In Discovery Season 1, it was established that Michael Burnham was read this book by her adoptive mother, Amanda Grayson. When Discovery jumps to the anomaly, Stamets says “Curiouser and Curiouser” This is a quote from Alice in Wonderland. Ditto Burnham and Saru in Discovery right now.
This is why in The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country, Kirk and Spock are both Captains, in rank. After Kirk was demoted from Admiral to Captain in The Voyage Home, Spock still served as his First Officer, even though he also held the rank of Captain. There’s interestingly a precedent for this. But, because Sara becomes Michael Burnham’s new First Officer, his rank is simply set aside. He’s got four pips on his uniform and was offered the command of a ship called the Sojourner. Here’s all the Star Trek Easter eggs and references we caught in Discovery Season 4, Episode 2, “Anomaly”… Saru’s rankĪlthough he’s later referred to as “Mister Saru,” Saru is still technically a Starfleet captain. The stakes are getting higher, but along the way, the Trekkie references continue to flow. In Discovery Episode 2, “Anomaly,” the crew tries to deepen their understanding of what’s going on with the phenomenon that destroyed Kwejian. So, in terms of nerdy callbacks, DISCOisn’t Lower Decks, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some amazing deep-cuts that get slipped in each episode. Recently, showrunner Michelle Paradise said Easter eggs and references are there to ground Discovery “within the larger Star Trek universe,” because they don’t “want to be on an island somewhere.” Part of this is because the DISCO writers are big Trek fans too, but it’s also about making sure everything connects.
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Just because Star Trek: Discoverynow flies in the year 3189, centuries after any other Star Trek series or film, the writers still intentionally reference the vast canon of Trek. This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 2: “Anomaly.”