Hello all, Ric here and I am super excited from what the Star Trek Picard season 3 trailer
revealed to us over the New York ComicCon.
So, let’s take a look at that and breakdown what I think we can glean as well as taking
a look at the new old friend unveiled in the shots, the “new” in quotes, Enterprise
NCC-1701-F. But first up, there is a lot in the trailer
that ties into the teaser that came out a while before with the unveilding of the USS
Titan A as a new class of Constitution ship with Commander Seven of Nine aboard it.
It looks like that ship is the initial one that Picard uses to search for Beverly Crusher
after he receives the distress signal she sent in the teaser.
We get these lovely shots of the Titan A in a debris field, likely the remains left from
the attack we witnessed in the teaser trailer on the vessel that was carrying Beverly Crusher.
And this attack may simply have been to lure Picard away from Starfleet with a personal
attack on someone he cares for, judging by the expected nature of the second ambush that
occurs and the line that Picard turned up on time.
It appears that these assailants are in a vessel led by a very unhinged captain, with
red gloves and a scar, known as Vadik and whatever issue she has with Picard it seems
to be a personal one, as she cites revenge as a factor.
It looks like the attackers on a vessel called the Shrike approach from behind in the same
fashion as they took out Beverly’s ship.
From the later scene with Seven and her phaser, I assume we are gonna see the Titan boarded
just as Crusher’s ship was, but it appears the good doctor escaped pursuit and has hidden
in cryosleep where she is recovered.
Amid the familiar faces returning, we have Worf, Riker, Troi and LaForge.
Ambassador Worf, (I assume he is still an ambassador) now preaches a nonviolent approach
as preference, which gave me a chuckle, although it seems he will still fight defensively.
Riker is still wearing captain’s pips so he is still active since his reactivation
in 2399 and Commodore LaForge is still very much living the Starfleet life, considering
he is in full and current uniform when approached by Picard.
Additionally we see a Freecloud looking planet, although that’s hard to tell, but the La
Sirena is present there, so I assume as Seven has her command and Rios is no longer present,
that ship fell to Raffi.
At some point, the crew does seem to assemble on board it, as we see both Worf and Troi
in shots aboard the vessel.
We also see the attack on a Federation embassy or compound again, highlighting this might
be a case of extremes if Picard is the only target, or perhaps a coordinated strike on
the Federation as a whole.
We also see the return of Moriarty and Lore both, which is sure to be something.
My big questions are basically, who’s side is Moriarty on here, because he is rational
and sane, although dangerous but he was effectively left as an unwitting captive inside a holographic
prison last we saw of him and Lore emerges in full uniform, but with flesh coloured skin
and blue eyes.
My assumption is that both of these are in Golem bodies and that perhaps, just perhaps
there was no Altan Inigo Soong at all, or that Lore was recreated and uploaded to a
Golem form by Altan and has been impersonating him?
Just a theory but it could be, after all, Maddox was desperate to continue his AI work
after the ban on synthetic life and B4’s mind was too rudimentary to survive.
He could have taken Lore’s mind and continued to work on it in secret at Coppelius restoring
the insane android?
Over time, it seems likely that the Moriarty program would have ended up in the Daystom
Institute considering their facility for storing artificial intelligences..
A golem built for the hologram who was then downloaded into it?
Or maybe I’m looking too much into this and both Lore and Moriarty are holograms still.
The big reveal for me was the unveiling and canonisation of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-F.
The Odyssey class.
Now, this vessel was first created as a concept by Adam Ihle to design the next Enterprise
for Star Trek Online and then the design was refined into the Odyssey class cruiser.
I intend to do a breakdown of this class starship soon, so look out for that and if you want
to see the lore related to the ship in the online game, I have created a video for that
too, bearing in mind that that video pertains only to the video game that introduced it.
We have seen the Odyssey make its way into the soft-canon through the comics around Picard,
which introduced the USS Verity, with the registry number of the prototype of the class
in 2382, the ship that Picard commanded during the Romulan evacuation efforts.
But now we have an Enterprise of that line.
The new lore has the vessel launched 9 years earlier than its initial debut, and if I had
to speculate, the new Enterprise was being launched from the San Francisco Fleet Yards
over Earth and doing a flyby of the Earth SpaceDock for its launch ceremony.
This would explain the fireworks and the presence of such a large conglomeration of previous
Enterprise staff like Riker and Picard, they are there as guests in the same way as tradition
saw Kirk on the Enterprise B, or McCoy on the launch of the D. Unfortunately I do believe
this means we will not get to see the ship for much beyond this I believe, with the Titan
taking most of the spotlight, but now we know it is out there.
As for the Enterprise E?
We know from the books that it was under the command of Captain Worf for a time from 2381
at least.
But eventually, I would guess the Enterprise E was decommissioned with the design for its
replacement class well underway.
I hope so, because that would make it the first Enterprise to reach retirement since
the Enterprise A. Sufficed to say, I am stoked to see the design
in all her glory and have been privately hoping that this would be the ship they canonized
next, considering its popularity and as a favourite design of mine for a long while.
The series starts streaming on the 16th of February and I’m looking forwards to it
right now, even though the last two… meandered something fierce, let’s say towards their
middle and end.
Nevertheless, I’ll of course be checking this out when it comes around.
Until then, I’ve been Ric and I’ll see you later for a new video, in most likely
the origin of the Odyssey class in universe and until then, thanks again and goodbye!