New Picard SDCC Trailer

[IMC Headquarters]

Stuffing B-4's parts in a drawer seems a little undignified. A step up from tossing them in clear totes warehoused on wire rack shelves, I suppose. But still...

 

[Tosk]

Where do you keep your dismantled androids?

 

[The Old Mixer]

tl;dr - Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Nope on both counts. Too deep a cut. SO much in the trailer is connected to the Borg, there's no way they're gonna loop in another massive bit of backstory, especially one that is very obscure and would require way too much exposition.

Yes, this seems to make the most sense.

The trailer itself acknowledges Data is dead.

So it could be:

B-4 who has become Data 2.0
A hologram
A dream

They should spend absolutely ZERO time on the specifics of the dreadful "Nemesis" except to remind people that Data died saving Picard. (and that Riker finally got his own ship.)

The rest of the movie should be completely ignored and flushed from our collective memories.

Please learn to use the multi-quote function (+ Quote in the lower right of the posts you're quoting) to quote from multiple posts. See how easy it is?

 

[Tuskin38]

Yeah it’s def B4’s body, the torso shape is identical to how it looked in Nemesis, with the half arm on one side and full arm on the other.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Where do you keep your dismantled androids?

Safe deposit boxes at the local bank. The manager always calls me "Mr Thorwald" whenever I make a deposit...

 

[sttngfan1701d]

TVLine has become increasingly garbage-tier recently, but I have to say that interview was lovely. They all seem genuinely happy to be on this show. Please CBS, please PLEASE do not screw this up.....

 

[JayTheTrekkie]

Watched the trailer (on YouTube).....by google search that is. Looking forward to it.

 

[OCD Geek]

For me the best piece of info from that TV Line interview was Stewart's comment that hopefully there will be more than one season!

Stewart said a few months back that Picard will run "2 or 3 years", which says to me that Beyer & Chabon have the story all planned out. They just are or weren't yet sure how many episodes it would take to tell it. Knock on wood, we're getting 20-30 episodes of Picard goodness.

 

[theARE]

And even if DSC took place in an alternate timeline (which it doesn't), it couldn't be Kelvin-verse because the time lines don't match up.

DISCO & this Picard show are not in the Kelvin timeline, but they are made under the same alternative licence that the Kelvin series of movies were made under

The so called 'Prime Universe' is not the original Star Trek continuity - it's an universe where things mostly match the events of the original continuity

Whilst this timeline might have the same rough chain of events there have to be differences - a minimum 15% difference I believe - so Seven's implants being different - the Borg cube having blue rather than green light, the DISCO Enterprise being larger than TOS all these things are different for contractual reasons

Discovery & Picard are made for CBS, yes, but they are made by Secret Hideout under the same alternative licence as Bad Robot made the Kelvin movies

However I think the Picard series will walk the line as close as it possibly can - and by the time it airs the CBS/Viacom re-merger might have gone through and it might not be an issue anymore. Picard at that point could then be potentially subsumed into the original continuity. Perhaps the same will be true of Discovery from Series 3 onwards post time jump

 

[The Old Mixer]

My crazy fan theory number 3...

... and I swear I have no idea, so if I'm right here then, no spoilers intended, it's an absolute fluke...

Spoiler

... the young people are the *literal* Next Generation. A group of children from the Enterprise D, maybe the very same ones whose names are on the Captain Picard Day banner in the trailer, who have grown up and tracked down the man who is a living legend to them, to be 'their Captain' one more time. That's why the Romulan hints at him "becoming the Captain they want you to be", why Picard recalls this particilar young lady as special, perhaps in link to a Borg incident, why he says "Engage" in the particular way he does, it's a kind of 'Galaxy Quest' esque story, tying way back to Picard's worry about 'being put on a ship in charge of children' way back in TNG's pilot.

Watch the trailer again with this in mind, and tell me it isn't possible.

That is...a pretty intriguing thought.

Spoiler: Just because you used spoiler code

People have speculated about whether Picard had children. The theme here could be that all those kids who grew up on the Enterprise-D are Picard's surrogate children...or grandchildren, whatever.

But would that make this...Star Trek: The Millennial Generation?

 

[eschaton]

Michelle Hurd is 52. Presuming her character is supposed to be the same age, there's no way she would have been a kid onboard the Enterprise. She would have already been a young adult.

Maybe she was a friend of Sito Jaxa from Lower Decks?

 

[Rahul]

Something entirely different, that's so good and out of left field I didn't even notice the first time:

I LOVE all the variety in Romulan/Vulcan hairstyles! None of the repetitive bowlcuts, yet all distinctly alien. That's how to do different personalities in alien species!

 

[brandnewfan]

DISCO & this Picard show are not in the Kelvin timeline, but they are made under the same alternative licence that the Kelvin series of movies were made under

The so called 'Prime Universe' is not the original Star Trek continuity - it's an universe where things mostly match the events of the original continuity

Whilst this timeline might have the same rough chain of events there have to be differences - a minimum 15% difference I believe - so Seven's implants being different - the Borg cube having blue rather than green light, the DISCO Enterprise being larger than TOS all these things are different for contractual reasons

Discovery & Picard are made for CBS, yes, but they are made by Secret Hideout under the same alternative licence as Bad Robot made the Kelvin movies

However I think the Picard series will walk the line as close as it possibly can - and by the time it airs the CBS/Viacom re-merger might have gone through and it might not be an issue anymore. Picard at that point could then be potentially subsumed into the original continuity. Perhaps the same will be true of Discovery from Series 3 onwards post time jump

Discovery and Picard (and Lower Decks) are all part of the prime universe. This isn’t a question.

 

[The Rock]

I will cry tears of joy if Quark shows up in the show too.

 

[Verteron]

Discovery and Picard (and Lower Decks) are all part of the prime universe. This isn’t a question.

Yeah, the alternative license = alternative timeline stuff is just Midnight's Edge nonsense.

They are not a reliable source. They make dramatic clickbait that occasionally has some connection with reality, but often does not. All these series are meant to be a part of the Prime Universe.

If someone doesn't like that, they are free as always to decanonize a series in their own head. People did this with Enterprise, and Voyager. Heck, there are even curmudgeons out there who believe TOS is the only real Star Trek.

However, that doesn't change the creative intent, nor does it convince the rest of the world.

 

[Vger23]

Surrounding Picard with good looking younger actors is yet another attempt to make Star Trek "cool". (They've been trying to make it cool for almost 20 years. It always fails).

As opposed to what? Surrounding Picard with bad looking older people in an attempt to make Star Trek lame?

Makes sense...

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Something entirely different, that's so good and out of left field I didn't even notice the first time:

I LOVE all the variety in Romulan/Vulcan hairstyles! None of the repetitive bowlcuts, yet all distinctly alien. That's how to do different personalities in alien species!

I concur.

 

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[Vger23]

They should spend absolutely ZERO time on the specifics of the dreadful "Nemesis" except to remind people that Data died saving Picard. (and that Riker finally got his own ship.)

The rest of the movie should be completely ignored and flushed from our collective memories.

I actually don't think there will be any additional Nemesis ties...unless the assassination of the senate also plays some small role with the involvement of the Romulans.

 

[StewMc]

DISCO & this Picard show are not in the Kelvin timeline, but they are made under the same alternative licence that the Kelvin series of movies were made under

The so called 'Prime Universe' is not the original Star Trek continuity - it's an universe where things mostly match the events of the original continuity

Whilst this timeline might have the same rough chain of events there have to be differences - a minimum 15% difference I believe - so Seven's implants being different - the Borg cube having blue rather than green light, the DISCO Enterprise being larger than TOS all these things are different for contractual reasons

Discovery & Picard are made for CBS, yes, but they are made by Secret Hideout under the same alternative licence as Bad Robot made the Kelvin movies

However I think the Picard series will walk the line as close as it possibly can - and by the time it airs the CBS/Viacom re-merger might have gone through and it might not be an issue anymore. Picard at that point could then be potentially subsumed into the original continuity. Perhaps the same will be true of Discovery from Series 3 onwards post time jump

And there was me thinking this new trailer would put to bed this stuff. The Borg cube having blue lighting, and Seven’s implant looking different proves some sort of “alternate licence”, really?

Does all this really just come from that comment that John Eaves made, and no other reliable source?