Picard Season 3 Episode 8 Easter Eggs Deliver Star Trek: TNG Full Circle

That Time Worf Dated Troi

When Worf involves rescue Will and Deanna, we hear the Jerry Goldsmith “Klingon Theme” after which Worf launches into a really emotional speech to Deanna. This references the truth that Worf and Deanna briefly dated on TNG following the occasions of the episode “Parallels.” Actually, within the alternate future in “All Good Issues…” Deanna’s demise in that timeline had pushed an enormous wedge between Worf and Riker. Within the present, “actual” TNG/Picard timeline, Worf and Riker are actually each barely older than they had been in that future, and, after all, Deanna is alive.

Cloaked Shuttle Emerson

Raffi and Worf have a cloaked shuttle zipping round exterior of the Titan. To be clear, they’re utilizing the identical cloaking tech stolen from the Bounty again in episode 6. (Once more, this has been confirmed with showrunner Terry Matalas.)

Geordi Hates Picard’s Wine, Too

All through the season, varied characters have thrown shade on the wine made at Jean-Luc’s household winery, Chateau Picard. On this episode, a reminiscence of Geordi saying the wine was “too dry” is the newest instance of a personality not liking the wine. (FWIW, in actual life, the wine is sort of good.)

Information and Sherlock Holmes

When Lore and Information face off towards one another in a type of positronic mindscape, we’re hit with a number of references to Information’s love of Sherlock Holmes straight away. Not solely can we hear dialogue from the TNG episode “Elementary, Pricey Information,” however we additionally see Information’s Holmes hat, in addition to his pipe. Along with Moriarty in “The Bounty,” that is the second episode of Picard season 3 to reference Sherlock Holmes in an enormous method.

Tasha Yar, Spot the Cat, and Information’s Different Reminiscences 

All through the remainder of the episode, we see Information seemingly “quit” his reminiscences to Lore, which incorporates a number of references to TNG, together with:

• A TNG-era Tricorder.
• A deck of enjoying playing cards, which Information says represents the “many video games of poker” he performed on the Enterprise, referencing varied episodes, together with “Trigger and Impact,” “The Better of Each Worlds,” and “All Good Issues…”
• A hologram of Tasha Yar, from the episode “A Measure of Man,” which additionally references “Pores and skin of Evil” and “The Bare Now” — the second that Tasha found that Information was “totally purposeful.”
• Spot! Information’s cat appeared in varied TNG episodes starting with “Information’s Day” and was final seen in Nemesis.

“Monologuing Protoplasms”

Whereas not a direct reference, Information’s dig about “monologuing protoplasms,” feels just like the type of factor somebody may say in Ghostbusters. Simply me? Both method, it’s a hilarious second, which units up Vadic’s demise when she says…