We’re just over a month away from Star Trek: Picard Season 2’s debut on March 3, and the folks at Paramount+ have kicked off the winter weekend with a group of new photos from the upcoming premiere episodes.
Released on Friday night, these nine new photos (plus two previously-released images) from the first two episodes of Picard Season 2 don’t give anything away that hasn’t been shown off in the last few trailers, but they do give us our first great views of the new costuming worn by Patrick Stewart and castmates — along with John de Lancie, who returns as Q — in the ‘dark Starfleet’ timeline they’re thrust into.
Here are seven photos from the season premiere, which include a few moments at the ‘real’ Chateau Picard before the universe sends the Star Trek: Picard gang into a new reality.
Along with the premiere images, we also get four new photos from the second episode of the season, where Picard and crew are fully immersed in the ‘Darkfleet’ universe — we just made that up, but it sounds good, right?) — including Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) in her fascist administrative power suit (and without her Borg implants), Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) and a handcuffed Elnor (Evan Evagora), and Dr. Agnes Jurati (Alison Pill) who has her own lab in this dark timeline… where the Borg Queen (Annie Werschung) awaits.
While this new timeline is certain to give some cosplayers new ideas, the images released also include good looks at some new Starfleet (and Darkfleet) official insignia crafted for the Picard gang to wear, including this fancy lapel badge worn by Picard in his home library — an homage to the Star Trek II-era classic uniform badges — and this sharp rank-striped Darkfleet delta worn by Picard and Jurati here (and seen on Raffi and Rios in trailers).
(Both badges are surely in the works already from fan builders on Etsy, and hopefully official licensees like Fansets as well.)
We still don’t know any Season 2 episode titles yet, or exactly how the season will be structured, but it seems evident that the big time-travel adventure back to 2024 will probably take until at least Episode 3 to begin, after the universe shift happens in 201, and we see more time spent in the Darkfleet universe on 202.
What’s missing from all these photos — as well as the vast majority of content seen in the Season trailers — is what Soji Asha (Isa Briones) is up to in Season 2.
Seen only briefly across all of the trailers so far, the Soong-created synth who joined up with the La Sirena crew last season is suspiciously absent from everything presented so far beyond a few fleeting glimpses — including every bit of footage shown around the Borg Queen, La Sirena, and the Darkfleet travel story — so there’s still at least one big mystery to solve.
Star Trek: Picard returns to Paramount+ on March 3, followed on CTV SciFi Channel in Canada, then on Prime Video in all other global regions.