Star Trek fans finally have their first look at the return of Jean-Luc Picard, courtesy of this week’s CBS television upfront presentations.
CBS revealed the title to the show–simply: Star Trek: Picard. Along with a logo that, interestingly, utilizes the Star Trek title font associated with The Original Series, Star Trek: Discovery, and Kirk’s era, instead of the Next Generation era that Picard hails from.
Buzzfeed News correspondent Kate Aurther also snapped a still from a short scene presented at the upfronts:
A teeny look at the #StarTrek #Picard show coming to @CBSAllAccess. #Upfronts pic.twitter.com/1uiUkPi81r
— Kate Aurthur (@KateAurthur) May 15, 2019
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer Rob Owen describes the short clip as thus:
Hmmm @CBS upfront had a clip (or probably something made just for upfront) of "Star Trek: Picard" (what they called it) with a Starfleet officer asking Jean-Luc, "May I have your name, please, sir?" as Picard appears incredulous. @StarTrek
— Rob Owen (@RobOwenTV) May 15, 2019
Additional information places Star Trek: Picard at 18 years past the events of Star Trek: Nemesis (putting Picard in the year 2397 for those of us who don’t feel like checking Memory Alpha for the 147th time!) with Picard’s show dealing with the fallout of Romulus’ destruction from the 2009 Star Trek film (which happened in 2387).
Star Trek: Picard is intending to debut its 10-episode first season in late 2019, on CBS All Access.
Hadn’t thought about the TOS font as interesting, but, now that you point it out, yes it is. Probably not consequential, but interesting. It makes sense, though, if the series is picking up the Prime Timeline shortly after the destruction of Romulus, since ST09, which established that event, used the TOS font.
I personally like the font developed for ST:TMP (and the slight iterations of it in DS9 and VOY logos) as the franchise “brand font.” But they didn’t ask me. :)
I’m excited to see what Patrick Stewart and the whole creative team have up their collective sleeves.
I still think they should call the show Star Trek: Maneuvers <g>
The use of the old font is really a cool idea!
@1/mpoteet: The font here is not the Kelvin font, which is based on the TOS font but is not italicized and lacks the curved top to the “E.” The reason this logo is using the TOS font is presumably just because it’s the most iconic Star Trek font.
It would’ve been neat had they used the LCARS font for the “PICARD” part, but it’s close enough for me. Engage!
The background officer uses the late TNG uniform? Is a scene in the past or after the movies they go back to the older uniforms?
From another (behind-the-scenes) pic, it looks like the uniforms are a blend of Voyager’s coloured shoulders, TNG’s collars, and the “future” combadges from “All Good Things.”
@6/Cybersnark – Huh. Thanks for posting that.
I guess Starfleet has gone retro, since when we last saw the Prime Timeline, wasn’t it using those all-gray jumpsuits with the colored tunics beneath?
Will Star Trek: Picard be released in Netflix in territories outside the US? In Brazil I watch Star Trek: Discovery in Netflix, so I wonder if their deal includes this.
@8 – Outside of the U.S. and Canada, it’ll be on Amazon Prime.
OK, I’m confused. So Picard’s show is dealing with the events that happened in the Prime timeline, that caused the reboot, that sent Nemo’s ship back in space? Which takes place after the TNG movie Nemesis, which was the won with Tom Hardy as Romulan Clone Picard? He’s dealing the with aftermath of that in the Prime timeline? Which timeline is Discovery in?
Am I understanding this right?
@10/Aeryl: Yes, the supernova destroyed Romulus in the Prime timeline 8 years after Nemesis, and Spock and Nero were flung back in time out of Prime and into the new branch that resulted from their time travel.
Discovery and Picard are both in the Prime timeline, because they’re produced by CBS rather than Paramount and Bad Robot. Everything but the Bad Robot movies is in the Prime Timeline, at least so far.
Jonathan Crowe@9
So the Amazon Prime timeline then?
:-)
I’m still hoping for the series to be about a retired Picard teaching promising young cadets in a Starfleet Academy affiliated high school, kinda like ‘Hogwarts in Space’ with Picard as Dumbledore.
@6/Cybersnark: Ooh, they use colourful uniforms again? Perhaps that’s a good sign.
i’m pretty excited to see this series, i’m sure they will work in a few special guests from the old series![.](//s04.flagcounter.com/mini/Jkzv/bg_FFFFFF/txt_CCCCCC/border_DBDBDB/flags_0/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a>)
As we all know Sir Patrick Stewart could make riveting television reading the phone book to the camera. It would be nice though if he had something solid to work with.
The font is just the Star Trek branding they’re using now, and because DIS is basically a TOS-era show, they started using htat one.
The uniforms could be Starfleet cadet uniforms, don’t they? And who are those hooded/helmeted people in that behind the scenes pic?
Picard does look very professorial, doesn’t he?
From what I’m reading, the show will be more thoughtful, cerebral, contemplative. The anti Discovery. I am so looking forward to it. Discovery has become a convoluted mess held together only by scenes of Burnham weeping about something or other.
@11 Thanks for the clarification. I could not wrap my head around the various timelines for some reason.
Fool me once, shame on them. Fool me twice, shame on me.
@20/Beta: That’s why I didn’t watch Discovery season 2.