Continuity Nod examples in Star Trek: Picard.
- The first thing Picard does in the new series is play poker, which is the last thing he did in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- It's also the last thing he does in Picard.
- In "Remembrance", the establishing shots of Chateau Picard evoke the scenes set in the anti-time future of "All Good Things".
- Picard's pit bull is named "Number One," which is how he referred to his First Officers, notably Will Riker.
- The symbol of the Ferengi Alliance is seen in Greater Boston, showing that relations between the Ferengi and the Federation have improved since Rom became Grand Nagus at the end of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
- Another billboard in Boston reads as an advertisement for "Kasidy Yates Interstellar Freights."
- "Tea. Earl Grey, hot" becomes "Tea. Earl Grey, decaf." (and later, "Tea, Earl Grey, cold.") "Come!", "Engage!" and "Make it so!" also come back.
- The makeup artist for Picard's interview is a Bajoran, suggesting they have finally joined the Federation.
- The Tal Shiar wield the Reman double-shadow knife used by Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis.
- In "Maps and Legends", Picard enters Starfleet HQ and looks up at a holographic rotating display of the 1701-D and the 2019 version of the original Enterprise, as seen in Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery. No room for Enterprises A, B, C, or E though, apparently.
- Dahj's boyfriend is a Xahean, a race first introduced in Star Trek: Discovery.
- Starfleet combadges in this series have the "future" look seen in time-travelly episodes ("All Good Things...", et al.) from the The Next Generation era.
- A deep dive into the lore here: Dahj claims to have attended the Regulus III Science Academy, which was mentioned once in a single episode of Deep Space Nine.
- Picard's personal archive includes models of the Stargazer (his first command), the Enterprise-E, and the Captain's Yacht Cousteau from Star Trek: Insurrection. It also includes the "Captain Picard Day" banner seen in the TNG episode "The Pegasus."
- The attack on Mars took place on First Contact Day, a global holiday on Earth, celebrating the first meeting between humans and Vulcans as seen in Star Trek: First Contact.
- Laris mentions the famously potent recurring liquor known as Romulan ale. A bottle of Romulan ale, modelled on the one seen in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, appears in "Absolute Candor."
- Laris also mentions the Gorn, a non-Federation race of scary lizard people first seen in the TOS episode "Arena." "GORN EGG" is an encryption employed by Bruce Maddox.
- The different look between Romulans from TOS, which resembled Vulcans, and Romulans from TNG, which had additional brow ridges, is explained by the ridged types being "northerners".
- Commodore Oh has a model of the Kir'Shara, the ark containing the uncorrupted teachings of Surak, on her desk, alongside an IDIC; the Vulcan symbol for Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. One of Rios's books is entitled Surak and Existentialism.
- To TOS' "The Squire of Gothos", no less:
- Kirk: General Trelane...
Trelane: Retired.
- And here:Reporter: Admiral Picard ...
Picard: Retired.
- Rios's ship has five Emergency Holograms (Medical, Navigational, Hospitality, Tactical and Engineering), suggesting the use of emergency holograms has expanded beyond just medicine. Also, they all look like him, so they are now customizable, rather than the much-disliked initial EMH, who was based on the caustic, misanthropic Lewis Zimmerman.
- Rios mentioned that he never bothered changing the "default" look of the holograms; presumably they default to look like the ship's master.
- The fact that one holo is for Hospitality implies that they're not just for emergencies. In Deep Space Nine, Zimmerman was working on a long-term medical hologram for distant outposts and such.
- At one point, Rios mentioned they were part of a "package" he acquired and his ship is not an official Starfleet vessel, so it's entirely possible that this refined EH suite is a commercial add-on product rather than a standard part of the fleet.
- The ENH rattles off a list of Picard's accomplishments: chief contact with the Q Continuum; Arbiter of Succession to the Klingon Empire; saviour of Earth from Borg invasion, and a colleague of Spock.
- 3D holographic ship controls are now standard, as they were in the future seen in "The Visitor".
- The Romulan greeting, "Jolan tru" is spoken in the series, first heard in The Next Generation and Enterprise.
- Picard's dislike of children is mentioned by Zani in the flashback of "Absolute Candor."
- Picard teaches fencing (a hobby of his from TNG) to a young Elnor, although the elderly man isn't stupid enough to engage in a Duel to the Death.
- Elnor recalls Picard's stories of Data's cat, Spot, seen in many episodes of The Next Generation
- Just like the Doctor on Voyager, the Emil requests to know "the nature of your medical emergency" when summoned.
- Tranya, the beverage that Balok served to Kirk, Bones, and Bailey in "The Corbomite Maneuver", makes a brief appearance "Stardust City Rag."
- Icheb's Torture Technician snidely asks him where his cortical node is. He gave it to Seven of Nine to save her life in the Voyager episode "Imperfection."
- Mot, the Bolian barber on the Enterprise-D, has his own salon on Freecloud.
- Rios had some dealings with "Quark of Ferenginar" concerning the Breen. Quark also appears to have a bar on Freecloud, but if he is on Ferenginar, it is likely a (very profitable) franchise.
- The Umbrella Drink Temtibi Lagoon is named after a location on Risa which was featured in DS9's "Let He Who Is Without Sin..."
- A hologram of an Orion slave girl, bearing a striking resemblance to Vina on the original series, also appears on Freecloud.
- Soji's fake childhood memorabilia include an "Adventures of Flotter" lunchbox, a popular series of children's holonovels enjoyed by Naomi Wildman on Voyager.
- The episode "The Impossible Box" contains several clips from previous Borg-centric Trek shows, including "The Best of Both Worlds" and Star Trek: First Contact.
- The Borg Queen is briefly seen and heard in Picard's memory flashes in "The Impossible Box."
- Jurati is shown listening to Kasseelian opera, a favourite of Hugh Culber on Discovery.
- Picard refers to his artificial heart, which he got after instigating a bar brawl as a cadet featured in "Tapestry".
- Picard also mentions that he is resistant to arrow shots, as demonstrated in "Who Watches The Watchers".
- One of the xBs resembles a Hirogen, the Predator Expies from Voyager's later seasons.
- Riker is introduced listening to jazz, a genre of music beloved of both Riker and Jonathan Frakes, who often played the trombone as Riker in The Next Generation.
- Throughout the series, Soji employs her "father's" trademark head tilt, something Riker immediately notices.
- Troi and Riker's son, Thaddeus, is named after an ancestor of Riker who fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War, mentioned in the Voyager episode "Death Wish."
- Riker name-drops the Kzinti, a cat-like race from Larry Niven's Known Space novels that crossed over with the Star Trek animated series. This one line makes the Kzinti fully canon within the Trek universe for the first time; this was followed by the appearance of a Kzinti ensign in Lower Decks.
- Kestra references Data's interest in the violin and Sherlock Holmes, and also how he wanted to tell jokes, have dreams and learn to ballroom dance.
- Jurati mentions gormaganders, space whales first introduced in Star Trek: Discovery.
- Kestra name-drops Tyken's Rift, an energy-draining extradimensional space hole that snared the Enterprise in the The Next Generation episode "Night Terrors."
- Riker calls Troi "Imzadi" a Betazoid word meaning "beloved," which the two have used between one another since the first episode of The Next Generation.
- "Deep Space 12" is the first Federation space station other than Deep Space 9 to be called "Deep Space [insert number here]" since Deep Space 7 in 1998.
- The device Jurati ingested is revealed to be a viridium tracker; the same material used by Spock to track Kirk in Star Trek VI.
- Rios's engineering hologram has a Scottish accent, recalling a certain other Starfleet engineer.
- The hospitality hologram admits that he no longer knows how to brew Yridian tea, a popular beverage brewed by the Ferengi-esque Yridians in The Next Generation.
- The navigational hologram also discloses that he doesn't remember Medusan navigational techniques, the signature ability of the unfortunate Medusans, who were so hideous humanoids who took one look at them would go insane, as per the TOS episode "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
- Picard mentions to Rios that he'd met Rios' mentor, Captain Alonzo Vandermeer. Vandermeer had been first officer to Picard's friend Captain Marta Batanides, whom we meet as a young Academy graduate in the episode "Tapestry."
- The synths on Coppelius engage in the standard Trek pastime, 3D chess.
- Spot II is an orange tabby, just like Spot in the later seasons of The Next Generation.
- The Vulcan lute is canonically named the "ka'athyra" for the first time; before it had only been named in the tie-in novels.
- During their climactic duel, Narissa mocks Seven by noting that "all she got for her birthday was assimilated" — which is actually true, as seen in "The Raven". Annika Hansen was assimilated as a child almost immediately after her sixth birthday.
- Jurati suggests Picard come up with a trick to distract the Romulan fleet, and suggests to call it the Picard Maneuver. She then immediately recalls that there already is one, and Picard corrects her that he first did it with the Stargazer, not the Enterprise.
- Picard notes that he hasn't piloted a starship in a very long time; 33 years, if only onscreen instances count. He piloted the Enterprise in The Next Generation episode "Booby Trap", displaying such creative maneuvering that even Data was impressed.
- As Data's consciousness dies, he listens to "Blue Skies", the same song he sang at the Rikers' wedding (unlike its first appearance in the series, "Blue Skies" now appears in-universe).
- Seven and Raffi are shown playing kal-toh, or Vulcan chess, a pastime favoured by Tuvok on Voyager.
- In season 2, Picard quotes the opening Trek monologue (partially) in his speech as Chancellor of Starfleet Academy.
- Picard was first offered the role of Academy commandant back in the TNG season 1 episode, "Conspiracy."
- The Klingon, Tellarite, Federation, Starfleet, Starfleet Academy, Vulcan, Bajoran, Ferengi and Andoran flags are visible behind Picard as he makes his speech.
- Soji and Jurati are conducting diplomacy with the Deltans, Ilia's race from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
- The new Stargazer's registration number is "82893", a call-back to the original Stargazer's "2893".
- Elnor is assigned to the Excelsior, a ship name with a large legacy in Trek lore.
- One of the assigned ships is the Grissom, after the Starfleet vessel that studied the Genesis Planet in The Search For Spock.
- One of the assigned ships is named the Hikaru Sulu, onetime captain and former Enterprise crewmember.
- Many of the ships that join the Stargazer are updated versions of familiar ship classes like the Miranda, Galaxy, and Nebula. (They were actually imported from Star Trek Online.)
- Picard is considering an update of the famously impossible Kobyashi Maru test.
- Spock's autobiography is called The Many And The One, a reference to his dying speech in Wrath of Khan.
- Guinan offers Picard the potent liquor Saurian brandy, calling it "hooch".
- The skulls of Martok, Sarek, Gul Dukat and the Ferengi Grand Nagus are seen in Picard's trophy room. Romulan, Bajoran, Klingon and Federation weapons are seen on the wall. A Borg skull, a Klingon sash, and Cardassian armour are also seen.
- "General Sisko" is referred to briefly, while Q claims Sarek was killed in front of his wife and son, presumably Amanda and Spock.
- Alternatively, it would be Sybok and the unnamed Vulcan Princess.
- Another artificial cat named Spot, Spot 73, is seen.
- The Borg Queen addresses Seven by her full designation, "Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One."
- "Interplexing nullifiers" are used to restrain the Borg Queen. Interplexing beacons are used by the Borg to communicate collectively.
- "The Watcher" is revealed to be a Supervisor, like Gary Seven from "Assignment: Earth." Her teleporter even uses the same purple smoke effect as did Gary's.
- Guinan's people are revealed to have had tense past relations with the Q Continuum, a reference to their mutual antipathy on several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- Guinan is sensitive to changes in the timeline, just as she was in "Yesterday's Enterprise."
- After it's revealed that Yvette Picard hanged herself during Jean-Luc's childhood, Picard reveals that for decades afterwards, he liked to imagine her as she would have been had she survived. Just such a vision appeared to him in "Where No One Has Gone Before."
- In "Seventeen Seconds", Worf is working out to Vallon sonore from the Hector Berlioz opera Les Troyens, which was the same aria that Picard was listening to in Star Trek: First Contact.
- "The Bounty" has quite a few:
- The station has a replica of the Genesis Device, a Stargazer phasing cloak, a Thalaron generator and a mutant tribble which frightens Worf - to Riker's amusement
- The Athan Fleet Museum contains many historic ships: The NX Enterprise (its first proper on-screen appearance with the NX-Refit engineering hull), the Enterprise-A, the original Excelsior, the Enterprise-D's saucer, the Voyager, the Stargazer, the New Jersey, and the Defiant, just to name a few Federation ships. Also present are Kruge's Bird of Prey (named by McCoy as the HMS Bounty), a K't'inga-class battlecruser (later stated by Production Designer Dave Blass as being Kronos One on loan from the Klingon Empire), and a Romulan Bird of Prey.
- Jack's take-charge attitude and brisk rattling off of pre-launch orders when he reaches the Titan's now the Enterprise-G bridge in 'The Last Generation' is a clear shout-out to Kelvin-Kirk's manner when he became Captain of Starfleet's flagship, and is presumably a nod to his similarly rapid rise through the Academy ranks. It's a fake out, though. He's just an Ensign, not the Captain, that's Seven-of-Nine's new job.
