JUST IN from Star Trek: First Contact Day, we’ve got a brand new trailer for the upcoming STAR TREK: Picard Season 2,
featuring the return of Q, an iconic character from Star Trek: The Next Generation! Let’s dive straight into this new trailer!
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We're back today talking about Star Trek: Picard Season 2!
Now we already knew that Picard Season 2 was in production,
thanks to the cast and crew sharing news and behind-the-scenes hints about it.
But we’ve not known any major story details for the upcoming season,
well, thanks to Star Trek: First Contact Day, now we do!
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We’re breaking down all the news and information from First Contact Day, with the trailers from Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks and more! Hit it!
Before we break down the actual trailer, let’s discuss the key moment/ The opening moment, presented by Sir Patrick Stewart!
He revealed that John De Lancie will be returning in Star Trek Picard Season 2 as his iconic character of “Q”.
well known for dropping in on Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Let’s not forget, Q has already returned last year in the animated form for STAR TREK: Lower Decks.
only in a brief cameo in which De Lancie voiced the character.
He did tease during a cameo that we’d see him again soon, and here he is!
Right, let’s break down the actual trailer for Star Trek Picard Season 2!
While the trailer does not contain any new footage from Picard Season 2,
as the footage only shows Picard’s Chateau and study, familiar sights from Season one.
The trailer pans through slow shots of a vacant room which is Picard’s study,
revealing momentos and replicas related to Jean-Luc Picard.
Familiar sights in the room include items from his Starfleet days.
You can see a golden Enterprise-D model, a painting of the Enterprise D and an encased Shakesere book from his Galaxy-class ready room.
Also there is a Mintakan Tapestry from the episode “Who Watches the Watchers”.
Many of these items were seen in Picard’s Quantum Archive, seen in Season One, so it would appear that he has taken them out of storage.
Picard’s comm-badge that was seen in Season One can be seen,
as well as the mantel clock which was commonly seen above his fireplace.
There is also a model of the USS Stargazer as well as a sextant found in the room as well.
Lots of items from the past of now retired Admiral Picard.
Another interesting element of Picard’s study actually links to the series of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
The prop of the “Reckoning Tablet”, which was last seen in the DS9 episode “The Reckoning”.
This stone tablet fortoled The Reckoning, a ragnarok style event where the prophets and pah wraiths would fight,
which was found at the ancient city of B’Hala in DS9’s Sixth Season.
The Tablet would later be smashed by Captain Sisko as well,
to allow the reckoning to take place, but the duel between the Prophets and Pah Wraiths was stopped by Kai Winn.
so perhaps we could see the continuation of this event, and perhaps the Pah Wraiths weren’t completely dealt with at the end of Deep Space Nine when they were cast into the fire caves of Bajor.
What this intriguing artifact has to do with Picard is unknown as of yet,
perhaps it has something to do with the Prophets,
so it will be interesting to see how and why it ties in.
It could be a red herring, but if any of you have some interesting theories, please do let us know in the comment section below.
Jean-Luc Picard is narrating the scene, saying the following
“The true final frontier is time.
"Time can turn even our most impulsive, our most ill-considered actions into history. "
"What we do in a crisis often weighs upon us less heavily than what we wish we had done. What could have been"
"Time offers so many opportunities… but never second chances.”
The narration from Picard is rather interesting.
Referencing time as the actual final frontier may possibly allude to what is going to happen in the second season
Notice in the trailer that an hour-glass is also shown, representing the passing of time in the trailer.
We did see some BTS shots of Patrick Stewart with a 2385 Uniformed admiral
in a grand library,
so we could perhaps be revisiting some other times of Picard’s Life.
Wouldn’t it be amazing to see more of Picard on the Stargazer, and they wouldn’t have to de-age him either
if Q is there, akin to how Q showed him his past in the great TNG episode “Tapestry”.
The final major part of this teaser trailer is the Queen of Hearts card fading to just it’s letter of Q,
representing Q returning in Star Trek Picard Season 2.
It’s also worth noting that this isn’t the first time the Queen of Hearts card has appeared in Star Trek Picard.
The very first episode of the series, with the dream sequence of Picard and Data playing cards, shows clues towards with.
See on-screen right now. Whether this is actually linked all this time or was just put there for details will remain to be seen.
Given Brent Spiner seems to be coming back for Season 2 of Star Trek Picard in some form,
perhaps as Dr. Alton Inigo Soong from Season 1, or could we see Q revive Data?
This idea has been explored in lit-verse Star Trek before, but do let us know what you think.
We do know that the character of Guinan, played by Whoopi Goldberg is also returning in season 2 of Star Trek Picard.
Given that Q and Guinan know of each other, they might once again encounter each other in Season 2 of Star Trek Picard,
perhaps working together to help out Jean-Luc.
Now we are a long way off of seeing Star Trek: Picard Season 2 on our screens anytime soon.
The series is set to premiere in 2022 on ParamountPlus for viewers in the United States and likely Amazon Prime for international viewers as well,
though no full confirmation on this just yet.
Additionally, we do know that the following cast members are returning with Sir Patrick Stewart:
Isa Briones, Evan Evagora, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Alison Pill and Santiago Cabrera.
Orla Brady and Brent Spiner are presumed to return for Season 2 as well.
Sadly it seems Harry Treadaway will not return, as his story was resolved in Season One’s finale,
via a deleted scene in which his character of Narek was apprehended by Starfleet Security officers.
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and into 2022.
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