Subscribe M’Talas Prime and the Dockmaster Picard Season 3 takes place in roughly 2402 (in the 25th Century…) which means Starfleet is celebrating something that happened during the first year of the NX-01 Enteprirse, in either 2151 or 2152. The Federation was founded in 2161, which we saw in the final moments of the Enterprise episode “These Are the Voyages…” But, Starfleet predates the Federation by several decades. Riker and Picard talk about the celebration of “Frontier Day,” which commemorates 250 years of “boldly going.” This is not the birthday of the Federation, which is actually a tiny bit younger than Starfleet. The Kurlan naiskos from “The Chase.” (Again, who went back and got this from the crashed D?).A Promellian battle cruiser in a bottle from “Booby Trap,”.The Ressikan flute from “The Inner Light,”.(Who retrieved this from the wrecked saucer section in Generations?) Picard’s painting of the Enterprise-D from his ready room.As has been the case in previous seasons, we see several Easter eggs, including: Laris and Jean-Luc are doing some spring cleaning of Chateau Picard at the top of the episode. The music, here again, borrows from Jerry Goldsmith’s First Contact score, with a bit of Jeff Russo’s title arrangement for the first two seasons of Picard. But, this is the first time that a live-action Star Trek series, since Enterprise ended in 2005, has actually displayed its episode title on screen in quotes. The title of this episode of “The Next Generation,” is self-explanatory. Bones first introduced us all to Romulan Ale in The Wrath of Khan, proving that Enterprise doctors have great taste in space booze, in any generation. We also catch a glimpse of some blue liquid on a table, which can only be a glass of Romulan Ale. Just as Beverly wakes up to an impending attack, we hear Picard’s Captain’s Log from “The Best of Both Worlds,” specifically the references to hiding the Enterprise in a “dust cloud.” This foreshadows the fact that by the end of this episode, Riker and Picard will head into a nebula. Picard’s log from “The Best of Both Worlds” and some Romulan Ale? A closed container that seems to have belonged to Beverly’s late husband, Jack Crusher.There’s also a very deep cut here with an award that says: “Cor Caroli V, Medical Away Team, Honorary Citizens.” This references a classified mission, which we never saw, that Jean-Luc spoke of in the episode “Allegiance.” Funnily enough, that episode featured a botched date between Beverly and an alien doppelganger posing as Picard.Drama and comedy masks: A reminder to us of Beverly’s love of the theater, which references, “The Nth Degree,” “Frame of Mind,” “Disaster,” and “A Fistful of Datas.”.Beverly’s pearls from “The Big Goodbye.”.The interior of the SS Eleos gives us a slew of deep-cut references, all about Beverly Crusher.
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