Star Trek: Discovery. Picard won't be returning to the final frontier alone, as many familiar faces from Star Trek: The Next Generation and even Star Trek: Voyager will the Starfleet hero on his newest adventure.
Best of all for fans who have long been frustrated with their favorite sci-fi franchise, Star Trek: Picard finally advances the story of Star Trek after 18 years of prequel films and TV series. Star Trek: The Original Series depicted the voyages of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) in the 23rd century before Star Trek: Nemesis was a devastating photon torpedo to the TNG movie franchise. With DS9 and Voyager ending after 7 seasons each in 1999 and 2001, respectively, Nemesis inadvertently brought the 24th-century progress of Star Trek to a full stop.
Curiously, every Star Trek movie and TV series produced in the last 18 years has been a prequel. Star Trek: Enterprise launched in 2001 and lasted 4 seasons but it was a prequel about the 22nd-century journeys of the first Starship Enterprise commanded by Captain Archer (Scott Bakula). J.J. Abrams resurrected violating Star Trek's established canon).
But with Star Trek: Picard, the franchise is moving forward at long last (so it will be establishing new canon instead of contradicting what's already known). Set in the final year of the Jean-Luc retired at his family vineyard in after a tragedy that left him disillusioned with Starfleet. The new series is set 20 years after Star Trek: Nemesis, when Commander Data (Brent Spiner) sacrificed his life to save Picard, and the android's legacy - along with Picard still mourning his friend - plays a key role in the story.
Along with the joy of seeing Patrick Stewart playing Picard once more - and he'll be ed by TNG stalwarts Jonathan Frakes as Will Riker, Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi, Jeri Ryan as Star Trek: Voyager's Borg, are eagerly awaited by Trekkers - and these are burning questions Star Trek: Picard is poised to answer.
Star Trek: Discovery jumped to the 32nd century at the end of season 2 and is poised to explore Star Trek's distant future, but longtime Trekkers are arguably more interested in seeing the state of Star Trek in the era they love best, which is Star Trek: Picard's purview. Best of all, Star Trek's 18-year era of endless prequels has finally come to an end; Star Trek is about to warp into the future and take fans along for the ride, with Star Trek: Picard fittingly leading the way.
Star Trek: Picard streams Thursdays on CBS All-Access and internationally the next day on Amazon Prime Video.