Your first first look at Star Trek: Picard Season 3 is finally here, thanks to the ongoing Star Trek Day celebration — and after July’s character teaser showed us the Enterprise-E crew back in costume for the first time, this new look at the upcoming final Picard adventure is one fans will be pouring over for months.
Featuring Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) fighting off aliens with a Starfleet phaser rifle, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) conspiring in a dark bar, and Commander Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) welcoming the leading Next Gen men aboard her new USS Titan starship, there’s a LOT happening in this new teaser!
Also seen in brief clips are a Starfleet building getting destroyed by some kind of energy beam, plus brief glimpses of Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), Worf (Michael Dorn), Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), and Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) — and Raffi will be exploring the “criminal underbelly” of the 25th century, Hurd shared on the Star Trek Day stage.
It was also announced that Star Trek: Picard Season 3 will debut on Paramount+ early next year, on February 16, 2023.
With Trek canon-minded showrunner Terry Matalas leading the final season of Picard, there’s no need to worry that Seven’s new Titan is not the same starship which Will Riker commanded in the 2380s — as Star Trek: Lower Decks has established Riker’s Titan to be a Luna-class vessel, based upon the original starship design created in the mid-2000s for the tie-in novel series. (Several Luna-class ships were also seen among the assembled Starfleet armada in “The Star Gazer.”)
As Picard Season 3 takes place in the early 2400s, this new USS Titan design is a successor to Captain Riker’s first command — the “neo-Constitution-class Titan-A,” as showrunner Matalas described it to the TrekCore team on the Star Trek Day red carpet today — featuring a round saucer section and warp nacelles similar to last season’s USS Stargazer design.
The mushroomed-shaped Spacedock facility orbiting Earth also makes its first chronological appearance after it was last seen in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, showcasing its continued use (and expansion!) after a further century-plus in service.
There’s still a lot yet to learn about Picard Season 3, and between today’s continuing Star Trek Day event and October’s New York Comic Con — where Picard is expected to feature — we’ll bring you all the news as it continues to break.
Star Trek: Picard is currently in post-production on its third and final season, set to debut in February 2023 on Paramount+ the United States, and on CTV Sci Fi Channel and Crave in Canada. Outside of North America, the series is available on Amazon’s Prime Video service in most international locations.