PICARD Season 3 Episode 6 BREAKDOWN: Every Hidden Ship and Star Trek Easter Egg

Picard Season 3 episode 6 is FILLED with easter eggs to literally every era of Trek and every classic Trek show and movie. There's Kirk's Enterprise, Kirk's skeleton, Voyager, the Defiant, and so many, many more.

Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Randolf Nombrado, and Brianna McLarty

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This episode has so many awesome Easter eggs, that the plot literally consists of the Titan crew splitting up, to essentially go to two different locations — Daystrom Station and the Fleet Museum — each stuffed with different kinds of Easter eggs,

Welcome back to ScreenCrush, I’m Ryan Arey, and this is all of the Easter eggs, references, and thighs you missed in Star Trek: Picard, Season 3, Episode 6, “The Bounty”

The episode begins with the Titan running away from Starfleet ships controlled by changelings, all while dropping “decoy transponders.” [clip]

Three different Starfleet ships converge around one of these transponders. These ships are the USS Trumball, which is a Duderstadt Class starship, like the Intrepid from last week, but not the same ship. It’s probably named for Doug Trumball, a VFX pioneer, who worked on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and of course, Blade Runner.

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The other ships are the USS Yorktown, which is an Echelon-class ship, and a new Excelsior II-class ship, and the USS Mestral, named after the Vulcan explorer from the Enterprise Episode “Carbon Creek.” Mestral was the greatest Vulcan of all time, mostly because he was a huge fan of I Love Lucy

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Over on the Titan Jack has more bad news, as we learn that he has Irumodic Syndrome. Picard wonders if Jack got this from him, saying

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This is the same neurological disorder Jean-Luc was diagnosed with in “All Good Things…” the series finale of The Next Generation. [clip, see above]

Jack asks his dad, [“how did you survive it?”] Jean-Luc reveals that he didn’t survive it, and Irumodic Syndrome is eventually what killed him in the Picard Season 1 finale. Of course, at that time, Jean-Luc was reborn into a Synthetic body, which is why Jack says…

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Doug: Um. So, Jack’s seeing that red door and going all Bourne Identity because he’s got Irumodic..what’s it called?

Well, maybe. But, in “All Good Things,” some people thought Jean-Luc wasn’t really shifting thru time but, instead, thought he was just hallucinating because of Irumodic syndrome —

Doug: Okay. So in Next Gen, Beverly and Will thought Irumodic Syndrome was the reason Picard was going all loopy. And now they think Irumodic Syndrome is why Jack is so stressed out? Is Irumodic syndrome just like when people say they have really bad allergies even though they just been doing drugs?

Nobody does drugs in Star Trek.

Doug: You sure about that?

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Not anymore no. As Worf and Raffi beam onto the Titan, we hear a TOS-era transporter sound effect. Raffi is also wearing a Starfleet uniform for the first time this season.

Picard greets Worf, saying “it’s been far too long.” Worf replies that it’s been, [“11 years, 5 months, 4 days.”]

This means, Worf hasn’t seen Picard in person, since about 2390 or 2391, which would have been after Worf was the captain of the Enterprise-E in the 2380s.

Doug: Wait, Worf was the Captain of the Enterprise? How come I don’t remember that?

Because you don’t read books.

In the novel The Last Best Hope, Picard left the Enterprise and Worf became the Captain. This was confirmed by the official Star Trek Instagram Logs, which state that Worf became the Enterprise-E captain around 2381, but wasn’t by 2386. Either way, Worf has seen Jean-Luc after he stopped being the captain of the Enterprise, all of which happened off-screen.

But, the number of years Worf hasn’t talked to Picard is also an Easter egg. “11 years, 5 months, 4 days,” is very similar to the exact amount of time Spock served with Captain Pike, which he stated in “The Menagerie was:

[nebula]

The sheer number of easter eggs they fit into this episode was astonishing, and none of them felt out of place.

[RandomNPC]

This episode went crazy on all the Easter eggs. That whistling scene with Riker hit me, my 42 years old behind shed a tear over that! 😢

[dellytancyl]

I promised my self I would not cry but man the look on Geordie's face when he sees Data, I wasn't ready.

[boba]

There is greatness here. The writing and acting are amazing. The show taps into nostalgia without being mawkish; everything has a purpose, everything's paid off, everything organically sets-up bringing the whole crew together again. None of it cheaply tugs at your heartstrings, it all has meaning. You cover a great scene between Jack and Seven on the bridge where they go through the ships and their themes. It's amazing to hear Seven movingly say of Voyager, "I was reborn there...the crew were my family". Her laugh is beautiful as Jack gives a "poetic drive by observation", the way Picard does. Jack talks of Seven "just trying to find another" family and how "we all long for connection...we're all just a little bit alone, aren't we? Stars in the same galaxy--but light years between us". When Seven says Picard doing this can be annoying, but it "can make a person feel seen" what she's really saying is that Picard is one of the only people who truly understands her; she loves him for it and it's why she's so loyal to him no matter what the cost. That's amazing writing! Finally, we see the Klingon Bird of Prey, renamed The HMS Bounty, from which the episode takes it's name. All of this has a narrative purpose as it inspires Jack and Sidney to steal the cloaking device which then requires Geordi, against his initial desires, to actually get it to work before it fails and the Titan blows up. The cloaking device then allows the crew to save the away team (except for Riker) and to get the vital Data they need. As to Picard's body, there's definitely a connection to the changelings' constant attempts to abduct Jack. The changelings need both Picard's (Locutus') body and "Red-Eyed Killer"Jack Crusher to create some sort of doomsday weapon. (A real question is whether the Borg are somehow behind it).

[catsmeow]

Can we talk about Shaw's reaction to Geordie? Complete opposite to how he felt about Picard and Riker. They are problem causing jerks in his mind but I loved how he went fanboy over Geordie. I hope we get more moments of Shaw interacting with Geordie.
Loved this episode!

[RandomNPC]

Worf saying: ...”no god, no man, no beast will come between me!” Old Worf is so bad ass!

[DarkSagauk]

Worfs line "solved with superior Klingon technology" in reference to the cloaking device was gold 😆😆

[overanDownUnder]

This episode of Picard made me feel like a kiddo again watching TNG with my family that I’ve lost one by one throughout the years. Seeing Moriarty, the whistle- it all brought tears. Albeit, happy ones.

[CaptnNuco]

You forgot Lal, I think it's kinda cool that all these personalities are becoming one person. Data is Logic and nobility, Lore is Passion and deception, Lal is Joy and Love, B4 is the Framework and Soong is the Soul. A complete Data. Just a Theory,

[sdo]

This series is a billion times better than season 2. Amazing how they stepped up

[NLaertes]

The second I saw USS Voyager back in full glory, i fell apart...goosebumps, joy... a feeling i havent felt for a long time...just like Seven

[zerokool]

When Jack was telling Picard that he inherited more than just his disease it was the first time I’ve cried from Star Trek and then at one point it felt like I was watching a movie. This season is just unbelievable tv. It’s going down in the record books.

[UnclePhilk]

You missed a few Daystrom easter eggs! The first thing we saw was a thalaron radiation weapon similar to the one Shinzon used in Nemesis. We also saw some kind of Borg information hub (across from the attack tribble) which was last seen on Voyager. The LAST thing we saw was Riker standing in front of the remains of Jonathan Archer.

[BatarianBob]

I hadn't realized that the names of Geordi's daughters were a reference to "All Good Things". I'll give them this one. That's pretty good attention to detail.

[nydabeats]

I don't even know what to think anymore... that was one of the best Star Trek episodes I've ever seen and I've seen them all...

[hankthepatriot]

Terry Matalas and writers have MASTERFULLY balanced between nostalgia and breaking new ground in the telling of the story of these characters!

I hope that this season also serves as a backdoor pilot for a new show much like DISCO did for Strange New Worlds.

[CraftyGtrist]

God I just freaking GEEKED OUT during this whole episode!!
And as soon as I saw the SS Bounty, I knew they were hijacking it or the cloaking tech!!

[BrentAgeofGrogu]

This is possibly one of the best episodes of Star trek I have ever seen like that is hard to say because there is so many good things across the franchise but DAMN this episode blew me away had me in tears and had me laughing out loud in so many moments!

[DannyD_GoF]

I was literally in tears this whole episode. Being a long time fan of all the series, this just brought back so much across so many levels.

[PandoraNYC]

I'm wondering if that's actually Deanna Troi or if it's a changeling Troi.