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Most of the starships from the 23rd Century era of Trek were constructed at the San Francisco Fleet Yards.

Michael Burnham had to do this exact same thing in the Discovery Season 1 debut, “Battle at the Binary Stars.”īurnham talks about the construction of the Shenzhou at the San Francisco Fleet Yards. Cycles of DNA recombinationīoth book and the cat Grudge, are required to undergo DNA recombination to make sure they don’t die. Basically, Spock died in The Wrath of Khan because of his exposure to the dilithium crystals on the Enterprise. This may seem like a fairly generic sci-fi plot device, but Trek lore has long established that a bunch of exposure to raw dilithium leads to radiation poisoning. The ticking clock in this episode is 100 percent connected to the idea that prolonged radiation exposure will kill Saru, Burnham and Culber.

Here’s all the Easter eggs and references we caught in Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 11, “Su’Kal.” Radiation poisoning- that’s what killed Spock! That said, there were some surprising connections to The Wrath of Khan, the history of Starfleet, and even a little wave to Soji’s favorite way of getting around the galaxy.

Then again, after you bust-out the Mirror Universe and a reference to the most famous episode in Star Trekhistory, it’s hard to top that with even deeper cuts. Of all the episodes in Discovery Season 3, the episode “Su’Kal,” easily had the fewest overt callbacks to the nostalgic past of Trekkie lore. This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 11.