The Forgotten Star Trek Story That Predicted Picard S2's Time Travel Plot
Warning: SPOILERS forStar Trek: Picard season 2
The time travel plot of Star Trek: Picard season 2 has recalled several time travel stories from Star Trek history, but there's one influential story that's been forgotten. Over the course of Picard season 2, theshowhas referenced many of the classic Star Trek time travel stories. Most notably, the environmental concerns of Star Trek: The Voyage Home and the social commentary of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2-parter Past Tense. As the show builds towards the season finale, Picard season 2 is revisiting Star Trek: First Contact.
InStar Trek: Picard the former Enterprise captain (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the La Sirena travel back to Los Angeles 2024 to reverse Q's (John De Lancie) manipulation of the timelines. Q's manipulations center around Renée Picard, one of Jean-Luc's ancestors. The importance of a Picard ancestor to the future of the Star Trek universe is key to another, lesser-known, adventure for the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast. The story in question wasn't a canonical episode of The Next Generation, however. It was a specially recorded film that formed part of the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas, Nevada. Opening in 1998, the Experience was an ambitious, 65,000 square foot exhibition, motion simulator, and immersive shopping experience. In order to give visitors something unique, a special Star Trek adventure was also written to bridge the exhibition with the shopping experience.
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Entitled Klingon Encounter and featuring appearances by the original Star Trek: The Next Generation cast in specially filmed inserts, it focused on the removal of one of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's
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