Star Trek: Discovery just connected with Star Trek: Picard in a major way. The longest-running of the current glut of Trek series returned for its fourth season last week, and it’s wasted no time in weaving in easter eggs and references to the wider universe. The season premiere namedropped Enterprise‘s Jonathan Archer and episode 2 mentions another of Starfleet’s finest, Sir Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard himself.
It’s not just a random namedrop either as Picard is mentioned as part of a major link between the storylines of Discovery season 4 and Picard season 1. In episode 4×02 “Anomaly”, Dr. Culber (Wilson Cruz) attempts to develop a new body for the spirit of Gray (Ian Alexander) to occupy. In doing so, he utilizes some “ancient technology” from 800 years in the past — the same tech, pioneered by Dr. Altan Inigo Soong (Brent Spiner) that allowed Picard to have his mind moved into an android body in the Picard season 1 finale.
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