Picard Season 3 Easter Eggs That Slipped Right Past You

"Star Trek: Picard" boldly went backwards in its best season yet. With the whole TNG crew back in the mix, you know there's enough Easter eggs to fill the Alpha Quadrant. These are the ones you may have missed.

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Inspired by Khan | 0:00
The opening minutes | 1:29
Beverly Crusher's desk | 2:25
A Picard museum | 3:28
Familiar stories | 4:44
Frontier Day | 5:42
M'Talas Prime | 6:55
Neo-Constitution Class | 7:49
The Red Lady | 9:08
Shuttlecraft Saavik | 10:30
Sneed's famous friends | 11:39
T'Luco's rap sheet | 12:47
Star Trek legacy | 13:30
Worf's résumé | 14:42
An absent friend? | 15:58
Reminiscing at the bar | 17:04
Odo's bucket | 18:06
A convenient power source | 19:19
Vadic's knife | 20:39
Captain Shaw at Wolf 359 | 21:22
Unreliable tests | 22:14
Imperfect heroes | 23:34
Ro's return | 24:56
Starfleet's Easter egg collection | 26:04
Clues on Daystrom Station | 27:12
The NX-01 | 28:26
Backstage nods | 29:31
Remnants of the Dominion War | 30:32
Data's memories | 31:25
Familiar names | 32:56
Admiral Shelby | 34:09
The exact date | 35:04
Familiar voices | 36:15
That was not my fault | 37:32
Chekov's warning | 38:52
A new invention? | 40:37
Mirror images | 42:04

Voiceover By: Dexter Manning

[davidwilliams]

You missed the uss pulaski - homage to the doctor in tng

[MICHAEL-vych]

The end of the original run of Next Generation was exciting, but not really sad because we all knew they were only ending the show to start making movies, so there was hope and a future ahead. This time seemed sadder because we all know there will never be another time when all of these characters are around the same table.

[tortysoft]

A most impressive and exhaustive as well as researched egg hunt. Well done. I had seen most of these but the ones I missed were a real treat. Thanks.

[billforrest]

Star Trek TNG Season 7 episodes 4 and 5 "Gambit" (Oct 1993) features mercenaries led by Arctus Baran who employ the same weapon modifications to transport whatever they shoot. The episodes also feature Robin Curtis (the second actor to play Lt. Saavik ). I think the Picard modded weapons are more a nod to this than to Discovery! 😉

[BlastedOblivion]

I LOVED the bartender response about nobody liking the Enterprise D.

[JonathonV]

You mentioned “12 Monkeys”, where Todd Stashwick (Liam Shaw) and series showrunner Terry Matalas collaborated. There were several references to this, but the most obvious that I noticed was Shaw humming “Don’t You Forget About Me” in the turbolift with Riker and Picard, which is a song Stashwick sang in his role as Deakin (it was supposedly Deakin’s favourite song).

[dallastek]

I think you may have missed one easter egg. The security system at Daystrom station is named the M-5-10. A nod to TOS the Ultimate Computer. That was called the M5 created by Dr. Miles Daystrom.

[jojoone]

Amanda Plummer was so good as Vadik. She is the spitting image of her dad.

[dragonkilt]

I know the phasers were a lot like the movie phasers, but did anyone else notice Jack's phaser looked like an original series phaser?

[LawDog]

Bruh....Amanda Plummer was EVERYTHING this season....she channeled her Dad perfectly....all that was missing was "CRY HAVOK!!! And let slip the dogs of war!"

[sterjulie]

You missed the last scene at the end of the credits where Q visits Jack Crusher, perhaps setting up a future series.

[trarroyo]

Another Easter Egg - Bing Crosby singing- he’s Denise Crosby’s grandfather.

[darkfoxfurre]

Regarding the holodecks having separate power supplies- There was an episode of TNG where Geordi was running simulations in the holodeck during a crisis situation where the Enterprise was running low on power. The simulations needed to be completed for the crew to survive, but it was a struggle to keep life support going AND the holodecks at the same time, because the holodecks drew so much power.

Therefore, it stands to reason that it wouldn't be too far of a reach that Starfleet might consider giving holodecks their own, separate power supply to prevent something like that from happening again. But it also seems like an oversight that the power systems are incompatible with each other.

[lorenzwinterhoff]

Best things about Morn of Luria: He is a tribute character. A nod to Norm from Cheers. Also, the running joke is that Morn never speaks ON SCREEN. He's quite the chatterbox actually and you can't get a word in with him!!

[ds_the_rn]

What a lovely little tribute to Kirstie Alley. Long live LT Saavik. 🖖

[pcgamer]

In Star Trek TNG The Gambit part 1 the mercenaries apparently beamed Picard up using beam weapons so that was the first usage of a energy based weapon being used to conceal a transporter

[chargedneuron]

As for Holodeck power systems being different than ship wide power systems I will give you a far better and plausible explanation than the one provided. The technology was first introduced to the Federation in the Enterprise episode "Unexpected", in that episode the reasoning for the incompatibility was implied. In that episode an arrangement is made for the alien technology between the Klingons and the Xyrillian when the Klingons detected the Xyrillian ship. Captain Archer acting as a mediator between the races negotiates the release of the Xyrillian in exchange for their Holodeck technology. It is fair to assume that the Federation would have had access to that same information exchange. As the technology was vastly different and significantly incompatible to existing Federation understanding and technology, it would be more likely that the Holodecks would use their existing Power design and systems. As Federation technology evolved all future technology would follow a logical approach and course to science and engineering based on previous discoveries and understandings. As the Holodeck systems were significantly alien it would make sense that that line of technology would continue from its base primary understanding. This would cause a diverging understanding of technologies and result in the two significantly different systems to have different requirements, thus making these two technologies incompatible directly.

[Theflowergeekcrafts]

I love that one of Jacks aliases was James Cole 😉 and Shaw humming “don’t you forget about me” in the turbolift. I love 12 Monkeys.

[alasdairgardiner]

Thank you so much for the moment when you mentioned the rechristening of the U.S.S. Yorktown NCC-1717 as the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-A at the end of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. I have long agreed that this was the case, that the Yorktown, which had been mentioned as being disabled by the Whale Song Probe, had managed to either be recovered or returned to Earth Spacedock, and was rechristened as the Enterprise-A. This also makes sense to me, especially given the sorry state of the Enterprise-A in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. I have always thought that this was due to the ship still suffering from the effects of when she was disabled by the Whale Probe as the Yorktown in The Voyage Home.

[michaelbolton-a]

an amazing video - so much detail clearly a lot of love and attention put into this series