Hey, everyone, I'm Mike McMahan.
I'm the creator and EP of Star Trek: Lower Decks,
and I am here to talk to you about Easter eggs.
You may have noticed that there are a couple references
in each episode to existing Star Trek canon,
episodes, lore, characters,
and I just wanted to highlight a couple of them for you.
In the first episode of Lower Decks,
Mariner's box that she's pushing in the middle
full of contraband that she's bought from Douglas Station,
you could do an entire behind-the-scenes alone
on all this stuff we've packed into that box.
The Easter egg I'd like to talk about here
is the captain's trinkets behind her.
We love that in every Star Trek series,
the captain has a couple things
that are made to personalize their own ready room,
and Captain Freeman is no exception.
She's got a series of kind of fun
little trinkets on her shelf.
She's got a framed California state flag
in reference to the California-class ship
that she's a captain of.