Interesting is that so far we haven't seen the character in any of the season 2 promos. Either they are hiding him really, really well, or this is trul a "one-off" story.
I'm hoping he is a "Lower Decks" kinda character who we'll see occasionally in the background during the second season.
Well, it kills the TNG era fan arguments that the 25th century ISN'T going 'back to the past' now. CBS would have to now start a show in the 32nd century...
One guy survives to the year 3257. Every attempt to eradicate humanity from this point onward is a proven fail. Star Trek is ruined.
I don't think so, but that said, the new Picard series isn't the only new Star Trek 'live action' series they are planning.
Unlikely. I'm just going to hazard a guess that the "1,000 years" bit isn't literally true. So therefore the next logical option is just to assume that Craft is a native of 2258 (or whatever the current year is), just like everyone else on DSC. And since the Picard series takes place in the late 24th...well, you do the math.
In which we see that setting something *after* the TNG era does not free it up from people complaining about continuity.
Or people complaining about overly visual colors in space shots, who have not once complained about freaking SOUND in space vacuum.
Going beyond DSC, I think a lot of true colors will be revealed once the Picard Series is released. What will they think of something that's a non-prequel and a non-reboot that most likely will visually pick up where NEM left off, except 20 years further down the road?
We will get a lot of "why did they not just use the phase inductor bypass to get rid of the monster because even back in voyager season 3 episode 36 it was shows that we had the technology then to do that so Picard and co should have been able to do that now."