20 Things You Somehow Missed In Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
2. The Trademark Abrams "Kelvin" Mention
Moments after seemingly sneaking in a Conan O'Brien nod as Rey rescued BB-8 from Teedo on Jakku, J. J. Abrams managed to add one more easily missed reference into his Star Wars picture.
In pretty much every single Abrams feature to date, the director has found a way to add the word "Kelvin" into the script.
The director's grandfather was called Harry Kelvin, and he was the person who first handed the future Force Awakens creator a camera. So, as a tribute to him, everything from Super 8 to Stark Trek has contained a little Kelvin tribute.
Sure enough, Rey can be heard telling BB-8 to "stay off Kelvin Ridge" on the desert planet. There's also a Resistance pilot who goes by the name of Niv Lek. And if you say that backwards...