures

Andorian • Bajoran • Benzite • Bolian • Caitian • Ferengi • Klowahkan • Kzinti • Human • Orion • Tamarian • Tellarite

States and organizations

Federation • Ferengi Alliance • Ferengi Collection Authority • Starfleet • Starfleet Academy

Science and classification

artificial intelligence • biobed • clock • energy whip • holosuite • hypospray • PADD • shields • sonic shower • subspace communication • tricorder

Ranks and titles

captain • criminal • daimon • dentist • doctor • Federation President • Grand Nagus • lieutenant • officer • poacher

Other references

24th century • alert status (red alert • battle stations) • board game • bridge • candle • coffee • credit • dabo • dilithium • diplomath • excrement • extortion • fire • flower • furniture • gambling • gold-pressed latinum • hail • honor • hour • log • match • money • mugato • mylar • nature preserve • personal log, D'Vana Tendi • piracy • plant • plasma • rooster • sedation • shark • sickbay • sleep • smuggling • space • star • steak • tranquilizer • tree • trombone • vacuum • wing-slug • year

Appendices

Images

Connections

Star Trek: Lower Decks episodes
season 1	"Second Contact" • "Envoys" • "Temporal Edict" • "Moist Vessel" • "Cupid's Errant Arrow" • "Terminal Provocations" • "Much Ado About Boimler" • "Veritas" • "Crisis Point" • "No Small Parts"
season 2	"Strange Energies" • "Kayshon, His Eyes Open" • "We'll Always Have Tom Paris" • "Mugato, Gumato" • "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" • "The Spy Humongous" • "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie" • "I, Excretus" • "wej Duj" • "First First Contact"
season 3	"Grounded" • "The Least Dangerous Game" • "Mining the Mind's Mines" • "Room for Growth" • "Reflections" • "Hear All, Trust Nothing" • "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption" • "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus" • "Trusted Sources" • "The Stars at Night"
season 4	"Twovix" • "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee" • "In the Cradle of Vexilon" • "Something Borrowed, Something Green" • "Empathological Fallacies" • "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place" • "A Few Badgeys More" • "Caves" • "The Inner Fight" • "Old Friends, New Planets"
season 5	"Dos Cerritos" • "Shades of Green" • "The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel" • "A Farewell To Farms" • "Starbase 80?!" • "Of Gods and Angles" • "Fully Dilated" • "Upper Decks" • "Fissure Quest" • "The New Next Generation"
comics	"All in a Sea of Wonders": Issue 1 • Issue 2 • Issue 3 • "Warp Your Own Way" • "Go See Cal!" • "Risian Rendezvous" • "Second Contact": Issue 1 • Issue 2 • "Natura Abhorrett" •Issue 4 • Desperate Times • Issue 6 • "Mixed Signals": "Yesterday's Beta Shift" • Issue 8 • "A Pound of Flush" • "A Pound Of Flush," Part Number II • "Again With The Whales" • "Again With The Whales... Again" • "Second Second Contact": "For I Have Seen Both Here & Heaven"• Issue 14 • Issue 15 • "The Illinoian Job" • Issue 17 • "Finalls Sine Titulp" Part II

Timeline

published order
Previous comic: Lower Decks, Issue 8	LD comics	Next comic: Lower Decks, Issue 10
Previous story: Lower Decks, Issue 8	Stories by: Tim Sheridan	Next story: Lower Decks, Issue 10

External link

• Lower Decks, Issue 9 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.