Star Trek Picard: Every Easter Egg & Hidden Reference From 'The End Is The Beginning'

So everyone's favorite Romulans almost died. Thankfully Laris and Zhaban are ex-Tal Shiar and extra prepared, hiding a bunch of Romulan disruptors around Picard's house in case a fight scene breaks out. The knives the Romulan agents are using are identical to a blade Shinzon uses in Star Trek Nemesis (they also appeared in "Remembrance", but we didn't do one of these for that episode).

Agnes Jurati saves the day because she just happened be in the neighborhood. She's wearing a couple different shades of blue, which costume designer Christine Clark stated on Twitter is meant to evoke Beverly Crusher's look from Star Trek: The Next Generation. But (and this is just a theory), Agnes might actually be a wolf in sheep's clothing.

She tells Picard she's a terrible liar, which is usually code for "good liar", she walked in on the Romulan attack at just the right moment, and Raffi – who seems to be a step ahead of everyone – does not love the fact that Agnes is allowed to join the mission without even a basic security check. So let's just keep an eye on Agnes...

Anyway, Laris calls one of the Romulan assassins a "stubborn northerner", like her husband Zhaban. Both characters have forehead prosthetics while Laris and several other Romulans in the series don't. This is the fist indication Romulan forehead ridges (which were introduced in Star Trek: The Next Generation to distinguish the Romulans from Vulcans and make them more villainous looking) is a regional trait.

This isn't the first time a Trek episode had to explain makeup inconsistencies: Star Trek: Enterprise did a two-episode arc ("Affliction" and "Divergence") explaining why the Klingons in The Original Series looked human but had bumpy foreheads in every production after Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

The episode ends with the gang (sadly minus Laris, Zhaban, and Number One) all assembled on the La Sirena, slowly getting away. Jerry Goldsmith's theme from Star Trek: The Next Generation swells and Picard signs us out with his signature line: "Engage".

Only a matter of time before he tells someone to "Make it so" or to "Shut up, Wesley". Maybe next week.