Hologram Boimler says the Cardassians “keep showing me lights.” This line, and the existence of the secret Cardassian facility references the famous Next Generationtwo-parter, “Chain of Command,” in which Picard was kidnapped and tortured by the Cardassians. This is surrounded by two kinds of Cardassian ships, the Galor-class and the smaller Hideki-class scout ships. The episode has a cold-open on some kind of prison inside of an asteroid field. Elizabeth Dehner, there’s no way you caught all of these. Unless you’ve got ESP powers on the level of Dr. The Season 2 premiere of Lower Decks- “Strange Energies” - is one giant Easter egg with a bunch of reproducing tribble-ish Easter eggs inside of it. But if you thought Season 1 went deep into the wells of Trekkie references and Easter eggs, Season 2 is here to make Season 1 look tame. There are layers and layers of Trekdom within every frame of this series, making it hard to look at one episode and catalog all the references. In Season 1, Star Trek: Lower Decks earned the reputation for the most meta-textual Star Trek ever. But whether it’s Lower Decks or Picardor Discoveryor Strange New Worlds, the mission of hardcore Trek fans is the same: Pause the screen and see what deep-cut Easter eggs got slipped in this time! The mission of the USS Cerritos is to do the jobs other Starfleet ships can’t following up with all sorts of minutiae and boring outer space logistics, long after the Enterprise or the Defiant has warped out. This Star Trek: Lower Decks article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 1: “Strange Energies.”
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