Q, the Borg Queen and time travel are all heading Jean-Luc’s way in Star Trek: Picard season 2
The legendary Jean-Luc Picard encountered Romulans, Borg and rogue androids in the first season of the show that bears his name. In Star Trek: Picard season 2, however, he’ll have to deal with his biggest challenge yet – negotiating life on 21st century Earth. With familiar adversaries Q and the Borg Queen coming into the mix, Star Trek: Picard season 2 will see the former USS Enterprise captain and his newly formed starship crew travelling back in time to repair a future that’s been turned into a “totalitarian nightmare”. With the Star Trek: Picard season 2 release date now confirmed for February 2022, and a new trailer unveiled at the recent Star Trek Day event, Jean-Luc is all set to get boldly going once again. But what can we expect from the timeline hopping story? Who’s coming along for the ride? And where will it land? Answers to these questions and more can be found below. Make it so. Spoilers lie ahead if you’re yet to watch Star Trek: Picard season 1. Release date: Star Trek: Picard season 2 will debut in February 2022. It’ll stream on Paramount Plus in the US and Amazon Prime Video in other territories. Story: Jean-Luc Picard and the ragtag crew of La Sirena travel back in time to the 21st century to fix the timeline – with a bit of help from the god-like Q and the Borg Queen. Is there a trailer: A new Star Trek: Picard season 2 trailer was unveiled at the Star Trek Day event in September 2021. The Star Trek: Picard season 2 shoot was originally supposed to get underway in June 2020, until Covid-19 put everything on hiatus. Production on season 2’s 10-episode run eventually got under way in California in February 2021. That delay means we’ll see Star Trek: Picard season 2 after Star Trek: Discovery season 4 has left Spacedock on November 18,2021. The Star Trek Day virtual event on September 8,2021 confirmed that Jean-Luc’s second solo voyage will debut in February 2022 on Paramount Plus in the US – the show will stream on Amazon Prime Video in other territories. The first teaser for Star Trek: Picard season 2 was released during the First Contact event in April 2021. Alongside numerous Next Generation Easter eggs (including a model of Picard’s first starship command, the USS Stargazer) the major reveal was that John de Lancie will be reprising his role as omnipotent superbeing Q. A more full-featured trailer featuring Stewart, de Lancie and other members of the cast was released on June 16, 2021. It doesn’t give much away about the plot, other than suggesting that Picard and company are trying to stop a dark future from coming to pass. We learned even more about Star Trek: Picard season 2 in the longer trailer unveiled at Star Trek Day – including a sighting of the Borg Queen… Red alert! Big spoilers for Star Trek: Picard season 1 follow – change course now if you haven’t seen it yet. Jean-Luc Picard will be a new man in Star Trek – literally. When Picard’s human body succumbed to terminal Irumodic Syndrome, his consciousness was transferred into to an artificial ‘golem’ body created by Dr Altan Soong, the biological son of Data’s ‘father’, Dr Noonian Soong. Although Soong Jr made it clear that the new body is effectively identical to the old one – it will still age and die, for example – it’s going to have an effect on the way the 90-something character approaches his life. “I wanted to know exactly what they had done to me when they saved [Picard]’s life,” Patrick Stewart said in an interview with Gold Derby. “Was there any chance that this might have an impact on Picard’s personality or behaviour? [Executive producers Terry Matalas and Akiva Goldsman] felt it probably wouldn’t, but it lies there as an option should we need to take it. But also there is another human aspect being introduced in season 2, which I am not allowed to talk about. But it’s going to have, I think, quite an impact.” With the first year’s main story arcs about a the Romulan Zhat Vash’s efforts to wipe out all Synthetic life and the reclaimed Borg Cube (now crash-landed on the Synthetic homeworld of Coppelius) now seemingly done and dusted, Star Trek: Picard season 2 is primed to seek out all-new worlds – and civilisations. “Despite 178 episodes of TNG [The Next Generation] and four feature films, there are events coming up in season 2 that have never been seen before,” Stewart teased at First Contact Day. It’s clear that not everything will be new, however, now that we know Q is back in Jean-Luc Picard’s orbit. A member of the omnipotent Q continuum, the mischievous character cropped up regularly in The Next Generation (and spin-off shows Deep Space Nine and Voyager) to make life as awkward as he could for Starfleet. He always took a particular interest in Picard, having put humanity on trial in TNG pilot ‘Encounter at Farpoint’ – an arc that was only partially resolved in series finale ‘All Good Things’.
