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Star Trek: Picard’s third and final season had a lot going on—and that’s even before you throw in half the regular cast of The Next Generation, and then some, showing up as the weeks went on. But it turns out, there were almost even more returning faces—and not necessarily just from TNG.‘I Saw Jonathan Frakes Giving Patrick Stewart a Noogie’Speaking to Master Replicas Collectors Club members in a Zoom Q&A recently (via TrekMovie), Picard showrunner and perpetual hoper-for-a-spinoff Terry Matalas revealed that Picard…

Screenshot: ParamountThe Battle of Wolf 359's legacy goes much further than just “The Best of Both Worlds,” both in and out of the text of Star Trek itself. The trauma of the incident follows Picard throughout the remainder of TNG, brought up explicitly in episodes like the following season’s “Family” and “The Drumhead,” and of course in Star Trek: First Contact and its renewed engagement with the Borg in Sector 001, set just six years after the events of “The Best of Both Worlds.”It touches other important Star Trek…

Screenshot: ParamountAnother rare entry on this list that is not from either the Dominion or Klingon Wars is still perhaps the most famous battle in Star Trek history: Starfleet’s engagement with Borg forces in the Wolf system, just eight light years from Earth. Compared to other conflicts mentioned here the numbers involved are much smaller in scope, 40 Starfleet vessels and a single Borg Cube. But Wolf 359 is devastating for the trauma it impacts on much of Star Trek itself in the years since its aftermath was first…

Paramount’s decision to unceremoniously both renege on its season twogreenlight for Star Trek: Prodigy and completely remove the show from its streaming platform has created a PR nightmare of its own making with many, many layers to it. But amid all the concerns, the thing I keep thinking about is just how rude it is to the legacy of one of Trek’s finest.io9 Q Star Trek Phone MessageThat finest is of course Kate Mulgrew’s Captain (now Admiral) Kathryn Janeway, the Voyager star who in Prodigy connected its young alien…

Image: ParamountPicard ends with the Titan re-christened as the new Enterprise-G, meaning the F, briefly seen on-screen before disaster struck in the penultimate episode—and the Enterprise of Star Trek Online, where its design originated—has either itself been re-christened, or it got hit way harder in the Borg attack than we’d assumed.We saw Admiral Shelby killed in action when the Borg assimilation spread through the fleet, but nothing about the Enterprise-F going down. A year’s passed since the Titan was re-christened…

A little over three years ago, I said of Picard’s first season finale that it gave its audience everything it wanted—and that that was a problem. Today, for its third and seemingly last season finale, I find myself wanting to tell you a similar thing. But I can’t, because while Picard’s last goodbye does give you everything you wanted, I no longer think that it’s a detriment.Mica Burton on Which La Forge Character She Related to MoreThe thing is, not a lot really happens in “The Last Generation.” A lotis…

Image: ParamountStar Trek: Picard is in its literal endgame now, with just one episode left in its final season. This whole season has been a full blown reunion by bringing back the now older actors from Star Trek: The Next Generation. And with that show’s crew now back in action for one last ride—at least, for now—all they need now is a ship.This past week’s episode, “Võx,” ended with the reveal of a new Enterprise-D, rebuilt by Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) following the ship’s destruction in 1994's Star Trek…

This week’s Star Trek: Picard set up big stakes for what will be the very last episode of the series—and you can’t have big stakes without some big threats and big blows for our heroes. But it turns out episode nine’s biggest blow may not matter so much in the grand scheme of things, if Picard showrunner Terry Matalas gets his way.Playing Raffi Throughout Star Trek: PicardSpeaking to Collider in the wake of this week’s surprise decision to see Todd Stashwick’s standout hero Captain Shaw sacrifice it all to save Picard and…

Star Trek: Picard has felt very different in its final season to either the spartan, melancholy tone of its first, or the balls-to-the-wall wildness of its second. But as it prepares for one last hurrah with the TNG crew in its penultimate episode, it has borrowed a little bit of that energy of season two to prepare for what will be its ultimate battle: a tale of the old saving the new.The Woman Who Would Be Photon“Võx,” a title whose meaning we will get to soon enough, kicks up the scale of Picard’s finalseason with not…

Much of Picard’s third season has examined the legacy and lineages of its heroes—with Jean-Luc discovering his son with Beverly Crusher, Raffi and Seven combatting their loneliness in different ways, and Riker still grappling with the loss of his own child. But its latest episode finds much more solace in the families you find, rather than the ones you’re born into.“The Bounty,” the sixth episode of Picard’s final season, ushers in the back half of the show’s swan song with a call to action Jean-Luc and the crew of the…