A Cute Star Trek: Picard Easter Egg Lets You Get Berated By Q

It’s not daily you get to make a cellphone name to the Star Trek universe—in any case, in an period of combadges and intergalactic communication, cellphone traces are, nicely, relatively quaint. But with Star Trek: Picard at present enjoying round in the close to way forward for 2024, an opportunity to sneak in a cute cellphone quantity made for a really enjoyable easter egg in this week’s episode.

John de Lancie’s Q has been a little bit of a background menace in season 2 of Picard, however the character got here to prominence once more within the chaotic stage setting of this week’s fifth episode, “Fly Me to the Moon.” While Picard and his mates deliberate their subsequent steps to assist repair time, Q, additionally operating round in 2024—and seemingly with out his actuality altering powers—hatched his personal rival distractions, together with tempting the Soong of this time interval, geneticist Adam Soong (nonetheless, after all, performed by Brent Spiner). To get Soong’s consideration, Q hacks his laptop, telling Soong to verify his 3D printer…which promptly spits out a calling card with a very elaborately designed Q brand, and a cellphone quantity:

Which, after all really works. Turns out, calling the quantity and not being fictional rogue geneticist Adam Soong nonetheless, simply will get Q mocking you for making an attempt to name the mighty, incomprehensible society that’s the Q Continuum. Check out our recording of the cellphone message beneath:

If you possibly can’t hear the message, right here’s a transcript:

Hello! You have reached the Q Continuum. We are unable to get to the cellphone proper now, as a result of we’re busy residing in a airplane of existence your feeble, mortal thoughts can’t probably comprehend.

Furthermore, it’s pointless to go away a message, as a result of we after all already knew that you’d name, and we merely don’t care. Have a pleasant day.

How pretty!

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