Could we be getting a brand new starship for the upcoming seasons of Star Trek: Picard?
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Star Trek Picard Season 2 has just wrapped filming, as they move straight into season 3, and with that came a host of behind the scenes pictures from the crew,
which tells us that there may just be a new ship on the horizon.
While the La Sirena might be a flashy new starship for the series of Star Trek: Picard, while Picard is outside of Starfleet,
It’s not the typical Federation Starfleet ships we’re used to seeing Jean-Luc Picard onbonard,
but now there might be a chance the former Captain and retired Admiral is getting himself a classic Starfleet ship.
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Small warning, there will be spoilers discussed in this video.
From discussion related to set photos and the brand new Picard trailer that was released at Star Trek Day, you have been warned!
A new photo of the Star Trek Picard season 2 director's chair was released online
and with it a picture of the brand new ship likely to be seen in Star Trek Picard.
This ship seems to employ the starfleet school of ship design with a saucer section,
secondary hull and outward nacelles.
The picture of the ship in this image is obscured so we are going off with very little information.
The saucer section looks elliptical in shape like the saucer of the sovereign class starship.
This saucer seems to be immediately connected to the secondary hull without a neck.
The secondary Hull is quite triangular in its shape and it looks to me that the ship might have have an underslung Bridge like that of the USS Shenzhou (shen-zo).
The ship also seems to have possibly 6 Warp Nacelles.
6 Nacelles do seem like overkill but maybe it provides a more stable warp bubble at higher warp speeds due to the circular pattern they create around the ship.
We may have also seen the bridge of this starship.
If the shot is of the bridge, it is very small, perhaps even the size of a battle bridge or even smaller,
definitely not like the bridges of the Enterprise D and E we are used to seeing Picard on.
All we see of the bridge is 3 command chairs in the centre, and a doorway at the very centre back of the bridge.
A nice little detail in this picture as well is that we see the crew with the Starfleet Phaser Pistol that we saw previously in Star Trek: Picard season 1,
so it's nice that we are continuing with that phaser, because it does look cool.
We do have word that Doug Drexler, a very famous trek ship designer going back to The Next Generation and most notably for his work in designing the NX-01 Enterprise,
, is returning to work on Star Trek Picard.
We could find that this brand new starfleet ship has been designed by Drexler, which is a very welcome thought!
Terry Matalas, the new showrunner for Picard, shared a video of a red alert triggering on what seems to be a Federation ship.
This could also be on this new ship of Picard’s, with a little tease from Matalas to get us ready for a new Starfleet ship.
Not only did he share 1 red alert post on social media, but very recently another red alert picture,
with what looks to be some much more tactile ship displays from that of the LCARs or holographic systems.
So could this be an older design of console? Maybe this new ship does go back to a more tactile feel that Picard is used to,
if we are to assume this picture is related to this new ship.
Now let's talk about the USS Stargazer,
Picard was captain of the Stargazer for around 20 years.
Picard served on the Stargazer alongside Jack Crusher, the ex husband of Beverly Crusher and Father to Wesley Crusher,
and Dr Moritz Benayoun who was seen in Picard Season 1.
The fact that Picard was captain of this vessel for so long, yet we know very little about it is interesting,
and Star Trek Picard Season 2 might be a good opportunity for it.
We do see a model of the USS Stargazer in season 1 of Picard but also in the teaser for season 2,
so could this new ship be a refitted version of the Stargazer? We’ll have to wait and find out!
We know from the trailers we have gotten from Star Trek Picard that we will be seeing Admiral Picard back in a starfleet uniform,
at a meeting with many Federation member flags.
If we do see an Admiral Picard being reinstated into starfleet then what better than to get a new ship!
However, we must also talk about the totalitarian future that Q has set up, for the story of Star Trek: Picard Season 2.
We do see that Picard is some kind of high ranking officer within this alternate timeline, and it is highly possible that this ship could be an evil starfleet ship.
We do see some parallels between evil Picard talking at a totalitarian Starfleet Rally compared to Admiral Picard talking to a collection of different species in the prime timeline.
So we could see that evil Picard starts the season with this ship, but evil,
and then the season ends with Admiral Picard being given this brand new starship based on the same design.
It seems like most of season 2 will still be centered around the La Sirena,
so it atleast isn’t going to be fully replaced in Season 2,
, and this new ship could be Picard’s ship going forward into season 3, as La Sirena is still the ship of Cristobal Rios.
I know that Admiral’s usually don’t get their own starships,
some famous advice Kirk imparted to Picard was to not let Starfleet promote him, and to stay as Captain of a ship for as long as he can.
During the Romulan Relocation mission of 2381 to 2385, Picard was promoted to an admiral and was still able to be captain of the USS Verity during that time,
so it could be that times have changed and admirals are allowed to be captains of starships.
Also who would not allow Jean-Luc Picard to be the Captain of a Starship, especially after presumably fixing time from the hijinks of Q.
I'm sure the inclusion of more Starfleet ships from the late 24th century will redeem Star Trek Picard in the eyes of many ship nerds
as many were upset that the big fleet of Starfleet ships at the end of season 1 was simply the same ship class,
even if there were variants of said class.
Though while we are on the topic of more starfleet ships in Picard,
we do have to point out that recently the office label for a Star Trek: Picard prepping director had the image of the USS Enterprise E.
Now this doesn’t mean much, but if it even slightly hints that we might see that sovereign class again in all its glory, we ain’t complaining!
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