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00:00The show is so filled with all of these great,

00:04I wouldn't even call them Easter eggs,

00:05they're just like gifts to Star Trek fans and references.

00:09I think the best version of that

00:11is when you incorporated Cedar Jaxa

00:13into the end of last season.

00:16Yeah.

00:17What is that process like, of finding,

00:21as you're putting together the story,

00:23finding the threads of Trek lore

00:25that you want to bring into it?

00:27We're really careful on Lower Decks

00:29about what we're going to use from Trek lore

00:31and what we're going to add to it.

00:32It's kind of like going to Yosemite.

00:34You want to enjoy it while you're there,

00:35but you don't want to change it.

00:36You don't want everybody to be able to enjoy it

00:38as much as you did.

00:39So you have a pack-in, pack-in, pack-out world.

00:42We're cleaning up all our trash from the Trekiverse.

00:46Leave no trace.

00:46Take only pictures, leave only footprints.

00:48So it's sort of a combo of stuff, right?

00:51Sometimes I'll talk to Tanya

00:52and we're just geeking out about what we love

00:54and it inspires ideas for the show.

00:56And other times, there's stuff I want to do,

00:58like the Cedar Jackson storyline,

01:00where I'm like, I don't know if we can do that.

01:02That might be stepping on something

01:03that somebody loved growing up.

01:05And then we got far enough where I was like,

01:07I feel like we've earned the ability

01:08to tell those kind of character stories.

01:10And then sometimes the artists put in stuff

01:12and it makes us laugh

01:13and it's because they love Star Trek as much as we do

01:15and it's unexpected.

01:16And we're like, no, no, no, move that forward.

01:18Like, get more of that in there.

01:20It's really everybody working together on that.

01:21So what's an example of that,

01:22of one of the artists sneaking in

01:25something that you didn't expect to be there?

01:27There's this bowl.

01:29There's a bowl on the show.

01:30It's a fruit bowl that they put the engine nacelles

01:33from the Enterprise on,

01:34because they thought that was funny

01:35and I fought it forever.

01:37And if you, you can spot it in scenes.

01:39It's like, they have a bowl that looks like the Enterprise.

01:41They also put in a cheese board

01:43that they sell on StarTrek.com.

01:45I was like, why would you do that?

01:47But they were like, it's like if Star Trek

01:49used a prop that they had in storage

01:51that was like around, you know?

01:52So little things like that and little background details

01:55that when you're gifted that stuff,

01:57you don't turn it down, you know?

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