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One last task: Star Trek: Picard dazzles NYCC with extended S3 preview

Additionally, a midseason trailer for ST: Prodigy and a first look at ST: Discovery’s Season 5

An extended teaser trailer for Star Trek: Picard emerged this weekend at New York Comic Con, and it’s all hands on deck for Jean-Luc Picard and his former Enterprise crew. A brief first-look teaser for the next fifth season of Star Trek: Discovery as well as a midseason trailer for the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy were also released.

(Spoilers follow.)

Discovery, as fans are well aware, takes place 20 years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis.

Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis, who returned to their respective roles as William Riker and Deanna Troi in the first season as special guests, sparked speculation about the potential reappearance of more Star Trek: The Next Generation characters. Whoopi Goldberg was specifically approached by Patrick Stewart to reprise her part as Guinan in S2, while John DeLancie was likewise eager to reprise his role as Q in order to stage one more trial alongside his old buddy Jean-Luc. Wesley Crusher made the tiniest of cameo appearances, and we even got to see the Borg Queen (now portrayed by Annie Wersching) (Wil Wheaton).

At the end of the season, we said goodbye to three key characters: Chris Rios (Santiago Cabrera), who opted to stay on Earth in a past alternate timeline with the woman he fell in love with; Agnes Jurati (Alison Pill), who became the new Borg Queen; and the Romulan Elnor (Evan Evagora), who was shot and eventually died early in S2 but turned up alive in the closing seconds of the finale in a new timeline.

The showrunners have pulled out all the stops this time in the spirit of fan service, so those goodbyes made room for the third and final season. LeVar Burton (Geordie LaForge), Michael Dorn (Worf), and Gates McFadden (Beverly Crusher), along with Frakes and Sirtis, were confirmed by Paramount+ to reprise their TNG roles in April. In Season 1, Brent Spiner returned to his role as Data. In Season 2, he changed into Dr. Noonien Soong, the human cyberneticist who created Data. Spiner will return to the show as Lore, a prototype android who was first presented as Data’s “brother” in TNG, in the third season. His deactivation in the TNG S7 premiere wasn’t exactly “permanent,” I guess. Additionally, Daniel Davis will make a cameo appearance as the holographic Professor Moriarty (“Elementary, My Dear Data,” “Ship in a Bottle”).

LeVar’s daughter Mica Burton, who plays Ensign Alandra La Forge, and Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, a USS Titan con officer who plays Sidney La Forge, are among the new cast members.

Vadic, the commander of an extraterrestrial ship called the Shrike, played by Amanda Plummer, is a brand-new antagonist for Season 3. The teaser clip suggests that Vadic holds a bitter hatred towards Picard and his team and is determined to seek revenge not only on them but also on Starfleet as a whole.

In the opening scene of the trailer, Picard is simply attempting to savour a peaceful evening dinner when he is interrupted by emissaries. We find that Beverly Crusher sent him a distress call saying, “We are being hunted.” Vadic appears and immediately starts firing on Picard and his spacecraft while giggling with delight at the collateral damage. That alone is sufficient justification for reuniting the original crew, despite Worf’s reluctance to admit that he now favours pacifism above violence. Riker groans, “We’re all going to die. Geordie seemed to be less than excited about the possibility. Vedic, however, is frightening enough to get over that hesitation. Vedic proclaims, removing parts of scenery from her teeth, “We will scorch the earth under which he stands and the night will glow with the ashes of the Federation.” But first, we’ll exact our revenge.

Star Trek: Picard’s third and final season will debut on Paramount+ on February 16, 2023.

Enterprise: Discovery

A two-season story arc that was set in the far future was concluded by Star Trek: Discovery’s fourth season. As I’ve previously mentioned, when Discovery and her crew travelled to the future in Season 3, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) was relieved to see that life still survived. The Burn, a catastrophic occurrence that caused all the dilithium in the Milky Way to explode and mostly wipe off Starfleet, nevertheless, made the galaxy a completely different place. In the aftermath, all the planets were detached from one another and were no longer under the control of the Federation because no warp drive was conceivable.

The Discovery team succeeded to beat a competing organisation known as the Emerald Chain, got back together with what was left of Starfleet, and discovered what caused The Burn. Discovery set out to bring dilithium from a nebula to planets that had been cut off by the Burn in the S3 season finale, presumably reviving the warp drive and enabling travel between distant worlds once more. Planets were starting to re-join the Federation, though Earth remained reluctant, and the warp drive had been destroyed by the Burn. Burnham was appointed Discovery’s captain in the end.

A destructive “gravitational anomaly” with a diameter of five light years that was circling the galaxy challenged Captain Burnham and her crew in Season 4, and it was strong enough to wipe out Book’s (David Ajala) home planet of Kwejian in the opening episode. In his loss and devastation, Book made some dubious decisions that harmed his connection with Burnham. We eventually discovered that a brand-new alien species called 10-C, with connected minds and a communication style unreachable by the crew’s universal translators, had created the anomaly. The day was ultimately rescued by Burnham and his team, and Earth at last re-joined the Federation.

The fifth season will begin with a new and quite different storyline, according to the first look from NYCC, which features a space-based treasure hunt with a bit of an Indiana Jones feel and a mystery wooden puzzle box. As the teaser begins, David Cronenberg’s Kovich tells Burnham, “The greatest treasure in the known galaxy is out there.” What are you holding off on? Naturally, she answers with a rousing “Let’s fly!” Burnham and her crew aren’t the only ones looking for the aforementioned treasure—an “old power” that has been missing for millennia. Former couriers became criminals L’ak (Elias Toufexis) and Moll are two of those rivals (Eve Harlow). Callum Keith Rennie, who is regarded as being on the gruff side of course, plays Starfleet Captain Rayner in this season’s cast.

As we’ve previously mentioned, Star Trek: Prodigy is a kid-friendly computer-animated sitcom that centred on a “motley crew of young aliens” who live in the Tars Lamora penal colony in the Delta Quadrant. They find the USS Protostar, a Starfleet ship that has been abandoned, and they determine it will be the best means of transportation to take them to the Alpha Quadrant. After the events of Star Trek: Voyager, the series is set in 2383. Captain Kathryn Janeway, or more precisely, the ship’s Emergency Training Hologram, who instructs the crew on how to manage the ship through the vastness of space, is voiced by Kate Mulgrew.

Ella Purnell plays a Vaunt N’Akat named Gwyn; Angus Imrie plays a non-corporeal energy-based lifeform named Zero; Jason Mantzoukas portrays the Tellarite Jankom Pog; Rylee Alazraqui plays an eight-year-old animal lover named Rok-Tahk; Dee Bradley Baker portrays an indestructible blob named Murf; John Noble portrays Gwyn’s oppressive father

Since the cliffhanger midseason finale on February 3, there haven’t been any new episodes (later airing on Nickelodeon on August 5). The Protostar and her ragtag crew received a letter from The Diviner offering to liberate the last few Tars Lamora inmates in exchange for the ship’s return. The Diviner was duped by Dal and the rest of the crew, who later discovered that he had been contacted from the future to stop his people from being annihilated. Apparently there was a civil war when they first made contact with Starfleet, and the Diviner had a plot to use the Protostar to obliterate Starfleet. When Zero exposed their actual form, he was driven insane and eventually ended himself in exile on Tars Lamora. While this was going on, Dal and his team went for Federation space after saving the colony’s miners. And we discovered that none other than the real Captain Janeway on the USS Dauntless was keeping an eye on them.

The Protostar and her crew left Tars Lamora for good several weeks before to the beginning of the video, and it appears that everyone’s desire of finding a place where they are truly accepted is about to come true (“We want to join Starfleet!”). However, Janeway’s insistence that the Protostar’s thief must be apprehended suggests that the Federation may not be all that friendly. Hologram Janeway asks, “The real me is hunting us.” I wish you luck in that. The crew determines they can still aid others even though they are obviously unable to join Starfleet. And there will undoubtedly be more absurd antics.

On October 27, 2022, Star Trek: Prodigy will premiere its second season on Paramount+. A second season is now in the works.

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