The marketing machine for the new season of Star Trek: Picard has been working overtime, with Patrick Stewart and the cast doing TV and press interviews, plus poster campaigns have been spotted at Los Angeles international airport and on the New York subway.

It has been almost two years since we last saw Jean-Luc Picard in action in the Season 1 finale of "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2." If you want to watch the new season of Star Trek: Picard, check out our guide.

Santiago Cabrera stole every scene he was in. The hologram thing was a stroke of genius. Seven took revenge in Stardust City Rag and Soji faced a Romulan cube in The Impossible Box.

One of the most creative elements in last season's story was Rios's multiple personality holograms

One of the most creative elements in last season's story was Rios's multiple personality holograms (Image credit: Paramount Plus)

In the season finale, Jean-Luc Picard's consciousness was transferred into the body of an artificial golem, which solved his parietal lobe abnormality. He was able to leap those stairs because we saw him nearly collapse after climbing in the very first episode.

The absurd solution to the ridiculous situation the writers put themselves in was not a good one.

Will this be mentioned in the new season? Picard is in every room, and it is a little bit of an elephant.

In Star Trek: Picard's Season 2, seven of nine grapples with her humanity.

When asked if it was just Picard, but also Discovery and Strange New Worlds, the executive producer said it was not just.

There are no super-secret neato cool things that happened to Picard, and at what Picard is capable of doing that are in anyway tied to his new body.

The links to each and every episode review we ran of Season 1 are here in order to facilitate any catching up that might be required.

Episode # 1 – Remembrance
Episode # 2 – Maps and Legends
Episode # 3 – The End Is the Beginning
Episode # 4 – Absolute Candor
Episode # 5 – Stardust City Rag
Episode # 6 – The Impossible Box
Episode # 7 – Nepenthe
Episode # 8 – Broken Pieces
Episode # 9 – Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1
Episode # 10 – Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2

The first 11 episodes of Star Trek: Discovery's fourth season are available to watch on Paramount Plus in the US and Canada. Outside of North America, the Pluto TVSci-fi channel is available. The second season of Star Trek: Picard begins on March 3 and the premiere season of Strange New Worlds begins on May 5.

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