Whoopi Goldberg is back in the trailer for Star Trek: Picard’s second season
The series will return to Paramount Plus on March 3
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The full trailer for the second season of Star Trek: Picard is here, and it gives fans their first glimpse of Whoopi Goldberg reprising her role as Guinan from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
In the new season, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) must bring his crew on a journey into the past—the 21st century—to save the future. Q is turning everyone into fascists at an alarming rate, and Picard is bent on stopping it.
“There are some moments that haunt us all our lives,” Picard says in voiceover in the trailer. “Moments on which history turns.” Picard turns to his old friend for help with understanding the “divergence” in the timeline.
“Your answers are not in the stars, and they never have been,” Guinan sagely tells Picard.
The cast for the second season includes Alison Pill, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, Orla Brady, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera and Brent Spiner. Annie Wersching also joins the series, as well as John de Lancie, who will reprise his role as Q.
Season one, which ran for ten episodes, aired at the beginning of 2020—so long ago that Paramount+ was still CBS All Access. But fans won’t have to wait quite as long for season three; it is filming back-to-back with the second season, and is currently in production.
The second season of Picard premieres March 3, with new episodes streaming weekly after that.
Meanwhile, Paramount+’s other Star Trek show, Discovery, keeps chugging along. The final six episodes of season four will be released later this winter, and the show has been renewed for a fifth season. A spin-off of that show, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, is set to premiere this May, and has also been renewed for season two. It will serve as a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series and show the hijinks of the USS Enterprise before Captain Kirk got involved. There’s also the animated series, Star Trek: Lower Decks.
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Odds on this being as big a garbage fire as season 1?
Hey, if we’re lucky, the first half will be great before it turns into Mass Effect 2: The Series.
Mass Effect 2 was one of the few games I played twice, so I wouldn’t be averse to ME2 The Series.It’s not necessarily what I want for Star Trek, but fuck it – there’s so much ST right now that there’s probably at least one series out of the whole pile for anyone to like.
I’d have been happy if it turned into Mass Effect 2: The Series. Unfortunately, it turned into Mass Effect 3: The Series.
If it goes the way of Discovery, I’d say 50/50
Discovery is sooo bad that they renewed it for a fifth season, the gave it a direct spin off and green lit a bunch of other Star Trek shows off of its success.
Bad still means good, right?
Did I say Discovery is bad? I don’t think I didIn fact my point was that Discover seems to have improved every season, the first season of it was by far its worst. So its possible Picard improves like it did.
I’m going to say Discovery is bad. Successful doesn’t equal good.
I’d argue that Discovery improved in season 2, but failed to meet the promise of an interesting, exciting, undiscovered future in season 3. And an alien kid had a subspace link with dilithium to cause the Burn? Ugh.
It’s like the writers of Picard took full control over Discovery in season 3 and have continued through season 4. Sci-fi is taking a back seat with pop psychology being the primary focus of most scenes now. It’s not entertaining.
Yes. If a show is popular it is also good.
Your point is taken, but you could say similar things about, say, the Transformers series. Quality, popularity, and the reasons why corporations continue resurrecting old properties aren’t often related. Probably shouldn’t take that simple fact personally.
None of that means it’s good.
The last episode of season 1 was a garbage fire. There was some good stuff in the season otherwise. And some not so good stuff, but it was good enough to get me to the last episode. I’m now not excited at all for season 2, but I’ll check it out anyway.
I’d say 9/10. Akiva Goldsman basically admitted in an interview that like season 1, they didn’t plan out season 2 and just made it up as they went along.
That’s a shame. Goldsman and co. aren’t Vince Gilligan and co.
5:1
nope 1 was actually better, all the cliches are out, incl that star trek fave, time travel, what is it with them, cant they just make a show set in a timeframe, it gave a bad taste in enterprise, it has already made st diversity unwatchable (i can see the remainder of that coming (they get in budget idris and wrong sheldon do something stupid and burnham solves it by looking pained and concerned which proves its oke) well lets see if strange new worlds is better
I really wish I could get excited about this. I will probably watch, because TNG is the Trek I really grew up with and Jean Luc Picard is one of the greatest television characters of all time. But I thought the first season was terribly written and terribly thought out. The plot was underdeveloped nonsense, veering wildly with the needs of each episode. I enjoyed the performances by the actors, but the stuff around those performances was not great.I am much more excited about the Orville returning in March than I am about Picard returning in March, that is for sure. At this point, I also wish studios would stop rebooting old properties and come up with some new ideas. I was excited for the trend in the beginning, but I am struggling to think of a reboot/reimagining of a series or movie that made me as happy as the original.I am sorry for the doom and gloom today. I am not trying to cut into anyone’s enjoyment of this show, or any other. My point is that I wish I was there with you, because no one was more excited about the start of this series than me.
I wish I could get excited for Orville but the shows so tonally all over the place that I just don’t get what I am watching. I like Lower Decks, I kinda like Discovery. I don’t want someone to put them in a blender and just pull out random plots to make an episode. Maybe this week its funny, maybe this week it isn’t
It’s really just TNG with more workplace humor (and less idealized characters). Some episodes are more serious than others, but the general trajectory is less comedy as the series goes on.
This is my take too, better than I could say it. I think the show has leaned more into serious plots in Season 2 (with the humor still there-yes, the first episode of that year is about a ceremony concerning a species taking a piss-but there was actually really good character development in that episode!). And the show has gotten better and more consistent as a result. The two part episode about Isaac’s home world-”Identity 1 & 2″-is to me the best “Trek” that has aired on TV since DS9 left the air. To me, those two episodes are close to something like the “Best of Both Worlds” in terms of quality, which is really impressive. I hope that the show can continue the strides it made in Season 2, and that the extreme Covid delays didn’t mess everything up……….
I disagree about Orville, but I also hear you. The people in my life who don’t like it are not onboard with the tonal shifts. I actually like the blend between humor and drama, and I think the show really hit its stride blending those in Season 2 (I am the first to admit Season 1 had some awkward moments trying to get that mix right).To me, Orville is the best Star Trek on right now. I think that Discovery and Picard have story and plot problems that make them really hard to watch (I gave up on Discovery after season 1-maybe it is better now). I don’t really put it in the same category, but I think Lower Decks is great!
Season 1 of Discovery was all over the place. I think they went through 3 showrunners during that season. Season 2 is the best season, with the addition of Captain Pike and some of the Enterprise crew, but they left for their own spin-off show, so Season 3 and what I’ve seen of 4 are on the decline. I’d recommend trying Season 2, but maybe dropping out after that unless you’re super-excited about where they’re going with the time jump.
I thank you and Nilus both for the rec. I may have given up on Discovery too early. I feel compelled to go give it another chance. It is the only Trek series I have ever abandoned (I was close with Enterprise, but I gritted my teeth……..).
Discovery improves, season 1 is the worst of it. I am kinda happy to see that universally everyone is cool with Lower Decks. Its not the best thing ever but its really watchable. It scratches the Futurama itch for me
My oldest son was just comparing Lower Decks to Futurama the other day! I think it really does have that absurd vibe.Like you, I don’t think it is the best show I ever watched. But I do have a smile on my face during every episode.
Lower Decks is a little shrill for me, but you can tell the people making it really, really love Star Trek. I don’t get that feeling at all with Discovery or Picard.
I don’t think the Discovery or Picard people even know about Star Trek.
Lower Decks works, because it’s like seeing a bunch of Trekkies on a starship. The characters have the same reverence for previous series as long-time fans do, but it’s played as a joke. It’s not a mean-spirited joke, though. At the same time, it engages with the same allegorical moral dilemmas that distinguished classic Trek from other shows on TV.Discovery doesn’t engage with classic Trek philosophy. This is why some fans say it’s not real Star Trek. I’m not going to say it’s not Trek, but it’s missing the philosophical bent that inspired a write-in campaign to save the original series more than 50 years ago.
Orville is just a TNG homage, though. Everything “new” that it does is mediocre to awful – namely, the persistent thesis that mankind can make it to a galactic communty without losing all the poop and dick jokes (except the ones that Shakespeare wrote, because he gets a p’n’d pass,) and that some other alien races are funny because they’re gross.It grew into itself in season 2, sure, but that’s all it grew into: TNG homage. Meanwhile, Lower Decks (which I still think is a bit too loud) ended up being what a lot of people thought/hoped The Orville was going to be: a good-natured look at a Star Trek ship and crew that isn’t actually the center of all of time and space.
isnt life about tonal shifts?
The point has been well-made by now, but these reboots aren’t competing against the originals so much as they are competing against people’s memories of watching them as kids. That’s not a winnable contest.
I think it is true that nostalgia can play a powerful part in all this, but I also think that the reboots I have watched haven’t been very good. Star Wars, Picard, the new Matrix-to me, all of them were a mess story wise. None of them seemed well thought out beyond: “People like this, so lets give them more!”I think you are right that nothing is going to beat the first time I saw Empire in the theater. But I don’t want to let creators off the hook either. I didn’t dislike Picard because it didn’t recapture TNG. I disliked it because the plot was kind of rancid (for more details please see the Picard reviews on this site, which I largely agreed with).I think reboots could be great even with the pull of nostalgia factored in. But it would also be nice if every once in a while the people creating them would come up with a story worth telling. Maybe Picard Season 2 will be that story?
Yeah, almost all of these suffer from sequelitis. These reboots don’t exist because someone came up with a story they wanted to tell; they exist because the studios had valuable IP lying fallow, and they couldn’t have that. Only about 10% of new shows or movies are good to begin with, and on top of THAT, the originals are old enough that the new thing will be held up against the best remembered stuff from the adult audience’s formative years, and that’s just a lot of handicaps to overcome for any project. It’s really hard to imagine one of these being “fine” and that being okay. There’s like a 1% chance they’ll be hailed as one of the finest things of the decade and a 99% chance they’ll be constantly accused of ruining a great production’s legacy with nothing in between.
I’m more *excited* for Picard to return, but I know the chances are very high that I will *enjoy* the Orville more.
yeah 1 had wooden 2d characters, worf picard, well most of them, but it got better, discovery went from “we have money we have tech lets reinvent the klingons “to you know we have done nothing with time travel this week, to lets make the convicted one captain, give her a guy with a cat. empress georgiou was really the only good thing on this show, where did that section 31 show go?
TIME TRAVEL! HOW ORIGINAL!!!!
Just wanted to throw out a recommendation for Star Trek: Prodigy who’s seven episode that aired yesterday was, in my mind. The best episode of Star Trek in the last decade. Surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the last paragraph
Most likely no one here still watches Star Trek other than Zack.
I think it’s terrible that they took her out of the trailer in the first place.
The story may be a little weak, but I enjoy the cast. Stewart is great, as always. The rest of the cast is great as well, especially Cabrera. He plays multiple roles—the pilot Rios and all the ships’s emergency holograms, which all have their own personalities. I’ve been watching The Musketeers lately and he’s a standout in that as well.
I’m almost wondering if filming seasons back-to-back is a logistic concern.
Patrick Stewart’s in good health, yes, but he’s also 81. He’s literally can’t play Picard forever.
They put him in a robot body last seasonNo, not in the show, in real life. He is a robot man now
I thought the first season had its ups and downs, and I wasn’t crazy about how it ended, but I’m here for season 2. But really, Star Trek Prodigy is the best Trek on TV right now.
Is Prodigy worth watching? I got kids and have debated throwing it on for them
The animation is terrific. I’m enjoying the storyline even if it’s for kids.
You can watch the first two episodes of ST: Prodigy on YouTube for free to decide if your kids will like it or not.
It’s got more of that ST sense of exploration and wonder than any of the other current shows. It’s kinda like Star Trek meets She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
My youngest son was very excited to watch this, and I had high hopes for it. Both my kids love Lower Decks, and it has gotten them to watch and love Star Trek TNG with their Dad. So we all watched the first two episodes together-my elementary school aged son, me, and my high school aged son. And…….both my kids were really bored by it. I have asked if they want to watch more, and they politely declined.I actually thought it was fine, and I would be willing to watch more. But I am not excited enough about the first two episodes to move forward with it on my own.I hope your kids enjoy it more than mine did!
Keep going, Prodigy continues to impress and improve. Episode 7: Time Amok is hands down my favorite Star Trek episode of the last decade (and I generally think Disco and Picard are fine).
I think so. And kids don’t need to know about Trek to enjoy most of it, either, though there is one episode where they bring a bunch of old characters in through archival audio (with mixed success). That one might really be just for the fans.
From what I’ve seen its primary focus is to be a kids show, and not so much the kind that adults can watch just as easily. It’s generally speaking quite basic Trek with a good dose of teen angst, and I thought the CGI was better in the first episode than in the most recent.
Technically it’s the only Trek on TV right now. 😉
I only watched one episode of Prodigy. It’s really not for me, but, for what it is, I thought it was fine. And, judging from only that one episode, I already agree that it’s better than any of the other new series.
There is a lot of good here but a lot of bad too.I love seeing Whoopi back. I am glad it seems that the android subplot is all gone. Q coming back is greatBut the bad is there too. A plot that takes them to “modern times” just screams “First season did not do so hot, so this one better cost a lot less to make”. The fact that the first season was such a mess also doesn’t helpI got a year of Paramount+ for free when I switched my phones to T-Mobile in December, so this won’t cost me anything to watch. But if it doesn’t show mark improvement in the first few episodes I am not gonna waste my time like I did with season 1
Let’s hope the modern times are a lot more like the whale movie, and a lot less like the Voyager Sarah Silverman two-parter.
The “modern times” take also seems to want to go back to Star Trek IV, which—I know I’m in the minority about—is one of my least favorite Star Trek movies. I WANT Star Trek to be, you know… in the STARS. Star Trek is full of allegories and thinly-veiled moral messages about the current world, which is fine. That’s what sci-fi largely is. I don’t need to dumped into the actual world we live in too.
I didn’t hate season 1 of Picard and was looking forward to season 2 with Q etc., but this plot is actually a bit of a disappointment.
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As much as I like the idea of all the old cast coming back, it’s sort of tough to have some of them make sense. Guinan is very old in TNG – we see her, briefly, in Generations looking very much the same in 2293 as she does in 2370. And then she ages 30 years in 30 years?It’s harder to write around her age than it is to write around John DeLancie or Brent Spiner’s (I haven’t yet seen the first season of Picard) – Q is omnipotent, he can say that he changed his appearance to keep up with Picard’s own, and finds the gray hair and wrinkles distinguished. Data could have done essentially the same thing (In fact, he added a streak of gray to his hair in the ‘future’ in the TNG finale). But Guinan is a biological being, who has a much longer lifespan than humans. I suppose that they could make up something about El-Aurians having an odd ‘fits-and-starts’ aging process, where they have periods of relatively slow physical change interspersed with periods of relatively rapid physical change.
As MST3K says, repeat to yourself its just a show, I should really just relax
No.
“we see her, briefly, in Generations looking very much the same in 2293 as she does in 2370. And then she ages 30 years in 30 years?”Coming from an Asian family, I can tell you that as an ethnicity that is stereotypically known for not looking our age, once that aging starts, it goes of a cliff FAST. My parents looked pretty much the same from 1990-2015, but the last few years it’s like the painting in the attic was destroyed or they drank from the wrong cup at the end of Last Crusade.
So who knows, maybe El-Aurians age similarly, on a much longer timeline.The much harder to explain aging would be Q, I think. Unless he’s just altering his appearance to make all the old people feel even older.
2293? She looked exactly the same in 1893 opposite Mark Twain.It’s like Brent Spiner realizing he aged, while Data did not, so bowed out of the role in Nemesis, and he at least had pancake makeup and a wig to cover up the years. His appearance in Picard Season 1 was… unfortunate.
actually the excuse is “people are more comfortable if i look older”
I would love to see a scene between Guinan and Q again. The “Q Who?” episode showed animosity between the two that was never elaborated.
That’s because they were just winging it with the Guinan character. I like the Mark Twain two-parter more than most (it was the first season finale I saw live, so I had to wait the whole summer to see it resolve). I can see why some folks thought the Guinan reveal was a letdown.
Just wanted to throw out a recommendation for Star Trek: Prodigy who’s seven episode that aired yesterday was, in my mind, the best episode of Star Trek in the last decade.Surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the last paragraph.
“But fans won’t have to wait quite as long for season three; it is
filming back-to-back with the second season, and is currently in
production.”
Just spitballin’ here, but might this have to do with Patrick Stewart being 81 years old? And in ST:Picard he didn’t seem particularly spry.
So this is going to be a crappier version of The Voyage Home and the DS9 two parter “Past Tense” where Sisko accidentally travels to 2024 and gets trapped in a government run slum.
The photo caption really needs to be pointed out here…
Whoop Goldberg as Guinan and Patrick Stewart as Picard in Star Trek: PicardQuite reminiscent of this
Star Trek: Picard is literally the worst Star Trek show of all time. Worse than Discovery. Worse than Voyager. Mind-bendingly awful.
Despite the first season’s issues, I’m looking forward to this. The first season faltered most when it came to its larger plot (and its overall treatment of tertiary characters, RIP Maddox, Icheb, and Hugh), but I felt it did really well with the individual character moments for the most part. If they have a better story by the large strokes this time it could be really good, but I’ll be totally honest, this season is giving me one last chance to see Q and Picard have a spat so I am already completely sold.