It’s an exciting way to jump-start the new season, even if it feels cribbed from the Next Gen classic “Cause and Effect” as we then join Jean-Luc 48 hours earlier, alive and well on the vineyard. Before you know it, Picard activates the auto-destruct and the ship goes blammo. Things kick off with a literal bang as we follow a group of Starfleeters into a firefight on the bridge of what we’ll later learn is the new and improved USS Stargazer. Most interesting, however, is the apparent budding romance between him and Orla Brady’s Laris, the Romulan expat who runs his home and whose husband has apparently bought the farm (vineyard?) between seasons in order to facilitate this new pairing.īut I’m getting ahead of myself. Yes, they even got Stewart to put on a uniform again for a couple of scenes. Even opening the episode on a Starfleet ship feels different from this show’s previous mandate.Īnd then there’s Picard himself, who seems to be doing double duty on the vineyard these days and as Chancellor of Starfleet Academy.
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Picard’s new android body that saved him from death in Season 1’s finale? It barely gets alluded to, but don’t worry - that is apparently not gonna be a thing this season either. Picard’s ragtag crew of non-Starfleeters? Three of them – Michelle Hurd’s Raffi, Santiago Cabrera’s Rios, and Evan Evagora’s Elnor – are in, or back in, Starfleet now, while Alison Pill’s Agnes and Isa Briones' Soji are working with Starfleet. Right out of the (star) gate, this season’s showrunners, Akiva Goldsman and Terry Matalas, handwave away several of S1’s more distracting and crippling conceits. Whereas Picard Season 1 was an erratic and ultimately disappointing affair, Season 2 of old Jean-Luc’s adventures appears to be righting many of the missteps of its past. But if this debut episode of Star Trek: Picard’s second season is any indication, in that time, the writers and producers behind the iconic Patrick Stewart character’s return have figured out a few things. It’s been almost two years since we last saw Jean-Luc Picard, thanks of course to pandemic-necessitated production delays.
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