For the title character, see, "It is a show with a nearly 80-year-old actor playing a 94-year-old man who is if not in the final stages of his career, in the latter stages of his career, who has a period of great dismay and disillusionment in his immediate rear view, who has allowed himself to let ties that were formerly very important to him slip or fade away, and who has now re-engaged with the greatly changed world in which he finds himself. [25] In February 2019, Kurtzman said future shorts could tie directly into series other than Discovery. [38] In April, Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway, and Isa Briones joined the cast. Seven of Nine [32] CBS officially renewed the series for a second season a month later and revealed that Terry Matalas had joined the series as an executive producer to fill the void that would be created by Chabon's planned departure. [2] Kurtzman revealed that the series would find the character "radically altered" by the destruction of Romulus several years after the events of Nemesis, as depicted in the film Star Trek (2009),[3] and explained that the mandate for the series was to make it "a more psychological show, a character study about this man in his emeritus years". [18][19], After developing the older Picard story, the team decided that they had enough to pitch a full series focused on the character to Stewart;[19] Kurtzman and Goldsman contacted the actor before January 2018 to discuss this idea, and met with him along with Discovery writer Kirsten Beyer at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Cristobal "Chris" Rios [37] Later that month, newcomer Evan Evagora was cast in another series regular role. [47] The opening title sequence for the show was created by Prologue, the company that created the Discovery opening sequence. 12 Episodes (2020-2020), Trevor Roth [24] CBS CCO David Nevins confirmed in December 2018 that the series was intended to debut on CBS All Access at the end of 2019, after the full release of Discovery's second season and several Star Trek: Short Treks shorts. Picard is about Admiral Jean Luc Picard, years following his retirement from Starfleet. Feel Good Season 2: Release Date, Cast, Plot, Trailer, And Here Is Everything We Know About It!!! Dahj Asha/Soji Asha In the series, the character must find his way back to Roddenberry's original optimistic vision for the franchise, which Kurtzman hoped would reinforce that original vision while allowing the character to "go through deep valleys". [59] Russo's relationship with Star Trek began as a fan of The Next Generation, and he asked Kurtzman if he could work on Picard after seeing Stewart's announcement of the series at the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention. Star Trek: Picard is an American Sci-fi web television series created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, and Alex Kurtzman. [4], With the series announcement in August 2018 came confirmation that Stewart would star as Picard. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Star Trek: Picard's cast includes Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, Brent Spiner as Data, Jeri Ryan as 7 of 9, & Jonathan Frakes as Will Riker. [3][19] Stewart took the meeting with the intention of turning the project down, but after Beyer convinced him to reconsider he agreed to read a four-page document outlining their ideas. Counselor Deanna Troi [72], When the first season of the Discovery companion series Star Trek: Short Treks was being released in December 2018, CBS CCO David Nevins stated that there would be more shorts released before the premiere of Picard.

12 Episodes (2020-2020), Jeri Ryan [10] In January 2020, Stewart said it was his hope that all of the main cast of The Next Generation would appear on Picard before the end of the series,[42] while Kurtzman said if Michael Dorn reprised his Klingon role Worf in Picard he would appear as he did in The Next Generation and not be changed to match the new Klingon designs in Discovery.