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- [Picard] We have all gazed up
at the night sky and wondered what's out there.
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- [Narrator] With Picard Season Two
launching the return of Q, Guinan
the Borg Queen and time travel,
You can bet there are a lot of ideas
on what is about to happen.
Why does Q alter the timeline?
Will Guinan finally reveal why
she and Q hate each other?
What does the Borg Queen have to do with it?
And what exactly happened that Picard
and his crew need to fix?
There are as many theories as there are possibilities.
Is it the creation of the mirror universe?
Will there be time travel through multiple timelines?
Is Seven of Nine hotter with or without her Borg implants?
You know, the important questions.
- I see the way your pupils dilate
when you look at my body
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- [Narrator] And after hours of scouring every frame
of every trailer, painstakingly researching
every public comment from the Picard set
and rifling through Akiva Goldsman's trash.
Okay. We didn't really do that.
- Yes we did.
- [Narrator] But our in depth research
has helped us figure out exactly
what we believe is about to happen
during Picard Season Two.
And do you know what no one is talking about?
That's right. Romulans.
- Romulans, Cadet Kirk I think you've had enough.
- [Narrator] Get ready because we are about to blow
your Treky minds. Picard Season Two is nothing
like you thought it was going to be.
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Wild speculation about Picard Season Two
and specifically Q's role in the show
is all over the internet.
Thanks to Jean-Luc asking Q what is this?
What have you done?
Star Trek fans have been united
in believing the godlike being and thorn
in Picard side is the reason the future
is being turned on its head, but we don't believe
this is the case at all.
The reality is that Q has come to help Picard
under the guise that humanity's trial never ends.
Much in the way he has done
throughout his long relationship with Jean-Luc.
If you are interested in all the ways
Q has actually saved the Federation
you can check that out in a previous video
we made at the end of this one.
No, it seems as if Q, as much of a trickster as he is,
and as much as he'd probably love to take credit
for everything bad happening to Picard in his time,
the real villains here are the Romulans.
But hold onto that thought for a moment.
And let's start at the beginning.
Our story begins with Jean-Luc back at Chateau Picard.
He is alone, but being watched over by Laris
but it is being hinted at that
perhaps Jean-Luc is not happy.
Raffi is now the chancellor of Starfleet Academy
where she is teaching and watching over Elnor
who is the first Romulan cadet at the academy.
Seven has rejoined the Fenris Rangers
and she is the captain of the La Sirena.
According to the Ready Room, Seven and Raffi
are in some sort of a relationship
although they are apart and uncertain
about that future if there even is one.
Soji and Jurati are on a diplomatic tour,
trying to make connections with other planets
to convince them that synthetics are good
and want to enter galactic society.
Captain Rios gets pulled back into the Federation
as the captain of the Stargazer.
Yes, that Stargazer. NCC-82893,
captained by Picard until he lost it in 2355.
Captain Rios' ship is likely a newer model,
but it won't stop Jean-Luc from having a reminiscent moment.
Back at Chateau Picard Jean-Luc finds himself
suddenly in a different reality,
something big just happened
and it shakes him to his core.
He looks up through his atrium skylight
and sees a hexagonal grid in the atmosphere.
As he explores a now uncharacteristically
unkempt home and unable to find Laris,
he sees that things are different.
He's wearing different clothes.
He sees an unrecognizable painting
of a more militant, younger version of himself.
He also sees a painting of a much more aggressive
looking USS Enterprise laying waste to the Borg.
This image will become critical to the story
but hold onto that thought for a second.
It's at this moment, Q shows up
and Picard, already out of sorts,
begins to accuse Q for what is going on.
And why wouldn't he?
Bad things always happen when Q is around.
Although this time there is something different.
Q is not the puckish Mercutio of old.
It's what they wanted and I think that it makes sense.
These were John de Lancie's words back in June of 2021.
"So we aren't getting the same jovial,
sarcastic rascal that we are used to."
And he also says what they wanted.
And I think it makes sense.
This means a more somber and serious Q.
It is as if Q is aware of what's going on
but he doesn't like it.
And as much as he likes Picard, true to his nature,
he allows what has happened to serve
as a new test for humanity.
Picard begins to gather his La Sirena crew.
Somehow they are aware that they are no longer
in their same reality. In this new reality
the Earth is governed by a despotic regime ruled
by Jean-Luc himself. In this version of time
the Earth and the Federation are more militaristic
and less open to the influence of outsiders.
Picard finds himself needing to play along
until he learns what changed in history
to create this alternate mirror universe existence.
And of course the key to learning what happened is Guinan.
Picard pays her a visit and they have a reunion.
After catching up she confirms that reality has changed
and that Q isn't fully responsible for what's happening.
Guinan is able to tell him what the event is
and when it happened, Picard knows they have to travel back
in time to get their lives back.
And it's then that he remembers that in this time
the Borg have been stopped and their queen is captured.
Remember the painting of the Enterprise
taking out the Borg? Picard would remember
from Star Trek First Contact
just how easy the Borg can travel through time
and see his opportunity to use the Borg Queen
to go back in time and fix what was changed.
Once Picard and the La Sirena crew
steal the Borg Queen and connect her
to the ship's engineering section,
the current Federation leadership finds out
what Picard intends to do and launches
a stop at all costs attack on the La Sirena
using ex-Borg soldiers and paying homage
to Star Trek 4, The Voyage Home.
The La Sirena sling shots around the sun
and arrives in the year 2024.
And just like Kirk, Spock, and the rest
of the Enterprise crew in the Voyage Home,
Picard and his crew have similar fish out of water
experiences on a contemporary Earth.
As seen in the trailers, driving a vehicle
won't be as easy as driving a spaceship.
So what exactly are Picard and his crew there to do?
Surprisingly, it has something to do with Ben Sisko
from Deep Space Nine, Colonel Phillip Green,
and World War III which takes place
only two years later in 2026.
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- We're going to attempt time travel.
- [Narrator] Thanks to a transporter accident
while the USS Defiant was in orbit
around Earth in 2371, captain Sisko, Dr. Bashir
and Jadzia Dax find themselves
in San Francisco on August 30th, 2024.
- That's impossible.
- What happened?
- Well, I stabilized the beam,
but according to our sensors
they never materialized at their destination.
- [Narrator] At this time in Earth's history
the American government began reacting
to serious problems associated with the poor.
Initially intended to provide free housing
and food for people, the sanctuaries
that had been made quickly degenerated
into inhumane internment camps for the unwanted.
Sisko and Bashir are taken to one of these camps
in San Francisco. While there,
a man named Gabriel Bell is killed
while trying to help them.
Realizing he had changed history,
Sisko assumes Bell's identity.
And when the harsh living conditions
are witnessed during what would be called
the Bell Riots, it changes the way
the United States deals with its social issues.
It is even believed that the Bell Riots
are so significant that their absence
from Earth's history led to an alternate timeline
in which the United Federation of Planets was never created.
We know that the sanctuary districts
are a part of Picard Season Two,
as we've seen glimpses of them in the trailers.
We even see a scene of Captain Rios
being apprehended on a bus,
similar to what happened to Sisko and Bashir.
Despite the Bell Riot's importance to history,
Earth would still fall into a nuclear conflict
only two years later. While we don't know many specifics
about who was responsible for nuclear war
a man who played a key role in the outcome
of humanity during that time was Colonel Phillip Green.
During a Picard Season Two trailer
we see a young boy walking through the woods
with a flashlight and he comes face to face
with what appears to be Vulcans.
The lead Vulcan begins a mind meld with the boy.
We believe this event takes place in about 2014.
The boy, a future Colonel Philip Green,
would go on to be responsible for the deaths
of 37 million people.
We also believe those Vulcans
are actually Romulans and they've come
into the past to change the future of Earth
ultimately creating this quasi mirror universe.
Before we get into the time traveling Romulans
let's first address Green.
It's more than a hunch that we believe
this child is the future Naziesque despotic military leader
whose motto was to overwhelm and devastate.
Picard Season Two co-show runner,
Terry Matalas, is best known for his work
on the series, 12 Monkeys, but do you know
what show Matalas also worked on?
Star Trek Enterprise. Serving as a production
associate on the show, Terry was in the thick
of everything happening at the end of Enterprise.
And that included the two part shows
of In a Mirror, Darkly and the two part shows
Demon and Terra Prime.
Matalas helped craft the Mirror, Darkly episodes
which shows us what happens to the Federation
when Zefram Cochrane shoots the Vulcan
that lands at first contact
and essentially creates the mirror universe.
He also worked on the next two episodes
which focused on Colonel Philip Green
and the legacy of his atrocities.
Enterprise writer, Manny Coto, said
he thought Green would fit well
in a plot with the augments and that he always
thought Green was somehow involved
with the outcome of the Eugenics War as well.
This led to the creation of the character of Arik Soong,
a descendant of Dr. Noonian Soong,
the man who created data. Coto always felt
that a Soong descendant would have something
to do with augmentation and Picard show co-runner,
Matalas was right there with him
working through those stories.
Now note that by his own admission
Brent Spiner is playing yet another
descendant of Dr. Soong in Picard Season Two.
We see clips of him holding up
what looks like a calling card from Q
as well as accepting a blue vial from him as well.
Romulans, Soong and Green.
Oh my, we have a lot going on.
How do they all connect?
We believe Q is giving the Soong descendant
bio-mimetic gel. In the future
it will be forbidden by the Federation
as it is a liquid substance used in the study of genetics.
We believe Q has adjusted this substance
to help fight against assimilation
from the Borg in the future.
This is what allows the Federation
to easily defeat the Borg and capture their queen
which then allows Picard to travel back
in time to fix things.
This is why we believe Q is not responsible
for what has happened, but because he will never
outright help Picard this small but helpful outcome
is something he will do.
So why did the Romulans do this?
And why did they mine meld with young Green?
Romulans aren't even supposed to be able
to do a mine meld as when they rejected the Vulcan way
they lost nearly all of their telepathic abilities.
But as we've seen Commander Oh
was able to do a forced mine meld.
It is also later revealed that she is a half Vulcan
and half Romulan hybrid.
We believe one of the same hybrids is responsible
for this mine meld on behalf of the Romulans.
But why? It was to change the outcome
for the Romulan Star Empire
after their people were destroyed
when the Hobus star went supernova.
Millions of Romulans were killed and many
of the survivors blamed the Federation
for not doing enough to help.
While it was determined that the Zhat Vash
was responsible for the event on Mars
that destroyed the evacuation effort,
we believe there are Romulans who feel
that the close relationship between Vulcan
and the Federation was ultimately responsible
for not being able to save Romulan lives.
These Romulans created a plan to travel back in time,
mind meld with Green to show him
what would happen in the future and stop Earth
from allowing the Vulcans to take them under their wing.
Thus, allowing the Romulans to develop
a relationship with Earth first.
World War III never happens.
Cochrane builds the first warp capable ship
earlier than expected, Earth, stronger
after not decimating its population,
and led by the militant Green,
creates a future based on strength instead of peace.
And the Romulans believe they have created an ally
who will help them survive and thrive
following the supernova. You may be thinking
well how did the Romulans time travel?
Easier than you realize.
Remember the episode of Deep Space Nine
we were talking about earlier?
The reason Sisko could time travel at all
is because a Romulan cloaking device
caused chronitons to build up on the Defiance hull
resulting in time travel.
So because Romulan warbirds run on artificial
quantum singularity drives and quantum singularities
frequently result in time travel,
it's something that can totally be explained.
- Wait, what did you just say?
- Oh, God (bleep) time travel.
- [Narrator] So the real question is can Picard
and his crew convince Green, who is now
in his early twenties, that the Bell Riots
must take place and that nuclear war must happen
so that the natural order of things happens as it should?
We will have to wait and see.
What do you think?
Could it be the Romulans
or is it just Q up to his old tricks?
Do you think the show producers can pull
off a timey-wimey series?
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is because it's an optimistic view of the future.
Everything else that we see is so pessimistic
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