Warning: This Article Contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2

Admiral Kathryn Janeway’s (Kate Mulgrew) final log in Star Trek: Prodigy season 2’s finale is a deep-cut Star Trek: Nemesis Easter egg, reveals co-executive producer Aaron J. Waltke. In Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, episode 20, “Ouroboros, Part II”, which was written by Waltke and Kevin and Dan Hageman, Admiral Janeway composes a personal log entry where she says, “An old friend once said we do not feel the passage of time, but the presence of time within us. We grow from what we leave behind as we reach for what lies ahead.”

Star Trek: Prodigy co-executive producer Aaron J. Waltke joined Screen Rant for a deep-dive into the Star Trek lore in season 2. Waltke pointed out with pride that Admiral Janeway’s log in Star Trek: Prodigy season 2’s finale is a callback to a deleted scene from Star Trek: Nemesis where Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Commander Data (Brent Spiner) discuss the passage of time. Janeway paraphrases Picard’s words about “the passage of time and the presence of time within us.” Read Aaron’s quote and watch the deleted scene from Star Trek: Nemesis below:

I just wanted to say that one of my favorite Easter eggs that we threw into Janeway’s Admiral’s log was a very deep cut allusion to the DVD extras of Nemesis, [which] has a deleted scene in which you hear Picard and Data sort of ruminating on the nature of time. It was such a beautiful scene, and I was like, ‘It’s too bad that’s not canon.’ And so, when you hear Janeway, who we’ve seen at the beginning of Nemesis is like, ‘Hello, Jean-Luc,’ so they’re clearly have become friends, she says, ‘An old friend once told me that we’re not affected by the passage of time, but the presence of time within us.’ She’s, in fact, alluding to something that Picard has supposedly told her. But go back and watch the scene. It’s a beautiful scene.

Source: Screen Rant Plus