I also read over on Ars Technica that the iTunes version included “hidden content”, accessible with a secret password. Well getting the password prompt was easy enough – on the main Trek extras screen there are a series of blue blocks across the top, above the Enterprise. On the far right is a single green control. Click it, and a password prompt pops up… but what was the password?

Turns out that was easy enough to discover. iTunes Extras are simply HTML, CSS and Javascript files. So poking around in my iTunes Library folder, I was able to find the code. Grep is your friend.

Grepping for “code” in the Extras folder returned a couple promising hits, including one line mentioning “egg” as in Easter Egg. From there, I was able to narrow it down to the controllers/home.js file. The password can be found on line 46 of that file.

If you aren’t a command line type of person, I’ll spoil it for you here: n42C02c942

Enjoy your new Romulan user interface!