Easter Eggs You Missed In Star Trek: Picard Episode 2

The second episode of Picard on CBS All Access dropped a few truth-bombs about Captain Jean-Luc Picard's health, some secret Romulan shenanigans, and just exactly what happened during the great synthetic revolt that shattered the Federation. Here are a few things you may not have noticed, between the lines.

"Maps and Legends" begins on that fateful day in 2385 when the synthetic workers stationed at the Utopia Planitia shipyards on Mars rose up against their flesh and blood coworkers, killing them and destroying the site so entirely that it's still burning 14 years later. But before the day starts going very, very badly, we get several shots of business as usual in the shipyards, complete with a close-up of what kind of looks like an Argo-type shuttlecraft.

The Argo was first seen in Star Trek: Nemesis, when Picard, Worf, and Data fly the shuttlecraft from the Enterprise-E to the surface of the planet Kolarus III, where they recover the android B-4, who we've already seen in Picard's first episode. The shuttlecraft calls back to an extremely significant event in the lore of Picard, tying into the show's central mystery of Data's involvement in the creation of Dahj and Soji.

April 5th is a very significant day in Star Trek history. Established in 2063, it commemorates both the first successful human warp flight, and the first inter-species contact between humans and Vulcans, as shown in Star Trek: First Contact. First Contact Day has long been established as an annual holiday in the world of Star Trek.

In Star Trek: Voyager, we even got to see a First Contact Day celebration, complete with warp engine creator Zefram Cochrane's favorite food, and the ship's Vulcan science officer reciting the Vulcans' initial greeting to the people of Earth.

Captain Janeway also mentioned that as a child, she always got the day off from school. In 2385, though, the workers at Utopia Planitia complain that they still have to work on the holiday, which they're not happy about.

Having the attack on Mars take place on April 5th marks a sharp parallel to the day's original theme of interspecies cooperation and trust. Following the attack, the Federation would abandon their attempt to save the Romulan people, and would also ban synthetics entirely. Keep watching the video to see the Easter eggs you missed in Star Trek: Picard episode 2!

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The Argo | 0:17
First Contact Day | 1:05
Picard's parietal lobe | 2:04
Paging Patrick Stewart | 3:17
The Complete Robot | 3:55

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