New Trailer reveals new old character and confirms setting

Can't wait to see oldschool LCARS using the newer production methods! Although...those in the picture don't look as refined and slick as the TNG era buttons to me. I'll reserve my judgement for how they look on camera combined with the animations.

 

I really, really hope it's the former. Leave the beauty of that Time's Arrow moment alone, please.

But who am I kidding, you just know it'll be the latter, the writers all patting themselves on the back about how clever they are to introduce her in her 2028 time period.

 

*Flips table over in disgust. Begins writing ten paragraph rant about how this show is getting the essentials wrong. Inexplicably blames the hipster in the line ahead of me at Starbucks. Vehemently denies ever having been at Starbucks.*

I trust that makes my feelings on modern Trek clear?

 

PICARD: Look. I'm petting my invisible cat. His name is Grudge. He's wearing a cloaking collar.
DUCANE: Cut the crap PIcard. I know all about you. Seven of Nine told me. I'm here to recruit you. You have, shall we say, an affinity for time-travel.
PICARD: Ah. But Q already has. I'm here to restore the timeline I know.
DUCANE: With respect, Admiral, your positronic matrices are past their warranty. My crew will handle things.
PICARD: Ah. The Relativity.
DUCANE: The Relativity-A, actually. The first of the line.
PICARD: First?
DUCANE: Never mind. We need you to feature in a TikTok video that goes viral and unites the world in righteous outrage.

 

Yeah, I was really looking forward to this season - hoping they fixed their mistakes from season 1 - but this trailer makes me very worried. Right now, I am hoping that this is standard trailer fare where they chop up the storyline and highlight whatever action and humor they can to get people interested, but that it doesn't actually represent the "feel" of the full show. I hope that I am wrong in some capacity; I really want this season to work well. Season 1 was more hits than misses, but I feel like all the misses were self-inflicted (to mix metaphors).

To me, this painting looks exactly like Stewart in his Dune Gurney Halleck role. Like they even patterned it after a still from that production.

 

"'Not in the mood'? Not in the mood!"

 

Nitpick: The Relativity seen in the Voyager episode is in fact the Relativity G, as its registry is NCV-474439-G.

 

Seventh of her name. Somehow.

 

Whoever wrote the plaque up either wasn't thinking or was bad at math.

 

"Encounter at Fearpoint"

Gone is Kathy Janeway's ex-stalker and Civil War Cosplayer. Danger Q is back!

Holy crap he looks terrifying!



So in the altered past, Picard is Saul Tigh?

 

Still looks like he could be in the Civil War period.

 

Thanks to Discovery, we can now presume that one of the earlier Relativity's, perhaps the first, changed its lettering following a refit.

 

He was a member of the Space Force.

 

Gray was the color the Confederate Forces wore...

... wait a minute...

If the CSA won, then gray would be a favored military color, so... Anyway. That's a whole other wrinkle.

 

Q's Alternate History, the Stargazer was not "lost" but was a flagship for terror and expansionism - with Captain Picard a feared enforcer of Federation imperialism.

You can picture it, with the classic era uniforms (all be it black) and a re-fitted Stargazer Hull (as seen on the Set chair logo) The teaser trailer depicting the original Stargazer by way of a comparison to this alternate version.

You can sort of see it. No Picard on the Enterprise D - no early introduction to the Borg - no Annika Hansen being assimilated on the Raven

 

I think Harry Turtledove wrote that book.

 

Though he has interesting ideas, I always struggled with his prose style and I doubt I made it any further than the first hundred pages of any of his books I tried to read. Not that that's relevant to anything.

 

I'm beginning to wonder how season two will be recorded in the annals of Star Trek lore. Will nothing we see be recorded as timeline cannon? If everything we see happen, gets erased/reset, it might get confusing to some of us old men. There are so many timelines and alternate universe offshoots already that a even a Borg would need a month in a regeneration station to make any sense of it all.