Finally, we’ve got more plot reveals for Star Trek: Picard Season 3!
Star Trek Day’s 2022 celebrations brought a new teaser trailer for the upcoming third and final season.
While many are eyeing the new USS Titan-A, we have other plans. Do we know Star Trek: Picard’s New Enemy?
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While we wait for the next trailer for Star Trek: Picard, it’s good to speculate. It’s not long until we’ll be seeing new and details from New York Comic Con.
Just yesterday, Paramount confirmed that the cast of Star Trek: Picard will be beaming down for a massive panel at the show. This includes the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation!
Yes, Sir Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis and Michael Dorn will discuss the last outing for there characters.
Naturally, we should be expecting a new trailer from the panel. Perhaps a trailer that will reveal more from the upcoming season.
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Showrunner Terry Matalas and Alex Kurtzman have previously teased the new villain. Oh and both of these producers will be at New York Comic Con, so perhaps we should be expecting more reveals.
We know that whoever they are, it’s a “she”. It’s a new character that rules out Sela, who was played by Denise Crosby.
However, thanks to the new teaser, we’ve got some speculation on a certain Star Trek: The Next Generation species’ potential involvement. Perhaps they are related to the enemy that is going to be showing up sooner rather than later.
During the Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Trailer, we see Doctor Crusher, who is played by the returning Gates McFadden, face to face with an alien species.
If we go by trailer, it looks like this species is boarding her ship. However, have we seen them before?
They seem to make a clicking sound when walking around with their weapons. Additionally, wearing hoods to disguise and cover their heads.
Trekkies have quickly compared this species to a known Star Trek one. These would be the “Solanogen-based lifeforms” featured in The Next Generation’s “Schisms” episode.
They practically haunted Commander William Riker. The lifeforms secretly abducted the crew of the USS Enterprise-D to perform experiments on them.
However, the species exists in subspace. Additionally, they could not survive without assistance in normal space.
Their molecular structure was based on solanogen, a substance only stable in subspace. Therefore, if this species is Star Trek: Picard’s New Enemy, or one of them, they’ve found a way to survive.
The Solanogen-based lifeforms may have been an interesting Star Trek race.
However, the creative team behind Star Trek: The Next Generation thought otherwise.
Director Robert Wiemer, Brannon Braga and Michael Piller were disappointed by the look of the aliens. Therefore they decided not to bring them back, despite the open ending.
However, this was not the end for the species. Their storyline would continue in the MMO Video-game, Star Trek Online.
During the game’s storyline, they’d become servants of the Iconians. Another long-standing Star Trek species we know little about.
Additionally, the “Solane” bio-engineered the Parasitic Beings from TNG’s “Conspiracy” episode was revealed.
Therefore, if Star Trek: Picard’s New Enemy is something to do with the “Solane”, as they’re known in Star Trek Online, might this hint at other species’ involvement?
We currently do not know about the mysterious aliens boarding Crusher’s starship. However, they are likely a new species unrelated to Trek’s past.
Terry Matalas and a few series creatives has teased that while the ship that seems to be boarding Doctor Crushers vessel does look familiar, that is not the case. It would appear that perhaps the forces who are boarding her ship might not actually own the original vessel and simply be using it to hide there true intentions.
It would be like using a Starfleet ship for an attack, Starfleet would get the blame. Think back to the Enterprise episode with the Romualn Drone ships.
Season 3’s new villain has been teased for some time. Before that, we had constant theories on whether it would be Sela or someone we knew.
However, Terry Matalas has stated that it is not Empress Sela. Additionally, the new villain is a “she”, played by someone we’ve seen before. However, they have not been in Star Trek.
While we’re aware the villain is a “she” and played by someone we’ve not seen in Star Trek before, this does not rule out a species we know.
Therefore it is possible that Star Trek: Picard’s New Enemy could be someone like the Iconians.
Rather one specific Iconian. Additionally, this would build into why we are seeing a servant species like the Solane.
We also see alien starships coming up on another Starfleet starship during the trailer.
If this is Doctor Crusher’s ship, it will connect with the scenes of her facing down the unknown alien.
However, Trekkies have compared some of the alien starships to that of the Elachi species. Another alien species featured in Star Tek Online and connected with the Iconians.
It is possible that Star Trek: Picard’s New Enemy is a species we have seen before. Or at least, the villain is involved with a species we have seen before.
he Star Trek Universe has done a great job expanding the storylines of previous shows in recent years. An example of this is Star Trek: Strange New Worlds expanding The Gorn species.
We’ll need to wait for more information on Star Trek: Picard Season 3. Or I can wait for Terry Matalas to tell me all of this is incorrect on Twitter. I’m joking, of course!
But having a showrunner who engages with the audience is fantastic. For now, we’ll let our theories and speculation run away. Star Trek: Picard Season 3 will release on February 16th 2023.
As mentioned earlier, Star Trek: Picard is beaming down to New York Comic Con with Paramount+. The animated kid series of Star Trek: Prodigy is also arriving at the same time and we should be expecting news and developments from both of the shows. Yes let’s cross our fingers that we get a full trailer for Picard.
Perhaps one that will finally reveal more of the plot for the upcoming third AND final season of the show.
So what do you think? Is this species connected to Star Trek: Picard Season 3, or is it a case of it just being a coincidence that they look somewhat similar and have similar clicks when talking. If we can call it talking.
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Do we know Star Trek: Picard's new enemy?
(Police sirens outside) Jack: Apparently they do!
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