Recap / Star Trek: Picard

The recap page for Star Trek: Picard.

Unmarked spoilers are present throughout the subpages as well as some of the synopses below. Read at your own risk.

Synopses

The first season of Star Trek: Picard premiered in January 2020. Set in 2399, the season begins years after Admiral Jean-Luc Picard retired to his vineyard in France. The Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards on Mars, where Starfleet was assembling ships to help Romulans conduct a Homeworld Evacuation (in case Ambassador Spock and his "red matter" plan got accidentally sucked into an Alternate Timeline or some other nonsense), was using android helpers patterned on the positronic matrices Dr. Noonien Soong created to power Data; these androids rebelled, destroying the shipyards and indeed Mars itself. Starfleet passed a Ban on A.I. and gave up on the evacuation, and Picard resigned in disgust. This is when he receives an urgent visit from a young woman named Dahj. It turns out she too is a positronic android, similar to Data but even more Ridiculously Human Robot than he, and descended from him. It also becomes clear that the Romulans are willing to kill to get rid of her — and do. But robots like Dahj always come in pairs, and Picard, with the help of his Number Two Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) and Star Trek: Voyager Breakout Character Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), sets out to meet up with Dahj's twin sister Soji... And figure out why the Romulans want her so badly dead. Guest appearances include Jonathan Frakes as Capt. William Riker, Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi-Riker, Brent Spiner as Data and Jonathan Del Arco as Hugh of Borg.

A second season was ordered prior to the first season airing. It premiered March 3, 2022 on Paramount+. In 2401, Picard is summoned to a diplomatic crisis when the Borg return, with their queen attempting to assimilate an entire fleet at once. Picard, Raffi and Seven are then yoinked into a Mirror Universe by Q, where the Terran Confederation has succeeded at conquering the galaxy. The main characters determine that the Point of Divergence happened in Los Angeles in 2024 and use Time Travel to go back and Set Right What Once Went Wrong: the removal of one Renee Picard (b. 1996), pioneering astronaut and Jean-Luc's Famous Ancestor, from the first manned mission to Europa. Antagonists include Q, Trickster Mentor extraordinaire, as well as amoral geneticist Dr. Adam Soong (Spiner). Allies include Tallinn, a (Romulan) Supervisor, an agent working with the Travelers to preserve the integrity of the time stream. Additional appearances include the Borg Queen (played by Annie Wersching in her final role), Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) and a brief cameo by Tallinn's boss, Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton).

Season 3 of was shot simultaneously with season 2, and includes the return of the entire TNG cast as special guest stars. It began airing on February 16, 2023. It's still 2401. Picard, preparing to retire, is interrupted when Captain Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) sends him a coded distress signal suggesting that there is an existential threat not just to Starfleet but within Starfleet. Picard and Riker set out to rescue her, but the mission is complicated when Picard learns that Beverly's helper, Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers), is not only her son but his as well, and that the whole reason Beverly is in trouble is because unknown assailants are after the young man. Meanwhile, Raffi, working for Starfleet Intelligence, learns of a terrorist threat and begins working with her handler, Captain Worf (Michael Dorn), to get to the bottom of it. They learn that a Renegade Splinter Faction of Changelings have infiltrated Starfleet and are planning to cripple it from the inside out in revenge for the Dominion War; they want Jack for reasons unknown. Picard, on the run with only one ship on his side, increasingly turns to Commodore Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) and the rest of the TNG characters for help, dragging the old crew back together for one last adventure. Guest appearances include Ro Laren (Michelle Forbes), Tuvok (Tim Russ) and Admiral Elizabeth Shelby (Elizabeth Dennehy).

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Season 1 (January 9, 2020 to March 26, 2020)

Prequel: Short Treks "Children of Mars"

1. "Remembrance"
2. "Maps and Legends"
3. "The End is the Beginning"
4. "Absolute Candor"
5. "Stardust City Rag"
6. "The Impossible Box"
7. "Nepenthe"
8. "Broken Pieces"
9. "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
10. "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2"

Season 2 (March 3, 2022 to May 5, 2022)

1. "The Star Gazer"
2. "Penance"
3. "Assimilation"
4. "Watcher"
5. "Fly Me to the Moon"
6. "Two of One"
7. "Monsters"
8. "Mercy"
9. "Hide and Seek"
10. "Farewell"

Season 3 (February 16, 2023 to April 20, 2023)

1. "The Next Generation"
2. "Disengage"
3. "Seventeen Seconds"
4. "No Win Scenario"
5. "Imposters"
6. "The Bounty"
7. "Dominion"
8. "Surrender"
9. "Vox"
10. "The Last Generation"

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