Star Trek Picard: Every Easter Egg & Hidden Reference From 'The Impossible Box'
14. Picard Googles Himself
Much like Picard's nostalgia vault from episode one, "The Impossible Box" dumps a ton of references on us all at once. In preparation for his trip to the Artifact, Picard calls up the search terms "Artifact", "treaty", and "the Borg" and a holographic LCARS interface appears with the 2399 equivalent of Google Image search results.
The images the computer pulls up are just straight up screen caps from previous Star Trek episodes and movies including:
• The USS Enterprise-E approaching the Borg cube from Star Trek: First Contact
• The Romulan Continuing Committee on Romulus from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
• A Borg drone from Star Trek: First Contact
• A younger, fully Borg Hugh from the TNG episode "I, Borg" followed by Hugh as he looks in Star Trek: Picard
• 24th century Paris from the DS9 episodes "Homefront" and Paradise Lost" for some reason
• Reclaimed Borg drones from the Star Trek: Picard episodes "The End is the Beginning" and "Absolute Candor"
• Locutus of Borg from TNG's "Best of Both Worlds"
By the way, that last one was actually mirrored so the holographic image could superimpos Locutus' Borg implants over Picard's face, but it works so we forgive it.