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In the second season of “Star Trek: Picard” ex-Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard is facing an even wilder ride – which, after an encounter with cult villain Q (John de Lancie), even takes him to our present day.
Time travel and fascist alternative worlds are nothing new for “Star Trek” fans. The second season of “Star Trek: Picard” will now combine both, as the above long trailer for the new episodes reveals. The background of the whole thing should be a joy especially for die-hard “Star Trek” fans. Responsible for playing with the timelines and realities is namely “ Star Trek: The Next Generation ” troublemaker Q (John de Lancie), who for the first time since the series finale of “Next Generation” from 1994 on his old adversary Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) hits. After all, he promised back then that he was not finished putting humanity to the test.
In the second “Picard” season, the almighty Q transforms the world of the 24th century into a “totalitarian nightmare”, as Picard himself puts it in the trailer. Of course, the former Enterprise Captain and his colleagues Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), Elnor (Evan Evagora), Raffi (Michelle Hurd), Chris (Santiago Cabrera), and Agnes (Alison Pill) don’t just want to accept that. And they too travel back in time to straighten things out again. The goal of this trip is not just anyone.
Just like Kirk and Co. once did in the movie “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”, Picard’s crew ends up in the present – which this time is of course the 2020s and no longer the 1980s. And for the way there, another villain of the “Star Trek” franchise is returning. Apparently, the Borg Queen (newly cast with “Timeless” star Annie Wersching) provides a portal into the past, after all, “ Star Trek: First Contact ” has already shown that the Borg have time travel technology.
PICARD SEASON 3 OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED
We still have to be patient for Picard’s new adventure: The second season of “Star Trek: Picard” will start February 2022 on Amazon Prime Video – more than two years after the start of season 1. However, there is also good news : The waiting time until season 3 should be much shorter.
Although the next season has only now been officially announced that they have been working on it for a long time, it was an open secret. So it was partly developed together with Season 2. And that’s not all: Individual scenes for the third season were probably even shot during the production of the second – and after that, at the end of September 2021, the main shooting for season 3 began.
FIGURE COMEBACKS IN “STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS”
However, “Star Trek: Picard” is not the only series from the growing franchise that brings us iconic character comebacks. In the upcoming “Star Trek: Discovery” spin-off “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”, the protagonist team includes a whole series of characters who we know from the original “Star Trek” series from the 60s, even if, unlike (most) returnees in “Picard”, they were newly filled.
After all, “Strange New Worlds” is not a sequel either, but a prequel to the very first “Star Trek” series, in which we should get more episodic adventures again, as in the classic “Trek” (and not such a continuous storyline, which extends over a whole season). Right at the front of the ensemble of figures is of course the leadership trio around Enterprise Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), who is already known from “Discovery”. But as rumored before and has now been confirmed in a casting video, other old friends from “Spaceship Enterprise” also appear.
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— Star Trek (@StarTrek) September 9, 2021
These “Star Trek” characters return:
Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount)
Mr. Spock (Ethan Peck)
Una Chin-Riley alias number one (Rebecca Romijn)
Cadet Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding)
Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush)
Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun)
These main characters are new:
Lieutenant Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia)
La’An Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong)
Hemmer (Bruce Horak)
“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” should appear sometime in 2022.
The fourth season “Star Trek: Discovery” starts on November 18, 2021 on Paramount +.
Written by Jacqueline Beckmann
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