Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Trailer Teases Old Friends and Older Threats

Jean-Luc’s subsequent journey goes to throw him throughout Star Trek’s realities and timelines, so it’s most likely for the perfect that he is aware of just a few people who will help puzzle that stuff out. Problem is: he is aware of just a few enemies that may do exactly that, too.

Paramount+ has dropped a model new trailer for Picard’s second season, giving us a glimpse on the sorts of shenanigans Patrick Stewart’s Starfleet hero is getting thus far he’s largely again within the Federation’s good books after the finish of season one. The reply nonetheless, is “being screwed up by his most powerful frenemies,” sadly for Picard.

There’s Q, the returning John de Lancie, who appears to thrust Picard and La Sirena’s crew into an alt actuality the place the Federation isn’t fairly the Terran Empire, however nonetheless fairly imply. There’s additionally the Borg Queen (now performed by Annie Wersching), who’s again and seemingly as soon as once more having the Collective muck about with time for causes unknown, with the previous Locutus and associates thrown again into 2024. The yr 2024’s an really actually necessary level within the Trek timeline, first correctly explored within the Deep Space Nine episodes “Past Tense” elements one and two, the peak of political and social unrest within the United States and different Earth nations that culminated within the notorious Bell Riots, a protest and crackdown so violent it basically pushed Star Trek’s America onto a street to social and political reformation—and a temporal inflection so important that with out their incidence the Federation wouldn’t exist.

So yeah, Picard’s received so much on his plate. Good then, that it’s not simply antagonistic acquainted faces on this trailer—though we knew it was coming for fairly a while, we now have our first have a look at Whoopi Goldberg returning because the Enterprise’s former mysterious bartender, Guinan, as Jean-Luc naturally turns to her for assist with all issues Weird. It’s cute that wherever Guinan goes, starside or Earthbound, she’s all the time operating a bar of some type not less than—though her new digs aren’t fairly as upscale as Ten Forward, to say the least.

Star Trek: Picard season 2 hits Paramount+ on March 3, and can air internationally on Prime Video from March 4.

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