Picard Season 2 Recreates A Kirk & Spock Scene From Voyage Home
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 4 — «Watcher»
In Star Trek: Picard season 2, episode 4, Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) and Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) recreate a famous bus scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home but this time, the outcome is quite different. All roads inStar Trek: Picard season 2 have led to 2024 Los Angeles, the time and place Q (John de Lancie) caused a divergence in the timeline that spawned the dark future ruled by the Confederation of Earth. Although their mission was to find the Watcher (Orla Brady), Seven and Raffi have been detoured to rescue Cristobal Rios (Santiago Cabrera), who has been imprisoned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Star Trek: Picard season 2's time travel deliberately nods to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, when Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew time-traveled to 1986 San Francisco to bring two humpback whales back to the 23rd century. Kirk's Starfleet crew were the ultimate fish out of water in late-20th-century San Francisco and the outer space heroes from the future had hilarious misadventures, like Pavel Chekov (Walter Koening) asking passers-by where the «nuclear wessels» are. One of the most memorable incidents in Star Trek IV saw Kirk and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) riding the bus to the Cetacean Institute. One of the passengers was a punk (Kirk Thatcher) blasting a rock song at a high volume, making everyone on the bus uncomfortable. After the punk ignored Kirk's request that he turn the music off, Spock efficiently rendered him unconscious with the Vulcan nerve pinch, which drew applause from everyone else on the bus.
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