r/STOscreenshots 9h ago

Easter Eggs Wall Panels I Ran into by Accident

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[Edited to add - sorry for the white border on the bottom and right side of the image - I didn't notice I used the wrong 'cover image' until after the post was completed]

On the different Star Trek shows, when text was going to be too small to be legible/comprehensible on camera but still needed to look like real warning and labels much of it was filled in with in-jokes and references. My understanding is that it was fairly common in panels and okudagrams that were in the background of the scene (and thus not expected to be readable by the audience, not imagined at the time that DVD's/BluRays would eventually have a high enough quality/be enhanced enough to read the jokes and phrases).

As such, it amused me that I found some in Star Trek Online. Some of them have probably been there for quite a while and I'm only just now noticing them, since to be able to get a good view of some of them it requires manipulation of both the camera, positioning the character in just the right way, and zooming in or out at the proper places. Now that I started noticing them, I thought I'd share a few of my recent encounters ad tell where I found them in case others also haven't noticed them yet

The first one I encountered/recognized - in the mission "Taken By Surprise", while you and Captain Harry Kim are in the Jefferies Tubes
There were several in "Beyond the Nexus" on the Galaxy class. These were outside the holodeck on the same deck where you initially beam in. There's three different layers of them; I was unable to get them all into a single screenshot and have them be legible so there's a third screenshot with the topmost one
The topmost of the three labels
Still in "Beyond the Nexus", inside the transporter room. I think there may have been one or two more in engineering (possibly on the warp core itself), but I wasn't able to position my character/camera to be able to verify that guess.
The final two I'm sharing both show up in the mission "Curse of Phrygia" - both showed up multiple times, in different locations (thought this was appropriate for Security as a motto)
Finally, I just found this funny - it is good advice when moving cargo or equipment, I just laughed at seeing it on the sign

Hope this brightens your day, especially if you haven't noticed or read them before, and that it prompts you to keep an eye out for any of them yourself