Why Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Won't Reference Picard Show (Yet)
Star Trekproducer Akiva Goldsman explains why Strange New Worldswon't hold any Easter eggs for Picardjust yet. The first half of 2022 is shaping up to be very busy for Paramount+'s Star Trek universe. The long-running Discoveryhas been unraveling the back half of its season 4 over the past few weeks, and Picardwill return for its delayed second season this Thursday. Finally, Star Trek: Strange New Worldswill take to the skies in early May, just as Picardseason 2 comes to a close. All of these shows are slated to return for at least one more season.
As the newest project to join the Star Treklineup, Strange New Worldsbrings with it a great deal of intrigue. The series itself is a spin-off of Discovery,picking up with the new iterations of Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Number One (Rebecca Romijn), and Spock (Ethan Peck) as they embark on exploratory missions throughout the galaxy. Strange New Worldsis set rather early on in the Star Trek timeline — or, at least, it's leagues before Picard. However, the newest season of Picard will see its characters travel to different eras in the past, meaning there could be elements from it that turn up in Strange New Worlds.
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Star Trek fans will likely always be looking for connections and references between various projects, but they shouldn't expect it with these two Paramount+ shows. Producer Akiva Goldsman explained to Inverse that because Picard's canon still isn't completely set, he isn't interested in referencing it in Strange New Worlds. He said:
“It’s because I think with Strange New Worlds, the promise is that it will be episodic, and [it] speaks to things that are complete. If we reach backward in
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