WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Star Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 1, "The Star Gazer," streaming now on Paramount+.
Star Trek: Picard Season 1 ended with Admiral Jean-Luc Picard gaining a new lease on life by transferring his consciousness into a synthetic body to spare him from a terminal neurological disorder. Joining Picard was a group of new and familiar faces from around the Federation, uncovering a Romulan conspiracy and ending a ban on synthetic life that had prompted Picard's initial departure from Starfleet. And though the day may have been saved, Picard Season 2 is poised to put the course of history hanging in the balance as Picard is reunited with his old frenemy.
Picard oversees a harvest back at his family vineyard at the end of the season, with the vineyard's Romulan caretaker Laris providing valuable support. Toasting a successful season that evening, Laris reveals she is beginning to move on from the death of her husband Zhaban, with Picard and Laris contemplating a possible romance themselves before they ultimately defer. Reflecting over his choice to live without a partner into his twilight years, Picard recalls an incident from his childhood as his mother tells him to look up to the stars and dream about them while she and his father argue and fight intensely.
While Picard delivers an address at Starfleet Academy, congratulating Elnor on becoming the first full-blooded Starfleet recruit, Seven of Nine repels an attack by raiders on her ship for its medical supplies. Successfully defending her ship, Seven stumbles across a subspace anomaly, running into Captain Chris Rios to pick up his ex-girlfriend, Doctor Agnes Jurati, on the USS Stargazer to investigate further. Jurati, who had been touring the cosmos with Soji and a group of synthetics to instill goodwill and dispel prejudices about them, is not thrilled to be reunited with Rios. Intercepting a transmission from the anomaly, Jurati deciphers it as a distress signal addressed to Picard and asking to be inducted into the Federation.
Picard reconnects with his old friend Guinan, who runs her own bar in Los Angeles since leaving the Enterprise, confiding about his recalcitrance in pursuing a serious romantic relationship for much of his life. Back at his home, Picard is approached by Starfleet Command regarding the anomaly and its message and travels to the Stargazer where he reunites with his old friends, including Seven. After Picard messages the anomaly, a new type of Borg vessel emerges from it, prompting the entire Starfleet armada to arrive on the scene and make a stand lest the Borg Collective's surprise return prove hostile once again.
Despite the Stargazer putting up its shields, the Borg Queen is able to easily teleport herself onto the starship's bridge and begins accessing the command codes to the armada by hacking into the Stargazer's systems. With no one able to stop the Borg Queen, Picard activates the Stargazer's self-destruct sequence to prevent the Queen from gaining further control.
Following the blast, Picard awakens back at his home on Earth only to find it changed from how he remembers it. Trying to understand what exactly has occurred, Picard is greeted by the omnipotent Q who informs him that the trial for humanity continues as Picard travels down the ominous road not taken, bringing the season premiere to a close.
Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer and Alex Kurtzman, Star Trek: Picard releases new episodes Thursdays on Paramount+.
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