Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Images Tease Exploration of Jean-Luc's Past

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New stills from the upcoming Star Trek: Picard season 2 episode 7, “Monsters,” hint at an exploration of Jean-Luc Picard’s early past. Star Trek: Picard is currently coming toward the end of season 2, which has seen Admiral Picard and his makeshift crew transported into an alternate timeline by his old nemesis, the god-like alien trickster Q. The season will end when its final episode airs on May 5, and will be followed-up by a series ending season 3, which will see the return of the Star Trek: The Next Generation original main cast.

So far, Picard season 2 has differed from season 1 by focusing less on action and more on the titular character. The series has attempted to establish the presence of early childhood trauma, somehow related to his mother, while sowing the seeds of a new romance with Laris, his Romulan housekeeper. That relationship has become more complex in recent episodes of the series, as Orla Brady, the actor who plays Laris, is also playing the new character Tallinn, suggesting an in-universe connection exists between the two characters.

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Now, new Picard season 2 images from the upcoming episode, “Monsters,” have been released to StarTrek.com. The images mostly avoid dropping any major hints at what might come next, except for showing that audiences will get another look at Picard’s childhood, as Tallinn enters the mind of the unconscious admiral. The images also show him aboard a starship, which audiences can also assume is part of his unconscious imagination, and in conversation with a new character in a Starfleet uniform, played by James Callis. Check out the images below:

The images are intentionally vague, potentially