Star Trek Picard: Every Easter Egg & Hidden Reference From 'Maps And Legends'

Picard is visited by his former medical officer from the USS Stargazer, Moritz Benayoun. This is the first appearance of Doctor Benayoun; the Stargazer, though, was Picard's command prior to taking over the Enterprise-D, first seen in the episode "The Battle", but always present in Star Trek: The Next Generation as a model ship in Picard's ready room. A model of the ship also appears in Picard's nostalgia vault in the previous episode, "Remembrance", though it's a different, more detailed version.

Benayoun drops a deep cut medical reference from TNG's past, telling Picard there's an irregularity in his parietal lobe which indicates the presence of a degenerative disease. Doctor Beverly Crusher tells him the same thing in the series finale "All Good Things...", a sign the Captain would someday contract Irumodic Syndrome or some other neurological disorder.

Irumodic Syndome is what "Ambassador" Picard suffered from in Q's anti-time version of the future in the same episode, rendering the once fearless Picard basically senile. The symptoms Benayoun mentions here, disturbed dreams and inappropriate displays of anger, sure line up with what we've seen of Picard's behavior so far.

No sign of Doctor Beverly herself, though. In Q's anti-time future, Picard and Crusher had married and divorced in the intervening years. Maybe the same thing has happened in Star Trek: Picard's timeline, or that damn Irumodic Syndrome is playing with Picard's memory.