History Series / StarTrekPicard

* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:Wesley's]] recruitment speech, especially the part about safety not being guaranteed, echoes strongly one at the end of John Scalzi's Kaiju Preservation Society, which his actor narrates the audiobook for.

** Captain Shaw's criticisms of Picard's misadventures demonstrates that however heroic Picard and his crew may have been, someone who looks at their activities without the full context could easily view them as a bunch of irresponsible cowboys.

* PlanetOfHats:

** Season 3 takes it up to eleven. Section 31 is no longer a rogue organization, but a recognized part of Starfleet Intelligence, even though its attempted genocide against the Founders is a matter of public record (and it also apparently performed [[spoiler: medical experiments on Changeling prisoners during the Dominion War]]); Starfleet Intelligence operatives Raffi and Worf are shown kidnapping a civilian off of the street of M'Talas Prime, taking him to a black site, and witholding what they think is necessary medication while he writhes in agony ([[spoiler: the fact that he turns out to be a Changeling doesn't alter the fact that their intention was very much a form of torture]]); "Surrender" shows that it's now apparently customary practice for Starfleet to execute wounded and dying enemies after a battle; Starfleet security people now apparently think nothing of watching their commanding officer beating the shit out of a prisoner ([[spoiler: again, the fact that their commanding office turns out to be Changeling does nothing to limit ''their'' culpability]]); the plot centres around a massive gathering of the fleet for a jingoistic military parade; everyone seems to have forgotten that their phasers have stun settings ([[spoiler: except when they're fighting assimilated Starfleet officers), and the once-bright and airy Federation starships are now lit like Cardassian torture chambers. Utopian this ain't.

* OnTheNext: On Creator/CBSAllAccess, at the end of an episode (except for "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", the Season 1 finale), there's a short preview for the next one. It's averted for the CTV Sci-Fi channel, though, which doesn't include it.

** Season 3 takes it UpToEleven. Section 31 is no longer a rogue organization, but a recognized part of Starfleet Intelligence, even though its attempted genocide against the Founders is a matter of public record (and it also apparently performed [[spoiler: medical experiments on Changeling prisoners during the Dominion War]]); Starfleet Intelligence operatives Raffi and Worf are shown kidnapping a civilian off of the street of M'Talas Prime, taking him to a black site, and witholding what they think is necessary medication while he writhes in agony ([[spoiler: the fact that he turns out to be a Changeling doesn't alter the fact that their intention was very much a form of torture]]); "Surrender" shows that it's now apparently customary practice for Starfleet to execute wounded and dying enemies after a battle; Starfleet security people now apparently think nothing of watching their commanding officer beating the shit out of a prisoner ([[spoiler: again, the fact that their commanding office turns out to be Changeling does nothing to limit ''their'' culpability]]); the plot centres around a massive gathering of the fleet for a jingoistic military parade; everyone seems to have forgotten that their phasers have stun settings ([[spoiler: except when they're fighting assimilated Starfleet officers), and the once-bright and airy Federation starships are now lit like Cardassian torture chambers. Utopian this ain't.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Whatever it is that the Zhat Vash are hiding, it is said that knowledge of it could drive people insane. This seems to include [[spoiler:Dr. Jurati, who kills Bruce Maddox in "Stardust City Rag" because of the knowledge revealed to her a couple of episodes earlier by Commodore Oh]].
** It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:the Romulans had discovered an artifact at least 200,000 years old that contained a message meant for synthetic minds, not organic.]]. The Zhat Vash leaders are exposed to it as part of their initiation, and the [[spoiler: misinterpreted]] message and visions are so traumatic they drive some of them insane and others to immediately commit suicide. It was, in fact, exposure to those visions [[spoiler:that caused the Borg to sever the Reclamation Site cube from the rest of the Collective when a Zhat Vash operative was among a group of assimilated Romulans]].

* {{555}}: Averted in Season 2. Q gives a calling card with a real phone number on it; the number gave out a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1VHdhEv5VA&ab_channel=WhiskeyTrek phone message from Q himself.]]

* Conflict Ball: Picard and Riker both forget that they're professionals with decades of command experience under their respective belts so that they can spend a few minutes childishly shouting at each other in front of their bridge crew at the end of "Seventeen Seconds." Their dispute is resolved almost immediately at the start of the next episode.

* ConflictBall: Picard and Riker both forget that they're professionals with decades of command experience under their respective belts so that they can spend a few minutes childishly shouting at each other in front of their bridge crew at the end of "Seventeen Seconds." Their dispute is resolved almost immediately at the start of the next episode.

As of 2023, attempts are being made to develop a spin-off series entitled ''Star Trek: Legacy'', though only initial discussions have been had between show runner Terry Matalas and the ''Trek'' writing team thus far, as such a show would require further financial commitment from Paramount.