Star Trek Lower Decks: Every Easter Egg & Hidden Reference From 'Second Contact'

21. Douglas Station

"Second Contact" begins with the USS Cerritos docked at Douglas Station and the first image of Star Trek: Lower Decks is a reference to classic Trek iconography.

Douglas Station is an Earth Spacedock-type station, which first appeared in orbit of Earth in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock before going on to appear in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, often as stock footage. That stock footage would go on, of course, to be repurposed in Star Trek: The Next Generation to represent Starbase 74 in "11001001", Starbase 133 in "Remember Me", Lya Station Alpha in "Ensign Ro", and Starbase 84 in "Phantasms".

The Earth Spacedock-type station also appeared, under construction, in Star Trek: Discovery's first season finale "Will You Take My Hand?"

Notably, there are three Federation starships flying around outside and seen entering Douglas Station, all are new configurations – though two are actually the same design, but one is simply flipped upside down. ...You could probably call another classic trope: Reusing ships with minor modifications to fill out the fleet.