Early on, when Felicity first arrives in NYC, you see her approach a residence hall and the awning over the entrance read Kelvin Hall. The name struck me immediately because I love the Abrams alternate timeline/reboot of the Star Trek film franchise. I remembered that the series is referred to as the "Kelvin Timeline" because it was the Romulan time-travel attack on the USS Kelvin, helmed briefly by James T. Kirk's father, George (Chris Hemsworth), that caused the rift and splintered the universe into a new timeline.

This made me wonder...

Katie and I are rewatching Felicity. First ep shows her walking into Kelvin Hall at UNY. Felicity is a @jjabrams show. His take on Star Trek is known as the Kelvin Timeline because of the USS Kelvin captained by Kirk’s father. I wonder where else “Kelvin” plays into Abrams lore.

— KevinIL (@kapgar) May 6, 2021

Apparently I didn't need to look hard as it's already documented on the web.

Kelvin is the surname of J.J. Abrams' maternal grandfather who apparently had a big influence on the kid because he gets namedropped a lot. I mean A LOT. Check it out:

• Felicity - Felicity and many of her friends live in Kelvin Hall at University of New York
• Lost - Clancy Brown's character was Kelvin Joe Inman
• Fringe - William Bell worked at Kelvin Genetics
• Mission: Impossible III - Ethan Hunt receives a letter addressed to H. Kelvin
• Super 8 - There is a Kelvin gas station featured in the film

• Star Trek - Kirk's father briefly commands the USS Kelvin before ramming it into the Romulan ship that's attacking them
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Rey refers to the Kelvin Ridge on Jakku when talking to BB-8

I know that, like so many other directors, Abrams likes to re-use cast members from one project to the next, most notably Greg Grunberg, but I gotta say that the Kelvin references are so much cooler and I'm going to have fun looking out for them. Assuming he still does that. Although I don't know why he wouldn't.