Q Shows Picard The Borg
Star Trek: Picard is headed back into production in February. The second season of the CBS All Access series has faced delays due to complications from the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing production back into 2021. Star Jeri Ryan, who reprises her Star Trek: Voyager role as Seven of Nine in the series, confirmed via Twitter that the new season's production begins on February 1st. Star Trek: Picard is one of three live-action Star Trek shows ready to enter production in 2021, as franchise producer Alex Kurtzman confirmed recently. 'Things are just starting to shoot again,' Kurtzman told SFX Magazine. 'We would have been in production already on Picard, but we couldn't be because of COVID. It's pushed our Discovery and Strange New Worlds dates just a little bit, but I think we're actually planning on staying on track for those. By the time they shoot, we will have innovated with a couple shows, and we will know where we are. And we will be a little bit more down with a process.'
Ryan played the former Borg drone Seven of Nine in four seasons of Star Trek: Voyager. Upon returning for Star Trek: Picard, she struggled to find Seven's new, much more human voice. She says it was co-star Jonathan Del Arco, himself reprising former drone Hugh, who helped get her there.
Pushed to Feb. 1 now
— Jeri Ryan (@JeriLRyan) December 23, 2020The Borg intended to use Picard as an intermediary, a spokesman for the Human race in order to facilitate the assimilation of Earth so that the process would be as quick and efficient (or as perfect, from the perspective of the Borg Collective) as possible, with the fewest number of casualties on both sides. The Borg have a singular goal, namely the consumption of technology, rather than wealth or political expansion as most species seek. According to their spokesman, in the form of an assimilated Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the Borg only want to 'raise the quality of life' of the species they 'assimilate.' @Daft: The first appearance of the Borg was in the TNG episode Q Who. Q snapped his fingers and catapulted the Enterprise across the galaxy into Borg space to prove a point to Picard. And in the process made the Borg aware of the Federation. – Mason Wheeler Apr 15 '15 at 10:14. The concluding part of the 'Star Trek: Picard' season finale is going to polarize 'Star Trek' fans for a long time to come. But as a piece of writing for television, it falls short. It's Picard and Data versus the Borg! Hailed as perhaps the greatest Star Trek film of all time (or at least in a dead heat with The Wrath of Khan), First Contact mostly focuses on Picard's deep-rooted hatred for the Borg, and his desire to enact his revenge, no matter what. It also is the first introduction of the Borg Queen (Alice Krige), a character who adds a layer to the Borg that makes them seem both much scarier, and weirdly a little more explicable.
'Jonny saved me,' Ryan said on Deadline's Star Trek: Picard podcast. 'I was panicking… He saved my ass, totally, because I was panicking, totally, when I finally saw the first script. And I know, for this character specifically… I had four years of playing a character that was very specific. And she went from being full Borg to meaning mostly human, but there was a lot of transition, but she was still pretty stylized and specific at the end of that four years.
'This is 20 years later, and when I saw the first script, not knowing a lot of or really any of the backstory yet… I panicked because I couldn't find her voice. I couldn't hear her in any of this dialog because it was so different. Her voice was so specific for those four years. Partly because of the character the way it was written and developed but partly also because Brannon Braga wrote or rewrote most of Seven's dialogue over that four-year period. Not every line, but a lot of it, so it was a very specific voice. And this was so different, so much more casual and human and slangy and not Seven to me, and I panicked.'
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What to Watch (or Re-Watch) Before Star Trek: Picard
Only 2 weeks until the premiere of Star Trek: Picard on CBS All Access!
I have been rewatching TNG and Voyager episodes in preparation and excitement.
The buzz has been surrounding Data, the Borg, and Romulan-centered episodes, as well as Picard’s background.
I’ve compiled my own Must-Rewatch List among key episodes and movies, and why:
Star Trek: TNG Epsiodes:
“Datalore” (Season 1, Ep 12) – When we meet Data’s brother Lore.
“The Measure of a Man (Season 2, Ep 9) – When Picard defends Data in a trial to prove his sentience.
“Q Who” (Season 2, Ep 16) – When Q shows Picard the Borg for the first time.
“The Offspring” (Season 3, Ep 16) – When Data creates his own child.
“The Best of Both Worlds” Parts 1 & 2 (Season 3, Ep 26 and Season 4, Ep 1) – When Picard has his experience as Locutus of Borg.
“Family” (Season 4, Ep 2) – We learn about Picard’s family and also the vineyard where the new show will be starting off.
“Brothers” (Season 4, Ep 3) – When Lore takes the emotion chip meant for Data.
“I, Borg” (Season 5, Ep 23) – When we’re introduced to Hugh, a Borg who experiences his individuality.
“Tapestry” (Season 6, Ep 15) – When we learn more of Picard’s backstory and how he lost heart (literally, not figuratively).
“Descent Part 1 & 2 ” (Season 6, Ep 26 and Season 7, Ep 1) – Data feels his first emotion after a confrontation with the Borg.
“All Good Things…” (Season 7, Ep 25) – The final episode of TNG, when Picard finds himself shifting through time.
Episodes focusing on the Romulans:
“The Enemy” – (Season 3, Ep 7)
“The Defector” – (Season 3, Ep 10)
“Unification I and II” – (Season 5, Ep 7 & 8)
“Face of the Enemy” – (Season 6, Ep 14)
Must-Watch Movies:
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Nemesis
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Star Trek: Voyager episodes focusing on Seven of Nine and the Borg:
“The Gift” – (Season 4, Ep 2)
“The Raven” – (Season 4, Ep 6)
“One” – (Season 4, Ep 25)
“Drone” – (Season 5, Ep 2)
“Infinite Regress” (Season 5, Ep 7)
“Dark Frontier, Parts 1 & 2” – (Season 5, Ep 15 & 16)
“Collective” – (Season 6, Ep 16)
“Unimatrix Zero Part 1 & 2” – (Season 6, Ep 26 and Season 7 Ep 1)
“Endgame” – (Season 7, Ep 25) – The final episode of Voyager – finally getting home!
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Bonus:
Star Trek: TNG “The Inner Light” (Season 5, Ep 25) – It probably won’t have any reference in the new show, but it’s a fantastic and dramatic episode focusing solely on Picard and a lost civilization.