#Timey 2 wimey twitter commentary trial

This is a bit different than the Jean-Luc of TNG. The Jean-Luc Picard of PicardSeason 1, presented himself in the very first episode, “Remembrance,” as a historian. Q’s Return on Star Trek: Picard Season 2 will Follow “Significant Trauma” By Joseph Baxter In order for social progress to make sense, you actually do have to constantly reassess history to figure out why things went so terribly, and how the specifics of those events could accidentally be repeated if we’re not careful. In real life, though, Picard’s “Encounter at Farpoint” optimism doesn’t really work. Jean-Luc’s reply to Q in “Encounter at Farpoint” was flippant and hopeful: “We are what we are, and we’re doing the best that we can.” He also pointed out that for him, the 21st century, and all its horrors, were a long time ago, and implored Q to measure humanity by the standards of the 24th century. This is the reason why Picard time-traveling to the 21st century for Season 2 is not only bold, but appropriate. Still, Q talking about some awful court from the year “2079” still seemed a bit far-out in 1987. Plus, in 1987, TNGhad inherited the wonky future backstory of The Original Series, in which a Eugenics War ( Khaann!!!) ravaged the entire world in the 1990s. At the time “Encounter at Farpoint” aired, suggesting that the 21st century was the worst period of human history was kind of edgy for an ‘80s sci-fi show.

But, Q’s whole point to Picard in TNG was that humanity was always on the brink of this kind of awful situation anyway.

#Timey 2 wimey twitter commentary trial

As referenced in the new “Star Trek Day” trailer for PicardSeason 2, Q did warn Jean-Luc in “All Good Things…” that “the trial never ends.” But what does that mean exactly? In Picard Season 2, it appears that Q has done something in Earth’s past that has caused the “present” (roughly 2399) to become as Jean-Luc says a “totalitarian” version of Earth.