Introduction
Star Trek: Picard is an American web television series created for CBS All Access by Kirsten Beyer, Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon and Alex Kurtzman.
It is the eighth series in the Star Trek franchise and centres on the character Jean-Luc Picard.
Set at the end of the 24th century, 20 years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), the storyline focuses on the impact of the destruction of the android Commander Data, which occurred in the climax of that film, as well as the destruction of the planet Romulus, which occurred in the 2009 film Star Trek.
Patrick Stewart is the executive producer of the series and stars as Picard, reprising his role from Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as other Star Trek media. Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway, and Isa Briones also star. Several actors from previous Star Trek series also reprise their roles, including Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, Marina Sirtis, and Jonathan Frakes. Rumours began to circulate in June 2018, when Kurtzman began his expansion. The official announcement came in August of that year, after months of negotiations with Stewart. He had previously said that he would not return to the franchise after Nemesis. Filming began in California in April 2019; the series’ official title was announced a month later.
Star Trek: Picard premiered on 23 January 2020; its first season consists of 10 episodes. Before the launch, CBS All Access renewed Star Trek: Picard for a second 10-episode season.
Outline
A flashback shows Narissa’s initiation into the Zhat Vash on a planet with eight suns: she experiences the Admonition, a warning of the danger of synthetic life left behind by a long-extinct race. Most are driven mad by the knowledge, but Narissa retains her sanity.
Meeting Soji stirs up painful memories in Rios: he eventually tells Raffi that Soji resembles one of two beings whom Rios’s former commanding offer, Captain Vandermeer, was ordered to execute by Starfleet Security; Vandermeer committed suicide and Rios was forced to cover up the event.
Raffi realises that the two were synthetics from Bruce Maddox’s planet. Jurati awakens and admits that she murdered Maddox, explaining the vision Oh gave her; she promises never to harm Soji. Raffi explains her deduction that the Zhat Vash were behind the synth attack on Mars.
Soji plots a course for her home planet; La Sirena is followed by Narek’s ship. On the Artifact, Seven arrives to rescue Elnor; she interfaces with the Queen’s cell to use the Borg drones aboard the cube to try to retake control, but Narissa has most of the drones jettisoned into space and sends a fleet to Soji’s planet.
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Production & Filming Details
- Creator(s): Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, and Alex Kurtzman.
- Director(s): Akiva Goldsman.
- Producer(s): Patrick Stewart, Michael Chabon, Akiva Goldsman, James Duff. Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry, and Trevor Roth.
- Writer(s): Michael Chabon.
- Music: Jeff Russo.
- Production: Secret Hideout, Weed Road Pictures, Escapist Fare, Roddenberry Entertainment, and CBS Television Studios.
- Distributor: CBS Television Distribution.
- Release Date: 12 March 2020.
- Running Time: 46 minutes.
- Country: US.
- Language: English.
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