Picard

Paramount+ is still growing quickly even as its competitors recover. Paramount has revealed that its streaming service has over 60 million subscribers, having added 4.1 million in the first quarter. For context, the platform had 43 million users at the end of last spring — that's a nearly 40 percent jump in several months. Not surprisingly, the media giant is giving credit to its slate of originals and exclusives. The service had help from shows like the final season of Star Trek: Picard, Tulsa King and the Yellowstone…

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Save for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and—obviously—Star Trek: The Lower Decks, most of the action for Star Trek takes place upon the fabled bridge. Over the course of Star Trek’s over-five decade runtime, there have been more than one fan who has imagined themselves working under lights at their station. You can close your eyes and imagine yourself among a crew of like-minded people sharing in that optimistic hope for the future that the show was known for. Finally, there’s now a way to truly put yourself into the…

Screenshot: OTOY/The Roddenberry ArchiveThe restoration of the Enterprise-D, long thought lost since it was broken up and crash-landed decades prior in Star Trek: Generations, was one of the biggest surprises of Picard’s final season. But now we know that parts of the ship made their way back home to be restored, this touching new short imagines just how.Weirdest Thing Star Trek Star LeVar Burton Has SignedCreated in partnership with the Roddenberry Archive, cloud-rendering graphics company OTOY has released a short…

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Star Trek: Picard’s final episode is an hour of spectacle and gleeful Trek love, and it’s hard to imagine just how the series could’ve reasonably topped it. That is, until we learned there’s a 45-minute version of that last scene out there, apparently.Playing Raffi Throughout Star Trek: PicardOkay it’s not the last-last scene—that Q/Jack Crusher post-credits will have to linger until someone decides Paramount+ should do that Star Trek: Legacy show. We mean the final scene with the Next Generation crew, as Picard, Riker,…

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…

The following discusses Star Trek: Picard, Series Three, Episode Ten, “The Last Generation.” Let’s not pretend the final episode of Star Trek: Picard was a modern classic, or at least free of its usual flaws. It had the usual mix of rough dialog, clunky plotting and pandered to its audience with a mix of nostalgia and continuity porn in place of saying anything of note. But what it, and the previous episode, did do was offer up a breezy hour of action that, above all else, was fun. After choking down on eight hours of…

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…

As the august space voyager Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart commanded the Starship Enterprise on and off across seven seasons of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” four feature films, and, after a two-decade pause, three seasons of “Picard.” It’s a role he took only because he was assured by confidants that “The Next Generation,” which required a six-year contract, wouldn’t run a year, freeing him to return to England and the theater. The final season of “Picard,” which concludes Thursday on Paramount+, brings down the…