Star Trek: Discovery - 12 Easter Eggs You Need To See

"Waiter! A glass of the Chateau Picard, if you will..."

by Ewan Paterson
Star Trek Discovery Picard
CBS

Star Trek: Discovery premiered yesterday to a pretty solid reception, garnering a positive critical response and more importantly the adoration of Trekkies everywhere. It's really, really good.

Unsurprisingly, those first two episodes were also packed with tonnes of neat little references to the wider Star Trek canon, with Discovery taking place in between the much maligned Enterprise series and its revolutionary, original, sixties counterpart. References to both shows litter the foreground and background of Discovery's opening episodes, but all those nods aren't just reserved for Gene Roddenberry's original series - The Next Generation gets a look-in too.

CBS’s latest Star Trek show certainly feels like a love-letter to the franchise in a whole variety of ways, whether it be through its embodiment of Roddenberry’s Trek-ethos in its opening moments, or through the very obvious visual throwbacks to the designs that reimagined sci-fi in 1966. It oozes Trek plain and simple, and the little eggs Kurtzman et al. left behind for hardcore Trekkies to find only add to the show’s already wide appeal.

It's very much a case of Discovery being a show written by fans, for fans, and while it's arguable that it's not done enough to entice new viewers into the Trek-fold, the Star Trek faithful have very much been catered for.

Spoilers ahead, obviously.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.