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- The season premiered on the streaming service Paramount+ on March 3, 2022, and ran for 10 episodes until May 5.
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The second season features special guest stars returning from previous Star Trek media, including John de Lancie as Q and Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan . The season premiered on the streaming service Paramount+ on March 3, 2022, and ran for 10 episodes until May 5.
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Updated: Mar 3, 2022 8:05 am
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Full spoilers follow for Star Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 1, “The Star Gazer,” which is now streaming on Paramount+.
It’s been almost two years since we last saw Jean-Luc Picard, thanks of course to pandemic-necessitated production delays. 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. 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.
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. 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. 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. Even opening the episode on a Starfleet ship feels different from this show’s previous mandate.
And then there’s Picard himself, who seems to be doing double duty on the vineyard these days and as Chancellor of Starfleet Academy. Yes, they even got Stewart to put on a uniform again for a couple of scenes. 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.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. 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. Before you know it, Picard activates the auto-destruct and the ship goes blammo. 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. That Irma Thomas’ cover of “Time Is on My Side” is playing -- on vinyl no less -- certainly gives that familiar scenario a different taste, to be sure, and one that is clearly telegraphing where this season is heading.
As Picard and Laris kick back that evening with a bottle to “celebrate” the day’s harvest -- “the end of the season,” Picard says -- the show practically admits that any misgivings we might’ve had about Season 1 were right. “That’s certainly one way of looking at it,” Laris coolly replies to Picard’s celebration comment. But subtext aside, “The Star Gazer” is about the choices Picard made in his life that led him to the classic solitary existence of a Starfleet captain, and Laris is pushing him to realize that it’s not too late for him to leave that lonely path behind. It’s not going to be easy for him.
The flashback that reveals to us the real reason why Picard sought the stars is perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the episode.
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The flashback that reveals to us the real reason why Picard sought the stars is perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the episode, and maybe it will be the most controversial for diehard Trekkies who are averse to retconning. But here it is all the same: Picard’s parents’ marriage was not perfect, and was perhaps even marred by violence of some kind, and Mama Picard taught little Jean-Luc to look towards the stars as an escape from the pain of those domestic disturbances. This new tidbit of information goes a long way towards explaining the cold, distanced Picard we first met in the early days of the Next Generation, the man who hadn’t gone home to see his brother in years. Why would he want to go back to that place, and those memories?
The Season 2 premiere of Star Trek: Picard course-corrects many of the debut season’s mistakes while also bringing back several of the title character’s most iconic associations with the Borg, Q, Guinan, and even the Stargazer. That it is seemingly rehashing some elements but doing so in a new and interesting way, particularly in terms of delving i...
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Jan 21, 2022 · Season two of Star Trek: Picard will premiere on Thursday, March 3, exclusively for Paramount+ subscribers in the U.S. Following the premiere, new episodes of the 10-episode-long second season will drop weekly on Thursdays.
Mar 3, 2022 · Star Trek Picard Season 2 Premiere Secrets Revealed, Ending Explained. Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, and more break down Picard’s new emotional arc, Seven’s anger, the big villain, and...
Feb 28, 2022 · This is the latest trailer for season two, released last month. New episodes of Star Trek: Picard premiere on Thursdays on Paramount+ in the U.S. and on Fridays where Paramount+ is available ...
Watch Star Trek: Picard — Season 2 with a subscription on Paramount+, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV.
Mar 3, 2022 · Thursday’s Season 2 premiere begins mid-action scene, with Jean-Luc and friends taking heavy fire aboard a starship bridge. The ship is near collapse, and Borg-like tentacles are firing...
