The second episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season three connects the Original Series, Next Generation, and Voyager through one character.

Da Vinci's first appearance in Voyager was in the season three cliff-hanger Scorpion Part One in which he played muse to a Borg-beleaguered Captain Janeway (Catarina).

After all, as Voyager would go on to discover, the ship did have a magical ability to repair itself between episodes. The idea then of the Female Caretaker was dropped in as a get-out-of-jail-free ...