The Official Star Trek Thread

[dead0man]

I'm not a Treky, but I'll watch pretty much anything with Stewart as Picard in it.  What a great character.

[Tender Branson]

Somewhere between FF and good trailer.

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

Data reaches the uncanny valley and future-Harry-Potter-girl kicks ass while Jean-Luc Dumbledore helps her.

This is all over the place for me.  Nice cameo? by Jeri Ryan though.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Fun fact: Patrick Stewart will have portrayed the character of Jean-Luc Picard over a longer period of time than the 28-year era in which William Shatner had portrayed James T. Kirk.

Weird... makes ones feel old. The first time I watched TNG was when the show had been on TV for only three years.

[brucejoel99]

Freedom trailer. Made me even more excited for the show than I already was.

[PragmaticPopulist]

Freedom trailer. Loving the appearance of Seven of Nine. I hope that other members of TNG also appear though.

[Tender Branson]

Star Trek: Picard reveals Romulans are keeping former Borg as prisoners

One of the biggest shocks of Star Trek: Picard is that the Romulans are keeping former Borg prisoners. Patrick Stewart returns to the iconic role of Jean-Luc Picard in the upcoming CBS All-Access series, which is set about 20 years after Star Trek: Nemesis. At San Diego Comic-Con, the Star Trek: Picard trailer was unveiled, giving fans their first real glimpse at Picard's next adventure. One of the surprises is that the Romulans and the Borg are in the series but it's the pointy-eared aliens who are the villains.

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Star Trek: Picard not only tells the next chapter of Jean-Luc's life but it also advances the story of the 24th-century era of Star Trek. By this point in the timeline, Romulus has been destroyed by a supernova in 2387  (as seen in J.J. Abrams' 2009 Star Trek movie) and Admiral Picard led the greatest rescue effort in history to save the Romulan people. However, an unknown tragedy occurred that caused Picard to become disillusioned and leave Starfleet. Picard's encounters with the Romulans aren't as storied as his wars with the Borg but in Star Trek: Nemesis, Picard's battle with Shinzon (Tom Hardy), who was the Romulan Praetor and Picard's clone, led to the death of Commander Data (Brent Spiner). Now, the Romulans continue to be a thorn in Jean-Luc's side in Star Trek: Picard.

Thanks to the Star Trek: Picard trailer, fans can make some deductions on what has transpired in the years since Romulus' destruction: the Romulans have somehow conquered a segment of the Borg Collective and even captured a Borg Cube. The Romulans are also experimenting on de-Borgified people for unknown reasons. One of their victims is Dahj (Isa Briones), who escapes and asks Picard for help. But Dahj may be more dangerous than she realizes, perhaps because the Romulans' experiments on her have turned her into some sort of "destroyer". Indeed, despite strip-mining Borg technology and keeping de-Borgified prisoners for 5,843 days (over 16 years), the Romulans naturally still fear assimilation.

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The only time prior the Romulans are known to have encountered the Borg was in Star Trek: The Next Generation season 1 episode "The Neutral Zone". A Romulan outpost near the Neutral Zone was attacked, which caused the Romulans to blame the Federation and ended 53 years of Romulan isolationism. However, it was later learned that the outpost was destroyed by the Borg during one of their incursions into the Alpha Quadrant. Since then, the Borg have been explored in TNG and in Star Trek: Voyager; Picard himself was returned to humanity after he was assimilated and designated "Locutus of Borg", an experience that haunted him for years. Others have also been successfully saved, such has Hugh (Jonathan Del Alco) and Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), both of whom will appear in Star Trek: Picard. It's fascinating that the Romulans remain villains considering the tragedy that befell their race. However, it's likely because they lost their homeworld that the surviving Romulans have turned even more ruthless and somehow defeated a portion of the Borg, the Federation's deadliest enemies. Meanwhile, the truth about the Borg is that the vast majority of the Collective are victims of involuntary assimilation - and it's very much like the Romulans to take Borg technology with a total disregard for the 'inferior' species it was grafted to. Meanwhile, fans will have to wait and see how the story plays out and what Jean-Luc Picard does next in Star Trek: Picard.

[Tender Branson]

So, the Romulans are roughly like the Kurds, who are also keeping the ISlamic State fighters as prisoners after being defeated.

Plus: the Romulans had their home planet destroyed and are "homeless", just like the Kurds (who also have no state or country on their own).

[Tender Branson]

A 3-book series and a comic book will be released before the start of the TV series to tell what happened in the 20 years between 2379 (Nemesis) and 2399 (which is when the Picard series will start):

https://trekmovie.com/2019/08/01/star-trek-picard-to-be-preceded-by-book-and-comic-prequels

The books are out in November and February, so the TV series will probably start later ...

[Tender Branson]

I think from the previous movies we actually don't know what caused the Supernova that destroyed Romulus in 2387 ...

Was it a normal Supernova ?

But Supernovas usually don't pop up just suddenly, but instead it takes thousands of years for such a process ...

Were the Borg responsible ? Or some Borg who were still around after being destroyed by Janeway ?

Maybe that's why the Romulans are keeping the Borg prisoners ...

[Tender Branson]

There will be a Picard panel at the Oct. 5 NYC Comic-Con:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/york-comic-con-2019-schedule-182926693.html

Maybe with a new trailer out ?

BTW: filming of Season 1 has ended a few days ago.

[Tender Branson]

A popular Trekkie theory is that Dahj is in fact the re-surfaced Borg Queen, who supposedly was „killed“ by Janeway in „Endgame“:



The Romulans are calling her „the end of everything“ and „the destroyer“.

Which makes sense considering my theory that the Borg were responsible for the Supernova that destroyed Romulus.

Remember how the Borg Queen said to Data in „First Contact“:

I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many. I am the Borg.

[Tender Branson]

On the other hand, it’s probably not the Borg Queen:

Picard also killed the Borg Queen - himself - in the year 2063 during First Contact, by breaking her spine.

He hated her and what she has done to him.

In the new trailer though, Picard is familiar with the young woman Dahj and her real identity and seems to care for her wellbeing.

That doesn’t fit together.

Maybe she is the daughter of Seven-of-Nine and Chakotay instead ?

[Badger]

I'm not a Treky, but I'll watch pretty much anything with Stewart as Picard in it.  What a great character.

This. Please God, let the directors and writers list Stewart be Stewart.

[Tender Branson]

I think Dahj could also be Riker's and Troy's daughter.

She looks about 20, which would fit the storyline.

[Tender Branson]

BTW, here is a promo picture with Picard and his dog in the vineyard:



Filming for Season 2 will start in March 2020, which probably means the series will start early next year.

https://comicbook.com/startrek/2019/09/18/star-trek-picard-season-2-filming-march

[Tender Branson]

Star Trek Picard will start on January 23 !

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/05/entertainment/star-trek-picard-trailer-comic-con-trnd/index.html

Plus, a new trailer was released yesterday at NY Comic Con:

And for German-speakers, Amazon Prime DE has released the first dubbed version of a trailer so far and the voices are mostly like we knew them from TNG (even though Picard‘s German dubbing speaker died in the meantime).

[Tender Branson]

So ... "Star Trek Picard" will start on Jan. 23/24th.

For this, the first of a 3-series prequel comic has been released the past days - which explains what happened between "Nemesis" in the late 2370s to the events of the Supernova destroying Romulus in the late 2380s.

https://comicbook.com/startrek/2019/11/27/star-trek-picard-romulan-supernova-evacuation-leaves-starfleet/

It also mentions what happened with Riker, Troy and Geordi after Nemesis and explains the mission and reason why Picard quit Starfleet.

But you have to read it yourself ...

[Tender Branson]

So ... "Star Trek Picard" will start on Jan. 23/24th.

For this, the first of a 3-series prequel comic has been released the past days - which explains what happened between "Nemesis" in the late 2370s to the events of the Supernova destroying Romulus in the late 2380s.

https://comicbook.com/startrek/2019/11/27/star-trek-picard-romulan-supernova-evacuation-leaves-starfleet/

It also mentions what happened with Riker, Troy and Geordi after Nemesis and explains the mission and reason why Picard quit Starfleet.

But you have to read it yourself ...

There will also be a "Short Trek" TV episode on Jan. 9 called "Children of Mars", which will serve as a prequel to the Picard series:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Children_of_Mars_(episode)

This makes sense, because of the revelations in the comic series about what Geordi does after "Nemesis" ...

[Tender Branson]

My theory:

Dahj, the ca. 20-year old daughter of Will Riker and Deanna Troy, is some kind of activist who infiltrates the facility where the (criminal) Romulan survivors of the Supernova are keeping the Borg as prisoners, where they experiment on them (on behalf of the Federation !) and where they turn them into an army of cybernetic slaves (again for the Federation !).

That would fit the TNG episode narrative, called "The measure of a man.", where Data was classified a free individual and not a slave that can later be reproduced and made to serve on various Federation ships.

It also fits the mission of Admiral Picard slightly before the Supernova that destroyed Romulus: he finds out that the Romulans are slave-holders on a colony planet where 10.000 Romulans live, but who keep 5 million natives working on plantations. Picard wants to evacuate all of them, but the Romulans refuse. Picard is overruled and gets orders from the Federation to evacuate only the Romulan settlers and doom the 5 million natives. This will lead to Picard leaving Starfleet and will later come back once he finds out that the Federation still tolerates slavery ...

[Tender Branson]

Star Trek: Picard Is Most Anticipated New Show of 2020

Star Trek: Picard has been named the most anticipated new show of 2020 by IMDB. CBS All Access’s Picard appears ahead of Marvel’s upcoming The Falcon and the Winter Soldier series on Disney+, HBO’s The New POp, AMC’s The Walking Dead: The World Beyond, TNT’s Snowpiercer, CBS All Access’s The Stand, HBO’s The Outsider, DC Universe’s Stargirl, Amazon Prime Video’s Hunters, and The CW’s Katy Keene.

“Rather than base its annual rankings on small statistical samplings or reviews from professional critics, IMDb determines its list of most popular movies by the actual page views of the more than 200 million monthly visitors to IMDb,” IMDB told TheWrap in a statement. “This exclusive and definitive data is derived from the IMDbPro movie and TV rankings, which are updated weekly throughout the year.”

https://comicbook.com/startrek/2019/12/11/star-trek-picard-most-anticipated-show-2020-imdb

[Tender Branson]

The new trailer released yesterday creates a lot of questions ...

Which planet was destroyed in this clip ?

Mars, Vulcan, Romulus (but Romulus is not orange ...) ?

And what does this „Children of Mars“ clip, which serves as a prequel to ST Picard, has to do with it ?

Also, the German dubbed trailer is back (it got deleted from Prime Video Germany soon after the release):

[Tender Branson]

A new trailer is out during NFL matches:

[Tender Branson]

Another clip from next week's "Short Trek" episode, which is a preview of "Picard":

In "Children of Mars", Mars apparently is facing bombardment or destruction - an event which shapes Picard.

[Tender Branson]

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