No One’s Sure If Star Trek: Picard Will End After Season 3… Yet

Star Trek: Picard was by no means envisioned as a long-legged sequence within the model of the Treks of the ‘90s—hell, when it was first announced there wasn’t any specific certainty as as to if or not it might be a couple of season lengthy. But, because the sequence appears to be like to second and third instances round aboard La Sirena, its future stays in flux.

Discussion in regards to the impending finish of Picard comes by way of a preview for the upcoming second season of Picard in SFX Magazine. Fans have latched on to a moments within the preview the place star Patrick Stewart tells the journal he’s at present making ready to shoot a number of extra episodes of the currently-filming third season, and is “weeks away from wrapping the series,” and producer Akiva Goldsman, discussing future cameos from previous Star Trek stars within the present like season two‘s return for Guinan and Q, commented that “by the time these three years are done,” there will be even more returning familiar faces. There’s been some perception that the way in which that is worded—and Stewart’s personal interchangeable use of the phrases “series” and “season” (the place the previous is used within the UK within the method the latter is used within the U.S., the place “series” would confer with a present at giant)—implies that Picard will come to an finish after its third season.

However, within the hours since SFX’s newest concern launched in the present day, the journal took to social media to push again on the thought it had confirmed the present’s conclusion—and CBS has but to publicly touch upon whether or not or not hypothesis in regards to the commentary within the journal is correct or not. io9’s reached out to the studio for clarification on the report, and can replace this put up if and after we hear again. But if season three actually does mark Picard’s conclusion, it might not be actually shocking—Picard bought fast-tracked for a season three renewal alongside the announcement of season two, and when CBS lately revealed a swath of premiere dates for the roughly seven billion Star Trek exhibits coming to Paramount+ this 12 months, alongside season renewals for many of them, Picard was one of many choose few that didn’t get a brand new choose up.

Even earlier than that, the intent with Picard was by no means to run so long as lots of its different counterparts on Paramount+. Back at New York Comic Con in 2018, producers Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin mentioned with TrekMovie the intent for the sequence to run for a number of seasons, moderately than be a restricted sequence. And, on the time, Picard was solely the second-announced Star Trek sequence in ViacomCBS’ grand plans for the franchise after the launch of Discovery. Now there’s going to be 5 totally different sequence operating on the streamer one after the opposite, Picard’s second season included. With extra Star Trek exhibits ready within the wings for different sequence to wrap up—just like the long-known-about Michelle Yeoh Section 31 sequence—it’s no shock that there are more likely to be some exhibits amongst this “first” era of latest Trek sequence that may divulge to a subsequent era. We simply aren’t fairly certain but if Picard might be a kind of first sequence to offer means.

Star Trek: Picard will return for a second season on March 3.

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