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Star Trek: Picard, Season 2

by multiple writers and directors
After a catastrophic start to Season 2, Q steps in to pluck Picard’s crew and the Borg Queen from certain death only to insert them into a dystopian timeline that Q himself had created via a small change in 2024.
— Michael Main
Time? Of course, that’s how he did it. This is not another reality—this is our reality. He went back in time and changed the present.
DEBUT
Star Trek: Picard, Season 2 (Paramount+, 3 March 2022 to 5 May 2022).
VARIANTS
1 English variant
TAGS(SPOILERS!)
Time Periods Timeline Models
  • Change to a Timeline Ripples Both Ways: Because of the change made in 2024, the Next Gen Enterprise that we know and love never came about, so that crew never went back to 19th-century San Franscisco, and hence Guinan no longer knew Picard from her past in this new timeline.
  • Do Over: Picard gets a do-over of the extinction-level event.
  • Hypertime: I wonder who’s more powerful: the Q or the Travelers. Both seem to live in a hypertime (or “continuum”) in which our space-time is but a tapestry that they can view and manipulate whole cloth. There are other discussions of time in these ten episodes that suggest that they live within a separate dimension of time in which, from their point of view, the whole of our space-time can be changed from one continuum (such as Picard’s original 2024 world, and young Guinan knew Picard from only 1893 San Francisco) to another (the continuum in which RenĂ©e Picard never went to Europa, and young Guinan knew Picard from only 2024) to another (the continuum in which Picard gets a second chance to deal with the transwarp conduit, and Guinan knows Picard from both 1893 and 2024). It’s possible that from their hypertime, they see only one of our space-time contina at any given hyper-moment for them, or they might see all of our continua at hyper-once. We do, however, reserve the right to apply different timeline models to other stories of the grand trek.
  • Into a Changed Timeline with Just One You: Picard, Seven, and Raffi return to the somewhat altered 2401 shortly before they left, and all their memories—including the Confederacy, their time in 2024, and even their first time around with the transwarp conduit—are added to what was already present in their 2041 bodies. It’s unclear whether they retain any memories from the altered timeline that were not part of their pre-travel lives, and it is also unclear what happened to tag-4256 } Rios in the world that they returned to. You see, in that new world, none of them ever go to the alternate timeline, not even Rios—so why isn’t the slightly-altered-timeline Rios still there in the same way that the slightly-altered Elnor is still there? Perhaps he just disappeared at the moment of the moment the others reappeared, and they will have to explain to everyone else what happened. Guinan can corroborate their story with the photo she now keeps in Ten Forward.
Time Travel Methods Themes Fictional Tags Groupings
TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)
  1. From an unspecified place and time at an unknown time ⋙ to 2024. Note: At some point, Q travels to 2024 and most likely instigates the changes that created the Confederacy future. After that, he sticks around to occasionally mess with Picard and his cohorts.
  2. From the Star Gazer, near the sun in the alternate, dystopian timeline, circa 2400 ⋙ to Château Picard in France, 2024. Note: La Sirena slingshots around the sun under the control of the Borg Queen. Someone watching from the Q Continuum, would see that their arrival in the new timeline in 2024 gives them a chance to stop Q and restore their original timeline. That original timeline might now be a skeleton timeline, with Picard’s crew being the only surviving remnants. See also Terry Matalas’s take on the subject.
  3. From an unspecified place and time at an unknown time ⋙ to 460 Lowry Ave., Los Angeles, 2024. Note: Wesley Crusher, now a Traveler and twenty-some years older than his Next Generation days, arrives in 2024 to recruit Kore Soong as a Time Supervisor.
  4. From 460 Lowry Ave., Los Angeles, 2024 ⋙ to an unspecified place and time at an unknown time. Note: Wesley and Kore head for unknown pastures.
  5. From Château Picard in France, 2024 ⋙ to the bridge of the Star Gazerr, circa 2400. Note: Picard and most of his crew get a second chance at dealing with the extinction-level event discovered by the Borg.