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“Engage!” Yes, that’s what Sir Patrick Stewart says in this moment, and yes, it’s as delightful in action as that sounds.
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Seven of Nine returns quite a few times in this trailer.
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We also see Data join Picard for a bittersweet game of cards.
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That’s not to be confused with the part where we see Data spread out like a deck of cards himself.
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This Halloween’s hot new costume: disassembled Data.
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Despite the familiar faces, the latest Picard trailer mostly revolves around Picard happening upon a woman in need of help.
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We see this new woman fight a few times, though this screen doesn’t show her most interesting power: the ability to vanish in thin air.
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I guess it’s time for Picard to leave the comforts of the vineyard…
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…and go back to Starfleet in search of help.
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“I don’t see why we have to do this every year.”
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“Sometimes, I worry that you’ve forgotten who you are. Do not.”
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‘You need help. Protection. You need a crew.”
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My money is on this guy arguing with Picard about logic.
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Also ominous.
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“She has no idea who she truly is,” this man remarks.
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Alison Pill, seen here looking as excited as we are that Picard is back.
All eyes were on San Diego Comic Con’s Star Trek panel this year, as anticipation continues to build for Star Trek: Picard, the first Trek entry to feature Sir Patrick Stewart since the 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis. And on Saturday, the series’ handlers at CBS didn’t disappoint.
A whopping two-minute trailer went well past “teaser” status with a smorgasbord of story, action, and detail for this CBS All-Access exclusive, all clarifying what little we knew from the first teaser in May. Picard’s retirement to a vineyard was further clarified: it came, in part, because “Commander Data sacrificed his life for me.” (This plot point is emphasized in the new trailer by Picard examining Data’s body parts, all spread out and disconnected in a storage facility.)
Roughly two decades after that calamity, however, a mysterious, unnamed woman (Isa Briones) finds Picard on his retirement grounds and pleads with him: “Everything inside of me says that I’m safe with you.” The woman’s shapeshifting powers and athletic prowess are put on display before Picard returns to an apparent Starfleet outpost. That’s where he declares his hunch to an admiral: “If she is who I think she is, she is in serious danger.”
From there, the trailer yadda-yadda-yaddas to a point where Picard takes interstellar travel into his own hands—and is supported by a brand-new cast of shipmates, all while facing dire-sounding cries about the woman in question. “She has no idea what she truly is,” one crew member says. “She’s the end of all!” a pinned-down Vulcan later declares.
We get hints of Picard taking off and landing on various outposts. In one of these sequences, he pours a drink in a dimly lit office before being greeted by a familiar voice, “The hell are you doing out here—saving the galaxy?” This voice comes from Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), who pops up in other brief trailer moments as if to indicate she’s not relegated to single-cameo status. The same cannot be said for Data (Brent Spiner), who we only see briefly play a game of cards with Picard. We can only speculate how much that beloved character will appear in the new TV series.
The trailer’s reveal at SDCC included confirmation that a few other ST:TNG stars will feature in the series, including Jonathan Del Arco (Hugh) and Jonathan Frakes (Riker), although those stars’ Picard reveals will have to wait for another day. Until then, we at least get a peek at new cast members Alison Pill (The Newsroom), Michelle Hurd (Netflix’s Daredevil), Harry Treadaway (Penny Dreadful), and Santiago Cabrera (Heroes).
One additional fun reveal came at the event: a new CBS All-Access animated series titled Star Trek: Lower Decks. This series’ announcement did not come with a trailer, but we shouldn’t have to wait long to see more, as Lower Decks is expected to drop in 2020.
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