Season 2 of Star Trek: Picars is currently filming, and of course, like all productions images are slowly leaking out online to the public,
which means us super Trekkies get to analyse them for all the details into what could be going on in the next season of the series.
As a heads up, this video MAY contain spoilers for Star Trek: Picard Season 2! Watch at your own risk!
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Picard Season 2 has been filming since earlier this year,
after being slightly delayed due to COVID-19,
it appears things are in full swing with Sir Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan and Michelle Hurd all being spotted on set out in California.
We’ve also seen Evan Evagora and Santiago Cabrera returning to California as well for filming,
expect even more news soon!
The exciting news? Well we've got brand new images from the sets of Star Trek Picard Season 2,
which appear to show us that this new season will be taking a different approach to the story of Jean-Luc Picard than we first thought.
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In the words of Picard, make it so!
On screen right now, you can see one of our earlier images that was uploaded via the “AndADiePodcast” on Instagram.
The first image shows Sir Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard and Alex Diehl, who played the A500 Android seen in Star Trek: Picard Season One.
Our first thoughts are about the outfits the pair are wearing,
they’re clearly very different from the typical Starfleet attire and Jean-Luc’s civilian attire we saw throughout the first season of Picard.
Jean-Luc’s outfit has been compared to Romulan, or Mirror Universe in a sense.
Though we’re then drawn to the different scenery around the pair.
The next image is a wider shot of where the pair were standing,
, giving us MAJOR Mirror Universe or Alt-Timeline vibes.
Take a look at the flags seen around the building.
These flags display a red, black and white design with a Starfleet Delta inside this new design.
Immediately many of our thoughts, and fan theories rush to the idea that this is potentially the Mirror Universe
and Jean-Luc Picard has been transported there by Q.
. Given it’s confirmed John De Lancie is returning as Q,
it’s entirely possible that Q has sent Picard to the Mirror Universe to show him how things could have played out.
Though personally, I’m going to say this is UNLIKELY the Mirror Universe
and in fact an Alt-Timeline, or rather a possible future!
Think back to Star Trek: The Next Generation,
the episodes that were Tapestry and All Good Things, both featured Q showing Picard alternate or possible futures.
Tapestry featured a future where Picard was not so bold to get into a fight,
All Good Things also showed a possible future, one in which the galaxy was a very very different place.
Many have theorised that the sets here, with the red flags and dark dystopian outfits
are in fact Picard visiting a possible future timeline.
One where The Romulan Star Empire was evacuated and helped by Starfleet.
Plenty of theories are floating around like that, one also including the Unification of the Klingon and Federation,
, so essentially the Kligons joining the Federation.
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Before we jump into the next set of Picard Season 2 pictures, we have to share this awesome Fan Theory for you!
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Twitter user East Coast Lout shared this interesting idea with us when we posted the Season 2 images!
They theorized that this is an alternate future, with Q showing Jean-Luc Picard
what would have happened if The Dominion won The Dominion War and Starfleet and the other Alpha/Beta Quadrant races were defeated.
His theory comes from the red flags we see in one of the set pictures.
If you look closely, you’ll see that the big red stat on the flag could represent Earth.
The other stars are in a circular grid and are spinning inwards into the black area of the flag
which could represent The Bajoran Wormhole.
It could potentially indicate that The Federation somehow escaped destruction.
Even further, the Federation could owe their allegiance to their Dominion Overloads in the Gamma Quadrant,
this also links with the Bajoran tablet Picard has in his study,
shown in the Picard Season 2 CGI trailer!
Let us know what you think in the comment section below!
Remember we love your wild theories and are always up for discussing them!
Ok, onto the next images to come out of Picard Season 2!
Thanks to Mark Kavanagh for sending these in,
it features actresses Jeri Ryan and Michelle Hurd hanging around on set.
Both actresses are inside a Metro Bus, dressed in dark dystopian outfits,
similar to that worn by Jean-Luc Picard in the other images we showed you earlier.
Again these dark outfits and lack of actual colour could once again link to the idea of an Alt Timeline for Star Trek Picard Season 2.
It seems like all our major characters are in this possible timeline and up to something.
As many of you have pointed out, this Metro Local bus appears to have some sort of space related advertisement on the side of it.
Whether this is related to Picard Season 2, or is just an advertisement for something else remains to be seen,
though let’s look closer for the sake of argument.
Given the poster mentions something along the lines of “The New Interplanetary dot dot dot”,
and references a Europa Mission,
this could actually be a jump back in time to Earth's early colonisation of The Final Frontier,
or rather the local solar system in this case. It would explain the bus.
The ship on the poster looks oddly familiar to the XCV 330 class,
, which was called the USS Enterprise and was an earth spacecraft that was in service prior to 2143.
This ship has been seen many times throughout history in the Star Trek Universe.
Admiral Maxwell Forrest has a painting of the ship in his office.
Kelvin Timeline’s Admiral Alexander Marcus had a model of the XCV Enterprise on his desk in 2259,
clearly noting the ship was an iconic starship in the line of vessels named Enterprise.
The poster ship is not an exact match,
but easily could be a modernization of a different version.
The character of Picard is linked to early space colonization, given one of Jean-Luc’s ancestors had dealings with the early days of Mars colonization!
I think it’s safe to say that Star Trek: Picard Season 2 is going to have Q transport Jean-Luc Picard
to some sort of possible future or alternate timeline all together.
Perhaps with some time travel mixed in. This could be done for a multitude of reasons!
One of the big fan theories right now is all about Picard coming to terms with the loss of his humanity,
now that he is an android.
Q is likely to show him that he can still be himself,
just that he’ll have to learn that he is slightly different from who he once was in some aspects.
The alt-timeline certainly is going to deal with the A500 androids again,
and perhaps give us a new look at how The Romulan Supernova Crisis could have been resolved.
It’s really good to see Alex Diehl back though, how he’ll play into Season 2, we won’t know!
Now we can’t forget that Whoopi Goldberg will be returning as her character of Guinan as well.
Given Guinan and Q never saw eye to eye, it’s possible that she will help Picard evade Q’s tricks and tests to try and get him to return to normal space and time.
How this will go down, we are unsure of just yet
as it was very early on and we’ve not heard much from Whoopi since her appearance in Star Trek Picard Season 2.
Filming does continue on Picard for now,
with many things kicking off and as mentioned earlier our regular cast members are all returning and gearing up to be on set very soon.
Do you have any thoughts on Picard Season 2 and what is going on in these images we have shown you today?
If so, let us know in the comment section below!
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