In the third and final season of "Star Trek: Picard," a vicious Changeling named Captain Vadic (Amanda Plummer) is eager to apprehend Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers), the son of Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). Vadic is a vicious killer who has no compunction about blowing up ships and murdering thousands. It seems she and several of her Changeling compatriots were medically tortured during the Dominion War (a conflict dramatized on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine") and was in no mood to offer forgiveness. Vadic commanded a starship she called the Shrike, a massive, pointy, claw-like vessel that was armed to the teeth. Captain Riker (Jonathan Frakes) took one look at the Shrike and declared it to be more guillotine than starship.
On the bridge of the Shrike, Vadic sat in an enormous chair, surrounded in the shadows by masked servants who fired weapons and cut down enemy combatants. The chair, as it so happens,...
On the bridge of the Shrike, Vadic sat in an enormous chair, surrounded in the shadows by masked servants who fired weapons and cut down enemy combatants. The chair, as it so happens,...
- 10/15/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
This post contains heavy spoilers for Star Trek: Picard
The first two seasons of Star Trek: Picard had an admirable, if not altogether successful, goal. Rather than just play on nostalgia, the series caught up with Jean-Luc Picard 20 years after Star Trek: Nemesis and teamed him with a new crew. While the adventures in both seasons certainly had their feet in classic The Next Generation storylines — as Data, the Borg Queen, and Q all played major roles — the series wanted to take Picard into a new, undiscovered country.
But for its third and likely last season, Picard has pulled out all of the stops, bringing back the cast from Tng. The result has been a rousing adventure in the mold of The Original Series movies, in which an aged crew find themselves on the run from Starfleet to face a threat only they can stop. Layered in with compelling new...
The first two seasons of Star Trek: Picard had an admirable, if not altogether successful, goal. Rather than just play on nostalgia, the series caught up with Jean-Luc Picard 20 years after Star Trek: Nemesis and teamed him with a new crew. While the adventures in both seasons certainly had their feet in classic The Next Generation storylines — as Data, the Borg Queen, and Q all played major roles — the series wanted to take Picard into a new, undiscovered country.
But for its third and likely last season, Picard has pulled out all of the stops, bringing back the cast from Tng. The result has been a rousing adventure in the mold of The Original Series movies, in which an aged crew find themselves on the run from Starfleet to face a threat only they can stop. Layered in with compelling new...
- 4/18/2023
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
Did Star Trek: Picard feature a subtle nod to Doctor Who, confirming that the universes of the world’s two biggest sci-fi TV franchises are connected? That’s what this wild, but strangely plausible, fan theory suggests. It’s all based around a handy gizmo introduced in the final episodes of Picard‘s first season which appears to be extremely similar to the Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver.
ScreenRant has pondered the importance of a gadget lent to Cristobal Rios by one of Soong’s androids on the planet Coppelius. The tiny device “fixes things” by manipulating matter. The highly advanced device, even by Starfleet standards, requires one to use their imagination and was able to repair La Sirena. It was also key in fooling the sensors of the Romulan armada into believing the single ship was actually a whole fleet.
Soong’s a genius, sure, but maybe this extraordinary device...
ScreenRant has pondered the importance of a gadget lent to Cristobal Rios by one of Soong’s androids on the planet Coppelius. The tiny device “fixes things” by manipulating matter. The highly advanced device, even by Starfleet standards, requires one to use their imagination and was able to repair La Sirena. It was also key in fooling the sensors of the Romulan armada into believing the single ship was actually a whole fleet.
Soong’s a genius, sure, but maybe this extraordinary device...
- 9/17/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: After the Hall H triumphant of 2019, Jean-Luc Picard will be back in the Comic-Con house again this year. However, due to concerns and restrictions over the coronavirus pandemic, the Sir Patrick Stewart-led CBS All Access series will be making its appearance remotely at this year’s Comic-Con@Home on July 23.
Comic-Con will be releasing another part of its schedule later today, but, setting phasers to shock and awe, Star Trek: Picard will be the headliner in another behemoth Star Trek Universe panel later this month. That sprawling Trekverse shindig also includes 2020 virtual appearances from Star Trek: Discovery, the lead cast of newest franchise addition Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the August 6th premiering animated Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Helping to kick off the first full day of what would have been Sdcc 51, the Trekverse panel starts at 10 Am Pt on the 23rd with a welcome and...
Comic-Con will be releasing another part of its schedule later today, but, setting phasers to shock and awe, Star Trek: Picard will be the headliner in another behemoth Star Trek Universe panel later this month. That sprawling Trekverse shindig also includes 2020 virtual appearances from Star Trek: Discovery, the lead cast of newest franchise addition Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the August 6th premiering animated Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Helping to kick off the first full day of what would have been Sdcc 51, the Trekverse panel starts at 10 Am Pt on the 23rd with a welcome and...
- 7/9/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
“The jumping off point for ‘Picard’ was without a doubt examining Herman Zimmerman‘s production design work on [‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’] and many of the movies,” explains production designer Todd Cherniawsky about his work on “Star Trek: Picard,” which aired its first season on CBS All Access this spring. From there the art department considered “a lot of futurists’ work as far as where things are going to be maybe in a hundred years. We started to kind of just overlay those into the visual history of ‘Tng.'” Watch our exclusive video interview with Cherniawsky above.
Having “The Next Generation” as a reference point differentiated this experience from Cherniawsky’s work on “Star Trek: Discovery,” which took place before the original series but after “Star Trek: Enterprise,” “so it was new territory with a much more contemporary appetite for visuals.” But recreating established settings like the Borg...
Having “The Next Generation” as a reference point differentiated this experience from Cherniawsky’s work on “Star Trek: Discovery,” which took place before the original series but after “Star Trek: Enterprise,” “so it was new territory with a much more contemporary appetite for visuals.” But recreating established settings like the Borg...
- 5/8/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
This post contains full spoilers for the first season of Star Trek: Picard, whose finale debuted today on CBS All Access.
Midway through the Star Trek: Picard finale, the show’s dying title character realizes that he needs to get into orbit in a hurry, and the only person available to fly his team’s rickety starship there is himself. “Make it so,” robotics expert Agnes Jurati tells him, and the sheer delight on Jean-Luc Picard’s face at hearing his famous command thrown back at him almost makes the...
Midway through the Star Trek: Picard finale, the show’s dying title character realizes that he needs to get into orbit in a hurry, and the only person available to fly his team’s rickety starship there is himself. “Make it so,” robotics expert Agnes Jurati tells him, and the sheer delight on Jean-Luc Picard’s face at hearing his famous command thrown back at him almost makes the...
- 3/26/2020
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Don Kaye Jan 29, 2020
Star Trek: Picard features an impressive lineup of newer faces alongside its Next Generation veterans.
Star Trek: Picard certainly has plenty for nostalgic fans of previous Star Trek shows to feast on, starting with the return of Patrick Stewart as the legendary title character, along with other Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members like Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis and Brent Spiner. There’s even Jeri Ryan encoring as Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager, along with references to both those shows, the 2009 Star Trek film and other points of reference from the vast Trek mythology.
But there is also a new cast on the show as well, a diverse assortment of largely younger actors playing characters that are all-new to the Trek universe and each integral to the show’s storyline, which involves the resettlement of the Romulans after their sun goes supernova, an unexplainable...
Star Trek: Picard features an impressive lineup of newer faces alongside its Next Generation veterans.
Star Trek: Picard certainly has plenty for nostalgic fans of previous Star Trek shows to feast on, starting with the return of Patrick Stewart as the legendary title character, along with other Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members like Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis and Brent Spiner. There’s even Jeri Ryan encoring as Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager, along with references to both those shows, the 2009 Star Trek film and other points of reference from the vast Trek mythology.
But there is also a new cast on the show as well, a diverse assortment of largely younger actors playing characters that are all-new to the Trek universe and each integral to the show’s storyline, which involves the resettlement of the Romulans after their sun goes supernova, an unexplainable...
- 1/28/2020
- Den of Geek
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