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A young man attends his new nephew’s baby naming ceremony with a plan to steal the money collected from family and friends to run away and keep a deep secret hidden from them. (World Premiere)

- There is a particular "crystal skull" that decorates Vos’ office. This could be a reference to an Indiana Jones movie that doesn’t exist in my headcanon. Another theory comes from commenter Kevin Rowe, who points out that the crystal skull could actually be a reference to the one on the cover of the novel Han Solo and the Lost Legacy by Brian Daley.  – The droids duking it out in the fighting pit are GNK power droids, better known as "gonk droids" because of the distinctive noises they make. – The droid fighting pit could be a reference to robot combat shows like Robot Wars and BattleBots. L3-37 would HATE those shows. – The six-eyed alien that is trying to peek at Han’s cards during the first sabacc game is an Azumel named Argus "Six Eyes" Panox. He is a reference to the "many-eyed" giant from Greek mythology named Argus Panoptes. Also, don’t the Azumel sorta resemble the three-eyed Gran? – Classic Star Wars species who appear in Solo include Twi’leks, Wookiees, and Trandoshans. – The planet Kessel, best known for its harsh conditions and mines operated by slave labor, has been around since the very beginning of Star Wars. Kessel was first mentioned by C-3PO in A New Hope and has subsequently appeared several times in the Expanded Universe. In George Lucas’ Journal of the Whills outline for what would eventually become A New Hope, Kessel appeared as a star system called "Kissel," which contained the planet Utapau (you may remember it from Revenge of the Sith as General Grievous’ final resting place). Kessel first appeared in the flesh in a comic strip published by Los Angeles Times Syndicate called "The Second Kessel Run." You guessed it: it’s about Han and Chewie attempting a second run through the dangerous smuggling route.  – In the Legends timeline, Kessel was the home of a huge spice mining operation (this was totally ripped from classic 1965 sci-fi novel Dune by Frank Herbert). However, it seems that coaxium is Kessel’s main export in Solo.  – The Kessel Run, the infamous smuggling route, was also first mentioned in A New Hope by Han while boasting about the Millennium Falcon. The route is 18 parsecs long. – It should also be noted that parsecs are a unit of distance, not speed, in the real world. The original line from A New Hope is "It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs," which would indicate that parsecs are a unit of speed. George Lucas later explained in the Star-Words letters section of Marvel’s Star Wars #6 (1977) that the error was a hint that Han was lying about the Falcon’s exploits while negotiating with Luke and Obi-Wan. According to Wookieepedia, writer Kevin J. Anderson later retconned the explanation, turning parsecs into a valid unit of distance in terms of the Kessel Run:

In July 1961, two men fished for bluegills in Chickahominy Lake, a large water supply reservoir along the New Kent-Charles City county line.

Plans for a new chimney stack, pipes and ducting to replace a 40-year-old system have been backed by councillors.

Beginning with a playful piano melody and co-writer E’Dawn clearing his throat, "Shine" is a tentative love confession delivered with a sense of campiness. Driven by quirky brass and onomatopoeic chants, the South Korean boy band’s 10 members alternate between charming verses and rambunctious raps. The song not only became Pentagon’s first Top 10 entry on the World Digital Song Sales chart in April, but it also became Pentagon’s final single with E’Dawn; he left the act later in the year after his publicized relationship with HyunA caused strife with former label Cube Entertainment. – TAMAR HERMAN

Lebsock, Matthew D., Christian Kummerow, and Graeme L. Stephens 2010. “An observed tropical oceanic radiative–convective cloud feedback.” Journal of Climate

There is talk about using the moon as a calibration source for CERES, and this pushes MODTRAN past its limits. Perhaps another version of MODTRAN has been released to address these issues; All I really know is that I read it in a paper a while ago. Matthews, Grant 2015. “The Moon & Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (MERBE)” Zedika Solutions LLC

I posted elsewhere that Saru’s line about how the red burst could have been a mass hallucination (or something to that effect) added to the fortune cookie foreshadowing, could suggest the Talosians are very much involved.

Denny C, we are on a similar page. I, too, felt the episode was a step in the right direction but still has yet to be a complete turnaround. As the season goes on it certainly has the potential to improve. That said, there is still the very real possibility of another nose dive. We shall see.

clearly they just retcon the idea from TNG on. Not even the movies did we see Kirk have a separate office nor has it ever been implied he does. Yeah its a retcon, its not the end of the world either. We don’t have to bend ourselves into pretzels over every little thing everyone knows never existed in the first place.

First – shout out to finally showing us beautiful Discovery shots. I felt like this was the first episode where they slowed down to let us “see her.”

In August 1960, the Coliseum Bowling Center in South Richmond had just opened, and its 40 lanes made it the area’s biggest ten-pin alley at the time. Sunset Bowl, which opened on West Broad Street in Henrico County about a year earlier, was the first ten-pin center in Richmond.