After a catastrophic start to Season 2, Q steps in to pluck Picard’s
crew and the Borg Queen from certain death only to insert them into a
dystopian timeline that Q himself had created via a small change in
2024.
— Michael Main
Time? Of course, that’s how he did it. This is not another reality—this is our
reality. He went back in time and changed the present.
DEBUT
Star Trek: Picard, Season 2 (Paramount+, 3 March
2022 to 5 May 2022).
VARIANTS
Debut. Star Trek: Picard, Season 2 (Paramount+, 3 March 2022 to 5 May 2022).
Star Trek: Picard (s02e01), “The Star Gazer” (Paramount+, 3 March 2022).
Change to a Timeline Ripples Both Ways: Because of the change made in 2024, the Next Gen Enterprise that we know and love never came about, so that crew never went back to 19th-century San Franscisco, and hence Guinan no longer knew Picard from her past in this new timeline.
Do Over: Picard gets a do-over of the extinction-level event.
Into a Changed Timeline with Just One You: Picard, Seven, and Raffi return to the somewhat altered 2401 shortly before they left, and all their memories—including the Confederacy, their time in 2024, and even their first time around with the transwarp conduit—are added to what was already present in their 2041 bodies. It’s unclear whether they retain any memories from the altered timeline that were not part of their pre-travel lives, and it is also unclear what happened to tag-4256 } Rios in the world that they returned to. You see, in that new world, none of them ever go to the alternate timeline, not even Rios—so why isn’t the slightly-altered-timeline Rios still there in the same way that the slightly-altered Elnor is still there? Perhaps he just disappeared at the moment of the moment the others reappeared, and they will have to explain to everyone else what happened. Guinan can corroborate their story with the photo she now keeps in Ten Forward.
From an unspecified place and time at an unknown time ⋙ to 2024. Note: At some point, Q travels to 2024 and most likely instigates the changes that created the Confederacy future. After that, he sticks around to occasionally mess with Picard and his cohorts.
From the Star Gazer, near the sun in the alternate, dystopian timeline, circa 2400 ⋙ to Château Picard in France, 2024. Note: La Sirena slingshots around the sun under the control of the Borg Queen. Someone watching from the Q Continuum, would see that their arrival in the new timeline in 2024 gives them a chance to stop Q and restore their original timeline. That original timeline might now be a skeleton timeline, with Picard’s crew being the only surviving remnants. See also Terry Matalas’s take on the subject.
From an unspecified place and time at an unknown time ⋙ to 460 Lowry Ave., Los Angeles, 2024. Note: Wesley Crusher, now a Traveler and twenty-some years older than his Next Generation days, arrives in 2024 to recruit Kore Soong as a Time Supervisor.
From 460 Lowry Ave., Los Angeles, 2024 ⋙ to an unspecified place and time at an unknown time. Note: Wesley and Kore head for unknown pastures.
From Château Picard in France, 2024 ⋙ to the bridge of the Star Gazerr, circa 2400. Note: Picard and most of his crew get a second chance at dealing with the extinction-level event discovered by the Borg.
ITTDB Work #6805:
by multiple writers and directors
Indexer: Michael Main
Curator: Michael Main
as of 8:56 a.m. MDT, 7 May 2024
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