Paramount+ has released a new teaser for the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard on Saturday 8 October 2022 in the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con 2022. The Star Trek fam showed up and came to the panel which left all the Trekkies in the room in tears (really, the fans were in tears as they marched to the stage one by one to ask about the Star Trek: Next Generation cast’s epic and highly anticipated return in the final season of Jean Luc-Picard on the TV screen), answering some of our burning questions about what to expect when PicardThe third season will premiere on Thursday, February 16, 2023 on Paramount+ in the US, with new episodes from the 10-episode season available to stream weekly on Thursdays.
Among the cast from across the roster of the Alex Kurtzman-helmed shows, such as: Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Prodigyin NYCC was the cast of TNG to whom will return for the third season of Picardincluding Sir Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis and Michael Dorn. During the event, another teaser was revealed for the third season, giving Trekkies some exciting glimpses of what awaits our heroes next season (and before we get to our villains, Picard introduces a new hero in the canon, Geordi La Forge’s youngest daughter, Ensign Alandra La Forge (Mica Burton, LeVar’s daughter), who works alongside her father).
look at the Star Trek: Picard teaser below:
Lore and Professor Moriarty return in Star Trek: Picard Season 3
Trekkies also learned from the NYCC panel that: Star Trek: Picard‘s third and final season would see the return of two of TNG‘s greatest villains, Lore, played by Brent Spiner, and Professor Moriarty, played by Daniel Davis. While Picard discovers more about himself in Picardforced to reckon with his past and has faced one of his previously unbeatable foes in each of the series’ previous seasons: in season 1, fans finally saw Jean-Luc figuring out how to deal with his mortality, and in season two, the Captain had to face his fears and face the Borg.
In TNG and in subsequent films, Trekkies saw Picard defeat many enemies, but one he couldn’t outsmart was Professor Moriarty in the 1993 episode “Ship in a Bottle.” Even before there was Star Trek: Voyager‘s Doctor, Moriarty was able to create himself and take control of the Company‘s computer. “I think, therefore I am,” he says. The holo-man is never defeated; instead, he leaves to explore the galaxy with his lover.
Picard also introduces a new villain to the franchise, played by Tony Award winner Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction), who joins the cast in a recurring role as Vadic, “the mysterious alien captain of the shrikea warship that has its sights on Jean-Luc Picard and his old crew from his days on the Company,” according to StarTrek.com. Besides Burton, he helps Jean-Luc and the rest of him Company bridge crew goes after Vadic, franchise newcomer Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, and joins the cast in a recurring role. However, there was still no word on Denise Crosby’s return as Tasha Yar.
Star Trek: Picard Season 3 premieres in the US on Thursday, February 16, 2023 on Paramount+.