Mystery Solved: Season 3 is set in the year 2411

[Timofnine]

I'm not completely buying it without official confirmation. I reached out to Terry Matalas on Twitter, as I'm sure several folks have. Here's hoping one of us gets a reply!

I got a like! But no definitive response. I guess that the answer may be a spoiler so we might just have to wait and see. Terry Matalas has signed a non disclaimer agreement so he cannot give too many spoilers away or they might sack him. Giving away the year that this season is set in could be a spoiler as to what we may see on Frontier Day, so he probably cannot say. Or maybe he just got his dates wrong and now does not know how to retcon his mistake?

 

[fireproof78]

Maybe we should try that "wait and see " thing I've heard so much about? Patience is a virtue or so a talking lion once taught me.

 

[Timofnine]

Maybe we should try that "wait and see " thing I've heard so much about? Patience is a virtue or so a talking lion once taught me.

Well, was Picard season 1 not set in 2399? This means that Picard season 2 was likely 2400. If we follow this logical chronological pattern it is entirely plausible that Picard season 3 does indeed take place in 2401, making the launch of the NX-01 the 250th anniversary celebration of this event? They could even make a historical holodeck episode about it like the Enterprise finale These are the Voyages. Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis should be game, but they may look silly in those old TNG uniforms this time around.

 

[fireproof78]

Well, was Picard season 1 not set in 2399? This means that Picard season 2 was likely 2400. If we follow this logical chronological pattern it is entirely plausible that Picard season 3 does indeed take place in 2401,

It's only logical if you have all the data points.

 

[Tuskin38]

This means that Picard season 2 was likely 2400

Season 2 was in 2401 according to the labels on the Chateau Picard wine in Episode 1. I'm also 95% certain someone said there was a 2 year time skip in an Season 2 interview.

The Titan-A was launched in 2402 according to Doug Drexler and the audio logs released a few weeks ago.

or they might sack him

How can you sack someone not actively working for you?

 

[Timofnine]

Season 2 was in 2401.

Then I have no idea what season 3 is celebrating on Frontier Day, as the dates just do not match up.

Is it possible that the Q manipulated the timeline when the Continuum delivered Picard and his gang back in 2400? The whole year of 2401 could have been erased and rebooted in to what we see this season?

 

[Tuskin38]

Then I have no idea what season 3 is celebrating on Frontier Day, as the dates just do not match up.

Is it possible that the Q manipulated the timeline when the Continuum delivered Picard and his gang back in 2400? The whole year of 2401 could have been erased and rebooted in to what we see this season?

Or there's been a 10 year time skip.
Or someone in the writers room goofed up the dates.
Or maybe there was a miscommunication with the art team and it's not actually the anniversary of Starfleet.

There's lots of possible reasons. I think we should just watch the season and wait for it to come up in dialogue.

 

[fireproof78]

Then I have no idea what season 3 is celebrating on Frontier Day, as the dates just do not match up.

Pop quiz: what date was the Declaration of Independence signed and ratified by the American colonies?

Is it possible that the Q manipulated the timeline when the Continuum delivered Picard and his gang back in 2400? The whole year of 2401 could have been erased and rebooted in to what we see this season?

Nope.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

It would be a very Earth-Centric mindset to think they were celebrating anything but the beginning of the Federation Starfleet.

The Vulcans don't get jealous, but they had "a" starfleet at least a hundred years before Earth. Other species' were also ahead of us in that respect.

 

[Paul755]

David Blass says 2401

https://twitter.com/daveblass/status/1626797073285763080?s=61&t=h-48-rZLerGA8ClqqkcBtg

 

[Danja]

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Starfleet

Starfleet was founded in the 2130's.

SF was founded after the UFP. Its 250th would've been around the Prodigy era.

 

[Caeruleus]

David Blass says 2401

https://twitter.com/daveblass/status/1626797073285763080?s=61&t=h-48-rZLerGA8ClqqkcBtg

Dave Blass actually doesn't know a shit.

It is not possible that is 2401.

Titan-A is operational since 2402.

 

[James Cole]

Titan-A is operational since 2402.

I think that date was just from Doug Drexler's Facebook post?

 

[Alexander Corrino]

Matalas has said several times in interviews etc. that season 3 is set about a year or a year and a half after season 2.

 

[MrShinzoff]

Picard apologises to Will for taking him away from his family and refers to his daughter. If this was 2411, the daughter would be a young adult who would most likely have flown the nest. It wouldn't make sense for Picard to say that. Plus, nobody has visibly aged a decade.

 

[StewMc]

It could be this, based on what I think was partially the original intent mixed in with a bit of fudging together what we now know:

Season 1: Early 2399
Season 2: Early 2400
Season 3: April 2401, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the NX-01 launch, the metaphorical birth of Starfleet if not the literal birth.

Rios specifically states in Season 2 he is from the year 2400. I assume the labels on the wine bottles in “The Star Gazer” were a mistake.

The only thing the above doesn’t explain is the Instagram logs and Doug Drexler giving dates beyond 2401. And us all thinking that the dates are later has mudded the waters even more.

Just my theory.

EDIT: just noticed there were some similar ideas to this in the episode thread. It’s hard to keep up!

 

[Tomalak]

2401 works better than 2411, but something in the middle would have worked better! It didn't feel like Seven had been in Starfleet for a decade, or working with Shaw for long.

Riker had been semi-retired for a good few years by Season 1, so plenty of time for the original Titan to be scrapped or refit, however you want to put it. Shaw can easily have been commanding the Titan-A for five years.

I never quite bought Frontier Day marking the anniversary of the Federation - isn't that Federation Day? So marking the launch of the NX-01 and the start of Starfleet's deep space exploratory missions makes perfect sense in this context.

 

[Macintosh]

I never quite bought Frontier Day marking the anniversary of the Federation - isn't that Federation Day? So marking the launch of the NX-01 and the start of Starfleet's deep space exploratory missions makes perfect sense in this context.

Should've called it Enterprise Day...

 

[Caeruleus]

I don't know why producers are doing this messed stuff. At the beggining of every season they could just write current year. It would be much easier and more logical.

 

[fireproof78]

I don't know why producers are doing this messed stuff. At the beggining of every season they could just write current year. It would be much easier and more logical.

Because they hate you personally. That's why. And I asked them too. Hey, being a paid CBS plant has to have some perks!