News on "Rick and Morty" Season 2 has been nonexistent since Comic-Con in San Diego. The Adult Swim hit series, created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, is basically "Back to the Future’s" Doc Brown meets "Futurama," with plenty of violence sprinkled in for the Adult Swim crowd. It’s one of those satisfying science fiction comedies that succeeds because it tackles huge science fiction plots in addition to being funny. And while it’s not an overly-referential series in general, the small peek of "Rick and Morty" Season 2 we got at San Diego Comic-Con relies almost entirely on a reference to one of the finest episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Rick and Morty Season 2 Adult Swim Comic-Con Preview

Sure it’s rough, more animatic than a trailer or clip. But the vocal talent is there and the writing is as tight as ever. If, as I suspect of every "Rick and Morty" fan, you also watch "Star Trek: The Next Generation," I have no doubt you know what I’m going to say next.

If you watched the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode “The Inner Light” you’d have a better understanding of the full emotional wallop of this clip. The perfect conciseness of the narrative delivered in the clip accurately conveys the science fiction concept: a brain injected with the hard-earned truths of an entire life.

"The Inner Light" became only the second television show to ever win a Hugo Award. Basically, it's really good. Here's the ending if you've seen it and need to cry a little.

It’s a testament to both “The Inner Light” episode Star Trek: The Next Generation’s power and to the writers of “Rick and Morty” that combining a joke and a full hour of television becomes the perfect blend of flavors, like the colors that explode above Remy’s head when he tries out strawberries with cheese in "Ratatouille."

This could be you if you watched what I told you to watch:

Does “Rick and Morty” need the viewer to understand the reference? Of course not. Hell, the concept has been done before, it’s entirely possible they weren’t even consciously referencing “The Inner Light” (though I really doubt it). But what they do accomplish in the clip is demonstrate that Season 2 of “Rick and Morty” will continue with one of the show’s greatest strengths: its capacity to take serious science fiction ideas and bring out both their most speculative and their seediest possibilities.

So if you’re itching for more Rick and Morty you could do worse than step into one of the show’s references by catching “The Inner Light” on Netflix.