When Jean-Luc Picard begs the Federation for help in the new trailer for Star Trek: Picard, one admiral tells him. “This isn’t your house anymore Jean-Luc, go home!” But obviously, our famous wine-loving, Earl Grey-drinking Starfleet captain doesn’t take no for answer. At New York Comic-Con, the new trailer for Star Trek: Picard has been revealed and its equal parts nostalgia and insane secret-mission action. Are you ready for Riker, Troi and a dream about Data? If so, get ready to make it so!
A new trailer for Star Trek: Picard was just released at New York Comic Con. If you’re afraid of trailer spoilers, stop reading now!
First up, here’s the new NYCC trailer for Star Trek: Picard.
And now, here’s the breakdown of the biggest takeaway from the new trailer.
- Picard is clearly going against Starfleet’s orders relative to this new mission.
- His dog’s name is 100 percent “Number One.” He says as much in the trailer.
- Data appears at the start of the trailer, but only in Picard’s dreams, which seems to imply that maybe Data’s not “really” in the show after all.
- At some point, it looks like we see a new kind of Soong-type android, similar to Data.
- When Picard talks to Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) she refers to “another top-secret, unauthorized rescue mission.” This seems to imply that the “rescue armada” referenced in the first teaser-trailer may have also been off-the-books.
- An old-school Romulan Bird-of-Prey, straight out of “Balance of Terror” from the original series features prominently in this trailer. WTF?
- Riker and Troi appear at the end of the trailer, and we hear the voice of someone who sounds like their son. (Is he an empath too?)
Best of all, the trailer confirms the release date for Star Trek: Picard: It’s January 23rd, 2020! Way sooner than anyone expected! Horray! Right after your Rise of Skywalker hangover, you can engage with Picard again.
I can’t wait for it to get here. It’s looking better and better. I’ve missed these people more than I thought.
So what’s with the Elf with the katana?
MY FEELS!!!!!
Honestly, this could be just Picard shouting about principals, painting with Data, and hanging out with Riker and Troi and I’d be totally fine with it. The action stuff looks like Discovery — the definition of trying too hard, in my opinion. But we’ll see.
I wish Wesley Crusher were back as well.
Who is that alien, at 1:18, who says “Do you really want to go back out into the cold?”
He is so familiar, the voice particularly, but I cannot place him.
Look! Kirk’s Rock! Last time we saw it ot was on Vulcan.
Thanks to the kid yelling, we have Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Next Generation. And you know your organization has had one too many corrupt admirals when Picard has to show up and yell at you.
A bit more seriously, I started getting into TNG almost two decades ago, but that still meant the only installment I got to watch unfold as it was released was Nemesis. Both Enterprise and Discovery have left me longing to catch up with the 24th century, but I didn’t think TNG Season 8 or anything like it would ever actually happen. I can’t wait to see what these characters have been getting up to and what’s in store for them next. On a technical level, the advancement of visual effects and the fact that viewers aren’t confined to weekly episodes broadcast once on TV means that the storytelling can afford to be much more adventurous.
@6 It’s David Paymer
It’s a shame that I’m spending most of my time dreaming up elaborate ways to fit all this in with my own 24th century continuation… This trailer makes it look less likely that Seven is an old acquaintance of Picard’s, while I’m suspecting Riker and Troi are just a one-off guest appearance. I’m not sure I’m keen on the idea of the Federation seemingly being the bad guys. As for the Romulan Bird of Prey, possibly a sign of them going retro following the destruction of Romulus.
It’s nice to see Will and Deanna, are enjoying their retirement and domesticity.
I can’t help but wonder if some of the stain on the Federation comes from Starfleet’s actions in the Dominion War?
The Romulan trick by Sisko or S31’s poisoning of the Founders?
It kind of looks like the federation or Starfleet is developing some robot soldiers. I hope it doesn’t turn out that they somehow are responsible for the Borg.
@13, maybe they’re taking borg technology and trying to develop their own. So Starfleet isn’t responsible for the borg, but are trying to reverse-engineer the borg tech.
Is that the Traveller?