Plots you'd like them to follow up on from Season 1

[Charles Phipps]

On a PICARD related note, given there's only ten episodes, I think any follow up that is going to happen to the events of Season 1 for that show are probably going to have to happen in novels and I think that's something that will give a pretty ample supply of things I'd liked to have seen dealt with.

* Narek given he's been arrested by the Federation.

* How the Romulans respond to the fact that their version of Qanon killed 900 million of their people.

* How Starfleet is going to react to the fact General Oh carried out a genocide of their oldest colony world.

* Whether they went to fetch all of those flushed out Borg given Borg can survive in space or frozen in ice for centuries.

* How Raffi's family is going to react to the fact the conspiracy theory that destroyed their family turned out to be right.

Some of this may be covered in the upcoming Raffi novel but I'd love to see all of it dealt with.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I don't think Raffi being right will make any difference to her son.

 

[Llywela]

I don't think Raffi being right will make any difference to her son.

Agreed. His grudge is about the impact of Raffi's behaviour on their family, rather than whether or not the focus of her obsession was real.

 

[eschaton]

I don't think any of the OP's points will be addressed, but I'd like them to actually do something with Elnor which makes his inclusion as a character in the first season actually relevant.

Seriously. I mean, they gave him an entire episode of setup last season (Episode 4) and did fuck all with him afterwards. As in, he's so irrelevant to the plot you could have excised him and everything would have been exactly the same - if not better.

 

[Reanok]

I want to see Elnor have a larger story arc in season 2 of Star Trek Picard.

 

[Danja]

Borg vs. Borg civil war (Peaceful xB's vs. the Old Guard "Resistance is Futile" crowd).

How did Seven just happen to find Picard? I'd like to think Janeway asked her to shadow him.

 

[Scionz]

How a (evidently senior) Romulan Tal Shiar Admiral somehow became head of Starfleet Security. That's an intelligence failure of such epic scope that the Federation President should fire Fleet Admiral Clancy, whoever is head of Starfleet Intelligence, the director of the Counter-Intelligence division and dozens of other Admirals, Captains and Commanders.

The fact that Tal Shiar Admiral Oh, who was also responsible for the destruction of thousands of ships, 90,000 Federation lives and 250 years of Mars colonization efforts, got that job would be the biggest scandal in Federation history. It makes the Khitomer Conspiracy look tiny. We've had entire books and moralizing episodes about how bad Section 31 is. This even makes Section 31's role in the Dominion War look like like a lovers quarrel.

Speaking of Section 31, where they sleeping on the job? Oh's the kind of person that it seems like they would have made sure had an unfortunate trip into a Vulcan volcano. Regardless it turns out that Director Sloan was right and Bashir and pals were quite wrong. The Federation needs them (and evidently a better version of them) because "Commodore Oh's" are out there.

This is the biggest plotline that needs following up. Let's just forget about Other-Dimensional-Robot-Space-Cthulhu.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I'd love to see how the Romulan refugees react when they learn their own people, not the Federation, are responsible for sabotaging their rescue. I mean, it's classic Romulan for the left hand to not know what the right hand is doing, but now they're in a democratic society where they can complain and blame in a public setting. I'd love to see how that affects the Romulan Free State and the Federation going forward.

But it'd be my luck I'd get one line of dialogue and 10 episodes of Q dancing. #FML

 

[F. King Daniel]

How a (evidently senior) Romulan Tal Shiar Admiral somehow became head of Starfleet Security. That's an intelligence failure of such epic scope that the Federation President should fire Fleet Admiral Clancy, whoever is head of Starfleet Intelligence, the director of the Counter-Intelligence division and dozens of other Admirals, Captains and Commanders

This happens all the time in Trek, and the higher-ups are just like, "Those pesky Romulans got one past us!"

 

[Kennelly27]

Who says Section 31 didn't know? The Zhat Vash plot basically guaranteed that the Romulans would be removed as a major power following the destruction of Romulus, which in their "big picture" assesment could justify the UFP casualties on Mars. And, even better, should the truth come out - as opposed to an actual S31 plot to sabotage the relief efforts - noone could blame the Federation. It might actually sway public opinion against the Romulans, because "hey, if they do this with their own people, what would they do to non-Romulans?"

 

[Llywela]

Who says Section 31 didn't know? The Zhat Vash plot basically guaranteed that the Romulans would be removed as a major power following the destruction of Romulus, which in their "big picture" assesment could justify the UFP casualties on Mars. And, even better, should the truth come out - as opposed to an actual S31 plot to sabotage the relief efforts - noone could blame the Federation. It might actually sway public opinion against the Romulans, because "hey, if they do this with their own people, what would they do to non-Romulans?"

That argument could go two ways, though, since the Zhat Vash plot also caused the deaths of tens of thousands of Federations citizens on Mars. If it came out that Section 31 knew about the Romulan infiltrator and did nothing to prevent her bringing about the Mars disaster, I can't see that going well for them!

 

[thribs]

The Reapers (those advanced machines the whole bloody season was about) actually doing something

 

[WarpTenLizard]

I want to see all of those points. As well as....

• Seven and Elnor's friendship continuing
• Just what the hell happened to Seven between "Voyager" and becoming a Ranger.
• More about what various XBs are doing now. (Do some long to return to the Collective, and try to recreate it? Are some of the better adjusted ones entering Starfeet?)
• Where Voyager's Doctor has been, during the Synth ban. (Were holograms exempt, or did he have to hide inside Seven's head again?)
• More hilarious obscenities from Admiral Clancy, and other characters acknowledging how unexpected her vocabulary is for a seasoned admiral.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

This happens all the time in Trek, and the higher-ups are just like, "Those pesky Romulans got one past us!"

Even when I'm just watching a space documentary, when the astrophysicist ask why something lis like that I'll just go *cough*Romulans*cough* to the TV.

I do it all the time in Trek.

 

[Deks]

On a PICARD related note, given there's only ten episodes, I think any follow up that is going to happen to the events of Season 1 for that show are probably going to have to happen in novels and I think that's something that will give a pretty ample supply of things I'd liked to have seen dealt with.

* Narek given he's been arrested by the Federation.

* How the Romulans respond to the fact that their version of Qanon killed 900 million of their people.

* How Starfleet is going to react to the fact General Oh carried out a genocide of their oldest colony world.

* Whether they went to fetch all of those flushed out Borg given Borg can survive in space or frozen in ice for centuries.

* How Raffi's family is going to react to the fact the conspiracy theory that destroyed their family turned out to be right.

Some of this may be covered in the upcoming Raffi novel but I'd love to see all of it dealt with.

Trek has a nasty habit of moving on to new things when the general story is over with and never revisting that subject again (unless its mentioned in passing)... it would have been great to use these things to create more character development and richer storyline in the second season... but, its unlikely given that S2 will be dealing with the Q and temporal changes.
And by the time that's over, Season 2 will be over. Maybe it could be picked up again in Season 3, but I doubt it (because its more likely the writers will want to move on to something else).

Giving ST: Picard an episode or two more to address these issues in the first season (after the general storyline has been completed) would have been good and then set up starter points for S2.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The plight of the XB's. Without Hugh, it seemed natural and right for Seven to take over, but instead she was randomly holding hands with Raffi and jetting off to new adventures in a rather nonsensical ending since these people weren't ever a crew, they were hired mercs for Picard's last mission.

And the XB's are forgotten about.

 

[Charles Phipps]

The plight of the XB's. Without Hugh, it seemed natural and right for Seven to take over, but instead she was randomly holding hands with Raffi and jetting off to new adventures in a rather nonsensical ending since these people weren't ever a crew, they were hired mercs for Picard's last mission.

And the XB's are forgotten about.

There's apparently a missing bit where the androids agree to let them live on their planet.

 

[Quinton]

Narek.

Harry Treadaway didn't return for the second season, it seems, and that's an unironic bummer for me and the rest of my household. Maybe if they didn't, you know, cut the scene that gives him closure (closure in the form of being arrested but it's something) it wouldn't feel so damn bizarre.

 

[DEWLine]

"Oh" was a commodore, not an admiral. Therefore, I suspect she wasn't the head of Starfleet Intelligence as a whole, but of the operations for Sol Sector - and other nearby "core" systems - specifically. That would still give her a "direct line" to Clancy's office. And yeah, her exposure as not only Tal Shiar, but Zhat Vash would lead to Serious Consequences at Federation HQ, Starfleet HQ and in the Romulan successor-nations. Both UFP and Romulan nations' governments would want her hide decorating their office complexes in some fashion. In the Romulans' case, that decoration project would be literal.

As for the Romulans discovering the Zhat Vash's actions - and the implications of the Zhat Vash's existence - I wonder if this isn't one more incremental step along the road to Qowat Milat philosophy's ascendance within Romulan society, as well as towards Reunification as shown on DSC...

 

[valkyrie013]

The whole
Intergalactic Synthetic Civilization
and maybe how to contact them peaceably?