With Picard day happening yesterday, what better day to drop a brand new full length trailer for Season 2, of Star Trek Picard.
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We may only have gotten a small tease at what was to come for Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard back on First Contact Day,
What secrets may be hidden inside, which tells us what we might expect from the new adventure Picard and his crew will embark on?
Let’s take a look!
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Just how Picard started, we start this trailer with Picard at his Chateau, calling out for Laris, one of his Romulan house keepers, and already Picard feels like something is wrong.
Now the outfit Picard has is very cool, a black coat with patterned soldiers,
but the most fascinating thing about the outfit is that Picard is wearing a Delta combadge.
However it is not of the style of the 2399 combadge, but a new one,
which is a simple delta with a beveled top edge and bars on the interior of the delta, possibly denoting rank?
Picard surely hasn’t re-entered Starfleet but what might this mean? We will return to this combadge later.
We found out during the last Picard teases that John De Lancie was returning as the nefarious trickster of Q,
adversary to our Capitane.
Q even mocks the old age of Picard saying “You’re a bit older than I imagined”,
but in turn appears to Picard as an older looking Q.
Many fans wondered how they were going to do Q, with John De Lancie obviously having aged since TNG, but it was always going to be this considering the god-like powers of the Q.
Just as Picard is wearing an all black casual outfit so is Q, in a stylish coat and an interesting looking broach.
The broach probably hints at something, but at the moment your guess is as good as ours!
Q says “Mon Capitaine, how I’ve missed you” which lets us know Picard probably hasn’t been visited by Q since the end of TNG with “All good things…”, I wonder why?
We get a scene of Starfleet command, with a meeting being presided over by Admiral Picard still in starfleet. In the meeting hall are the flags of:
The Klingon Empire The Tellarites The United Federation of Planets Starfleet
Starfleet Academy Vulcan Bajor And finally the Ferengi Alliance
It is very interesting that the Ferengi Alliance and Bajor have a flag here, which could possibly denote that they have either joined the Federation or that their presence is required during this meeting,
possibly as an ally to the Federation.
Seated next to Picard are other Starfleet officers, including Raffi Musiker.
The uniform that Picard is wearing is very interesting. It is very much in the style of the 2385 uniform Picard wore in the flashbacks during Season 1 of Picard,
but slightly different due to the open flap on its right side.
This style not only matches that of the Monster Maroon uniforms of the TOS movies,
but interestingly enough, the alternate future uniforms seen in episodes of The Next Generation, Voyager and Deep Space Nine.
. However it could also be a dress uniform variant of the 2385 uniform, possibly when Picard is giving his speech to Starfleet about the Romulan Relocation effort?
Even though this does have elements of the 2385 uniform, it does feature a 2399 combadge instead of the one used at the time,
so this could be an alternate timeline and not a flashback to Picard’s later years in Starfleet..
While this is being shown, Q is saying “Welcome my friend, to the very end of the road, not taken.”.
This makes me think that we will be looking at alternate timelines in Season 2 of Picard, similar to the TNG episode “Tapestry”.
What if I did this event differently, and then Q is showing them what that decision would have led to.
We see Raffi and Elnor walking away from something in a very seedy location,
with both of their hairs down.
If Elnor is there, this could be a place he might have ended up, if Picard did not help to relocate him to Vashti to live with the Qowat Milat nuns?
All very fascinating to see what might have been, if a single action was different.
We finally get to see our favourite Romulan housekeeper and former spy, Laris!
It is great to see that she is back for Season 2, because she made a very big impression during her time in Season 1.
However she is seen with longer hair than we have seen her with and she looks a little younger than she did in Season 1.
Perhaps this scene takes place in the 2380s when she and Zhaban first arrived at Chateau Picard?
We get a small glimpse of what might be the real world Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
We know from some set leaks that they have filmed at this location, so what we might see is very interesting.
We won’t talk about the set leaks here, but we did talk about them in a recent video, so check that out if you are interested!
Soji is seen in a very stylish outfit next to a water feature and wearing not only a fractal neuronic cloning symbol pin,
ith Fractal Neuronic Cloning being the process which created her and Dahj from a neuron of Data, but a pin of what looks to be the Federation Logo.
If we are continuing the theme of alternate timelines, what would Dahj and Soji’s life be like if there wasn’t a ban on cloning during their creation,
and they were allowed to be in the Federation as themselves. Maybe that is what we are seeing?
A female voice then says “Time has been broken” as we get a glimpse of Dr. Jurati.
Who this female voice is we don’t know, but some people believe it could be Admiral Clancy, Starfleet's CnC we saw in Season 1.
This does pose an interesting storyline for Season 2, and I am excited to see it.
Cristobal Rios is seen in the La Sirena, but it now looks to be a Starfleet ship? It’s chair has a delta logo on it and Rios is seen wearing black and a strange looking delta combade,
similar to Picard in the first scene?
Could we be seeing a different type of Starfleet in this alternate timeline? A timeline where Starfleet recruits independent operators, like RIos and the Sirena, to its cause?
Rios’ combadge only has one horizontal stripe on it, possibly denoting him as an ensign?
Who knows, but it seems like Rios is shocked, so maybe he appears in this timeline during this scene?
Picard says that “We can save the future. And I will get us all home.”
So it does appear that our crew is stuck in one, or multiple different alternate timelines and somehow they have to find their way back.
This could pose a very interesting format for a serialised show like Picard,
and could very much make each episode its own thing, instead of just one part of ten, which is a complaint some people had about season 1.
And our final scene, which has taken most of the fandom's attention is Seven waking up in a nice house,
with a strange looking combadge, which looks quite more totalitarian than that of a Starfleet combadge.
This symbol has actually been seen before in the aforementioned set leaks at the disney concert hall,
with this symbol adoring flags.
Could we be looking at what the Federation might have become if choices were different?
Not entirely like the mirror universe, which is a completely separate universe,
but just an alternate timeline where Starfleet might have become more militaristic, like Yesterday's Enterprise from TNG,
, where Starfleet was embroiled in a war against the Klingon Empire and as such had become more militaristic and not the exploration based organisation we know and love.
However that is not the most interesting thing that Seven awakes too, as when she looks in a mirror she realises that she does not have her borg implants?
This is probably a future where Seven was never assimilated by the borg,
where the Hansens never decided to go in search of the Borg.
Some people have theorised that this could be a future in which Q never sent the Enterprise to meet the Borg,
but I have to remind them that the Hansens went in search of the Borg in 2353, which was a whole 12 years before the Enterprise first encountered the Borg in 2365.
Some previous set leaks showed us Seven without her implants,
but we presumed that she was hiding them through technology to not contaminate a timeline and stand out,
and not her being placed in a timeline in which she was never assimilated.
Seven can also be seen with a wedding ring in this scene, and who she might be married to is unknown,
as she probably wouldn’t have met any of the voyager crew in this alternate timeline.
We got a release date of 2022, and that is the trailer for Picard Season 2, but we have more to show you and breakdown.
What also came out, as was said previously, was a poster for Season 2, which shows the Los Angeles Skyline and its motorway making the shape of a delta.
The interesting thing is the skyline and the fact that it is Los Angeles.
The skyline is not the actual LA Skyline, but a rendering of what the skyline might look like in the year 2030.
This is fascinating as we haven’t had much trek in this era before, apart from DS9’ “Past Tense” and “Carpenter Street” from Enterprise.
The world would have recovered from the Eugenic Wars of the 90s, and be on the precipice of Nuclear Annihilation in WW3.
So we can probably guess that our crew may have to go back to 2030s LA to change the timeline to make sure the Future happens how it should.
How this event may change the Federation, especially with it being before Zefram Cochrane's first contact with the Vulcans is unknown, but who knows.
Los Angeles was previously seen in Star Trek Voyager’s “Future’s End”, where the USS Voyager was sent back to 1996 LA and had to stop a timeship from destroying the future.
This timeship was stolen by Henry Starling of Chronowerx, who owned a skyscraper in LA, so I wonder if we might see a small cameo of this building, if it's still up 30 years after.
The skyline however, is actually mirrored, so either they wanted to be looking from the opposite direction, or they are trying to be smart and hinting at a possible Mirror UNiverse tease,
but I doubt it since Discovery has been heavy with the Mirror Universe and if they are exploring alternate timelines, I don’t see why they would explore a separate universe.
But that is all we have time for today! What did you think of this new Picard trailer? Let us know in the comments below.
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