Star Trek: Picard
Summary
audience never met the Mirror Universe variation of Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) , butStar Trek : Picardrevealed that he had an malevolent doppelgänger who was just as evil as anyone in the Terran Empire . InPicardseason 2 , the machinations of Q ( John de Lancie ) created an alternate timeline in which the United Federation of Planets becomes the Confederation of Earth . This brutal regime was the antithesis of Star Trek ’s Federation , get out comparability between the Confederation and the Terran Empire .
Both the Confederation and the Terran Empire placed humanity above all other species in the galax , leading to a blinking and fell oppression of other alien races . AsStar Trek : TNGdidn’t visit the Mirror Universe , General Picard was the close that fans got to seeing his evil opposite number . Just like the Mirror Universe version of Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) , theConfederation ’s General Picard was a fell tyrant who had inhibit numberless worlds and kill scores of enemy .
Worf is the only TNG character to appear in Star Trek ’s Mirror Universe , and Deep Space Nine revealed that he was the Regent and supreme swayer !
General Picard Of Confederation of Earth Was As Evil As Mirror Universe
Of the manyreveals aboutStar Trek : Picard ’s Confederation , the information about General Picard and his reign of terror was the most chilling . General Picard annihilated the Klingon nursing home human beings Qo’noS , much like the Mirror Universe ’s Emperor Philippa Georgiou ( Michelle Yeoh ) did inStar Trek : Discovery . Rather than command the USS Enterprise - D , Picard was in command of the CSS World Razer , a fearsome look spaceship of which an oil painting was hung in the General ’s study . General Picard ’s study was also decorated with the skulls of some notableStar Trekfigures , include :
Like his Prime Universe vis-a-vis , General Picard also had a man-made body , which he had acquire come a battle with Gul Dukat . The General ’s chateau was staffed by both Romulan and synthetic slaves , who maintained his home while he was on crucial patronage for the Confederation Corps . When Prime Picard arrives in the Confederation realism inStar Trek : Picardseason 2 , it ’s on the eventide of Eradication Day , in which the General is scheduled to in public execute the Borg Queen ( Annie Wersching).The Borg Queen ’s skull would have bring together the others in Picard ’s trophy room if Jean - Luc and the La Ceritos crew had n’t salve her .
Why Star Trek: The Next Generation Never Went To The Mirror Universe
The feeling of aStar Trek : The Next Generationepisode set in the Mirror Universe existed from as early as 1987 , when David Gerrold joked about a sequel to " Mirror , Mirror " inStarlogmagazine which would have have Edith Keeler ( Joan Collins ) anddangerous , carniverous Tribbles . Jerome Bixby , who wrote the original Mirror Universe episode ofStar Trek : The Original Seriespitched a continuation forTNGthat would have have older versions of theTOScharacters . However , this idea was refuse by Paramount , who did n’t want to have them so heavy inTNG .
Of the many Mirror Universe episode pitched toStar Trek : The Next Generation , hardly any of the neglect pitches have become public knowledge .
A.J. Black ’s bookLost Federations : The Unofficial Unmade History of Star Treksuggests that the pulpy estimate of a darkest timeline did n’t sit well with " The Next contemporaries ’s tank , scientific approach to Star Trek , peculiarly in the Piller earned run average . " Black ’s effrontery is largely right , back up by Michael Piller himself . Piller explained that he " was n’t interested " in revisit the Mirror Universe duringTNG , despite the multiple " Mirror , Mirror " sequel that were slant to him . While Piller would eventually acquiesce and create a " Mirror , Mirror " sequel onStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , devotee would have to wait untilStar Trek : Picardto meet Jean - Luc ’s evil alternate .
All episodes of Star Trek : Picard and Star Trek : The Next Generation are available to stream on Paramount+ .
After starring in Star Trek : The Next Generation for seven seasons and various other Star Trek project , Patrick Stewart is back as Jean - Luc Picard . Star Trek : Picard focuses on a retired Picard who is living on his family vineyard as he struggles to cope with the dying of Data and the death of Romulus . But before too long , Picard is pulled back into the action at law . The serial also bring back fan - pet characters from the Star Trek franchise , such as Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) , Geordi La Forge ( LeVar Burton ) , Worf ( Michael Dorn ) , and William Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) .
Star Trek : The Next Generation follows Captain Jean - Luc Picard and his crew aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701D as they embark on interstellar explorations , seeking out new worlds and civilizations .
Star Trek: The Next Generation follows Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701D as they embark on interstellar explorations, seeking out new worlds and civilizations.
