Star Trek: trailer for Discovery and Picard
It's going to be a good year for fans of the series. CBS presented trailers for Star Trek: Picard and the third season of Star Trek: Discovery at New York Comic Con.
Before we start: I'm going to spoiler the end of the second season of Star Trek: Discovery. If you don't want to read spoilers, just read the paragraph about Star Trek: Picard and scroll down to Tilly's picture.
Star Trek: Picard, two series in one
Let's start with Star Trek: Picard. Patrick Stewart returns as Jean-Luc Picard in the so far announced ten-part series. Picard has retired, but an event sends him back up to the bridge of a spaceship and back into space. Asked "Do you really want to go out in the cold?", Picard replies "Now more than ever."
The trailer is unfortunately not officially available on Youtube, but you can watch it on IMDB. That's why I decided to take some liberties and fiddle around to get the videos. It's not exactly by the book, I know. But if CBS doesn't like Europe any more than that, I've got no choice. Update: it doesn't work any more, so here are the IMDB links. Damn...
The series isn't supposed to be a reunion of the Enterprise D and E crew.
One of our big concerns was that we didn't want it to be that way and especially Patrick didn't want the series to embody the TNG reunion. I think that comes across in the trailer and you immediately think to yourself from the show that we only bring characters in if their story really matters to the storyline of the show.
In addition to Brent Spiner as Data, Jonathan Frakes as William Riker and Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi, Jeri Ryan also appears in Seven of Nine. Seven was one of the lead roles in the final episodes of the Star Trek: Voyager series, so it fits into the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe, but not its story.
Star Trek: Discovery without the Federation
Warning: this passage contains spoilers. You can resume reading without the risk of being spoiled after the photo of Tilly, a young woman with red hair.
The Federation is no more. For the Discovery, the ship that gives the Star Trek: Discovery series its name, has travelled 930 years into the future by the end of the series' second season. The Federation and Starfleet no longer exist there.
"You believe in ghosts."
"What does that mean?"
"That badge on your shirt..."
In addition, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin Green) appears to have been separated from the rest of the crew for over a year. She's looking for Discovery, Discovery's looking for her.
The trailer, also on IMDB, doesn't say much about the third season's plot. Just this: this is clearly not the last time we'll see Ethan Peck as Spock, Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike and Rebecca Romijn as Una/Number One.
Romijn and Peck also appear in the special Star Trek: Short Treks miniseries released worldwide yesterday. In the "Q & A" sequel, Spock and Number One are trapped in a turbolift where Spock asks Una his questions.
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