Star Trek: Picard's Time Travel Copies Kirk - And Sets Up A Tragic Ending
Is Star Trek: Picard gearing up to repeat the Edith Keeler time travel tragedy that Captain Kirk faced in The Original Series? Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe may be set centuries in the future, but that hasn't stopped characters traveling back into our time period. Far from it, in fact, with almost every major Star Trek era incorporating some brand of retrospective time travel. The latest example comes via Star Trek: Picard season 2, where Q has rewritten history into a dystopia worthy of the Mirror universe. Naturally, Jean-Luc Picard leads his friends back to 2024 to set things right.
One of Star Trek's most celebrated time travel adventures came in The Original Series' season 1's «The City on the Edge of Forever.» Kirk and Spock wind up in 1930s New York chasing after a hopped-up McCoy, but the captain and his Vulcan friend run into Joan Collins' Edith Keeler — an activist and charity worker who, in a not-entirely-shocking turn of events, Kirk falls in love with. Frustratingly for the Starfleet captain, Edith is a pivotal figure in Earth history. With the butterfly effect in full swing, Edith needs to die in the 1930s, or else the Nazis win World War II and Starfleet is never born. Kirk is left with no choice but to let her perish.
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Star Trek: Picard is now paying homage to that classic storyline with Santiago Cabrera's Cristóbal Rios. Much like James T. Kirk, Rios lands in the past on a mission to course-correct human history. Unlike Kirk, he lands face-first on the pavement, knocked out cold. A good Samaritan carries Rios to a local medical facility, where Teresa (Sol Rodriguez) patches him up. In a parallel to Edith Keeler from Star Trek's past,
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