Star Trek: How Picard's Time Travel Compares To The Voyage Home
Paramount+'s Star Trek: Picard season 2 will focus on traveling back in time to undo Q's (John de Lancie) actions; with all of the similarities between Picard and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,how do both of them handle time travel? There's been talk that the Star Trek: Picard series is largely inspired by the 1986 movie The Voyage Home. The topic of time travel has been explored at great depths within the Star Trek universe. Recently the topic was featured in season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery when the crew traveled to the 32nd century to avoid a machine AI apocalypse. There are a lot of rules to follow within the canon of the universe, and the trailer for Picard season 2 shows something different than fans are normally used to when it comes to time travel missions.
2022 is set to be Star Trek's biggest year yet. Set to release in February, Picard season 2 begins with Q's reintroduction to the universe, after Discovery teased the reunion in season 4. The trailer shows that Q has gone back in time to the 21st century. Somehow he created an alternate timeline in which the Federation has been destroyed and replaced by a new totalitarian regime. With the help of Queen Borg (Annie Wersching), Jean-Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) and crew must travel back in time to stop this from happening. The only problem with the exciting new storyline? It might not fit with how time travel has been depicted before.
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The Voyage Home inspired Picard, but how the two deal with time travel is completely different. Though not quite a plot hole on Picard's part, the way the new series portrays the effects of time travel is largely different than other series
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