Easter Eggs You Missed in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 1

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is boldly going backwards, to the time of the original series, which was famously pitched as being "'Wagon Train' to the stars."

The series, set roughly between the events of "Star Trek: Discovery" and the original series, is coming out of the gate with a ton of references to "Trek" series past, with a heavy emphasis on "Enterprise," TOS, and "Discovery." There's starships named after characters you know, star charts full of places you know, and most unexpectedly, the long, long, long-awaited return of the Gorn.

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise… and these are all of the Easter eggs you missed in "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" episode 1.

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USS Archer | 0:00
Shuttle Stamets | 1:39
Chief Kyle | 3:15
The star chart | 4:26
The Gorn | 5:39
General Order 1 | 7:04
Lieutenant Kirk | 8:13

[Looper]

Were there any other Easter eggs you noticed?

[nathanb]

Admiral "Bob", as you call him, is Robert April, the first Captain of the NCC-1701.

[willdwyer]

The first episode of Strange New Worlds is the first time in Star Trek history that we've seen people being transported from multiple angles in a single camera shot. The dolly pan around the transporter pad when the away team left was awesome cinematography.

[curiousgemini]

One possible non-trek easter egg is the samples of wilderness sent in space greenhouses. Could be a reference to the Sci-Fi classic "Silent Running."

[culturecanvas]

I've just watched SNW ep1. As someone who is very disappointed with Picard and Discovery, I find SNW really good, very well-done. It's the best of all star trek, even better than 2009 movie. However, that is just the first episode. They have to keep this up.

[armastat]

Singh on the enterprise suggests raising shields per regulations - and Spock starts to speak against it. but Pike raises the shield immediately and saves the ship from damage.
In wrath of Khan, Lt Savak says the same thing when meeting reliant (with Khan in command), but this time Spock puts her in her place and Kirk ignores the suggestion and the ship gets heavily damaged.
BOTH Captains tell them to 'You Keep on reminding me of the regulations'

Any one else notice this?

[neskire]

My friend met John Winston many years ago. He went to get a haircut in North Hollywood and asked the barber to trim his sideburns with a point. The barber acknowledged that it was a style from Star Trek. My friend asked the barber how he knew. The barber said he was Transporter Chief Kyle on the show!

[kacektv]

The elevator music is actual the DIscovery theme. Which is both an easter egg and if someone noticed it on the way down before the reveal of DIscovery's involvement in this planets expansion, a kinda foreshadow of it.

[voluminous]

The USS Archer is nearly identical to the Saladin Class from the Star Trek Technical Manual by Franz Joseph, printed in the 1970s, and well-known by longtime fans. Ships from this book were name-dropped in The Motion Picture (1979) during the opening Epsilon IX sequence.

The only major difference is the holes cut out of the neck on the Archer. ST fans have been waiting years for one of these ships to finally make an appearance!

[jacklai]

Thank you, Looper, for making more Star Trek videos! 🖖🖖🖖

[frankm.]

ACTUALLY, the name of the ship could just as easily be a reference to Archer's DAD, who developed the warp five engine.

[tyhurd]

You Missed that Admiral is named Robert April the original captain of the Enterprise as noted the animated series

[camorgan]

I thought an "Easter egg" was something subtle or hidden. Each one of these stated examples outright or pointedly obvious.

By my definition and more common definition/expectation, an example of an Easter egg would be more along the line that they incorporated the original pilot transporter sound effect when they beamed somewhere.

Edit: typos and clarity

[Zorlac]

No one missed the gorn references. It was a clear plot point.

[N-_Hr]

Technically, the shuttle could be named after the real-world mycologist Paul Stamets, who the character in Discovery was named after.

[pauld]

The brother of James T. Kirk is George S. Kirk. As established in the original series, Jim Kirk is the only one who addresses his sibling by the brother's middle name.

[DeltaElites]

You might try calling it Easter Eggs You "Might" Have Missed. I thought there would be some cool things I missed but, the USS Archer, shuttle Stamets, Chief Kyle and of course they kept mentioning Kirk coming on board, I laughed when I saw it was Sam. The Gorn was hardly an easter egg as it was talked about in detail, same as General Order One and how this mission made them think of calling it "The Prime Directive". You might have included the new Security Officer being a "Noonien-Singh", possibly a genetically enhanced human created by Doctor Noonien-Soong. The final episode of Picard showing Doctor Soong with the folder project named "Khan" was pretty cool.

[jefffortney]

The Gorn capturing people for food and to lay eggs is likely a reference to the "Magog" in "Andromeda" (another Gene Roddenberry creation). And the forest biospheres would be a reference to the movie "Silent Running".

[martanagel]

Just the opening music, with words that I was able to say along with them, had me. Loved it!

[ClintHollingsworth]

So... it seems to me that the references to the space station at the end of the episode directly link the show to the 70s movie Silent Running starring Bruce Dern.