The note at the top of the article has got me speculating on the meaning of the word play:

Episode 10 of season 1 of Starfleet Academy is titled “Rubincon,” and no, that is not a typo for “Rubicon.”

The suffix con leaps out.

Brakka seems a full on dark triad kind of villain. With that comes the Machiavellian manipulation and deceit, including cons.

For rubin, the first part of the word, the dictionary definitions I find say that it’s an obsolete word for ruby (alternative spelling is rubine).

So literally, the title of the episode means, well, “ruby + con”.

Which gets us back to a sound-alike for rubicon…

Clearly the writers are making a point here with this double entendre.

My money’s on the red wall of omega-47 being a grossly gigantic con where the isolation of the Federation is not quite the threat it seemed at the end of episode 9.

However, is it only Brakka who is responsible for the con, or is and has Anisha Mir been part of a long con of both Ake and her son from the start?

And, what is it that Brakka and Anisha Mir are really after with all this?

As predictable as it is, I still believe Anisha is working with Nus(topher). I’m not engaging in the pictures or anything because I don’t want to be spoiled.

Possible silly idea but could the reference to a gemstone be a possible nod to the Emerald Chain having some angle here? I realize they were only namedropped maybe once, but they are an active player in the region and could be part of the scaffolding for the villains in season 2.