The Star Trek Universe bumper features Discovery jumping in with her spore drive then flying off at warp.
If anybodyâs questioning whether one can actually survive on the outside of a ship traveling at warp, the answer is yes, as long as they are within the starshipâs warp bubble (ENT: âDivergenceâ, where Trip moved between Enterprise and Columbia while the two ships shared a merged warp bubble. See also PRO: âMindwalkâ). There is a mistake in the closed captioning which says âwarp levelâ instead of âwarp bubbleâ.
Tonic 2161 is named after the year the Federation was founded. Although itâs for the Millenium Celebration, the current year is actually around 3188-3190 (stardates have been a bit wonky ever since DIS went to the 32nd Century), hence the âgive or take a few decadesâ remark. The stars in the cocktail taste like jumja sticks, a sweet Bajoran delicacy made from the sap of the jumja tree (DS9: âIn the Hands of the Prophetsâ).
The holographic nametag for Stamets is not a screen overlay, but comes out of his tricom badge (DIS: âDie Tryingâ), a 32nd century combined tricorder, comm badge, holographic PADD and personal transporter. The pathway drive was first mentioned back in DIS: âKobayashi Maruâ, where a prototype was installed on the Voyager-J and Burnham was under consideration for being her captain. There were no details on how it worked, however.
Tilly says itâs been âmonthsâ since Burnham has talked about Book, which means some time has elapsed since the end of Season 4. There is a brief shot of a Lurian speaking to another alien Iâm unable to identify.
TâRina mentions the Tholian Republic and Breen Imperium. There have been political changes since the TNG era, since back then they were the Tholian Assembly (TOS; âThe Tholian Webâ) and the Breen Confederacy (DS9: âStrange Bedfellowsâ). Her relationship with Saru has grown more serious, as evidenced by her use of the word âloveâ.
800 years - if exact - puts it at 2388, after the Mars Attack (2385), Picardâs resignation from Starfleet (2386) and the Romulan Supernova (2387). This is the first mention of a âRed Directiveâ.
The dessicated Romulan corpse has the forehead ridges that mark them as a Northerner (PIC: âThe End is the Beginningâ).
Burnhamâs phaser pistol can transform into a rifle configuration, presumbly by the same method that allows it to be stowed as a device on the sleeve (first seen in DIS: âTerra Firma, Part 1â).
Burnhamâs EVA suit must have inertial dampeners because the moment she exits the warp bubble sheâs going to decelerate to sublight. Without them, inertial forces would turn her into a red smear inside of her suit.
Captain Rayner is a Kellerun (DS9: âArmageddon Gameâ). We see a tribble in the corridor, perhaps the same one from DIS: âKobayashi Maruâ.
Moll and Lâak stole a tan zhekran, a Romulan puzzle box. We saw an example of it in PIC: âThe Impossible Boxâ, where it was used as a booby trap.
Tilly is of course speaking of her ice moon escapade with a group of cadets on Kokytos in DIS: âAll is Possibleâ. This is the first mention of Andorian champagne (or should that be Andorian sparkling wine?) - previously the only Andorian alcoholic beverage we were aware of is Andorian ale.
Fred is a synth (PIC: âMaps and Legendsâ), with the same golden skin and eyes as Soong-type androids like Data, and has lived for at least 622.7 years (c. 2565), the last time he saw a Romulan puzzle box. Among the items Lâak and Moll offer is an infamous self-sealing stem bolt (DS9: âProgressâ).
The book inside the puzzle box appears to be filled with Romulan writing. Booklice, or Psocoptera, are real in case there was any doubt.
Fredâs internal memory drive has the serial number AS-0572Y. Stamets connects that to Altan Soong, which might mean Fred is from Coppelius (PIC: âEt in Arcadia Ego, Part 2â). Altan was last seen in a holographic recording in PIC: âThe Bountyâ, having died between 2399 and 2401.
Burnham says she hasnât hated anyone this much in 930 years, which if taking from 3188 dates back to 2258, the year Discovery jumped to the 32nd Century.
Tilly says the database is using 256 qubit (captioned as âQ-bitâ) shifting fractal encryption. Breaking into it is a violation of Security Protocol Six Alpha.
Discovery jumps back in at Archer Spacedock, installed around Federation HQ and first unveiled in DIS: âKobayashi Maruâ.
Letâs hope that Saru and TâRinaâs wedding isnât as violent as Spockâs (TOS; âAmok Timeâ). Stamets says that they were about to download 15 teraquads of data from Fredâs eye. A quad is a fictional unit of data invented for TNG, deliberately kept vague to avoid comparisons to todayâs bytes. 15 teraquads sounds impressive, but in VOY: âDroneâ the advanced Borg drone One was said to have assimilated 47 billion teraquads.
Kovich shows Burnham that Dr Vellek was there on Vilmor II at the climax of TNG: âThe Chaseâ (2369), where Picard discovered that many species of humanoid life in the Galaxy had been seeded by a precusor race, the Progenitors. Itâs interesting that Kovich says that the Progenitors created all humanoid life. In âThe Chaseâ, it didnât reach as far as that - in fact, there were species which didnât have the DNA pieces necessary to solve the puzzle and the Progenitor hologram only said they seeded âmany worldsâ.
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