Paramount Plus Announces Season 2 Release Date For “Star Trek: Picard” Season 2
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Although initially announced for February 2022, the long-anticipated second season of Picard will now hit on March 3, 2022, taking Discovery’s Thursday release slot on Paramount+.
The delay of the season premiere was due to shooting cancelations due to a reported outbreak of COVID-19 amongst the crew.
In season two, Jean-Luc Picard and the ragtag crew of La Sirena travel back in time to the 21st century to fix the timeline – with a bit of help from the god-like Q and a Borg Queen!
Per Inverse:
In 2022, five different Star Trek series will air new seasons. This includes:
The second half of Star Trek: Discovery Season 4
The rest of Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1
Star Trek: Picard Season 2
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1
Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3
The animated series Star Trek: Prodigy is currently airing new episodes Thursdays on Paramount+ and will continue to do so until February 3, when Episode 10 will air. After that, Paramount has confirmed the show will take a break, and “the additional 10-episode-long second half of season one will be available on Paramount+ later in 2022.”
The following week on February 10 — as previously announced — Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 will resume with Episode 8. Hopefully, the source of the DMA and the emergence of Zora will all be addressed before the end of the season. Also, the final three episodes of Discovery Season 4 will interestingly overlap with the premiere of the next big Trek show. It looks like the 13th episode of Discovery Season 4 will air on March 17, which will actually be three weeks into the new season of Picard. Its being reported that Discovery has also been renewed for a 5th season!
Finally, the next live-action spin-off series, Strange New Worlds, finally has a release date: May 5, 2022. This means that the 10th episode of Picard Season 2 will debut on the same day as the series premiere of Strange New Worlds. It also means the summer will kick off with a new Star Trek series focused on the classic USS Enterprise.
According to co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, Strange New Worlds will be more episodic than the previous newer shows, which will harken back to a more classic format of standalone adventures. The new Trek series is both a spin-off of Discovery and a prequel to The Original Series simultaneously. Set in the late 2250s, the show will chronicle the further adventures of Captain Pike (Anson Mount) on the USS Enterprise, along with Spock (Ethan Peck) and Number One (Rebecca Romijn), who all appeared in Discovery Season 2 in 2019.
The series will reveal new versions of classic ‘60s Trek characters, including Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun), Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) and, Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding). The series will also feature new Enterprise crewmembers, Bruce Horak, as Hemmer, Christina Chong as La’an Noonein-Singh, and Melissa Navia as Lt. Erica Ortegas.
It’s also been announced that Strange New Worlds is already renewed for Season 2, something Jonathan Frakes mentioned to Inverse last year when he revealed he will be directing episodes of Strange New Worlds this year.
