Star Trek: Picard, Season 2
- by multiple writers and directors
- TV Season
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Star Trek: Picard, Season 2 by multiple writers and directors (Paramount+, 3 March 2022 to 5 May 2022).
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.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: AD 2024 in the alternate timeline
- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: AD 2401 in the original timeline and In the Confederacy timeline
- Timeline Models
- Change to 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 Renée 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.
- In a Changed Timeline, You Don’t Remember Your Changed Life: 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
- High Speed, Angular Momentum, Gravity, Cosmic Strings, etc. Cause Time Warp: in La Sirena, using the same idea as in “Yesterday is Tomorrow” and “Assignment: Earth”
- Themes
- Fix Someone Else’s Timeline Wreckage!: The gang must fix the timeline wreckage that Q set in motion in 2024.
- Guardians of Time: the Travelers and the Time Supervisors
- Long Life: Guinan, the Borg Queen, and others
- Fictional Tags
- Adam Soong
- Agnes Jurati
- Borg
- Borg Queen
- Cristóbal Rios
- Dystopian World: the Confederacy timeline
- Elnor
- Guinan
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Kore Soong
- Laris
- Q (Star Trek)
- Q Continuum
- Raffi Musiker
- Renée Picard
- Robots, Androids, and Cyborgs: Soji
- Seven of Nine
- Soji
- Tallinn
- Time Supervisors (Star Trek)
- Travelers (Star Trek)
- Wesley Crusher
- Yvette Picard
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- Star Trek: Picard, Season 2 by multiple writers and directors (Paramount+, 3 March 2022 to 5 May 2022).
- “The Star Gazer” by Ajuva Goldsman and Terry Matalas, directed by Douglas Aarniokoski (Paramount+, 3 March 2022).
- “Penance” by Akiva Goldsman et al., directed by Douglas Aarniokoski (Paramount+, 10 March 2022).
- “Assimilation” by Kiley Rossetter and Christopher Monfette, directed by Lea Thompson (Paramount+, 17 March 2022).
- “Watcher” by Juliana James and Jane Maggs, directed by Lea Thompson (Paramount+, 24 March 2022).
- “Fly Me to the Moon” by Cindy Appel, directed by Jonathan Frakes (Paramount+, 31 March 2022).
- “Two of One” by Cindy Appel and Jane Maggs, directed by Jonathan Frakes (Paramount+, 7 April 2022).
- “Monsters” by Jane Maggs, directed by Joe Menendez (Paramount+, 14 April 2022).
- “Mercy” by Cindy Appel and Kirsten Beyer, directed by Joe Menendez (Paramount+, 21 April 2022).
- “Hide and Seek” by Matthew Okumura and Christopher B. Derrick, directed by Michael Weaver (Paramount+, 28 April 2022).
- “Farewell” by Christopher Monfette and Akiva Goldsman, directed by Michael Weaver (Paramount+, 5 May 2022).