BEWARE SPOILERS: Just like with the previous Disney Plus series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your entertainment! Here we will post every reference, Easter egg, everything named and unnamed per episode and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted.
Official summary: A mysterious stranger offers to help our heroes
Trivia
Neel’s mother’s name is revealed in the closed captioning as Nooma. Earlier this week this name was also revealed in a card released through Star Wars: Card Trader.
And with the similar-sounding names of Nooma and Neel, it would make sense that Nol (as mentioned in the end credits of the first episode) is Neel’s father.
We see the mothers of KB for the first time as well. The end credits reveal their names as Maree (portrayed by Cass Buggé, sitting on the left) and Garree (portrayed by M.J. Kang, sitting on the right).
The tentacled prisoner brings to mind the tentacled prisoner in Jabba’s Palace from Return of the Jedi. The prisoner that gets shocked is a Talpiddian.
“I waited, the Force provided.” says Jod. This statement echoes one we have heard a few times before. Most recently in The Acolyte tie-in comic Kelnacca.
The Aurebesh on the pipe behind him during their escape reads ‘NITROGEN’.
As Jod Na Nawood returns to the pirate market to get SM-33, a pirate in the background exclaims that Silvo has escaped the brig. This confirms our suspicions from last week’s episode guide.
The pirate who says this is the pirate known as Beef, who can be seen in the previous episodes as well.
CZ-D2-9000 is a CZ-series secretary/business communications droid, which first appeared in A New Hope.
The droid concerned for an unknown prince’s safety is a RA-7 protocol droid.
The B1-series battle droid is once again voiced by Matthew Wood. The droid’s poor condition makes sense as the battle he hoped they had won, the Clone Wars, was close to thirty years ago by the time of this episode.
The Ishi Tib pirate Benjar Pranic is seen walking with cane, which is one of the many design call-backs to typical pirate lore. For example, Long John Silver walked with a crutch.
Pranic was portrayed by Alexander Ward and voiced by none other than well-known actor Alfred Molina. Molina, among other roles, played Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2, and of course the ill-feted Satipo in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Pranic also references the Han Solo line “Well, that’s the real trick isn’t it.” From A New Hope.
Fern lists ways to make it seem things float through the Force. By using magnets, con-man Haja Estree made it appear as if he had the Force in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
During the escape (and during the arrival scene in the prior episode which we missed a couple of ships) you can spot various types of ships that were seen before: a ship resembling the original concept for the Millennium Falcon before it became the Tantive IV with a new cockpit, a Lothalian Corvette (from Obi-Wan Kenobi), a Coruscant Freighter (The Clone Wars), Pelta-class frigate (The Clone Wars), Avandor-class fighter/transport (The Force Awakens), a Gozanti Armed Transport (The Rise of Skywalker), a TR-286 transport (Obi-Wan Kenobi), one looking a lot like a ST-70 Razor Crest assault ship (The Mandalorian), a starspeeder 1000 (Star Tours) and of course the Katooni.
To see an old friend, they all land on the Observatory Moon, which orbits a gas giant.
As they land on the moon a Theremin plays. The Theremin is often erroneously thought to be have been used for the Star Trek main theme, a mistake also repeated in a joke for an episode of The Big Bang Theory. The instrument however was used for The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951), which has since been referenced a couple of times before within Star Wars.
As they walk on the surface, the way they are framed is reminiscent of the film poster to another 80-ies classic: Stand By Me.
Kh’ymm refers to Jod as Crimson Jack, who actually was one of the first pirates we ever saw in the classic Marvel Star Wars run. As Crimson Jack recently made his canon return in the Halcyon Legacy comics, it is yet another clue that Jod uses many aliases and fake names, and is probably not even called Jod Na Nawood, or even Silvo.
Normally doors slide open in the Star Wars galaxy, but this one goes forward before going up. This was seen before on Geonosis with the door that Anakin and Padmé walked through as they entered the hallway leading to the droid factory in Attack Of The Clones.
Kh’ymm is of an unknown owl-like species and was voiced by Alia Shawkat.
Jewels of the Old Republic is new terminology.
The same goes for Palmarish numerals – but there is also Aurebesh on the pin reading ‘Prefect’.
Aurebesh seen on the screen during Kh’ymm’s search first reads ‘Eliminated’ and then reads ‘Unknown Old Republic emblem’ and ‘Palmerish numeral no ?’ – the last digit is a number but it’s slightly too blurry to be sure which one.
There is a big list of planets mentioned in Aurebesh throughout the observatory. With such a big list we only cover the most important source of said planet, be it Legends or Canon, or an interesting bit of trivia about the planet below. It may be important to note that a lot of these worlds are connected through the Hydian Way hyperspace route.
Bellassa (First appeared in Legends in The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission)
Black Stall Station (The Clone Wars 2×03 – Children of the Force)
Bogden (Droids 1×08 – The Revenge of Kybo Ren and Attack Of The Clones)
Bonadan (Han Solo’s Revenge)
Brentaal IV (the homeworld of Platt Okeefe, a famous smuggler, with many appearances)
Candovant (Shattered Empire, as a target for Operation: Cinder)
Champala (Homeworld to the Chagrian species, including Vice Chancellor Mas Amedda)
Corsin (Star Wars: Rebellion and Tarkin)
Darkknell (Interlude at Darkknell by Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole)
Denon (Homeworld of General Veers, introduced in The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi)
Drearia (One of many worlds listed here along the Hydian Way)
Eriadu (Homeworld of Tarkin)
Exodeen (Another Hydian Way route world, first seen in Heir to the Jedi)
Fedalle (The Jedi Academy Sourcebook and seen in Darth Vader (2020) #30)
Hevurion (Before the Awakening)
Malastare (Homeworld of the dug species)
Mikkia (Homeworld of the twin Jedi sisters Tiplar and Tiplee from The Clone Wars)
Orish (Aftermath: Empire’s End)
Otor’s Hub (The Clone Wars: The Sith Hunters comic and Dark Disciple)
Paqualis III (Galaxy Guide 10: Bounty Hunters)
Pax (Twin Stars of Kira and also mentioned on a map in Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser)
Rutan (Jedi Apprentice: The Shattered Peace)
Salient (Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel)
Skako (homeworld of Wat Tambor, who is a Skakoan)
Terminus (intersection of the Corellian Trade Spine and the Hydian Way. Known pirate hub)
Ubardia (The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary)
Uviuy Exen (Imperial Sourcebook)
ZeHeth (The Last Command Sourcebook)
With a show set in the time period of The Mandalorian you would almost expect that it was Carson Teva in the X-wing. But alas, it is a new character who is listed as X-wing Commander Kent (portrayed by Andy Powers) in the end credits.
The wingtips of the starfighters are different as well, to allow for the usage of ion weaponry.
“Almost there” and the sounds of the beeping all are reminiscent of the Death Star trench run.