The Star Trek Day news continues as we turn to Star Trek: Picard this morning, with a brand new trailer for the just-finished-filming second season of the show — and a formal announcement that the Picard journey isn’t over yet.
The second season of Star Trek: Picard now has a target date for arrival, set to debut after the conclusion of Discovery Season 4 in February 2022 — and with that announcement comes a brand new, extended trailer for Picard Season 2, showing the crew of La Sirena facing a world of torment… thanks to a certain omnipotent being.
OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES? WATCH THE TRAILER AT THIS LINK.
Longtime Next Generation trickster Q (John de Lancie) changes the past, shifting Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd), Cris Rios (Santiago Cabrera), Agnes Jurati (Alison Pill), and Elnor (Evan Evagora) into an alternate timeline where the galaxy is under totalitarian rule.
While it seems that our Picard heroes remember who they are and the timeline that’s supposed to be in place, they must travel back to a near-contemporary Los Angeles to set right what Q put wrong, and prevent that dark future from taking permanent hold.
We also get our first look at the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching) in this new Season 2 trailer, who in some capacity encounters Jurati and other members of the team after Q changes the past.
The adventure continues. #StarTrekPicard is returning for Season 3 on @ParamountPlus. #StarTrekDay pic.twitter.com/mCWg8rO7UC
— Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) September 9, 2021
While Season 2 is wrapped filming, the series is moving right along into production on the finally-officially-announced Season 3 this week — which we expect to see sometime in 2023 — and it seems longtime Star Trek contributor Doug Drexler is back on the Trek team for that just-started season.
Doug Drexler – who has a looong history working on the #StarTrek franchise going all the way back to TNG – confirms on Facebook that he is now working on #StarTrekPicard. Drexler is probably best known as the designer of the Enterprise NX-01. pic.twitter.com/mOC1bdm6i0
— Alex Perry (@alexandertperry) September 9, 2021
Star Trek: Picard will return for Season 2 in February 2022 on Paramount+ in the United States, CTV Sci Fi Channel in Canada, and on Amazon’s Prime Video service in the UK and other international regions.