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Star Trek: Picard (season 2)

October 28, 2023

The second season of the American television series Star Trek: Picard features the character Jean-Luc Picard in the year 2401. He and his companions are trapped in an alternate reality by the extra-dimensional being Q as part of the ultimate trial for Picard, and must travel back to 2024 Los Angeles to save the future of the galaxy. The season was produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout, Weed Road Pictures, and Roddenberry Entertainment, with Akiva Goldsman and Terry Matalas serving as showrunners.

Star Trek: Picard
Season 2
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Starring
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes10
Release
Original networkParamount+
Original releaseMarch 3 (2022-03-03) –
May 5, 2022 (2022-05-05)
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Patrick Stewart stars as Picard, reprising his role from the series Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as other Star Trek media. Alison Pill, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, Orla Brady, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera, and Brent Spiner also star. A second season was in development for months before being officially announced in January 2020. Matalas and Goldsman replaced first-season showrunner Michael Chabon. The time travel story was conceived by Matalas and connects to Picard's struggles with his own history. Matalas and new production designer Dave Blass returned to the visual style of the Next Generation and brought back key designers from that series. Delayed from a planned June 2020 production start by the COVID-19 pandemic, filming began in California in February 2021 and lasted until September, shooting back-to-back with the third season. Location shooting took place around Los Angeles. The second season features special guest stars returning from previous Star Trek media, including John de Lancie as Q and Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan.

The season premiered on the streaming service Paramount+ on March 3, 2022, and ran for 10 episodes until May 5. It was estimated to have high viewership and audience demand, and received positive reviews from critics. The season was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and several other awards.

Episodes edit

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
111"The Star Gazer"Doug AarniokoskiAkiva Goldsman & Terry MatalasMarch 3, 2022 (2022-03-03)
Retired admiral Jean-Luc Picard rejects the romantic advances of his housekeeper Laris, a year-and-a-half after the death of her partner Zhaban. After giving a speech to a new class of cadets—including his former ward Elnor—in his role as chancellor of Starfleet Academy, Picard visits his old friend and bartender Guinan to talk about his life-long avoidance of romantic relationships. In deep space, Captain Chris Rios and Dr. Agnes Jurati of the USS Stargazer investigate an anomaly that broadcasts a request to negotiate entry into the Federation with Picard. They are joined by Seven of Nine, a vigilante flying Rios's old ship La Sirena, and a fleet of starships including the USS Excelsior which has Elnor and Picard's old first officer Raffi Musiker on board. When Picard arrives, a Borg ship emerges from the anomaly and transports their Queen onto the Stargazer. The Queen begins assimilating the entire fleet, prompting Picard to initiate the Stargazer's self-destruct. After the explosion, Picard wakes up in a version of his home and is greeted by the extra-dimensional being Q, who has returned to test Picard again.
122"Penance"Doug AarniokoskiTeleplay by : Akiva Goldsman & Terry Matalas and Christopher Monfette
Story by : Michael Chabon and Akiva Goldsman & Terry Matalas and Christopher Monfette		March 10, 2022 (2022-03-10)
Picard learns from Q that he and his companions are in an alternate timeline where humanity has formed the xenophobic "Confederation of Earth", systematically eradicating or enslaving alien races. Picard, the Confederation's greatest military commander, has been granted the honor of executing the last Borg Queen by Seven of Nine, who is the President of the Confederation and married to the Magistrate. The group reunite and learn from the Borg Queen that they can prevent the Confederation's formation by travelling to Los Angeles in 2024, which they can only do with the Queen's help. Agnes, Raffi, and Elnor take control of communication and transporter systems in Confederation headquarters while Seven and Picard buy time at the public execution. As the crowd and the Magistrate grow concerned with their stalling, the others complete their objectives and Picard, Seven, Agnes, Raffi, Elnor, and the Queen are beamed to Rios's ship. They are preparing to initiate time travel when the Magistrate and security officers beam aboard, shoot and wound Elnor, and prepare to execute them all for treason.
133"Assimilation"Lea ThompsonKiley Rossetter & Christopher MonfetteMarch 17, 2022 (2022-03-17)
Seven distracts the Magistrate long enough for the group to overpower and kill him and his officers. The ship comes under attack, and the Queen takes advantage of the situation to directly connect herself to the ship's computers. She destroys their pursuers and slingshots the ship around the sun, creating a wormhole to 2024. She tells Picard that they must find "The Watcher" in Los Angeles who knows what Q changed to cause the new timeline. The ship crashes near Chateau Picard in France, and the Queen diverts all power to sustain herself. Elnor dies of his wounds, and Raffi angrily blames Picard before departing with Seven and Rios to start searching for the Watcher. Rios's transporter malfunctions and he is knocked out, waking up in a clinic that secretly treats undocumented immigrants. Before he can leave, immigration officers raid the clinic and arrest both Rios and his physician, Teresa. Rios's communicator is left behind. Despite Picard's warnings, Agnes connects her mind to the Queen and learns the exact location of the Watcher before she can be assimilated, impressing the Queen.
144"Watcher"Lea ThompsonTeleplay by : Juliana James & Jane Maggs
Story by : Travis Fickett & Juliana James		March 24, 2022 (2022-03-24)
Picard and Agnes learn from Agnes's connection to the Queen that the change to the timeline they must prevent, to avoid the dark future of the Confederation, will happen in three days time on April 15, 2024. Picard transports to the location Agnes learned from the Queen, and finds a younger version of Guinan who does not know him and is planning to leave Earth after growing disillusioned with humanity. Seven and Raffi search for Rios, who is processed by ICE and sent to a sanctuary district on the U.S. border. They are able to track the bus that Rios is on with the help of Agnes, who tricks the Queen into improving La Sirena's transporter systems. After Picard reveals his name and explains that he is looking for a watcher, Guinan leads him to someone who is also known as a "Supervisor" that is acting as a "guardian angel" for someone on Earth. The Supervisor, who resembles Laris but appears human, teleports away with Picard. Meanwhile, Q approaches a woman who is working on the planned Europa spaceflight mission. He is surprised to discover that he is unable to change her destiny.
155"Fly Me to the Moon"Jonathan FrakesCindy AppelMarch 31, 2022 (2022-03-31)
The Supervisor introduces herself as Tallinn and explains to Picard that she is tasked with protecting his ancestor Renée Picard, the woman whom Q had targeted earlier, because Renée plays an important role in the future. Q approaches Dr. Adam Soong, a disgraced geneticist who is desperate to find a cure for his daughter Kore's terminal genetic illness. In exchange for a vial of medicine that can save Kore's life, Q requests Soong's help dealing with Renée. Seven and Raffi break Rios out of ICE custody. Back on La Sirena, the Queen taps into the ship's communications to broadcast an emergency call and lure a policeman onto the ship. Agnes shoots the Queen to prevent her from assimilating the policeman, but the dying Queen injects Agnes with Borg nanoprobes. Picard knows that Renée is destined to find a sentient organism on Jupiter's moon Io and it is essential that she does not back out of the Europa mission. To monitor her at a pre-flight gala, Agnes infiltrates the event to hack the system so they can all attend, but the Borg Queen's consciousness is lurking within her mind.
166"Two of One"Jonathan FrakesCindy Appel & Jane MaggsApril 7, 2022 (2022-04-07)
With the Queen's help, Agnes gives Picard, Tallinn, and Rios access to the gala. There Picard is confronted by Soong, who alerts security that Picard is dangerous. Agnes and the Queen cut the lights and create a distraction by singing a jazz cover of "Shadows of the Night". The resulting rush of endorphins allows the Queen to take full control of Agnes's body. Q, having taken the role of Renée's therapist, stokes her insecurity with text messages, and she begins to flee the party. Picard finds her and persuades her to go through with the mission by talking about his mother, who also loved the stars and also had mental health struggles. Soong sees Renée and Picard walking together outside and attempts to run over Renée with his car. Picard pushes her out of the way but is hit by the car and knocked unconscious. After returning home, Soong deliriously rants at Kore; she investigates his research and learns that she is the only one to have survived of many apparent clones he created. At Teresa's clinic, Tallinn decides to enter Picard's mind to help him wake up from a memory that his mind is fixated on.
177"Monsters"Joe MenendezJane MaggsApril 14, 2022 (2022-04-14)
Inside his mind, Picard relives part of a memory from his childhood where his apparently abusive father Maurice chased Picard's younger self and his mother Yvette through the house. Tallinn helps Picard realize that his mother was actually struggling with mental illness and Maurice was just trying to protect her and Picard. Picard wakes up from his coma and Tallinn reveals that she is actually Romulan and possibly Laris's ancestor. Picard theorizes that Q may have a personal stake in his "trial" and asks Guinan to summon Q using an El-Aurian ritual; the ritual fails just as FBI agent Martin Wells enters the bar and arrests them based on surveillance footage of Picard using his transporter. Rios secretly brings Teresa and her son onto La Sirena, confessing that he is a time-traveler. Raffi and Seven discover that the ship's computers have been sabotaged with Borg encryption codes and begin tracking Agnes. They find a bar where she smashed a window and realize that the Queen is trying to create more endorphins in Agnes until she has enough power to assimilate more people and become a new Borg Queen.
188"Mercy"Joe MenendezCindy Appel & Kirsten BeyerApril 21, 2022 (2022-04-21)
Wells tries to make Picard and Guinan confess to being aliens. He separates them, and Guinan is visited by Q who explains that he is dying and that the "trial" is a final attempt to give his own life meaning. He notes that all humans are stuck in the past, and Guinan uses astral projection to share this message with Picard. Wells reveals that he encountered aliens when he was a child and thought they wanted to kill him, but Picard explains that these were Vulcans who only tried to erase his memories. Wells is forced to release Picard and Guinan after the FBI dismisses him for conducting an illegal investigation. Meanwhile, Raffi and Seven find the Queen collecting car and phone batteries to modify Jurati's body and make it capable of assimilation. She attacks them, but Agnes is able to force her to stop and leave. After learning about her true nature, Kore leaves her father with help from Q. The Queen persuades Soong that he can save his legacy by helping her steal La Sirena, thereby enabling her to conquer the galaxy. Soong provides her with a squad of mercenaries to convert into Borg drones.
199"Hide and Seek"Michael WeaverMatt Okumura & Chris DerrickApril 28, 2022 (2022-04-28)
The Queen, Soong, and the drones beam to La Sirena while Picard, Tallinn, Raffi, and Seven beam to Chateau Picard. Agnes's consciousness blocks the Queen from the ship's systems until Seven and Raffi arrive. They try to use the ship against the Queen, but she mortally wounds Seven. After they send Rios, Teresa, and her son to safety, Picard and Tallinn escape from Soong and the drones in the tunnels beneath the chateau. Picard recalls his mother having a mental break while they were playing hide-and-seek in the tunnels when he was a boy, after which she ended her own life. Discussing this with Tallinn helps Picard come to terms with it. Soong corners them, but Rios beams back and forces him to flee. Agnes persuades the Queen to change her ways and build a new Borg collective through cooperation rather than assimilation, truly becoming a new Borg Queen. The new Queen heals Seven by adding her to the collective, and then departs in La Sirena for the Delta Quadrant, leaving a message for Picard: there must be two versions of Renée, one who will fly the Europa mission and one who will die.
2010"Farewell"Michael WeaverChristopher Monfette and Akiva GoldsmanMay 5, 2022 (2022-05-05)
Despite Picard's protests, Tallinn interprets the Queen's message as her needing to sacrifice herself to save Renée. She uses a holographic disguise to thwart Soong's attempted murder of Renée, and dies in Picard's arms while Renée departs on the Europa mission. After his failure, Soong returns home to find that Kore has deleted his digital files, though he still has a physical file labeled "Project Khan". Kore is recruited to join the Travelers by Wesley Crusher, and Rios decides to stay in the past with Teresa. Q and Picard discuss the purpose of the trial: Q hopes that Picard has learned to let go of the past and accept love. Q then uses the last of his power to send Picard, Seven, and Raffi back to the Stargazer in their own timeline, where Elnor is alive. Picard recognizes that this Borg Queen is Agnes, whose collective has detected a new trans-warp conduit that they offer to monitor as provisional members of the Federation. After reuniting with the older Guinan and learning about Rios's life in the 21st century, Picard returns to his chateau and asks Laris for a second chance at being together.

Cast and characters edit

Main article: List of Star Trek: Picard characters

Main edit

Recurring edit

Notable guests edit

Production edit

Development edit

Executive producer Heather Kadin revealed in October 2018 that Star Trek: Picard was intended to be an ongoing series rather than a limited miniseries;[15] the producers knew from the time Patrick Stewart signed on to star in the series that a second season would definitely be made.[16] Stewart reiterated this in February 2019 and added, "We are set up for possibly three years of this show".[17] That September, Stewart said filming for a second season could begin as early as March 2020.[18] Co-creator Alex Kurtzman confirmed a month later that a second season was "already in the works" ahead of the first-season premiere in January 2020.[19]

 
Akiva Goldsman (pictured) served as co-showrunner for the season with Terry Matalas, and continued running the season when Matalas switched focus to the third during production.

In early December, co-creator and showrunner Michael Chabon signed an overall deal with CBS Television Studios to create several new series for them, beginning with an adaptation of his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Chabon was expected to remain with Picard as showrunner until he had to shift focus to Kavalier & Clay at some point in 2020, at which point he would still be creatively involved in Picard as an executive producer.[20] A week later, the series was informally green-lit for a second 10-episode season after being allocated $20.4 million in tax credits by the California Film Commission for the production to continue filming in California. This was the most any television series had been awarded by the program since its expansion in September 2014.[21][22] An official renewal from streaming service CBS All Access (later rebranded Paramount+) was expected once a showrunner for the second season could be confirmed.[22]

In January 2020, CBS officially announced the second season renewal and revealed that Terry Matalas had joined the series as an executive producer to fill the void that would be created by Chabon's departure.[23] CBS had moved Matalas, who began his career working on Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise,[24] from MacGyver to Picard because the latter was considered a high priority for the studio. Matalas had been working with Chabon and the second season's writers for "some time" before the official announcement, and he was expected to take over as showrunner once Chabon left the series. Picard was also reported to have an informal green-light for a third season that would be developed at the same time as the second, so the two could be filmed back-to-back.[23] Chabon expressed regret at having to leave the series, but said he was "every bit as involved" in the second season's development as he had been on the first, and he would be writing for the second season as well as remaining an executive producer.[25] The difference, he explained, was that he would not be running the series day-to-day once filming began.[26]

Journalist Marc Bernardin, who began his career working as an intern on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, joined Picard as a supervising producer in March 2020.[27] By the end of that month, filming was set to begin in mid-June.[28][29] These plans were made before the COVID-19 pandemic began.[30] Executive producer and co-creator Akiva Goldsman said in May 2020 that if filming could not begin in June due to the pandemic, it would begin as soon as possible after pandemic restrictions were lifted.[31] That September, after a deal was made between major studios and Hollywood unions regarding safety measures for productions during the pandemic, director Jonathan Frakes said filming could begin in January 2021 and added that Stewart was eager to begin as soon as possible;[32] filming began in February.[33] Goldsman and Matalas were revealed to be working together as co-showrunners for the season that April.[2]

Writing edit

Following the first-season finale, Chabon and Goldsman said the second season would not ignore the fact that Picard's consciousness was transferred into a synthetic body during that finale.[34] They added that the season would further explore the personal lives of the series' supporting cast,[26] the first season's Romulan refugee storyline,[30] and the technology and culture of Starfleet.[35] Goldsman said the season would continue to explore issues that come up in the last stage of a person's life.[36] One lesson learned by the writers during the first season, according to Goldsman, was to try figure out the ending of the season before they began filming.[36]

The writers began by asking questions about Picard's role in the first season, such as "Why is he on a vineyard by himself with a dog? Why did he never marry Beverly Crusher and have a family?"[37] This led to them deconstructing Picard in different ways from the first season, putting an emphasis on his past relationships, romance, and "the puzzle-pieces of his past that are stopping him from embracing his future".[24] After joining the writers room, Matalas suggested that the second season feature the Star Trek: The Next Generation character Q because he is "one of [Picard's] first relationships",[38] and because Matalas felt Q was "the figure you introduce when your heroes need to face their truest selves".[24] He did caution that they wanted to tell a dramatic story with Q rather than just "the same Loki-esque shenanigans" as his previous appearances.[37] Matalas, who is known for the time travel-based series 12 Monkeys, also suggested the time travel-focused plot for the season which was inspired by the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).[39] He stated that "all good time-travel tales are emotional at their core, and speak to something that's happening with your main character",[40] and the season explores Picard's trauma from his mother's death by suicide when Picard was a child. Stewart brought his own experience of childhood domestic violence and subsequent trauma into that storyline.[41] Matalas praised Goldsman for developing the ideas for the season into a "really fascinating and heartbreaking psychological exploration of Picard".[40]

The second and third seasons tell separate stories, despite being developed together.[39] Before the end of 2019, Chabon and Goldsman met with Stewart to pitch the season's story,[42] and Kurtzman said in January 2020 that the writers were confident in it. Kurtzman did want the option to adjust the story based on responses to the first season,[43] but Chabon said the second season would not be affected by fans who criticized the first for not meeting their expectations.[26] The full story for the second season was broken by March 2020 and writing had begun.[44] The story features Q sending Picard and his companions to an alternate timeline where humanity has formed the xenophobic "Confederation of Earth" instead of the United Federation of Planets. They have to travel back in time to the 21st century to prevent that dark future from happening.[45] Production delays due to the pandemic allowed more episodes to be written than usual, which meant earlier episodes could subsequently be revised.[31] One change was that two episodes exploring the dark alternate timeline, written by Chabon, were re-written into one episode.[38] Writing for the season was completed after filming began in early 2021, and Goldsman said it would not be clear if they were successful in crafting the full story until editing was done.[39]

Casting edit

By June 2020, most of the main cast from the first season were expected to star in the second, including Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, Alison Pill as Agnes Jurati, Isa Briones as Soji Asha, Evan Evagora as Elnor, Michelle Hurd as Raffi Musiker, and Santiago Cabrera as Cristobal "Chris" Rios. Harry Treadaway, who portrayed Narek in the first season, did not return for the second.[1][21]

 
 
John de Lancie (left) and Whoopi Goldberg (right) reprise their respective roles of Q and Guinan from Star Trek: The Next Generation in the season.

In February 2019, Whoopi Goldberg stated that she would like to reprise her Star Trek: The Next Generation role of Guinan in Picard.[46] That July, Robert Picardo, who portrayed the holographic doctor in Star Trek: Voyager, said CBS had expressed interest in him returning for the second season of Picard.[47] In January 2020, while promoting the first season of the series on the talk show The View, Stewart officially invited co-host Goldberg to appear in the second season, an invitation which Goldberg accepted.[9] By April, LeVar Burton had discussed reprising his Next Generation role of Geordi La Forge on Picard, and said there was a possibility he would appear in the second season,[48] while Gates McFadden said in June that there was a "good chance" she would be reprising her Next Generation role of Beverly Crusher in the season.[49] In July, Picardo praised the series and expressed interest in guest-starring in it in the future, but said there were "absolutely no plans" for him to appear in the second season.[50] In May 2021, McFadden said "things have changed a lot on different levels" and she would no longer be appearing in the second season, expressing her disappointment at this,[51] though in April 2022 she was revealed to be reprising her role in the third season of Picard instead, alongside Burton and other members of the Next Generation cast.[52]

After reprising his Next Generation role of Data in the first season, Brent Spiner said in March 2020 that he would not do so again as he felt that story was a fitting end to the character. He expressed interest in returning as Dr. Altan Inigo Soong, who he began playing in the first season two-part finale,[53] and Goldsman later admitted that Altan Soong was created in part so Spiner could return following Data's death.[35] Chabon expressed interest in first-season recurring guest stars Jeri Ryan, Orla Brady, and Jamie McShane returning for the second season, respectively as Voyager's Seven of Nine and Picard's Romulan staff-members Laris and Zhaban. He said a relationship between Seven and Raffi that was teased at the end of the first season would be explored in the second.[30] Ryan confirmed in May 2020 that she was returning for the second season,[28] and she, Brady, and Spiner were revealed to be main cast members in April 2021.[2] Zhaban is revealed to have died since the end of the first season, and Laris becomes a love interest for Picard in the second.[10] Brady also plays Tallinn, an ancestor of Laris's who is a Supervisor like the Star Trek: The Original Series character Gary Seven.[3] Spiner's contract stipulated that he not portray Data again,[54] and he instead plays a new Soong ancestor in 2024 named Adam.[55][56] Briones portrays his daughter, Kore, which helps to explain who Data was inspired by for the appearance of Briones's Soji in the first season (Soji is Data's synthetic "daughter").[4]

Also in April 2021, John de Lancie was announced as reprising his Next Generation role of Q, an extra-dimensional being, in the season.[2] To explain de Lancie's older appearance, Q initially appears the same as he did in The Next Generation (with de Lancie being digitally de-aged) before choosing to age himself to match the older Picard.[57] In September, Annie Wersching was revealed to be cast in the recurring role of the Borg Queen, taking over from Alice Krige who portrayed the character in the film Star Trek: First Contact (1996) as well as the Voyager series finale. Susanna Thompson also portrayed the character in several episodes of Voyager.[6] Wersching's first television role was as a guest star on Star Trek: Enterprise, and Goldsman considered bringing this "full circle" by having this version of the Borg Queen be the same character.[58] Later in the season, the Borg Queen enters the mind of Agnes Jurati and becomes a new Queen that Alison Pill portrays.[59] The season also introduces a younger version of Guinan in 2024 who does not yet know Picard. The original version of Guinan first met Picard in 1893 during the events of the Next Generation time travel episode "Time's Arrow", but Matalas explained that these events do not happen during this season's altered timeline because the Federation does not exist. A long-time Next Generation fan, guest star Ito Aghayere revisited Goldberg's episodes and studied her mannerisms. She intended for her version to start as more aggressive and grow into Goldberg's calmer performance.[8]

With the season delving further into Picard's family, his mother Yvette appears several times via flashbacks. The character was portrayed as an old woman by Herta Ware in the Next Generation episode "Where No One Has Gone Before", but a younger version is portrayed by Madeline Wise in this season,[60] in which she is shown to have struggled with mental health issues and died by suicide when Picard was a child. Picard explains that he has been suppressing this memory all of his life and Ware's older version of the character was a vision that he had imagined of his mother getting to live a long life.[59] James Callis, who had a recurring role in 12 Monkeys, appears as Picard's father Maurice (who was portrayed by Clive Church in The Next Generation).[12] A new member of the family, Renée Picard, plays a key role in the season's 2024 events, portrayed by Penelope Mitchell.[3]

When serving as an associate producer on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Kirk Thatcher briefly appeared in the film as the "Punk on the Bus". He reprises this role for another brief appearance in the second season of Picard, which was one of the first things that Matalas pitched for the season as a way to reference the film and acknowledge its influence on the season's story. Thatcher was excited to return to the role, which he said was what he was best known for, and he had suggestions for the character's appearance including a similar red mohawk as he had in the film.[11] April Grace, who previously portrayed Maggie Hubbell in episodes of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, portrays Admiral Sally Whitley in the season premiere.[10] Jay Karnes plays FBI agent Martin Wells after previously portraying the time travelling Starfleet officer Ducane in Star Trek: Voyager.[13] Additionally, Sol Rodríguez has a recurring role as Teresa Ramirez, a doctor who treats those without identification or money and helps Rios;[7] Briones's father, Jon Jon Briones, portrays the Confederation Magistrate in the alternate timeline; Patton Oswalt voices a virtual cat named Spot 73;[56] Brian "Q" Quinn makes a cameo appearance as Dale, a character that he also appeared as in Matalas's previous series 12 Monkeys and MacGyver;[61] director Lea Thompson appears as Dr. Diane Werner, the chairman of a committee who remove Adam Soong's license to research and funding;[3] and Stewart's wife Sunny Ozell has a cameo appearance singing in a bar that Jurati goes to.[62] Wil Wheaton reprised his Next Generation role of Wesley Crusher for an appearance in the season finale, which he kept secret for around a year until the episode was released. Wheaton was excited to return and praised the writers for honoring the headcanon that Wheaton developed for the character after The Next Generation, in which Crusher serves as one of the Travelers who is "effectively Star Trek's version of a Time Lord" from Doctor Who.[14]

Design edit

Matalas said each season would be differentiated visually. He wanted to return to the visual style of the Next Generation era while incorporating elements from the Original Series-era films, which were his personal favorites. He said new production designer Dave Blass was a long-time Star Trek fan who also wanted to return to that aesthetic,[24] and they both insisted on bringing back several creatives from earlier Star Trek series including Michael and Denise Okuda, who designed the LCARS computer system for The Next Generation; long-time Star Trek concept designer and visual effects artists Doug Drexler; and frequent Star Trek starship designer John Eaves.[24][63] The design team included a lot of references to previous Star Trek projects, which Matalas said was partially "cheeky, nerdy fun", but also about honoring the history and legacy of the franchise.[24] The series' opening title sequence was updated from the first season by creative agency Prologue to include new imagery from the second season, including adding a Starfleet combadge to Picard's jacket for the ending shot.[64][65]

The Starfleet uniform designs from the first season were merged with those from the Original Series-era films;[66] one of Leonard Nimoy's Spock costumes from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) was used as reference.[67] The new designs have a jacket-like opening and remove the "militaristic collar" from the first season's uniforms. They are black with different colors across the chest and shoulders to represent each division.[68] Picard's Starfleet Academy assignment badge was inspired by the badge worn by William Shatner's Admiral James T. Kirk in The Wrath of Khan.[69] The Borg Queen was intended to be a new character with access to the same information as the previous Queens,[58] and Matalas wanted a new design that honered the previous Borg Queen designs while "bringing it into the 4K streaming world".[38] Creature designer Neville Page created the new design which was translated into prosthetics by Glenn Hetrick and Alchemy Studio. Head of prosthetics James Mackinnon applied the prosthetics to Wersching,[70][71] which initially took four hours but was down to two-and-a-half hours by the end of production.[72] The prosthetics consisted of a crown piece that Page sculpted digitally, based on scans of Wersching's head, which was 3D printed and had built-in lighting. 10 other silicon pieces were used to cover Wersching's face, neck, and shoulders, featuring built-in magnets where the Queen needed to be connected to her containment vessel.[70] Page wanted to match the original Borg Queen silhouette of just a head and neck, but ultimately gave the character shoulders and arms due to logistical concerns. He approached the character as an evolution of the prosthetics that were already used for Seven of Nine, who has Borg implants.[71]

 
Concept art of the USS Stargazer (NCC-82893) by John Eaves. The starship was designed by Eaves, Doug Drexler, and Dave Blass based on the original Stargazer (NCC-2893) from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Making it distinct among Star Trek starships are its four nacelles.

The design team wanted to expand Chateau Picard beyond the main study set from the first season,[73][74] introducing a library and a solarium.[75][76] Art director Joe Comeau described the chateau as a "reflection of the psyche" of Picard.[75] It is seen in three different time periods in the season: 2401 at the beginning of the season, abandoned in 2024 for much of the season, and in flashbacks to 2315 when young Picard and his family first move in.[77][78] Matalas and the designers wanted to bridge the look of the chateau from the first season with its depiction in the Next Generation episode "Family".[73][74] Establishing shots of the chateau in 2024 include two wings of the building that are not seen in the first season or the second season's 2401 scenes. These match the parts of the building seen in "Family", suggesting that they burned down during the fire that is mentioned in the film Star Trek Generations (1994).[79] Evidence of fire damage was included in the 2401 solarium design,[80] and the 2315 sets were meant to align with the style of "Family"'s sets rather than the "tuscan look" of the first season and the second season's 2401 sets.[81] The designers intended to have major damage, like a "busted ceiling", in the 2024 sets but this was cut back in favor of general aging and set dressing.[77]

The season introduces a new starship, the USS Stargazer (NCC-82893). Designed by Eaves, Drexler, and Blass, it was based on an earlier USS Stargazer (NCC-2893), the first starship that Picard captained which was introduced in the Next Generation episode "The Battle".[82][83] The new ship retains the original Stargazer's unique design of having four nacelles. Goldsman said they wanted to revisit the Stargazer, which Picard has a deep emotional connection to, as part of the season's theme of looking back at the past.[84] Blass explained that the registry for the new version was not "NCC-2893-A", following the pattern used for the USS Enterprise of denoting the version with a letter, because the Stargazer "does not hold the status in the Federation that the Enterprise had... the Stargazer didn't have that legacy". The set for the Stargazer's bridge is 10 feet (3.0 m) wider than the bridge set for the USS Enterprise-E in the Next Generation-era films to allow for multiple widescreen cameras to film inside the set at once, though it is not as wide as the bridge set of the USS Discovery from Star Trek: Discovery.[83]

Filming edit

Filming was scheduled to begin in mid-June 2020,[28][29] but was delayed to January 2021 by the COVID-19 pandemic.[32][85] In December 2020, Ryan said filming would begin on February 1,[86] but on that date she revealed that it was delayed again.[87] Principal photography began on February 16,[33] in California where the series received tax incentives to continue filming after the first season.[21] Doug Aarniokoski directed the first two episodes,[88] and Crescenzo Notarile served as cinematographer after doing so for the third season of Discovery.[89][90] Jimmy Lindsey was also a cinematographer for the season.[91] Location filming took place later in February at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, to portray Starfleet Academy in the first episode and the Confederation Presidential Palace in the second.[92][93] SoFi Stadium in Inglewood was also used to depict part of Starfleet Academy in the premiere.[94] In April, de Lancie said scenes for the second and third seasons of Picard were being filmed simultaneously.[95] Matalas and Goldsman both worked on the second season until around halfway through filming, when Matalas switched focus to the third season and Goldsman continued running the second.[96] The two seasons had one of the largest television series crews at the time with more than 450 crewmembers.[97]

 
 
 
 
The series received tax incentives to film in California and location filming for the second season took place around Los Angeles, including at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Wilshire Grand Center, MacArthur Park, and Fox Village Theater.

Lea Thompson directed the third and fourth episodes,[98][99] including the sequence where the main cast travel back in time to 2024. This was not initially in the third episode's script when Thompson joined the series, but it was moved from the second episode to the third following rewrites.[89] Thompson noted that she has experience working with time travel stories after starring in the Back to the Future film trilogy, and also acknowledged that there were existing time travel sequences in Star Trek that they wanted to be consistent with. The crew still wanted to put their "own spin on what it would look like going back in time", and specific visuals that Thompson added to the sequence include falling sparks that suddenly rise back off the ground, a tear on Jurati's cheek moving in reverse, and footage captured by moving a camera dolly forward while zooming out which was a technique popularized by Alfred Hitchcock.[100] Thompson spent a lot of time discussing how to light the set of La Sirena with Notarile due to its large size and the complex lighting needed for the time travel sequence, including flashing lights, sparks, strobes, and a representation of the ship flying close to the sun. They also had to light the set with the Borg Queen's "signature green hue" for the scene where Picard and Jurati attempt to extract information from the Borg Queen.[89] The Markridge Industrial Tower that Raffi and Seven visit in the third episode was filmed at the Wilshire Grand Center, the tallest building in Los Angeles. The name "Markridge" is a reference to 12 Monkeys.[101] While at the tower, Raffi detects an alien signal coming from MacArthur Park, which is where Picard's meeting with Tallinn in the fourth episode was filmed.[101][102]

Frequent Star Trek director Jonathan Frakes helmed the fifth and sixth episodes.[103] Filming for them began by the end of June 2021.[104] Frakes discussed the change in tone between the first and second seasons with Matalas and Goldsman, but not any changes to his own directing style.[105] He noted that there were several parallels between the episodes and the film Star Trek: First Contact, which he directed,[106] and he worked with Lindsey to replicate some of the techniques that cinematographer Matthew F. Leonetti used on the film.[91] Frakes also acknowledged the similar approach in portraying 2024 to the Deep Space Nine two-part episode "Past Tense", which he directed half of. Frakes explained that both depictions had "a lot to do with immigration and the mistreatment of brown people... being set in 2024 serves as a cautionary tale to all of us."[103] He felt this element of the season helped make it feel like Star Trek despite the contemporary setting.[91] Frakes was excited to be working with Stewart, Spiner, and de Lancie again after he starred with them on Next Generation,[105][106] particularly highlighting the scene where Soong and Q meet in a diner. He praised Spiner and de Lancie as having "gotten better with age. There is a real confidence in the way they embrace their characters."[106] For the scene where Q pretends to be Renée Picard's therapist, Frakes and de Lancie decided on set that the latter should use a Sigmund Freud-inspired Austrian accent. Frakes acknowledged that this was "a little on the nose" and something that Matalas and Goldsman had questioned, but they felt it was fun for the scene.[105] The interior of the gala in these episodes was primarily filmed at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. Exteriors for the gala were filmed at the Fox Theater in Westwood Village.[107]

Joe Menendez directed the seventh and eighth episodes,[13][108] after previously working with Matalas on 12 Monkeys.[109]: 12:10–12:55  Michael Weaver directed the ninth and tenth episodes.[110][111] The use of smoke on set during the filming of the last two episodes affected Stewart's vocal cords, making his voice more hoarse than usual. The producers planned to re-record his dialogue for the episodes, but Stewart encouraged them not to do that because "the weakness in [his] voice was reflecting the weakness in the character".[41] Filming for the season ended on September 2, 2021, and the production segued fully into filming the third season.[110]

Visual effects edit

Visual effects vendors for the season included Crafty Apes VFX,[112] Outpost VFX,[113] and Gradient Effects.[114] Outpost was initially just hired to work on the La Sirena crash and Chateau Picard location in the third episode, but their work was expanded to include four other episodes in the season when the producers liked the results. Shots featuring Chateau Picard used aerial footage of the chateau filming location which needed to be augmented to make it look rundown for the 2024 scenes and "pristine" for the 25th century scenes. The La Sirena crash required fire and spark effects on the ship as well as simulations of its impact on the chateau grounds.[113]

For the fleet of starships that appear in the season premiere, Blass wanted to address fan criticisms regarding the fleet from the first-season finale in which all of the ships looked very similar. Though he knew this was done due to practical limitations in modelling that many different ships, Blass looked for a viable solution for this season and contacted the creators of the Star Trek Online video game about using some of their starship models.[83] He specifically wanted to use the most popular ships from the game, as long as none of them had four nacelles so the Stargazer could stand out beside them.[63] Star Trek Online designer and associate art director Thomas Marrone and his team provided their digital models of existing Next Generation-era ships (including the Akira-class from Star Trek: First Contact), their own original models of potential 25th-century ships, and some new models created specifically for the season.[83] Marrone updated the models with more detail to match the higher quality expected for a television series,[63] and the Picard visual effects team used these models in the final sequence. This meant that fan-favorite starships from the game were now franchise canon (including the Ross-class exploration cruiser and the Reliant-class light cruiser) which Marrone said was a "dream come true".[83]

The user interfaces for the starships were created by visual effects company Twisted Media, based on the LCARS computer system. They referenced the designs from The Next Generation and the films of that era, as well as the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (1991) reference guide by Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda. Okuda consulted on the company's LCARS designs, as did Drexler who also provided digital models that were integrated into the interface screens.[115] The original plan was to mostly add the user interfaces during post-production, but this changed after Todd A. Marks and his video playback company Images on Screen joined the series. They used a combination of LG OLED screens and Screen Innovations' FlexGlass projection screens (paired with rear screen projectors) to display the interfaces on set during filming for the first and last episodes.[116]

Music edit

Composer Jeff Russo said in December 2020 that he was beginning to think about the score for the season,[117] which features an "up-tempo rearrangement" of the series' main theme.[65] Russo did this because he wanted "a little more pace and a little more hype" to reflect the swashbuckling, action-heavy tone of the second season compared to the more contemplative first season that he originally wrote the theme for.[118] After referencing Jerry Goldsmith's theme from The Next Generation and Alexander Courage's original Star Trek theme in his initial music for the series,[119] Russo also references Goldsmith's First Contact theme in the second season's score.[120]

In Thatcher's first appearance as the punk on the bus in The Voyage Home, the character listens to a punk rock song titled "I Hate You" that Thatcher wrote and performed with members of the film's crew. For this season, Thatcher wrote and performed a new song for the character to listen to titled "I Still Hate You". The Voyage Home sound editors Mark Mangini and Aaron Glascock returned to record the new song, respectively performing guitar and drums.[11] For Ozell's cameo appearance, she and her band perform the song "Take You Down" from her album Overnight Lows. Menendez chose the song, which Ozell called a "strong, sassy, bluesy powerful anthem".[62]

Russo had begun recording the season's score with an orchestra at the Sony Pictures Scoring Stage by December 2021, and completed recording for the season finale on January 12, 2022.[121][122] A soundtrack album was released digitally by Lakeshore Records on April 29, 2022, featuring Russo's score along with Alison Pill's version of "Shadows of the Night" from the episode "Two of One". All music by Jeff Russo, except where noted:[123][124]

Star Trek: Picard – Season 2 (Original Series Soundtrack)
No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."Season 2 Main Title" 1:59
2."Look Up" 1:21
3."Let's See What's Out There" 3:54
4."The Pressure of Legacy" 1:12
5."Penance" 3:03
6."Seek the Watcher" 5:06
7."Best Laid Plans" 4:49
8."What's My Full Name?" 2:44
9."Disappointment in Leadership" 4:24
10."Family Secrets" 2:05
11."Your Ancestor" 1:07
12."A Melancholy" 2:29
13."A Taste of Freedom" 3:54
14."Maximum Security Function" 1:20
15."Lies Upon Lies" 2:22
16."The Journey Inward" 3:12
17."The True Monster" 3:05
18."My Spaceship" 1:30
19."Deepest Truth" 2:32
20."My Truth" 2:55
21."Build Back Better Borg" 4:53
22."Opening the Door" 4:06
23."Honoring the Deal" 3:41
24."The Travelers" 1:36
25."Where You Belong" 3:03
26."Guardian at the Gate" 3:43
27."Second Chances" 3:13
28."Fly Me to the Moon" 1:42
29."Shadows of the Night"Alison Pill1:28
30."Season 2 End Credits (201)" 0:54
31."Season 2 End Credits (209)" 0:53
Total length:1:24:00

Marketing edit

CBS announced in June 2020 that it was participating in the "All In Challenge" to raise money for COVID-19 relief. Money donated to the campaign would go to charities including Feeding America, Meals on Wheels, World Central Kitchen, and No Kid Hungry, and fans who donated could win the chance to visit the series' set, meet Patrick Stewart, and have a walk-on role in an episode.[125] In February 2021, Stewart appeared in a marketing campaign for Super Bowl LV advertising the rebranded streaming service Paramount+.[126] A panel for the season was held during the "First Contact Day" virtual event on April 5, 2021, celebrating the franchise on the fictional holiday marking first contact between humans and aliens in the Star Trek universe. Stewart and de Lancie discussed the season at the panel, which debuted a teaser revealing the focus on time travel and the return of Q.[2] A second teaser was released to coincide with "Capitan Picard Day" on June 16, featuring a look at de Lancie's return and teasing an alternate timeline for the characters. A teaser poster was also released featuring a contemporary-looking Los Angeles.[127] Liz Shannon Miller of Collider highlighted the appearance of Q in the trailer as well as the emphasis on other characters such as Seven of Nine in alternate timeline scenarios.[128] Matthew Jackson at Syfy Wire also highlighted the appearance of Q, saying it gave him goosebumps.[129] James Whitbrook of io9 focused on Seven of Nine appearing without her Borg implants and described the teaser poster as "cryptic".[130]

The "Star Trek Day" virtual event on September 8, celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Star Trek: The Original Series premiere, included a panel for the season where a new trailer was revealed.[131] io9's Germain Lussier felt it answered some questions about the season's plot, which he compared to Back to the Future Part II (1989), but also raised more questions. He noted that the time travelling plot allowed the season to film in modern-day Los Angeles in a similar way to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.[132] Joshua Meyer of /Film highlighted the reveal of the Borg Queen as well as the apparent social commentary of the trailer, including where it juxtaposes a "Nuremberg-esque rally" with images of Hong Kong in an apparent reference to the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. He saw this as evidence of Picard being the most overt of the current Star Trek series in its attempts at social commentary, bringing it more in-line with past Star Trek series. Meyer also compared the trailer's totalitarian imagery to similar scenes in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).[133] The official trailer and key art for the season were released in January 2022 after the premiere date was revealed. Commentators said the trailer covered many of the same concepts as the previous teasers, including Q and time travel, but it also gave the first look at Goldberg's return in the season which was the highlight for many.[134][135] Adam Holmes of CinemaBlend, who believed Guinan was the most important recurring character on The Next Generation, said the trailer "finally gives us our first taste" of Goldberg's role after she publicly agreed to return. He speculated on how the season would explain the fact that Goldberg has aged since she last portrayed Guinan despite her scenes seemingly being set in the past.[135]

Coinciding with the season's release, Paramount+ opened the 10 Forward: The Experience pop-up event in Los Angeles on March 10, for 10 days. Each day featured a different local food truck as well as themed cocktails and the "10 Forward Canteen Store" where merchandise could be purchased. The event also featured "experiential environments", "digital interactions", and photo opportunities. Guests were encouraged to dress in cosplay.[136] Paramount+ also brought the 10 Forward: The Experience pop-up event to San Diego from July 21 to 24 for the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con. July 23 featured a surprise event with members of the cast.[137] At the Las Vegas Star Trek convention in August, Star Trek Wines announced the 2401 Chateau Picard wine and a Risian wine based on those seen in "The Star Gazer". The bottles were based on scans of the props from the episode.[138]

Release edit

Streaming and broadcast edit

The season premiered on March 3, 2022, on Paramount+ in the United States,[139] and ran for 10 episodes until May 5.[21][139] Each episode was broadcast in Canada by Bell Media on the same day as the U.S., on the specialty channels CTV Sci-Fi Channel (English) and Z (French) before streaming on Crave.[140] Amazon Prime Video streamed the episodes within 24 hours of their U.S. release in over 200 other countries and territories.[141] In February 2023, Paramount made a new deal with Prime Video for the series' international streaming rights. This allowed the season to be added to Paramount+ in some other countries in addition to remaining on Prime Video.[142] In July 2023, Bell Media announced that the series would be leaving Crave over the following month. It would continue to be broadcast on CTV Sci-Fi and past seasons would remain available on CTV.ca and the CTV app.[143]

Home media edit

The season was released on DVD, Blu-Ray, and Limited Edition Steelbook formats in the U.S. on October 4, 2022. The release includes all 10 episodes, as well as deleted scenes, a gag reel, and behind-the-scenes featurettes on the creation and design of the USS Stargazer, the making of the Chateau Picard sets, the season's props, Q's storyline with de Lancie, and the season's new prosthetics for the Borg Queen.[144]

Reception edit

Viewership edit

Whip Media, who track viewership data for the 19 million worldwide users of their TV Time app, ranked Picard in the top 10 original streaming series for U.S. viewership each week the season was released except for the week of the season premiere.[145] Parrot Analytics determines audience "demand expressions" based on various data sources, and the company calculated that Picard was the third-most in demand U.S. streaming series for March 2022 behind Disney+'s The Mandalorian and Netflix's Stranger Things. This was the first time a Paramount+ series appeared in the company's monthly rankings in nine months, and they said the series was 32 times more in demand than the average U.S. streaming series.[146][147] It dropped slightly to 31.4 times more in demand for April 2022, though this made it the sixth-most in demand series on Parrot's list after several new series were released.[148] Picard was the ninth-most in demand series for May 2022, according to Parrot, down to 27.4 times more in demand than the average series. This was behind Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which debuted at fifth place.[149]

Critical response edit

Star Trek: Picard (season 2): Critical reception by episode

Season 2 (2022): Percentage of positive critics' reviews tracked by the website Rotten Tomatoes[150]

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 85% approval score with an average rating of 7.95/10 based on 94 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Picard gets some backup from franchise fan favorites in a sophomore season that charts a course towards recapturing more of the classical Star Trek spirit and makes it so."[150] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 69 out of 100 based on reviews from 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[151]

IGN gave the season a negative review saying, it "might just be the worst season of Star Trek ever produced." The review also stated that although the season "started off in a good place, looking to amend some of the missteps of the show's freshman year ... in attempting to embrace and celebrate the things that fans love about Star Trek, the show fell into the trap of regurgitating old concepts."[152]

Accolades edit

Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
2022 Black Reel Awards Outstanding Guest Actress, Drama Series Whoopi Goldberg Nominated [153][154]
Imagen Awards Best Supporting Actor – Drama (Television) Santiago Cabrera Nominated [155]
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes Christine Bieselin Clark, Michell Ray Kenney, and Allison Agler (for "Penance") Nominated [156]
Outstanding Period And/Or Character Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) Silvina Knight, Tanya Cookingham, Peter De Oliveira, Allyson Carey, and Hanny Eisen (for "Hide and Seek") Nominated
Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup James Mackinnon, Vincent Van Dyke, Kevin Kirkpatrick, Hugo Villasenor, Bianca Appice, Neville Page, Toryn Reed, and Ralis Kahn (for "Hide and Seek") Nominated
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour) Matthew E. Taylor, Michael Schapiro, Sean Hessinger, Alex Pugh, Clay Weber, John Sanacore, Ben Schorr, Katherine Harper, and Ginger Geary (for "Penance") Nominated
Set Decorators Society of America Awards Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a One Hour Fantasy or Science Fiction Series Timothy Stepeck and David Blass Nominated [157]

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The second season of the American television series Star Trek Picard features the character Jean Luc Picard in the year 2401 He and his companions are trapped in an alternate reality by the extra dimensional being Q as part of the ultimate trial for Picard and must travel back to 2024 Los Angeles to save the future of the galaxy The season was produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout Weed Road Pictures and Roddenberry Entertainment with Akiva Goldsman and Terry Matalas serving as showrunners Star Trek PicardSeason 2Promotional posterStarringPatrick Stewart Alison Pill Jeri Ryan Michelle Hurd Evan Evagora Orla Brady Isa Briones Santiago Cabrera Brent SpinerCountry of originUnited StatesNo of episodes10ReleaseOriginal networkParamount Original releaseMarch 3 2022 03 03 May 5 2022 2022 05 05 Season chronology PreviousSeason 1Next Season 3List of episodesPatrick Stewart stars as Picard reprising his role from the series Star Trek The Next Generation as well as other Star Trek media Alison Pill Jeri Ryan Michelle Hurd Evan Evagora Orla Brady Isa Briones Santiago Cabrera and Brent Spiner also star A second season was in development for months before being officially announced in January 2020 Matalas and Goldsman replaced first season showrunner Michael Chabon The time travel story was conceived by Matalas and connects to Picard s struggles with his own history Matalas and new production designer Dave Blass returned to the visual style of the Next Generation and brought back key designers from that series Delayed from a planned June 2020 production start by the COVID 19 pandemic filming began in California in February 2021 and lasted until September shooting back to back with the third season Location shooting took place around Los Angeles The second season features special guest stars returning from previous Star Trek media including John de Lancie as Q and Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan The season premiered on the streaming service Paramount on March 3 2022 and ran for 10 episodes until May 5 It was estimated to have high viewership and audience demand and received positive reviews from critics The season was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and several other awards Contents 1 Episodes 2 Cast and characters 2 1 Main 2 2 Recurring 2 3 Notable guests 3 Production 3 1 Development 3 2 Writing 3 3 Casting 3 4 Design 3 5 Filming 3 6 Visual effects 3 7 Music 4 Marketing 5 Release 5 1 Streaming and broadcast 5 2 Home media 6 Reception 6 1 Viewership 6 2 Critical response 6 3 Accolades 7 References 8 External linksEpisodes editNo overallNo inseasonTitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date111 The Star Gazer Doug AarniokoskiAkiva Goldsman amp Terry MatalasMarch 3 2022 2022 03 03 Retired admiral Jean Luc Picard rejects the romantic advances of his housekeeper Laris a year and a half after the death of her partner Zhaban After giving a speech to a new class of cadets including his former ward Elnor in his role as chancellor of Starfleet Academy Picard visits his old friend and bartender Guinan to talk about his life long avoidance of romantic relationships In deep space Captain Chris Rios and Dr Agnes Jurati of the USS Stargazer investigate an anomaly that broadcasts a request to negotiate entry into the Federation with Picard They are joined by Seven of Nine a vigilante flying Rios s old ship La Sirena and a fleet of starships including the USS Excelsior which has Elnor and Picard s old first officer Raffi Musiker on board When Picard arrives a Borg ship emerges from the anomaly and transports their Queen onto the Stargazer The Queen begins assimilating the entire fleet prompting Picard to initiate the Stargazer s self destruct After the explosion Picard wakes up in a version of his home and is greeted by the extra dimensional being Q who has returned to test Picard again 122 Penance Doug AarniokoskiTeleplay by Akiva Goldsman amp Terry Matalas and Christopher MonfetteStory by Michael Chabon and Akiva Goldsman amp Terry Matalas and Christopher MonfetteMarch 10 2022 2022 03 10 Picard learns from Q that he and his companions are in an alternate timeline where humanity has formed the xenophobic Confederation of Earth systematically eradicating or enslaving alien races Picard the Confederation s greatest military commander has been granted the honor of executing the last Borg Queen by Seven of Nine who is the President of the Confederation and married to the Magistrate The group reunite and learn from the Borg Queen that they can prevent the Confederation s formation by travelling to Los Angeles in 2024 which they can only do with the Queen s help Agnes Raffi and Elnor take control of communication and transporter systems in Confederation headquarters while Seven and Picard buy time at the public execution As the crowd and the Magistrate grow concerned with their stalling the others complete their objectives and Picard Seven Agnes Raffi Elnor and the Queen are beamed to Rios s ship They are preparing to initiate time travel when the Magistrate and security officers beam aboard shoot and wound Elnor and prepare to execute them all for treason 133 Assimilation Lea ThompsonKiley Rossetter amp Christopher MonfetteMarch 17 2022 2022 03 17 Seven distracts the Magistrate long enough for the group to overpower and kill him and his officers The ship comes under attack and the Queen takes advantage of the situation to directly connect herself to the ship s computers She destroys their pursuers and slingshots the ship around the sun creating a wormhole to 2024 She tells Picard that they must find The Watcher in Los Angeles who knows what Q changed to cause the new timeline The ship crashes near Chateau Picard in France and the Queen diverts all power to sustain herself Elnor dies of his wounds and Raffi angrily blames Picard before departing with Seven and Rios to start searching for the Watcher Rios s transporter malfunctions and he is knocked out waking up in a clinic that secretly treats undocumented immigrants Before he can leave immigration officers raid the clinic and arrest both Rios and his physician Teresa Rios s communicator is left behind Despite Picard s warnings Agnes connects her mind to the Queen and learns the exact location of the Watcher before she can be assimilated impressing the Queen 144 Watcher Lea ThompsonTeleplay by Juliana James amp Jane MaggsStory by Travis Fickett amp Juliana JamesMarch 24 2022 2022 03 24 Picard and Agnes learn from Agnes s connection to the Queen that the change to the timeline they must prevent to avoid the dark future of the Confederation will happen in three days time on April 15 2024 Picard transports to the location Agnes learned from the Queen and finds a younger version of Guinan who does not know him and is planning to leave Earth after growing disillusioned with humanity Seven and Raffi search for Rios who is processed by ICE and sent to a sanctuary district on the U S border They are able to track the bus that Rios is on with the help of Agnes who tricks the Queen into improving La Sirena s transporter systems After Picard reveals his name and explains that he is looking for a watcher Guinan leads him to someone who is also known as a Supervisor that is acting as a guardian angel for someone on Earth The Supervisor who resembles Laris but appears human teleports away with Picard Meanwhile Q approaches a woman who is working on the planned Europa spaceflight mission He is surprised to discover that he is unable to change her destiny 155 Fly Me to the Moon Jonathan FrakesCindy AppelMarch 31 2022 2022 03 31 The Supervisor introduces herself as Tallinn and explains to Picard that she is tasked with protecting his ancestor Renee Picard the woman whom Q had targeted earlier because Renee plays an important role in the future Q approaches Dr Adam Soong a disgraced geneticist who is desperate to find a cure for his daughter Kore s terminal genetic illness In exchange for a vial of medicine that can save Kore s life Q requests Soong s help dealing with Renee Seven and Raffi break Rios out of ICE custody Back on La Sirena the Queen taps into the ship s communications to broadcast an emergency call and lure a policeman onto the ship Agnes shoots the Queen to prevent her from assimilating the policeman but the dying Queen injects Agnes with Borg nanoprobes Picard knows that Renee is destined to find a sentient organism on Jupiter s moon Io and it is essential that she does not back out of the Europa mission To monitor her at a pre flight gala Agnes infiltrates the event to hack the system so they can all attend but the Borg Queen s consciousness is lurking within her mind 166 Two of One Jonathan FrakesCindy Appel amp Jane MaggsApril 7 2022 2022 04 07 With the Queen s help Agnes gives Picard Tallinn and Rios access to the gala There Picard is confronted by Soong who alerts security that Picard is dangerous Agnes and the Queen cut the lights and create a distraction by singing a jazz cover of Shadows of the Night The resulting rush of endorphins allows the Queen to take full control of Agnes s body Q having taken the role of Renee s therapist stokes her insecurity with text messages and she begins to flee the party Picard finds her and persuades her to go through with the mission by talking about his mother who also loved the stars and also had mental health struggles Soong sees Renee and Picard walking together outside and attempts to run over Renee with his car Picard pushes her out of the way but is hit by the car and knocked unconscious After returning home Soong deliriously rants at Kore she investigates his research and learns that she is the only one to have survived of many apparent clones he created At Teresa s clinic Tallinn decides to enter Picard s mind to help him wake up from a memory that his mind is fixated on 177 Monsters Joe MenendezJane MaggsApril 14 2022 2022 04 14 Inside his mind Picard relives part of a memory from his childhood where his apparently abusive father Maurice chased Picard s younger self and his mother Yvette through the house Tallinn helps Picard realize that his mother was actually struggling with mental illness and Maurice was just trying to protect her and Picard Picard wakes up from his coma and Tallinn reveals that she is actually Romulan and possibly Laris s ancestor Picard theorizes that Q may have a personal stake in his trial and asks Guinan to summon Q using an El Aurian ritual the ritual fails just as FBI agent Martin Wells enters the bar and arrests them based on surveillance footage of Picard using his transporter Rios secretly brings Teresa and her son onto La Sirena confessing that he is a time traveler Raffi and Seven discover that the ship s computers have been sabotaged with Borg encryption codes and begin tracking Agnes They find a bar where she smashed a window and realize that the Queen is trying to create more endorphins in Agnes until she has enough power to assimilate more people and become a new Borg Queen 188 Mercy Joe MenendezCindy Appel amp Kirsten BeyerApril 21 2022 2022 04 21 Wells tries to make Picard and Guinan confess to being aliens He separates them and Guinan is visited by Q who explains that he is dying and that the trial is a final attempt to give his own life meaning He notes that all humans are stuck in the past and Guinan uses astral projection to share this message with Picard Wells reveals that he encountered aliens when he was a child and thought they wanted to kill him but Picard explains that these were Vulcans who only tried to erase his memories Wells is forced to release Picard and Guinan after the FBI dismisses him for conducting an illegal investigation Meanwhile Raffi and Seven find the Queen collecting car and phone batteries to modify Jurati s body and make it capable of assimilation She attacks them but Agnes is able to force her to stop and leave After learning about her true nature Kore leaves her father with help from Q The Queen persuades Soong that he can save his legacy by helping her steal La Sirena thereby enabling her to conquer the galaxy Soong provides her with a squad of mercenaries to convert into Borg drones 199 Hide and Seek Michael WeaverMatt Okumura amp Chris DerrickApril 28 2022 2022 04 28 The Queen Soong and the drones beam to La Sirena while Picard Tallinn Raffi and Seven beam to Chateau Picard Agnes s consciousness blocks the Queen from the ship s systems until Seven and Raffi arrive They try to use the ship against the Queen but she mortally wounds Seven After they send Rios Teresa and her son to safety Picard and Tallinn escape from Soong and the drones in the tunnels beneath the chateau Picard recalls his mother having a mental break while they were playing hide and seek in the tunnels when he was a boy after which she ended her own life Discussing this with Tallinn helps Picard come to terms with it Soong corners them but Rios beams back and forces him to flee Agnes persuades the Queen to change her ways and build a new Borg collective through cooperation rather than assimilation truly becoming a new Borg Queen The new Queen heals Seven by adding her to the collective and then departs in La Sirena for the Delta Quadrant leaving a message for Picard there must be two versions of Renee one who will fly the Europa mission and one who will die 2010 Farewell Michael WeaverChristopher Monfette and Akiva GoldsmanMay 5 2022 2022 05 05 Despite Picard s protests Tallinn interprets the Queen s message as her needing to sacrifice herself to save Renee She uses a holographic disguise to thwart Soong s attempted murder of Renee and dies in Picard s arms while Renee departs on the Europa mission After his failure Soong returns home to find that Kore has deleted his digital files though he still has a physical file labeled Project Khan Kore is recruited to join the Travelers by Wesley Crusher and Rios decides to stay in the past with Teresa Q and Picard discuss the purpose of the trial Q hopes that Picard has learned to let go of the past and accept love Q then uses the last of his power to send Picard Seven and Raffi back to the Stargazer in their own timeline where Elnor is alive Picard recognizes that this Borg Queen is Agnes whose collective has detected a new trans warp conduit that they offer to monitor as provisional members of the Federation After reuniting with the older Guinan and learning about Rios s life in the 21st century Picard returns to his chateau and asks Laris for a second chance at being together Cast and characters editMain article List of Star Trek Picard characters Main edit Patrick Stewart as Jean Luc Picard 1 Alison Pill as Agnes Jurati 1 Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine 2 Michelle Hurd as Raffi Musiker 1 Evan Evagora as Elnor 1 Orla Brady as Laris 2 and Tallinn 3 Isa Briones as Soji Asha 1 and Kore Soong 4 Santiago Cabrera as Chris Rios 1 Brent Spiner as Adam Soong 4 Recurring edit John de Lancie as Q 2 Madeline Wise as Yvette Picard 5 Annie Wersching as the original Borg Queen 6 Sol Rodriguez as Teresa Ramirez 7 Ito Aghayere as young Guinan 8 Penelope Mitchell as Renee Picard 3 Notable guests edit Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan 9 April Grace as Sally Whitley 10 Kirk Thatcher as the punk on the bus 11 James Callis as Maurice Picard 12 Jay Karnes as Martin Wells 13 Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher 14 Production editDevelopment edit Executive producer Heather Kadin revealed in October 2018 that Star Trek Picard was intended to be an ongoing series rather than a limited miniseries 15 the producers knew from the time Patrick Stewart signed on to star in the series that a second season would definitely be made 16 Stewart reiterated this in February 2019 and added We are set up for possibly three years of this show 17 That September Stewart said filming for a second season could begin as early as March 2020 18 Co creator Alex Kurtzman confirmed a month later that a second season was already in the works ahead of the first season premiere in January 2020 19 nbsp Akiva Goldsman pictured served as co showrunner for the season with Terry Matalas and continued running the season when Matalas switched focus to the third during production In early December co creator and showrunner Michael Chabon signed an overall deal with CBS Television Studios to create several new series for them beginning with an adaptation of his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier amp Clay Chabon was expected to remain with Picard as showrunner until he had to shift focus to Kavalier amp Clay at some point in 2020 at which point he would still be creatively involved in Picard as an executive producer 20 A week later the series was informally green lit for a second 10 episode season after being allocated 20 4 million in tax credits by the California Film Commission for the production to continue filming in California This was the most any television series had been awarded by the program since its expansion in September 2014 21 22 An official renewal from streaming service CBS All Access later rebranded Paramount was expected once a showrunner for the second season could be confirmed 22 In January 2020 CBS officially announced the second season renewal and revealed that Terry Matalas had joined the series as an executive producer to fill the void that would be created by Chabon s departure 23 CBS had moved Matalas who began his career working on Star Trek Voyager and Star Trek Enterprise 24 from MacGyver to Picard because the latter was considered a high priority for the studio Matalas had been working with Chabon and the second season s writers for some time before the official announcement and he was expected to take over as showrunner once Chabon left the series Picard was also reported to have an informal green light for a third season that would be developed at the same time as the second so the two could be filmed back to back 23 Chabon expressed regret at having to leave the series but said he was every bit as involved in the second season s development as he had been on the first and he would be writing for the second season as well as remaining an executive producer 25 The difference he explained was that he would not be running the series day to day once filming began 26 Journalist Marc Bernardin who began his career working as an intern on Star Trek Deep Space Nine joined Picard as a supervising producer in March 2020 27 By the end of that month filming was set to begin in mid June 28 29 These plans were made before the COVID 19 pandemic began 30 Executive producer and co creator Akiva Goldsman said in May 2020 that if filming could not begin in June due to the pandemic it would begin as soon as possible after pandemic restrictions were lifted 31 That September after a deal was made between major studios and Hollywood unions regarding safety measures for productions during the pandemic director Jonathan Frakes said filming could begin in January 2021 and added that Stewart was eager to begin as soon as possible 32 filming began in February 33 Goldsman and Matalas were revealed to be working together as co showrunners for the season that April 2 Writing edit Following the first season finale Chabon and Goldsman said the second season would not ignore the fact that Picard s consciousness was transferred into a synthetic body during that finale 34 They added that the season would further explore the personal lives of the series supporting cast 26 the first season s Romulan refugee storyline 30 and the technology and culture of Starfleet 35 Goldsman said the season would continue to explore issues that come up in the last stage of a person s life 36 One lesson learned by the writers during the first season according to Goldsman was to try figure out the ending of the season before they began filming 36 The writers began by asking questions about Picard s role in the first season such as Why is he on a vineyard by himself with a dog Why did he never marry Beverly Crusher and have a family 37 This led to them deconstructing Picard in different ways from the first season putting an emphasis on his past relationships romance and the puzzle pieces of his past that are stopping him from embracing his future 24 After joining the writers room Matalas suggested that the second season feature the Star Trek The Next Generation character Q because he is one of Picard s first relationships 38 and because Matalas felt Q was the figure you introduce when your heroes need to face their truest selves 24 He did caution that they wanted to tell a dramatic story with Q rather than just the same Loki esque shenanigans as his previous appearances 37 Matalas who is known for the time travel based series 12 Monkeys also suggested the time travel focused plot for the season which was inspired by the film Star Trek IV The Voyage Home 1986 39 He stated that all good time travel tales are emotional at their core and speak to something that s happening with your main character 40 and the season explores Picard s trauma from his mother s death by suicide when Picard was a child Stewart brought his own experience of childhood domestic violence and subsequent trauma into that storyline 41 Matalas praised Goldsman for developing the ideas for the season into a really fascinating and heartbreaking psychological exploration of Picard 40 The second and third seasons tell separate stories despite being developed together 39 Before the end of 2019 Chabon and Goldsman met with Stewart to pitch the season s story 42 and Kurtzman said in January 2020 that the writers were confident in it Kurtzman did want the option to adjust the story based on responses to the first season 43 but Chabon said the second season would not be affected by fans who criticized the first for not meeting their expectations 26 The full story for the second season was broken by March 2020 and writing had begun 44 The story features Q sending Picard and his companions to an alternate timeline where humanity has formed the xenophobic Confederation of Earth instead of the United Federation of Planets They have to travel back in time to the 21st century to prevent that dark future from happening 45 Production delays due to the pandemic allowed more episodes to be written than usual which meant earlier episodes could subsequently be revised 31 One change was that two episodes exploring the dark alternate timeline written by Chabon were re written into one episode 38 Writing for the season was completed after filming began in early 2021 and Goldsman said it would not be clear if they were successful in crafting the full story until editing was done 39 Casting edit By June 2020 most of the main cast from the first season were expected to star in the second including Patrick Stewart as Jean Luc Picard Alison Pill as Agnes Jurati Isa Briones as Soji Asha Evan Evagora as Elnor Michelle Hurd as Raffi Musiker and Santiago Cabrera as Cristobal Chris Rios Harry Treadaway who portrayed Narek in the first season did not return for the second 1 21 nbsp nbsp John de Lancie left and Whoopi Goldberg right reprise their respective roles of Q and Guinan from Star Trek The Next Generation in the season In February 2019 Whoopi Goldberg stated that she would like to reprise her Star Trek The Next Generation role of Guinan in Picard 46 That July Robert Picardo who portrayed the holographic doctor in Star Trek Voyager said CBS had expressed interest in him returning for the second season of Picard 47 In January 2020 while promoting the first season of the series on the talk show The View Stewart officially invited co host Goldberg to appear in the second season an invitation which Goldberg accepted 9 By April LeVar Burton had discussed reprising his Next Generation role of Geordi La Forge on Picard and said there was a possibility he would appear in the second season 48 while Gates McFadden said in June that there was a good chance she would be reprising her Next Generation role of Beverly Crusher in the season 49 In July Picardo praised the series and expressed interest in guest starring in it in the future but said there were absolutely no plans for him to appear in the second season 50 In May 2021 McFadden said things have changed a lot on different levels and she would no longer be appearing in the second season expressing her disappointment at this 51 though in April 2022 she was revealed to be reprising her role in the third season of Picard instead alongside Burton and other members of the Next Generation cast 52 After reprising his Next Generation role of Data in the first season Brent Spiner said in March 2020 that he would not do so again as he felt that story was a fitting end to the character He expressed interest in returning as Dr Altan Inigo Soong who he began playing in the first season two part finale 53 and Goldsman later admitted that Altan Soong was created in part so Spiner could return following Data s death 35 Chabon expressed interest in first season recurring guest stars Jeri Ryan Orla Brady and Jamie McShane returning for the second season respectively as Voyager s Seven of Nine and Picard s Romulan staff members Laris and Zhaban He said a relationship between Seven and Raffi that was teased at the end of the first season would be explored in the second 30 Ryan confirmed in May 2020 that she was returning for the second season 28 and she Brady and Spiner were revealed to be main cast members in April 2021 2 Zhaban is revealed to have died since the end of the first season and Laris becomes a love interest for Picard in the second 10 Brady also plays Tallinn an ancestor of Laris s who is a Supervisor like the Star Trek The Original Series character Gary Seven 3 Spiner s contract stipulated that he not portray Data again 54 and he instead plays a new Soong ancestor in 2024 named Adam 55 56 Briones portrays his daughter Kore which helps to explain who Data was inspired by for the appearance of Briones s Soji in the first season Soji is Data s synthetic daughter 4 Also in April 2021 John de Lancie was announced as reprising his Next Generation role of Q an extra dimensional being in the season 2 To explain de Lancie s older appearance Q initially appears the same as he did in The Next Generation with de Lancie being digitally de aged before choosing to age himself to match the older Picard 57 In September Annie Wersching was revealed to be cast in the recurring role of the Borg Queen taking over from Alice Krige who portrayed the character in the film Star Trek First Contact 1996 as well as the Voyager series finale Susanna Thompson also portrayed the character in several episodes of Voyager 6 Wersching s first television role was as a guest star on Star Trek Enterprise and Goldsman considered bringing this full circle by having this version of the Borg Queen be the same character 58 Later in the season the Borg Queen enters the mind of Agnes Jurati and becomes a new Queen that Alison Pill portrays 59 The season also introduces a younger version of Guinan in 2024 who does not yet know Picard The original version of Guinan first met Picard in 1893 during the events of the Next Generation time travel episode Time s Arrow but Matalas explained that these events do not happen during this season s altered timeline because the Federation does not exist A long time Next Generation fan guest star Ito Aghayere revisited Goldberg s episodes and studied her mannerisms She intended for her version to start as more aggressive and grow into Goldberg s calmer performance 8 With the season delving further into Picard s family his mother Yvette appears several times via flashbacks The character was portrayed as an old woman by Herta Ware in the Next Generation episode Where No One Has Gone Before but a younger version is portrayed by Madeline Wise in this season 60 in which she is shown to have struggled with mental health issues and died by suicide when Picard was a child Picard explains that he has been suppressing this memory all of his life and Ware s older version of the character was a vision that he had imagined of his mother getting to live a long life 59 James Callis who had a recurring role in 12 Monkeys appears as Picard s father Maurice who was portrayed by Clive Church in The Next Generation 12 A new member of the family Renee Picard plays a key role in the season s 2024 events portrayed by Penelope Mitchell 3 When serving as an associate producer on Star Trek IV The Voyage Home Kirk Thatcher briefly appeared in the film as the Punk on the Bus He reprises this role for another brief appearance in the second season of Picard which was one of the first things that Matalas pitched for the season as a way to reference the film and acknowledge its influence on the season s story Thatcher was excited to return to the role which he said was what he was best known for and he had suggestions for the character s appearance including a similar red mohawk as he had in the film 11 April Grace who previously portrayed Maggie Hubbell in episodes of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine portrays Admiral Sally Whitley in the season premiere 10 Jay Karnes plays FBI agent Martin Wells after previously portraying the time travelling Starfleet officer Ducane in Star Trek Voyager 13 Additionally Sol Rodriguez has a recurring role as Teresa Ramirez a doctor who treats those without identification or money and helps Rios 7 Briones s father Jon Jon Briones portrays the Confederation Magistrate in the alternate timeline Patton Oswalt voices a virtual cat named Spot 73 56 Brian Q Quinn makes a cameo appearance as Dale a character that he also appeared as in Matalas s previous series 12 Monkeys and MacGyver 61 director Lea Thompson appears as Dr Diane Werner the chairman of a committee who remove Adam Soong s license to research and funding 3 and Stewart s wife Sunny Ozell has a cameo appearance singing in a bar that Jurati goes to 62 Wil Wheaton reprised his Next Generation role of Wesley Crusher for an appearance in the season finale which he kept secret for around a year until the episode was released Wheaton was excited to return and praised the writers for honoring the headcanon that Wheaton developed for the character after The Next Generation in which Crusher serves as one of the Travelers who is effectively Star Trek s version of a Time Lord from Doctor Who 14 Design edit Matalas said each season would be differentiated visually He wanted to return to the visual style of the Next Generation era while incorporating elements from the Original Series era films which were his personal favorites He said new production designer Dave Blass was a long time Star Trek fan who also wanted to return to that aesthetic 24 and they both insisted on bringing back several creatives from earlier Star Trek series including Michael and Denise Okuda who designed the LCARS computer system for The Next Generation long time Star Trek concept designer and visual effects artists Doug Drexler and frequent Star Trek starship designer John Eaves 24 63 The design team included a lot of references to previous Star Trek projects which Matalas said was partially cheeky nerdy fun but also about honoring the history and legacy of the franchise 24 The series opening title sequence was updated from the first season by creative agency Prologue to include new imagery from the second season including adding a Starfleet combadge to Picard s jacket for the ending shot 64 65 The Starfleet uniform designs from the first season were merged with those from the Original Series era films 66 one of Leonard Nimoy s Spock costumes from Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan 1982 was used as reference 67 The new designs have a jacket like opening and remove the militaristic collar from the first season s uniforms They are black with different colors across the chest and shoulders to represent each division 68 Picard s Starfleet Academy assignment badge was inspired by the badge worn by William Shatner s Admiral James T Kirk in The Wrath of Khan 69 The Borg Queen was intended to be a new character with access to the same information as the previous Queens 58 and Matalas wanted a new design that honered the previous Borg Queen designs while bringing it into the 4K streaming world 38 Creature designer Neville Page created the new design which was translated into prosthetics by Glenn Hetrick and Alchemy Studio Head of prosthetics James Mackinnon applied the prosthetics to Wersching 70 71 which initially took four hours but was down to two and a half hours by the end of production 72 The prosthetics consisted of a crown piece that Page sculpted digitally based on scans of Wersching s head which was 3D printed and had built in lighting 10 other silicon pieces were used to cover Wersching s face neck and shoulders featuring built in magnets where the Queen needed to be connected to her containment vessel 70 Page wanted to match the original Borg Queen silhouette of just a head and neck but ultimately gave the character shoulders and arms due to logistical concerns He approached the character as an evolution of the prosthetics that were already used for Seven of Nine who has Borg implants 71 nbsp Concept art of the USS Stargazer NCC 82893 by John Eaves The starship was designed by Eaves Doug Drexler and Dave Blass based on the original Stargazer NCC 2893 from Star Trek The Next Generation Making it distinct among Star Trek starships are its four nacelles The design team wanted to expand Chateau Picard beyond the main study set from the first season 73 74 introducing a library and a solarium 75 76 Art director Joe Comeau described the chateau as a reflection of the psyche of Picard 75 It is seen in three different time periods in the season 2401 at the beginning of the season abandoned in 2024 for much of the season and in flashbacks to 2315 when young Picard and his family first move in 77 78 Matalas and the designers wanted to bridge the look of the chateau from the first season with its depiction in the Next Generation episode Family 73 74 Establishing shots of the chateau in 2024 include two wings of the building that are not seen in the first season or the second season s 2401 scenes These match the parts of the building seen in Family suggesting that they burned down during the fire that is mentioned in the film Star Trek Generations 1994 79 Evidence of fire damage was included in the 2401 solarium design 80 and the 2315 sets were meant to align with the style of Family s sets rather than the tuscan look of the first season and the second season s 2401 sets 81 The designers intended to have major damage like a busted ceiling in the 2024 sets but this was cut back in favor of general aging and set dressing 77 The season introduces a new starship the USS Stargazer NCC 82893 Designed by Eaves Drexler and Blass it was based on an earlier USS Stargazer NCC 2893 the first starship that Picard captained which was introduced in the Next Generation episode The Battle 82 83 The new ship retains the original Stargazer s unique design of having four nacelles Goldsman said they wanted to revisit the Stargazer which Picard has a deep emotional connection to as part of the season s theme of looking back at the past 84 Blass explained that the registry for the new version was not NCC 2893 A following the pattern used for the USS Enterprise of denoting the version with a letter because the Stargazer does not hold the status in the Federation that the Enterprise had the Stargazer didn t have that legacy The set for the Stargazer s bridge is 10 feet 3 0 m wider than the bridge set for the USS Enterprise E in the Next Generation era films to allow for multiple widescreen cameras to film inside the set at once though it is not as wide as the bridge set of the USS Discovery from Star Trek Discovery 83 Filming edit Filming was scheduled to begin in mid June 2020 28 29 but was delayed to January 2021 by the COVID 19 pandemic 32 85 In December 2020 Ryan said filming would begin on February 1 86 but on that date she revealed that it was delayed again 87 Principal photography began on February 16 33 in California where the series received tax incentives to continue filming after the first season 21 Doug Aarniokoski directed the first two episodes 88 and Crescenzo Notarile served as cinematographer after doing so for the third season of Discovery 89 90 Jimmy Lindsey was also a cinematographer for the season 91 Location filming took place later in February at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles to portray Starfleet Academy in the first episode and the Confederation Presidential Palace in the second 92 93 SoFi Stadium in Inglewood was also used to depict part of Starfleet Academy in the premiere 94 In April de Lancie said scenes for the second and third seasons of Picard were being filmed simultaneously 95 Matalas and Goldsman both worked on the second season until around halfway through filming when Matalas switched focus to the third season and Goldsman continued running the second 96 The two seasons had one of the largest television series crews at the time with more than 450 crewmembers 97 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp The series received tax incentives to film in California and location filming for the second season took place around Los Angeles including at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Wilshire Grand Center MacArthur Park and Fox Village Theater Lea Thompson directed the third and fourth episodes 98 99 including the sequence where the main cast travel back in time to 2024 This was not initially in the third episode s script when Thompson joined the series but it was moved from the second episode to the third following rewrites 89 Thompson noted that she has experience working with time travel stories after starring in the Back to the Future film trilogy and also acknowledged that there were existing time travel sequences in Star Trek that they wanted to be consistent with The crew still wanted to put their own spin on what it would look like going back in time and specific visuals that Thompson added to the sequence include falling sparks that suddenly rise back off the ground a tear on Jurati s cheek moving in reverse and footage captured by moving a camera dolly forward while zooming out which was a technique popularized by Alfred Hitchcock 100 Thompson spent a lot of time discussing how to light the set of La Sirena with Notarile due to its large size and the complex lighting needed for the time travel sequence including flashing lights sparks strobes and a representation of the ship flying close to the sun They also had to light the set with the Borg Queen s signature green hue for the scene where Picard and Jurati attempt to extract information from the Borg Queen 89 The Markridge Industrial Tower that Raffi and Seven visit in the third episode was filmed at the Wilshire Grand Center the tallest building in Los Angeles The name Markridge is a reference to 12 Monkeys 101 While at the tower Raffi detects an alien signal coming from MacArthur Park which is where Picard s meeting with Tallinn in the fourth episode was filmed 101 102 Frequent Star Trek director Jonathan Frakes helmed the fifth and sixth episodes 103 Filming for them began by the end of June 2021 104 Frakes discussed the change in tone between the first and second seasons with Matalas and Goldsman but not any changes to his own directing style 105 He noted that there were several parallels between the episodes and the film Star Trek First Contact which he directed 106 and he worked with Lindsey to replicate some of the techniques that cinematographer Matthew F Leonetti used on the film 91 Frakes also acknowledged the similar approach in portraying 2024 to the Deep Space Nine two part episode Past Tense which he directed half of Frakes explained that both depictions had a lot to do with immigration and the mistreatment of brown people being set in 2024 serves as a cautionary tale to all of us 103 He felt this element of the season helped make it feel like Star Trek despite the contemporary setting 91 Frakes was excited to be working with Stewart Spiner and de Lancie again after he starred with them on Next Generation 105 106 particularly highlighting the scene where Soong and Q meet in a diner He praised Spiner and de Lancie as having gotten better with age There is a real confidence in the way they embrace their characters 106 For the scene where Q pretends to be Renee Picard s therapist Frakes and de Lancie decided on set that the latter should use a Sigmund Freud inspired Austrian accent Frakes acknowledged that this was a little on the nose and something that Matalas and Goldsman had questioned but they felt it was fun for the scene 105 The interior of the gala in these episodes was primarily filmed at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles Exteriors for the gala were filmed at the Fox Theater in Westwood Village 107 Joe Menendez directed the seventh and eighth episodes 13 108 after previously working with Matalas on 12 Monkeys 109 12 10 12 55 Michael Weaver directed the ninth and tenth episodes 110 111 The use of smoke on set during the filming of the last two episodes affected Stewart s vocal cords making his voice more hoarse than usual The producers planned to re record his dialogue for the episodes but Stewart encouraged them not to do that because the weakness in his voice was reflecting the weakness in the character 41 Filming for the season ended on September 2 2021 and the production segued fully into filming the third season 110 Visual effects edit Visual effects vendors for the season included Crafty Apes VFX 112 Outpost VFX 113 and Gradient Effects 114 Outpost was initially just hired to work on the La Sirena crash and Chateau Picard location in the third episode but their work was expanded to include four other episodes in the season when the producers liked the results Shots featuring Chateau Picard used aerial footage of the chateau filming location which needed to be augmented to make it look rundown for the 2024 scenes and pristine for the 25th century scenes The La Sirena crash required fire and spark effects on the ship as well as simulations of its impact on the chateau grounds 113 For the fleet of starships that appear in the season premiere Blass wanted to address fan criticisms regarding the fleet from the first season finale in which all of the ships looked very similar Though he knew this was done due to practical limitations in modelling that many different ships Blass looked for a viable solution for this season and contacted the creators of the Star Trek Online video game about using some of their starship models 83 He specifically wanted to use the most popular ships from the game as long as none of them had four nacelles so the Stargazer could stand out beside them 63 Star Trek Online designer and associate art director Thomas Marrone and his team provided their digital models of existing Next Generation era ships including the Akira class from Star Trek First Contact their own original models of potential 25th century ships and some new models created specifically for the season 83 Marrone updated the models with more detail to match the higher quality expected for a television series 63 and the Picard visual effects team used these models in the final sequence This meant that fan favorite starships from the game were now franchise canon including the Ross class exploration cruiser and the Reliant class light cruiser which Marrone said was a dream come true 83 The user interfaces for the starships were created by visual effects company Twisted Media based on the LCARS computer system They referenced the designs from The Next Generation and the films of that era as well as the Star Trek The Next Generation Technical Manual 1991 reference guide by Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda Okuda consulted on the company s LCARS designs as did Drexler who also provided digital models that were integrated into the interface screens 115 The original plan was to mostly add the user interfaces during post production but this changed after Todd A Marks and his video playback company Images on Screen joined the series They used a combination of LG OLED screens and Screen Innovations FlexGlass projection screens paired with rear screen projectors to display the interfaces on set during filming for the first and last episodes 116 Music edit Composer Jeff Russo said in December 2020 that he was beginning to think about the score for the season 117 which features an up tempo rearrangement of the series main theme 65 Russo did this because he wanted a little more pace and a little more hype to reflect the swashbuckling action heavy tone of the second season compared to the more contemplative first season that he originally wrote the theme for 118 After referencing Jerry Goldsmith s theme from The Next Generation and Alexander Courage s original Star Trek theme in his initial music for the series 119 Russo also references Goldsmith s First Contact theme in the second season s score 120 In Thatcher s first appearance as the punk on the bus in The Voyage Home the character listens to a punk rock song titled I Hate You that Thatcher wrote and performed with members of the film s crew For this season Thatcher wrote and performed a new song for the character to listen to titled I Still Hate You The Voyage Home sound editors Mark Mangini and Aaron Glascock returned to record the new song respectively performing guitar and drums 11 For Ozell s cameo appearance she and her band perform the song Take You Down from her album Overnight Lows Menendez chose the song which Ozell called a strong sassy bluesy powerful anthem 62 Russo had begun recording the season s score with an orchestra at the Sony Pictures Scoring Stage by December 2021 and completed recording for the season finale on January 12 2022 121 122 A soundtrack album was released digitally by Lakeshore Records on April 29 2022 featuring Russo s score along with Alison Pill s version of Shadows of the Night from the episode Two of One All music by Jeff Russo except where noted 123 124 Star Trek Picard Season 2 Original Series Soundtrack No TitleArtist s Length1 Season 2 Main Title 1 592 Look Up 1 213 Let s See What s Out There 3 544 The Pressure of Legacy 1 125 Penance 3 036 Seek the Watcher 5 067 Best Laid Plans 4 498 What s My Full Name 2 449 Disappointment in Leadership 4 2410 Family Secrets 2 0511 Your Ancestor 1 0712 A Melancholy 2 2913 A Taste of Freedom 3 5414 Maximum Security Function 1 2015 Lies Upon Lies 2 2216 The Journey Inward 3 1217 The True Monster 3 0518 My Spaceship 1 3019 Deepest Truth 2 3220 My Truth 2 5521 Build Back Better Borg 4 5322 Opening the Door 4 0623 Honoring the Deal 3 4124 The Travelers 1 3625 Where You Belong 3 0326 Guardian at the Gate 3 4327 Second Chances 3 1328 Fly Me to the Moon 1 4229 Shadows of the Night Alison Pill1 2830 Season 2 End Credits 201 0 5431 Season 2 End Credits 209 0 53Total length 1 24 00Marketing editCBS announced in June 2020 that it was participating in the All In Challenge to raise money for COVID 19 relief Money donated to the campaign would go to charities including Feeding America Meals on Wheels World Central Kitchen and No Kid Hungry and fans who donated could win the chance to visit the series set meet Patrick Stewart and have a walk on role in an episode 125 In February 2021 Stewart appeared in a marketing campaign for Super Bowl LV advertising the rebranded streaming service Paramount 126 A panel for the season was held during the First Contact Day virtual event on April 5 2021 celebrating the franchise on the fictional holiday marking first contact between humans and aliens in the Star Trek universe Stewart and de Lancie discussed the season at the panel which debuted a teaser revealing the focus on time travel and the return of Q 2 A second teaser was released to coincide with Capitan Picard Day on June 16 featuring a look at de Lancie s return and teasing an alternate timeline for the characters A teaser poster was also released featuring a contemporary looking Los Angeles 127 Liz Shannon Miller of Collider highlighted the appearance of Q in the trailer as well as the emphasis on other characters such as Seven of Nine in alternate timeline scenarios 128 Matthew Jackson at Syfy Wire also highlighted the appearance of Q saying it gave him goosebumps 129 James Whitbrook of io9 focused on Seven of Nine appearing without her Borg implants and described the teaser poster as cryptic 130 The Star Trek Day virtual event on September 8 celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Star Trek The Original Series premiere included a panel for the season where a new trailer was revealed 131 io9 s Germain Lussier felt it answered some questions about the season s plot which he compared to Back to the Future Part II 1989 but also raised more questions He noted that the time travelling plot allowed the season to film in modern day Los Angeles in a similar way to Star Trek IV The Voyage Home 132 Joshua Meyer of Film highlighted the reveal of the Borg Queen as well as the apparent social commentary of the trailer including where it juxtaposes a Nuremberg esque rally with images of Hong Kong in an apparent reference to the 2019 2020 Hong Kong protests He saw this as evidence of Picard being the most overt of the current Star Trek series in its attempts at social commentary bringing it more in line with past Star Trek series Meyer also compared the trailer s totalitarian imagery to similar scenes in Star Wars The Force Awakens 2015 133 The official trailer and key art for the season were released in January 2022 after the premiere date was revealed Commentators said the trailer covered many of the same concepts as the previous teasers including Q and time travel but it also gave the first look at Goldberg s return in the season which was the highlight for many 134 135 Adam Holmes of CinemaBlend who believed Guinan was the most important recurring character on The Next Generation said the trailer finally gives us our first taste of Goldberg s role after she publicly agreed to return He speculated on how the season would explain the fact that Goldberg has aged since she last portrayed Guinan despite her scenes seemingly being set in the past 135 Coinciding with the season s release Paramount opened the 10 Forward The Experience pop up event in Los Angeles on March 10 for 10 days Each day featured a different local food truck as well as themed cocktails and the 10 Forward Canteen Store where merchandise could be purchased The event also featured experiential environments digital interactions and photo opportunities Guests were encouraged to dress in cosplay 136 Paramount also brought the 10 Forward The Experience pop up event to San Diego from July 21 to 24 for the 2022 San Diego Comic Con July 23 featured a surprise event with members of the cast 137 At the Las Vegas Star Trek convention in August Star Trek Wines announced the 2401 Chateau Picard wine and a Risian wine based on those seen in The Star Gazer The bottles were based on scans of the props from the episode 138 Release editStreaming and broadcast edit The season premiered on March 3 2022 on Paramount in the United States 139 and ran for 10 episodes until May 5 21 139 Each episode was broadcast in Canada by Bell Media on the same day as the U S on the specialty channels CTV Sci Fi Channel English and Z French before streaming on Crave 140 Amazon Prime Video streamed the episodes within 24 hours of their U S release in over 200 other countries and territories 141 In February 2023 Paramount made a new deal with Prime Video for the series international streaming rights This allowed the season to be added to Paramount in some other countries in addition to remaining on Prime Video 142 In July 2023 Bell Media announced that the series would be leaving Crave over the following month It would continue to be broadcast on CTV Sci Fi and past seasons would remain available on CTV ca and the CTV app 143 Home media edit The season was released on DVD Blu Ray and Limited Edition Steelbook formats in the U S on October 4 2022 The release includes all 10 episodes as well as deleted scenes a gag reel and behind the scenes featurettes on the creation and design of the USS Stargazer the making of the Chateau Picard sets the season s props Q s storyline with de Lancie and the season s new prosthetics for the Borg Queen 144 Reception editViewership edit Whip Media who track viewership data for the 19 million worldwide users of their TV Time app ranked Picard in the top 10 original streaming series for U S viewership each week the season was released except for the week of the season premiere 145 Parrot Analytics determines audience demand expressions based on various data sources and the company calculated that Picard was the third most in demand U S streaming series for March 2022 behind Disney s The Mandalorian and Netflix s Stranger Things This was the first time a Paramount series appeared in the company s monthly rankings in nine months and they said the series was 32 times more in demand than the average U S streaming series 146 147 It dropped slightly to 31 4 times more in demand for April 2022 though this made it the sixth most in demand series on Parrot s list after several new series were released 148 Picard was the ninth most in demand series for May 2022 according to Parrot down to 27 4 times more in demand than the average series This was behind Star Trek Strange New Worlds which debuted at fifth place 149 Critical response edit Star Trek Picard season 2 Critical reception by episode Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues Season 2 2022 Percentage of positive critics reviews tracked by the website Rotten Tomatoes 150 The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 85 approval score with an average rating of 7 95 10 based on 94 reviews The website s critical consensus reads Picard gets some backup from franchise fan favorites in a sophomore season that charts a course towards recapturing more of the classical Star Trek spirit and makes it so 150 Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned a score of 69 out of 100 based on reviews from 7 critics indicating generally favorable reviews 151 IGN gave the season a negative review saying it might just be the worst season of Star Trek ever produced The review also stated that although the season started off in a good place looking to amend some of the missteps of the show s freshman year in attempting to embrace and celebrate the things that fans love about Star Trek the show fell into the trap of regurgitating old concepts 152 Accolades edit Year Award Category Nominee s Result Ref 2022 Black Reel Awards Outstanding Guest Actress Drama Series Whoopi Goldberg Nominated 153 154 Imagen Awards Best Supporting Actor Drama Television Santiago Cabrera Nominated 155 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Fantasy Sci Fi Costumes Christine Bieselin Clark Michell Ray Kenney and Allison Agler for Penance Nominated 156 Outstanding Period And Or Character Makeup Non Prosthetic Silvina Knight Tanya Cookingham Peter De Oliveira Allyson Carey and Hanny Eisen for Hide and Seek NominatedOutstanding Prosthetic Makeup James Mackinnon Vincent Van Dyke Kevin Kirkpatrick Hugo Villasenor Bianca Appice Neville Page Toryn Reed and Ralis Kahn for Hide and Seek NominatedOutstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series One Hour Matthew E Taylor Michael Schapiro Sean Hessinger Alex Pugh Clay Weber John Sanacore Ben Schorr Katherine Harper and Ginger Geary for Penance NominatedSet Decorators Society of America Awards Best Achievement in Decor Design of a One Hour Fantasy or Science Fiction Series Timothy Stepeck and David Blass Nominated 157 References edit a b c d e f g Patrick Stewart Is Ready To Take 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