‘Easter eggs, Easter eggs.’ More Than One Image to Tease Us Over the Break!

Easter eggs galore were all over the place in “Will You Take My Hand?”  From orbit around Earth to the Orion Compound, everywhere, in each corner of screen there was something that had a connection to the Star Trek legacy.

As if Clint Howard wasn’t enough for Star Trek fans,…

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(l-r) A young Clint Howard as Balok in The Corbomite Maneuver from Star Trek and current Clint Howard as an Orion thief in Will You Take My Hand? from Star Trek: Discovery.

….he even had a punch bowl of tranya nearby!

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“Tranya! Never leave home without it.”

We got to watch as a Trill woman received a very familar tattoo,…

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That Trill looks just like Jadzia Dax!

…an unfinished Earth spaceport that we see later on, fully completed, in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

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We saw the return of Starfleet triangular medals and military decorations,…

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Her medals look more important that his.

…and it appears that members of the Romulan Star Empire are subletting a watering hole in the Orion Outpost.

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I wonder if they sell Romulan Ale?

In another corner, you might find Ceti Alpha 5 eels from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as a dish in the Orion Compound.

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Who knew they were so delicious!

All of those were neat, but Discovery’s showrunners had to throw one more thing at us in the end,…

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U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 meet U.S.S. Discovery NCC-1031.

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