Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Has A Back To The Future Connection
Warning! Contains spoilers for Star Trek: Picard season 2, episode 3 «Assimilation».
Star Trek: Picard has a connection to Back to the Future beyond season 2's ongoing time travel plot. Thanks to another unexpected interaction with Q, Picard and his crew have been sent back to 2024 to prevent their future from becoming a totalitarian nightmare. The inequality and poverty witnessed by Raffi and Seven in season 2 episode 3, «Assimilation», calls to mind the nightmarish Biff Tannen altered future that Marty McFly visits in Back to the Future Part II. However, the season's link to the much-loved time travel trilogy is more explicit than that.
Released in 1985, the Robert Zemeckis directed film made Michael J. Fox into a Hollywood star and gave Christopher Lloyd the role of Doc Brown, for which he's best remembered. Back to the Future sees Marty McFly (Fox) sent back in time to the 1950s, where he has to keep history on track by ensuring his mother and father get together. The film was also an early career highlight for Lea Thompson, who played the role of Marty's mother Lorraine. Thompson has gone on to star in many films and television series including the sitcom Caroline in the City, of which she was the star, and recent guest appearances in the sitcom The Goldbergs. In recent years, Thompson has also moved into directing, with her feature debut The Year of Spectacular Men released in 2017.
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Lea Thompson is listed in the credits as the director for Picard season 2 episodes 3 and 4. As a former Back to the Future star, she's the perfect choice to helm the crew of La Sirena's trip back to 2024. Speaking about the episode, Thompson joked (via Hollywood Reporter) that she's
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