The new teaser trailer for Star Trek: Picard Season 3 reunites The Next Generation cast with Patrick Stewart in the epic movie fans always wanted.
The Star Trek: The Next Generation era of films came to a rather ignominious end. The entire era of TNG movies feels mostly like wasted potential, with Star Trek: First Contact the high watermark of the effort. However the newly revealed Star Trek: Picard Season 3 teaser looks like The Next Generation movie fans have waited for since credits rolled on All Good Things Part 2 in 1994.
Despite what Twitter might lead one to believe its pretty difficult to make a truly bad Star Trek movie. The worst of the TNG canon of films are all still pretty good episodes of the show that inspired the film. It does boggle the mind how Star Trek: Nemesis could cost $60 million but the films were fine. The only one that truly felt like a big-screen break for the modern Enterprise crew was Star Trek First Contact in 1996. Yet even that blowout with the Borg never really felt as big as any of the Kelvin timeline Star Trek films. Still one could argue that this franchise works best in a serial format but with Paramount+s commitment to big cinematic shows Star Trek Picard Season 3 is going to be bigger than any movie audiences could have gotten.Paramount does not release official budget figures but Star Trek: Picard Season 3 looks like money. The visual effects in the trailer are as good as any feature films along with a fleet of ships and the return of Space Dock. The trailer reveals the USS Titan and does not even mention the Enterprise which almost guarantees a last act appearance in the season. Only a teaser was released so the exact nature of the crisis Dr. Beverly Crusher Gates McFadden is tracking is still unknown. Every season of Picard has had massive stakes but they feel bigger in this preview if only because the gang is all there.
The first two seasons of Picard told deeply personal stories about Patrick Stewars iconic now Admiral. The first was about his loss of faith in Starfleet and how he gets it back. The second was about the trauma of the past both in human history and his own childhood. There is no reason to think that show runner Terry Matalas will abandon the inner life of everyones favorite Earl Grey aficionado. Still with the return of the rest of The Next Generation cast this is clearly going to be something bigger than what came before. Trek fans who wanted more TNG movies are about to get five movies worth of story featuring these beloved characters.
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