Star Trek: Picard Proves The Enduring Influence Of The Voyage Home
Warning: Contains spoilers for Star Trek: Picard season 2.
The time travel plot of Star Trek: Picard season 2 proves that Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is still hugely influential on the Star Trek universe. In discussing the second season, showrunner Akiva Goldsman spoke of The Voyage Home's influence on Picard. The idea came from co-showrunner Terry Matalas who, as a writer of the 12 Monkeys series, is no stranger to using time travel to avert a future disaster. The Star Trek: The Next Generation spin-off's second season finds the crew traveling back to 2024, to prevent the utopian ideals of the Federation from being perverted into Picard'stotalitarian Confederation reality.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, directed by Leonard Nimoy, followed the crew of the Enterprise as they travel back through time to save humpback whales from extinction. In bringing the whales back to the 23rd century, they can communicate with a mysterious alien probe before it destroys the Earth. Picard employs the same slingshot maneuver that Kirk and the crew used to travel back to the 80s in The Voyage Home, but it's not the first Star Trek series to be influenced by the 1986 film.
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While Star Trek is a franchise best known for space exploration, time travel is a recurring plotline. For example, the in-0universe explanation for the 2009 reboot, Star Trek, is based around an embittered Romulan time traveler, Nero, who wants to avert the destruction of his homeworld. Nero creates the new Star Trek movies' Kelvin timeline, whilst maintaining a loose grip on established canon. The flashbacks to the Romulus crisis in Picard season 1 establishes that these
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