Star Trek Picard: Predictions For Season 2
Season 1 of Star Trek: Picard brought back audiences' most beloved Starfleet captain, Jean-Luc Picard (played iconically by Sir Patrick Stewart), pulling him, only semi reluctantly, back into the limelight. With season 2 approaching to grace screens starting March 3rd, what exciting new adventure can fans expect to see from Picard and his budding new crew?
The adventures of season one are best left for an in-depth season recap, as a lot of moral, political, and space trekking shenanigans took place. However, one of the most important things to take away is that beloved Jean-Luc himself died…sort of. Throughout the season he is suffering from a defect in his parietal lobe caused by his encounter years ago with the Borg, when they turned him into the skin-crawlingly creepy Locutus. There is something about Patrick Stewart playing an old man who dies that really sets audiences' tear ducts off, like when his iconic Charles Xavier passed away in Logan, and it made for a wonderful end to the Starfleet captains adventures. Of course, having been approved for season 2 already at this point, this couldn't be the actual end. To resolve this, his consciousness is transferred into a cybernetic body built by Dr. Soong (played by Brent Spiner).
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It’s unclear how much this will play into the second season, whether this was just a way for writers to wiggle out of Picard dying, or if this will be a pivotal plot point. The trailer reveals a lot of new and exciting content, mainly the return of much loved (or perhaps hated) Q, played by John de Lancie, as potentially the main antagonist. Q, with his reality bending powers, takes Jean-Luc and his motley crew in a parallel
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