Show Guide

Star Trek: Picard

2020 Paramount+ 50 min Drama, Action, Science-Fiction
7our take /10
7.8IMDb /10
The series is set 20 years after Jean-Luc Picard's last appearance in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), and follows him in the next chapter of his life.

Our Review

Picard is a show about an old man mourning the future he helped build, and it’s at its best when it stays in that register. Patrick Stewart returned as Jean-Luc a devastated recluse after Romulus’s destruction and Starfleet’s moral collapse — the opening episodes are genuinely great TV: lonely, angry, elegiac. The season 1 arc (rescuing a Soong-type android who may be Data’s daughter) wobbles when the plot machinery takes over, but the Data farewell hits as hard as anything in the franchise.

Season 2 time-travels to 2024 and gets lost; season 3 is the real payoff — a full Next Generation reunion that plays like a victory lap, with a genuinely great new ship (the Titan) and a Changeling conspiracy that gives every legacy character a real beat. The Riker/Troi material is the best acting in the whole series. It’s fan service, but it’s earned fan service.

Verdict: Watch it — power through season 2, because season 3 is the goodbye the cast deserved.

Seasons

Star Trek: Picard — Season 1

10 episodes
Retired from Starfleet and living on his family's vineyard, Picard is drawn into a new adventure when he is visited by a…

Star Trek: Picard — Season 2

10 episodes
Picard and his companions are trapped in an alternate reality by the extra-dimensional being Q as part of the ultimate trial for…

Star Trek: Picard — Season 3

10 episodes
In the final season, Jean-Luc Picard, in the year 2401, reunites with the former command crew of the USS Enterprise (Geordi La…