Ro first appeared in the TNG episode “Ensign Ro,” and like Keiko, Guinan, and Miles O’Brien, became a recurring semi-regular on TNG, starting with season 5. Picard and Riker initially opposed her wearing her Bajorian earring, but at the end of “Ensign Ro,” Picard allowed it.
Krinn (Kirk Acevedo)
The Vulcan gangster, Krinn, is played by Kirk Acevedo, who previously starred in the Syfy version of 12 Monkeys as Ramse. He joins fellow 12 Monkeys alums in Picard season 3, including Todd Stashwick (Shaw), Aaron Stanford (Sneed), and showrunner Terry Matalas.
Krinn sports green-blood-stained scar and an IDIC medallion. The IDIC was first introduced in the TOS episode “Is There, in Truth, No Beauty?” But this is the first time we’ve seen a mobster wear one.
“You Do Remember Guinan, Don’t You?”
When Jean-Luc pulls a phaser on Ro, he references the idea that Guinan would stash phasers behind the bar. This references the TNG episode “Night Terrors,” in which Guinan busted out a huge phaser rifle from behind the bar in Ten Forward on the Enterprise-D. Jean-Luc asking Ro if she remembers Guinan is partially because he thinks she’s a shapeshifter, but also because Ro had a friendship with Guinan that began in “Ensign Ro” and continued in episodes like “Rascals,” when they were both turned into children by a transporter accident.
Admiral Janeway
Picard wants Ro to take her findings to Admiral Janeway. This, of course, references Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager, and more recently, Prodigy. Janeway was as an admiral as of 2379 during the events of Nemesis, and now seems to be a very high-ranking official within Starfleet. What her exact position is in 2402 remains unclear.
Kahless Technique
Worf references the Klingon messiah Kahless when he talks about a technique he used to fake death. Kahless was first mentioned in the TOS episode “The Savage Curtain,” but appeared more prominently as a clone in the TNG episode “Rightful Heir.”
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