The 2d season of the American television series Star Trek: Picard capabilities the individual Jean-Luc Picard in the year 2401 whilst he and his companions are trapped in an exchange reality by means of Q as a part of the ultimate trial for Picard. They should tour returned to 2024 Los Angeles in a race in opposition to time to save the future of the galaxy. The season is produced via CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout, Weed Road Pictures, and Roddenberry Entertainment, with Akiva Goldsman and Terry Matalas serving as showrunners.
Patrick Stewart stars as Picard, reprising his role from the series Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as different Star Trek media. Alison Pill, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, Orla Brady, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera, and Brent Spiner also megastar. A second season turned into in development for months before being formally introduced in January 2020, with Matalas joining ahead of the planned departure of first season showrunner Michael Chabon. The time journey story became conceived by Matalas and connects to Picard’s struggles with his personal records. Delayed from a deliberate June 2020 manufacturing begin by using the COVID-19 pandemic, filming started in California in February 2021 and lasted until September, capturing again-to-lower back with the 1/3 season. The 2nd season capabilities unique guest stars returning from preceding Star Trek media, including John de Lancie as Q and Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan.
The season premiered on the streaming service Paramount+ on March three, 2022, and is running for 10 episodes via May five. It has received usually nice reviews from critics.Episodes[edit]Cast and characters[edit]Production[edit]Development[edit]
Executive manufacturer Heather Kadin revealed in October 2018 that Star Trek: Picard become supposed to be an ongoing series as opposed to a confined miniseries;[19] the producers knew from the time Patrick Stewart signed directly to star within the series that a 2d season would really be made.[20] Stewart reiterated this in February 2019 and added, “We are installation for in all likelihood three years of this show”.[21] That September, Stewart said filming for a 2nd season ought to begin as early as March 2020.[22] Co-creator Alex Kurtzman showed a month later that a second season became “already within the works” in advance of the first-season most fulfilling.[23]
In early December, showrunner Michael Chabon signed an universal address CBS Television Studios to create numerous new collection for the studio, starting with an edition of his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Chabon would continue to be with Picard as showrunner till he needed to shift recognition to Kavalier & Clay at some point in 2020, and he might still be creatively involved in Picard as an executive manufacturer from then.[24] A week later, the collection turned into informally inexperienced-lit for a 2nd 10-episode season after being allotted $20.4 million in tax credits with the aid of the California Film Commission for the production to maintain filming in California. This changed into the most any television series were offered with the aid of this system considering its enlargement in September 2014.[25][26] An legitimate renewal become predicted once a showrunner for the second one season will be showed.[26]
In January 2020, CBS formally introduced the second season renewal and revealed that Terry Matalas had joined the collection as an executive manufacturer to fill the void that might be created by using Chabon’s departure.[27] CBS had moved Matalas, who started his profession working on Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise,[28] from MacGyver to Picard because of the latter being a excessive precedence for the studio. Matalas were working with Chabon and the second season’s writers for “some time” earlier than the reputable announcement, and he turned into expected to take over as showrunner. The series become also reported to have an informal green-mild for a 3rd season that would be advanced at the same time as the second, so the 2 will be filmed again-to-back.[27] Chabon expressed remorse at having to leave the collection, however stated he changed into “every bit as involved” within the 2d season’s development as he were on the first, and could be writing for the second one season as well as ultimate an executive manufacturer.[29] The distinction, he explained, was that he could now not be going for walks the collection daily once filming started.[30]
In March 2020, journalist Marc Bernardin, who started his career as an intern on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, joined Picard as a supervising producer.[31] By the quit of that month, filming was set to start in mid-June.[32][33] These plans have been made before the COVID-19 pandemic started out.[34] Executive producer Akiva Goldsman stated in May 2020 that if filming couldn’t start in June due to the pandemic, it might start as soon as possible after pandemic restrictions have been lifted.[35] That September, after a deal was made between primary studios and Hollywood unions concerning protection measures for productions at some point of the pandemic, director Jonathan Frakes said filming could begin in January 2021 and brought that Stewart turned into keen to start as soon as viable;[36] filming started in February.[37] Goldsman and Matalas were showed as co-showrunners for the season that April.[10]Writing[edit]
The 2d and third seasons tell separate stories, in spite of being advanced collectively,[38] with Matalas describing the second one season’s story as being more intimate than the 0.33.[39] Matalas, who is known for the time tour-based totally series 12 Monkeys, cautioned the time tour-heavy tale for the second one season which takes suggestion from the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).[38] Before the stop of 2019, Chabon and Goldsman met with Stewart to pitch the season’s tale,[forty] and Kurtzman stated in January 2020 that the writers were assured in it. Kurtzman did want the choice to adjust the story based on responses to the primary season,[forty one] but Chabon said in March that the second season might not be stricken by lovers who criticized the primary for no longer assembly their expectations.[30] The full story turned into damaged through then and writing had begun.[42] One lesson found out in the course of the primary season, in keeping with Goldsman, became to figure out the ending of the season before they started filming,[forty three] and manufacturing delays due to the pandemic did permit extra episodes to be written than traditional which meant in advance episodes may want to sooner or later be revised.[35] Writing for the season turned into completed after filming began in early 2021, and Goldsman said it would not be clean if they have been successful in crafting the full tale until editing changed into executed.[38]
Following the first-season finale, Chabon and Goldsman said the second one season might no longer forget about the fact that Picard’s consciousness is now in a synthetic frame,[forty four] and it would similarly explore the non-public lives of the series’ helping forged,[30] the primary season’s Romulan refugee storyline,[34] and the generation and tradition of Starfleet.[forty five] Matalas stated the season deconstructs Picard in special ways from the primary, with an emphasis on his past relationships, romance, and “the puzzle-pieces of his beyond which might be preventing him from embracing his destiny”.[28] Goldsman stated the season would maintain to explore issues that come up inside the last level of a person’s existence,[forty three] with the Star Trek: The Next Generation characters Q and Guinan acting inside the season because of their deep relationships with Picard.[46] Matalas described Q as “the parent you introduce while your heroes want to stand their truest selves”, permitting the season to explore the “push-pull within every body that tells us to either live or leave, fight or flight, love or permit pass”.[28] He brought that Q’s intentions are the overarching thriller for the season, and having Picard tour lower back in time to the twenty first century pressured him to confront his own records.[47] Following this journey, the season’s characters should decide who they want to be shifting ahead.[28]Casting[edit]
Returning from the first season to famous person in the 2d are Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, Alison Pill as Agnes Jurati, Isa Briones as Soji Asha, Evan Evagora as Elnor, Michelle Hurd as Raffi Musiker, and Santiago Cabrera as Cristobal “Chris” Rios.[25][9] Harry Treadaway did now not return for the second one season as Narek.[25][9]