Star Trek: Picard trailer, ventilation and poster for Jean-Luc's new show

By Scott Collura

To find out more about Jean-Luc Picard's new series, Star Trek: Picard, do not miss the Picard Explained timeline!

Twenty-five years ago today, the latest episode of Star Trek: The New Generation, "All Good Things …", aired. It is therefore fitting that CBS All Access is taking advantage of this anniversary to present for the first time Star Trek: Picard, the next series in which Patrick Stewart will take on the iconic role of Jean-Luc Picard.

You can watch the Star Trek: Picard trailer here and also check the first poster for the show below.

Clearly, the main visuals of the poster and the trailer are Picard's Vineyard (forming the Starfleet logo on the poster!), With only a brief glimpse of Patrick Stewart embodied by Picard at the end of the video. But what does all this mean exactly? Let's see that a bit!

The Picardy vineyard

The vineyards of the Picard family, the Château Picard house and located in La Barre, France, first appeared in the fourth season of the Next Generation episode "Family," a great success that saw Jean -Luc go home to heal after the traumatic experience. to be transformed into Locutus of Borg in "The best of both worlds" in two parts. There, he found his brother Robert, his wife and his son. While Jean-Luc and his brother saw almost nothing – Robert had the impression that Jean-Luc had left for glory in space while he had to stay behind and take care from the family business – it was finally Robert helped Jean-Luc to get back on the path of psychological healing.

Jean-Luc was considering resigning from Starfleet and staying on Earth (to work on an underwater exploration project), but Robert explained to him that he was going to face his trauma anyway. "It will last a long time, Jean-Luc, a lot of time," he says. "You have to learn how to live with it.You now have a simple choice: live with her under the sea with Louis – or over the clouds with the Enterprise."

It is clear that the vineyard was a place where Picard felt safe, a home in which he always knew that he could return if he was in need. We again visited this place in "All Good Things …" when we saw another future where Jean-Luc was suffering from a debilitating neurological disease called irumodic syndrome. Removed from his life at Starfleet and facing an uncertain future, the former captain had again retired to his vineyard.

So it seems that now, in Star Trek: Picard, Jean-Luc has returned home after a traumatic experience. What we can at least partially guess is based on the teaser's voiceover …

The destruction of Romulus

In the teaser, while we see pictures of the vineyard, a woman says in voice over: "15 years ago today, you led us into the darkness.You ordered the largest armada rescue of the story.Then, the unimaginable.What did it cost you? "

It can be assumed that there is a reference to the destruction of Romulus, the home world of the Romulan empire, these villains who were often a backbone for Picard in Next Generation. Star Trek: Picard's executive producer, Alex Kurtzman, said that in the new series, "Picard's life was radically altered by the dissolution of the Romulan empire". It refers to something that happened in J. J. Abrams's first film restarts the movie, Star Trek 2009, which he co-wrote. In this film, a 2387 supernova threatened to destroy the galaxy (no matter that a supernova is just a star that explodes and should not be able to do it). This is how Spock Prime, or Spock Prime, of Leonard Nimoy, has accidentally ended up traveling in the past to try to stop the disaster; he created a black hole to absorb the supernova and was sucked into it himself, creating the alternative chronology of Abrams films with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto.

But Spock failed to save Romulus, which was completely destroyed. It seems likely that the Picard commanded armada was a rescue mission aimed at saving as many Romulans as possible, but the unimaginable hit during this mission: the destruction of the entire Romulan planet, and probably also of the empire.

From there, one can only imagine the change of galactic power that occurred when the main power of the Romulan empire had fallen into disarray. What were the consequences for the United Federation of Planets? And for Picard personally? Just as when he could not save the many lives lost during the Borg attack in "The Best of Both Worlds", has he once again failed to prevent a more great disaster? "What did it cost you?" the voiceover in the teaser says. "Your faith, your faith in us, your faith in yourself?"

Admiral Picard

The teaser ends with the voice-over asking, "Why did you leave Starfleet, Admiral?" And then we see old Jean-Luc, definitely not in Starfleet uniform! But also, he does not look as old as him in the future scenario "All good things …", so that's fine …

(Also, it's quite his Ressikan flute that we hear at the very end of the teaser, no? Long story, but by and large, he got that in "The Inner Light," another big episode of the upcoming generation in which he lived a few hours.)

So, the idea that Picard is an admiral is not new. We saw him take this rank in a false holographic future in "Future Imperfect" (another long story!). In the future "All Good Things …", we know that he became ambassador. But in any case, Jean-Luc advancing beyond being eternally the captain of Enterprise always seemed to be in the cards for him. He would not stay aboard this boat forever, and as he had already told Will Riker, "Enterprise will go very well without you." The same goes for Picard.

But speaking of Riker, there is no record of him or any of the other Enterprise officers here. Indeed, Stewart's co-stars on the new series will be Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera and Harry Treadaway, all newcomers to Trek. But Jonathan Frakes, who has played the role of Riker, will direct two episodes of Star Trek: Picard, and you have to understand that Riker or Data or Troi or that someone else from Next Generation will appear at one point given …

Time will tell us. Star Trek: Picard does not have an official release date yet, but we can probably expect it early in 2020. Here … do it!

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