The last three weeks on Star Trek: Discovery have been full of revelations – we’ve learned the ultimate enemy this season, the identity of the Red Angel, and what was going on with Airiam’s blinky red eyes.

After the absolutely canon-packed “Light and Shadows” and “If Memory Serves,” however, we’ve had a relatively more subtle references in the last few weeks. So let’s take a walk through all of the Easter eggs and little fun call outs to previous canon from “Project Daedalus,” “The Red Angel,” and “Perpetual Infinity.”

Kadis-Kot

PROJECT DAEDALUS: As Airiam is reviewing her memories, it turns out she is quite adept at playing the game Kadis-kot with other members of the Discovery’s bridge crew, including helm officer Kayla Detmer. Kadis-kot is a game previously established in Voyager as a favorite of Naomi Wildman and Seven of Nine.

Starfleet funeral rites

THE RED ANGEL: The episode opens with the funeral for Lt. Commander Airiam, in which we see a flag draped torpedo tube shot into space while her crewmates gathered to share their last respects. Substitute Saru’s Kelpien singing for Mr. Scott’s bagpipes, and the funeral in the opening of “The Red Angel” could have easily been Spock’s funeral from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Bio-neural signatures

THE RED ANGEL: Airiam’s files show a bio-neural signature of the Red Angel, which the Discovery crew at first believes is Michael Burnham’s (though is actually revealed to be that of her mother.) Bio-neural technology, which mirrors brain patterns, is a technology introduced into Starfleet with the Intrepid class starship.

Tetryonic radiation

THE RED ANGEL: Tetryons are subatomic particles that exist in subspace, and when they leak into normal space and are bombarded in high quantities, they create tetryon radiation.

This form of radiation has appeared several times in Star Trek; it severely wounded the baby Changeling who would return Odo’s shapeshifting abilities, and in the Voyager episode “Workforce,” tetryon radiation bombardment was used to force the crew of Voyager to abandon ship.

Micro-wormholes

THE RED ANGEL: The Red Angel traveled through time by means of a micro-wormhole. The Starship Voyager encountered a micro-wormhole early in its journey through the Delta Quadrant that terminated in Romulan space – twenty years in the past (“Eye of the Needle.”)

Later, Starfleet would use micro-wormholes to maintain contact with Voyager (“Pathfinder.”)

Phase discriminators

THE RED ANGEL: Technology used by Stamets to capture the Red Angel and trap it in the present day, phase discriminators are transporter technology that have appeared and been used many times in the Star Trek canon, normally in association with dimensional shifts of time travel (TNG: “Time’s Arrow,” “Timescape”)

Graviton beams

THE RED ANGEL: Used by the Section 31 ship to close to micro-wormhole and prevent the Red Angel from returning to the time stream, graviton beams would later be used by the USS Voyager to open a rift into fluidic space. (VGR: “Scorpion, Part II”)

Technological leaps

THE RED ANGEL: Leland indicates that Section 31 had been studying a theory that technological advancements in certain cultures, including on Earth, may have been a consequence of time travel.

The USS Voyager would later discover that just such a theory was correct – a 29^th century time ship crash landing on Earth and found by inventor Henry Starling sparked the computer revolution of the late 20^th century on Earth. (VGR: “Future’s End, Part I”)

Nanotechnology

PERPETUAL INFINITY: Control takes possession of Leland’s body by use of injectable nanotechnology, microscopic machines which fill his veins and heal his injuries nearly instantly while fighting the Starfleet crew on Essof IV. Similar technology, in the form of ‘nanoprobes,’ are tiny devices used as the primary assimilation tool of the Borg Collective.

Two beeps for ‘no’

PERPETUAL INFINITY: When first meeting Pike, Gabrielle coldly tells him that “I could say more about your future. But you won’t like it.” She is clearly referring to the accident that will befall Pike in several years that will render him nearly entirely disabled. (TOS: “The Menagerie, Parts I and II”)

Time and its moods

PERPETUAL INFINITY: Gabrielle Burnham has a jaded view of time, created by approximately 840 missions into the past to try and stop Control, which had not been successful. “People think time is fragile,” she tells her daughter. “Precious. Beautiful. Sand in an hourglass and all that. But it’s not. Time is savage. It always wins. So this is meaningless.”

Her philosophy on time – that it has consciousness and personality – is shared by a scientist of the Krenim, Annorax, who uses a time travel based weapon to try and restore the majesty of the Krenim Imperium with limited success. (VGR: “Year of Hell”)

[td_smart_list_end]