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

Doctor's note secured, Picard returns to Starfleet Headquarters to humbly ask for a ship from F-bomb dropping Admiral Kirsten Clancy. Cue Jerry Goldsmith's famous Star Trek: The Motion Picture slash The Next Generation theme music.

The transporters ferrying people to and from the facility sound a lot like the transporters used in TNG and DS9, but they're ultra-fast and seem like kind of a public safety hazard. One of the passersby is an alien named "Rhomsew", played by TNG make up designer Michael Westmore's daughter and Syfy's Face Off host, McKenzie Westmore.

Starfleet Headquarters in this episode is actually the Anaheim Convention Center near Disneyland. Previously the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant stood in for Starfleet in TNG and DS9, and the Getty Museum played the part in Star Trek Into Darkness. In the foyer to Headquarters, there's a hologram of Captain Pike's Enterprise as she appeared in Star Trek: Discovery, Short Treks, and Walmart's Super Bowl 2020 ad (yep). There's also a hologram of the Enterprise-D, thankfully un-retconned.

The Starfleet uniforms here look a lot like those worn in DS9 and Voyager, but the division color shoulders have Starfleet insignias screen printed onto them, much like Michael Kaplan's Star Trek (2009) uniforms and Gersha Philips' Star Trek: Discovery uniforms. CNC (Commander in Chief) Clancy's uniform is a bit different, blending the look of the famous TNG uniform with the ones first seen in Star Trek: First Contact. The combadges, by the way, are a variation on the prop used in TNG, DS9 and Voyager to denote future Starfleet... even more future Starfleet that is.

Elsewhere at Starfleet Headquarters, Commodore Oh is a Vulcan apparently working with the Romulans. The two species are identical so this is a confusing choice. The set decorators, however, have given Oh's office a few pieces of Vulcan flair to indicate her planet of origin. The commodore has a Vulcan IDIC (TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"), a replica of the Kir'Shara (see the trilogy of Enterprise episodes starting with "The Forge"), Vulcan chimes (TOS: "Amok Time"), and Vulcan dice bearing the syllabic nucleus of the Vulcan language (TNG: "Unification II").