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Hey, I'm Noël Wells from Lower Decks.

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Did you catch any Easter eggs

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in the latest episode?

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Because it had a ton.

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From Odo's bucket, to that
crate of Chateau Picard,

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let's check in with
Showrunner Mike McMahan

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to give us the scoop on
this collector's gold mine.

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- Huh?
- Whoa.

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Episode 2, the collector's ship,

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or, as we like to think of it,

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how many fun, little
Easter eggs can we cram

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into one background?

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You'll see a Mars rover,

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which, a lot of the Lower
Decks writers got to go

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and meet with Bobak Ferdowsi,

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and get to see the Mars rover,

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and we were like, "Oh,
let's get that in there."

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And then Odo's bucket is in there.

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You can see a lot of stuff in there.

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And, just in general, collectors,

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they're such a sci-fi thing.

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I don't know why they
come up in so much sci-fi,

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but, for me, the first collector I saw

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was in "The Most Toys," the TNG episode

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where they're trying to collect Data,

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which is, like, the rudest
thing you can do, by the way.

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Wasn't he the one who
tried to collect Data?

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They all tried to collect Data.

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Why couldn't they leave Data alone?

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He just wanted to feel.

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I do not feel pleasure.

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I am only an android.

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Like, leave Data alone.

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I'm not sure if anybody
had ever said before us

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that there's a collectors' guild.

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Loo, loo, loo, loo, loo.

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But you have to imagine,

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there's a bunch of collectors out there,

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they're all trading, they're
all trying to collect Data.

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Most intelligent lifeforms

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find involuntary confinement
offensive and inequitable.

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And, woof, that was a close one

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for our Lower Deckers.

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They're lucky they didn't get collected.