12 Monkeys

The latest episode of Star Trek: Picard included a whole lot of nods to the acclaimed SYFY original series 12 Monkeys.

If you're looking for deep space action in the vein of Trek, check out SYFY's latest [original series, The Ark](https://www.syfy.com/the-ark). As 12 Monkeys fans are well aware, that’s also the name of the main time traveler in 12 Monkeys (with Aaron Stanford taking over the role from Bruce Willis in the small screen adaptation). Shaw on the final season of Picard. In the second episode of Picard’s third season, when they’re running down some known aliases of the renegade character Jack Crusher, the name “James Cole” pops up as one of his many identities. The SYFY series that ran from 2015-2018 followed a fairly similar track, but built out its own mythology and mysteries along the way. But thankfully, he’s not above a nice Easter egg nodding back to his days on the acclaimed SYFY original series.