Star Trek: Picard season 2: everything we know

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Sun, 12 Sep 2021 21:56:24 +0000

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Q, the Borg Queen and time travel are all heading Jean-Luc's way in Star
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Star Trek: Picard season 2 is coming in February 2022, it was confirmed this month. And while the legendary Jean-Luc Picard encountered Romulans, Borg and rogue androids in the first season of the show, this next set of episodes
will offer him the challenge of living on 21st century Earth.

With familiar villains Q and the Borg Queen coming into the mix, Star Trek: Picard season 2 will see the former USS Enterprise captain and his newly formed starship crew travelling back in time to repair a future that's been turned into a totalitarian nightmare.

With the Star Trek: Picard season 2 trailer unveiled at the recent Star Trek Day event, Jean-Luc is all set to get boldly going once again. But who's coming along for the ride this season? And what'll cause his journey back in time in the first place? Below, we'll tell you everything we know so far
about the Trek show's return.

Spoilers lie ahead if you're yet to watch Star Trek: Picard season 1 .

Release date: Star Trek: Picard season 2 will debut in February 2022, though a specific date hasn't been offered up yet. It'll stream on Paramount Plus in the US and Amazon Prime Video in other territories.

Story: Jean-Luc Picard and the ragtag crew of La Sirena travel back in time to the 21st century to fix the timeline with a bit of help from the god-like Q and the Borg Queen.

Is there a trailer? A new Star Trek: Picard season 2 trailer was unveiled at the Star Trek Day event in September 2021. Star Trek: Discovery season 4 : what we know How to watch Star Trek in order Star Trek: Picard season 2 release date Star Trek: Picard season 2 release date: February 2022

The Star Trek: Picard season 2 shoot was originally supposed to get underway in June 2020, until Covid-19 put everything on hiatus. Production on season
2s 10-episode run eventually got under way in California in February 2021.

That delay means we'll see Star Trek: Picard season 2 after Star Trek: Discovery season 4 has left Spacedock on November 18, 2021. The Star Trek Day event on September 8, 2021 confirmed that Jean-Luc's second solo voyage will debut in February 2022 on Paramount Plus in the US the show will stream on Amazon Prime Video in other territories. Star Trek: Picard season 2 trailer Star Trek: Picard season 2 trailer: see the Borg Queen in the latest teaser

The first teaser for Star Trek: Picard season 2 was released during the First Contact event in April 2021. Alongside numerous Next Generation Easter eggs (including a model of Picard's first starship command, the USS Stargazer) the major reveal was that John de Lancie will be reprising his role as omnipotent superbeing Q. "The trial never ends..." So excited to announce that I will be returning to visit my dear old friend Jean-Luc Picard in season 2 of Picard! @StarTrekOnPPlus @paramountplus @CTVSciFi @primevideouk @SirPatStew #StarTrekPicard #StarTrek pic.twitter.com/DOeBT8NkUW April 5, 2021 See more

A more full-featured trailer featuring Stewart, de Lancie and other members
of the cast was released on June 16, 2021. It doesn't give much away about
the plot, other than suggesting that Picard and company are trying to stop a dark future from coming to pass. Time has been broken. #StarTrekPicard season two, coming 2022 #StarTrek pic.twitter.com/OjqarMnFBr June 16, 2021 See more

We learned even more about Star Trek: Picard season 2 in the longer trailer unveiled at Star Trek Day including a sighting of the Borg Queen... Star Trek: Picard season 2 plot Star Trek: Picard season 2 plot: Jean-Luc's new mission involves time travel (Image credit: Trae Patton/CBS)

Red alert! Big spoilers for Star Trek: Picard season 1 follow change course now if you havent seen it yet.

Jean-Luc Picard will be a new man in Star Trek literally. When Picards human body succumbed to terminal Irumodic Syndrome, his consciousness was transferred into to an artificial golem body created by Dr Altan Soong, the biological son of Datas father, Dr Noonian Soong. Although Soong Jr made it clear that the new body is effectively identical to the old one it will
still age and die, for example its going to have an effect on the way the 90-something character approaches his life.

I wanted to know exactly what they had done to me when they saved [Picard]s life, Patrick Stewart said in an interview with Gold Derby . Was there any chance that this might have an impact on Picards personality or behaviour? [Executive producers Terry Matalas and Akiva Goldsman] felt it probably wouldnt, but it lies there as an option should we need to take it. But also there is another human aspect being introduced in season 2, which I am not allowed to talk about. But its going to have, I think, quite an impact.

With the first years main story arcs about a the Romulan Zhat Vashs efforts
to wipe out all Synthetic life and the reclaimed Borg Cube (now crash-landed on the Synthetic homeworld of Coppelius) now seemingly done and dusted, Star Trek: Picard season 2 is primed to seek out all-new worldsand civilisations.

Despite 178 episodes of TNG [The Next Generation] and four feature films, there are events coming up in season 2 that have never been seen before, Stewart teased at First Contact Day.

Its clear that not everything will be new, however, now that we know Q is
back in Jean-Luc Picards orbit. A member of the omnipotent Q continuum, the mischievous character cropped up regularly in The Next Generation (and spin-off shows Deep Space Nine and Voyager) to make life as awkward as he could for Starfleet. He always took a particular interest in Picard, having put humanity on trial in TNG pilot Encounter at Farpoint an arc that was
only partially resolved in series finale All Good Things.

It looks like Q will be continuing his self-convened legal proceedings in
Star Trek: Picard season 2. Do you recall what I said, Jean-Luc, when last we parted ways? Q asks Picard in the latest season 2 trailer. The trial never ends. Not only do we learn that Picard and Q haven't met in the more-than-two-decades since Jean-Luc's days on the Enterprise-D, we know that the former Starfleet officer is way too old for [Qs] bulls**t.

Q's arrival is, as it often was, is unexpected, said Stewart. But it also comes at a shattering moment in the episode. And I do mean a shattering moment. Whether it's directly connected to Q or not, I'm not sure, but there is significant trauma. And in fact at the moment, I'm working on how the trauma of this moment hangs around Picard for quite a substantial part of the episode and then there [Q] is.

In the same way that we have tried to do with Picard himself, Terry Matalas and I dont pretend that the interstitial years [between The Next Generation and Picard] didnt happen, executive producer Akiva Goldsman told the
Hollywood Reporter . Obviously, chronological time is less relevant to Q. The time between shows is probably not even the blink of an eye in Q time if you even have Q time. But we definitely chose to follow suit when it came to him, so as we tried to evolve the other characters, the same is true of Q. This is a show of a different time with actors of a different age. Were now talking about the issues that come up in the last [stage] of your life. We wanted a Q that could play in that arena with Picard.

Goldsman also described Q as a trickster god and expanded on the importance
of Picards relationship with Q. Theres a lot of discussion in [Star Trek: Picard] season 2 about the nature of connectedness, he said. Qs kind of a great lightning rod for that because in some ways hes one of Picards deepest not deep in the same way that Riker is or Beverly Crusher was but in its own [way, a] uniquely, profoundly deep relationship. Jean-Luc Picard with his new crew: Soji Asha, Elnor and Dr Agnes Jurati. (Image credit: CBS)

Picard's relationship with Q may be deep, but it's also problematic. In the latest Star Trek: Picard season 4 trailer, Jean-Luc says that "Q went back in time and turned our world into a totalitarian nightmare, amid scenes of a drastically changed 24th century. Seven of Nine now without the residual
Borg implants on her face points out that time has been broken. Picard adds that, The only way to heal our future is to go back and repair the past.

This means a trip back to 21st century, where Picard and his newly formed
crew will have three days before the future is changed irrevocably, and Seven of Nine will have to take a crash course in driving a car.

But with the time travel element already strongly hinted, perhaps the biggest revelation in the Star Trek: Picard season 4 trailer is that Jean-Luc's route back in time involves the Borg Queen though it's yet to be revealed whether this is the Borg Queen from Star Trek: First Contact, the one presumed dead after Voyager's return from the Delta Quadrant, or some other incarnation. Or maybe we're guilty of thinking in [merely] three-dimensional terms...

Whichever Borg Queen it is, time travel is familiar territory for Star Trek, the most famous examples coming in Star Trek 4 (where Kirk and crew travelled back to 1980s San Francisco) and First Contact (where Picard fought the Borg in the 21st century. Expect plenty of culture clash comedy/drama as Jean-Luc and his highly sophisticated 24th century companions get used to present-day Earth.

One major difference between Star Trek: Picard season 2 and its predecessor
is that this time Jean-Luc now long-retired from Starfleet has his own
crew. So dont be surprised if the new season feels more of an ensemble show, with more time devoted to Cris Rios, Raffi Musiker, Soji Asha, Elnor and
Seven of Nine. Integrating all of them and new characters into the
narrative will be one of the new seasons hardest missions.

That's the challenge, season 1 showrunner Michael Chabon told the Hollywood Reporter . First, it's got to be good, right? It has to be focused on Picard but have room for all the other characters. Its never going to be just a show about the crew of a starship that's part of Starfleet and everyone's wearing uniforms and they're flying around, encountering alien life and weird
planets. Those are the challenges we face going into season 2, and I'm so excited about the story weve come up with.

And for anyone who was left underwhelmed with the season 1 finale, the production team have hopefully found a solution going into Star Trek: Picard season 2. Figure out the end earlier! said Goldsman when the Hollywood Reporter asked what the team had learned from their first year. If youre
going to do a serialized show, you have the whole story before you start shooting. Its more like a movie in that way you better know the end of your third act before you start filming your first scene. Jeri Ryan returns as ex-Borg Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Picard season 2. (Image credit: CBS) Our past recaps of Star Trek: Picard

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Trek: Picard season 2 cast: Q, Guinan, the Borg Queen and other returning characters

This is the crew manifest for Star Trek: Picard season 2 as it stands:
Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard Alison Pill as Dr Agnes Jurati Isa Briones as Soji Asha Michelle Hurd as Raffi Musiker Santiago Cabrera as Cris Rios
Evan Evagora as Elnor Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine John de Lancie as Q Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan Annie Wersching as the Borg Queen

The show was always built around the star power of Sir Patrick Stewart, and hell be joined in the Star Trek: Picard season 2 cast by his regular La
Sirena crew: Michelle Hurd (Raffi Musiker), Santiago Cabrera (Cris Rios),
Evan Evagora (Elnor), Alison Pill (Dr Agnes Jurati), and Isa Briones (Soji Asha).Star Trek: Voyager veteran Jeri Ryan will also be back as former Borg Seven of Nine.

It was confirmed at September's Star Trek Day that Seven will come face-to-face with another former member of the Collective, as the trailer introduced the latest iteration of the Borg Queen. The Last of Us star Annie Wersching takes over the role from Alice Krige (Star Trek: First Contact,
Star Trek: Voyager) and Susanna Thompson (Star Trek: Voyager)

In addition to the returning John de Lancie as Q, theres another veteran of The Next Generation returning to the Final Frontier Whoopi Goldberg as
Guinan.

Stewart formally invited his former co-star to join the Star Trek: Picard season 2 cast during an appearance on Goldbergs TV show, The View . It was wonderful having you, and we cannot wait to have you with us again one more time," said Stewart. .@SirPatStew officially invites @WhoopiGoldberg to join season two of #StarTrekPicard: It was wonderful having you, and we cannot
wait to have you with us again one more time. https://t.co/f8u2wbJuik #StarTrek pic.twitter.com/mxOtyJxF63 January 22, 2020 See more

Officially the bartender in Ten Forward, the Enterprise-Ds bar/relaxation area, Guinan (a centuries-old El-Aurian) was Picards confidante. She also had little time for Q, so itll be intriguing if they end up colliding with each other in the new season.

As for the rest of the Next Generation crew, the one star certain to return
is Jonathan Frakes though not necessarily on screen. He confirmed to TrekMovie that hes back to direct a pair of Star Trek: Picard season 2 episodes, but claimed that he wasnt sure whether hed be back as Captain William Riker.

The time travel element of the story may make make bringing the Next Generation cast harder this time out, but if Riker does return, however, its
a safe bet Marina Sirtis will be back as his screen wife, Deanna Troi.

And although Brent Spiner has said hes played the android Data for the last time, he hasnt ruled out a return as Data's human brother Dr Altan Soong. I wouldn't really entertain the idea of doing [Data] again because I just don't think it would be realistic, he told TV Guide .

But what about Worf, Geordi LaForge and Dr Crusher?

Thanks to the amount of time the role requires in the make-up chair, Michael Dorn said hed only be up for returning as the Federations resident Klingon, Worf, if it was really worthwhile.

Im only interested in if its something really interesting, he told Inverse . If the character was a major part of the franchise or whatever the show is. Hes not just going to show up, beat somebody up, and then go home.

While Worfs status is ambiguous, two cast members have seemingly ruled themselves out of a return.

In April 2021, LeVar Burton told Whoopi Goldberg on The View (via TrekMovie ) that, I can say unequivocally that I am not doing season 2 of Picard though its important to add that he hasnt ruled out an appearance as Geordi La Forge in a future season.

And therell be no return (yet) for Gates McFadden which means that Star
Trek: Picard season 2 wont be able to explore the status of Jean-Lucs will they/wont they relationship with Dr Beverly Crusher.

Im not in the second season, she told TrekMovie . Im sad that Im not. Im disappointed because it would have been so much fun to just work with those people. But well see. I have no idea

But dont give up hope just yet, because this could be a clever deployment of smoke and mirrors. Marina Sirtis claimed she wasnt going to be in the first season of the show and look what happened there Cris Rios at the helm of La Sirena. (Image credit: CBS) Star Trek: Picard season 3 has also been confirmd

Star Trek: Picard season 2 won't be the end of Jean-Luc's story the show's Star Trek Day panel confirmed that a third season has been given the greenlight by Paramount Plus. Star Trek: Picard season 2 showrunner: there's
a change at the helm

According to an interview in Variety , Michael Chabon won't be as heavily involved in season 2 of Star Trek: Picard as he was in the first. He's shifting his attention to developing a TV series for Showtime based on his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. But he will continue to give notes to the writers. "Im still an executive producer on Picard," he told Variety. "Im writing two episodes. I was there breaking the second season,
all the way through. I was engaged, I think, to exactly the same degree as I was on the first season."

Terry Matalas, a veteran of Twelve Monkeys and MacGyver will take over as the Star Trek: Picard season 2 showrunner.

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