History Trivia / StarTrekPicard

** The first episode's references to the Dunkirk evacuation, and Picard's impassioned speech ending on the note that "it's not so easy for those who died, and it's not so easy for those who were left behind" directly nod at Patrick Stewart's father was one of the British soldiers rescued from Dunkirk. The second season shows Picard dealing with his perception of his father as an abusive man while idolizing his mother, with him reconciling the truth that his mother had mental illness problems [[spoiler:and took her own life]] and his father's apparent abuse behavior was not as it seemed. Stewart had similarly struggled with his father's rage and violence against his family, and it was 60 years later he learned his father likely had PTSD which was not as well understood at the time.

* RenamedToAvoidAssociation: Defied. Creator/JohnDeLancie elected to reprise his role as the omnipotent trickster Q in spite of the existence of the conspiracy organization Qanon (also known as "Q") because he wanted to reclaim the title from the group and make it associated with something fun again.

* IKnewIt:
** Fans hoping for an appearance from the ''U.S.S. Enterprise'' herself guessed that, if it wasn't the ''E'' from ''First Contact'', it would be the ''Odyssey'' class ''F'' from ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''. The Season 3 trailer confirmed that she would indeed be making the jump to television.
** In the third season, [[spoiler:Given Beverly's motivation-less ghosting of the 1701-D crew 20 years ago, the UnresolvedSexualTension between her and Picard at the time, and the fact that the only new face in the lead cast plays her twenty-something son Jack Crusher, it wasn't difficult to guess that Picard would turn out to be his father. The show, to its credit, only hid it for two episodes.]]

** Diane Duane's ''Literature/{{Rihannsu}}'' novels took the secrecy of the name of the Romulan Commander in "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E2TheEnterpriseIncident The Enterprise Incident]]" and made it a cultural quirk, where they have a private name for themselves that they only reveal to people they deeply trust. "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E06TheImpossibleBox The Impossible Box]]" establishes this practice is canonically part of Romulan culture, despite the Rihannsu novels' other major discrepancies with the canonical portrayals of the Romulans. The importance of swords also has roots in ''Rihannsu'''s "honor blade" concept, with the Vulcan swordsmith S'harien, a convert to the intended-to-be pacifist ways of Surak, having given his last three swords to the Romulans before they left.

** One aspect that Creator/LevarBurton didn't like about ''TNG'' was that Geordi's love life on the ship was horribly unlucky. When discussing his return to the character on ''Series/TheView'' with former castmate Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, he mentions that the first thing he discussed with the show runners was giving Geordi a family, leading to the character having two daughters (one of whom is played by Burton's real daughter) and an as-yet seen wife.
** Creator/JonathanFrakes discussed that one grip he had with ''TNG'' was Gene Roddnberry's infamous "No Conflict" rule, which he felt was depriving the show of a lot of drama. He was particularly grateful for Season 3 giving Riker and Picard an opportunity for conflict in "Seventeen Seconds", adding in an aspect to the characters he was very eager to play with.

** The ''Enterprise NX-01'' was supposed to get a refit that made her look closer to her ''Constitution'' class successor, including the addition of a secondary hull, before ''Enterprise'' was cancelled after four seasons. "The Bounty" formally shows the refit was applied to her before she was retired to the Fleet Museum.

* RealitySubtext: The first episode's references to the Dunkirk evacuation, and Picard's impassioned speech ending on the note that "it's not so easy for those who died, and it's not so easy for those who were left behind" directly nod at Patrick Stewart's father was one of the British soldiers rescued from Dunkirk. The second season shows Picard dealing with his perception of his father as an abusive man while idolizing his mother, with him reconciling the truth that his mother had mental illness problems [[spoiler:and took her own life]] and his father's apparent abuse behavior was not as it seemed. Stewart had similarly struggled with his father's rage and violence against his family, and it was 60 years later he learned his father likely had PTSD which was not as well understood at the time.

* WagTheDirector: Creator/PatrickStewart revealed in interviews that he was given quite a bit of final say over parts of the writing process, especially in how Picard should be portrayed as a character.

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* Similarly, a visual effects artist attempted to include a few California-class and Parliament-class starships from ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' in certain fleet shots as a nod to that series, but was ordered to remove them by "a certain eagle-eyed executive producer" for unknown reasons.

* DawsonCasting: 34-year-old Ed Speelers plays a character who is at max about 21 and could even be a teenager. ([[spoiler:Jack Crusher was supposedly born to Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher shortly after the events of ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', which took place 22 years prior to the season in which Jack is introduced. To illustrate the point, Ed Speleers is two years younger than Allison Pill, who on this very series plays a woman old enough to have earned a doctorate.]])

** Another scene was cut from "Bounty" where Worf discusses with Riker how his experiencing during the Dominion War played a role in his more zen-like persona seen in this series. This scene was included in the Season 3 home video release.

* DeletedScene: [[https://ca.startrek.com/videos/watch-star-trek-picard-the-coppelius-fight-scene This featurette]] contains an action sequence which wasn't included in "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2" where Narek uses a capoeira-like Romulan martial arts to single-handedly take on five Soong-type androids.

* RecycledSet: The bridge set for the USS ''Zheng He'' is a redress of the USS ''[[Series/StarTrekDiscovery Discovery]]'' bridge.