Star Trek: Picard is an American web television series featuring the character Jean-Luc Picard, created for CBS All Access by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, and Alex Kurtzman. It is the eighth series in the Star Trek franchise, and was launched in 2020 as part of Kurtzman's expansion of the franchise. Picard begins 20 years after Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) and sees a retired Picard deeply affected by the death of Data in that film as well as the destruction of the planet Romulus in the film Star Trek (2009).
Patrick Stewart executive produces the series and stars as Picard, reprising his role from the series Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as other Star Trek media. Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Evan Evagora, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, and Harry Treadaway also star. Characters seen previously in Star Trek also appear, including Brent Spiner as Data, Jonathan Del Arco as Hugh, and Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine. In September 2021, Annie Wersching announced that she would be joining the series as the Borg Queen.
In April 2022, it was confirmed that all the last main cast members of Star Trek: The Next Generation would be joining the cast of Star Trek: Picard. To join Patrick Stewart is Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes. Jeri Ryan and Michelle Hurd have confirmed they will also return for Season 3. As of 7 May 2022, Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera and Evan Evagora have confirmed they will not be a part of season 3.
The following list includes Star Trek: Picard's main cast, as well as all guest stars deemed to have had recurring roles throughout the series, and a supplementary list of other noteworthy guests.
Actor | Character | Seasons | ||
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1 | 2 | 3 | ||
Main cast | ||||
Patrick Stewart | Jean-Luc Picard | Main | ||
Alison Pill | Agnes Jurati / Borg Queen | Main | ||
Isa Briones | Soji Asha | Main | ||
Dahj Asha | Main | |||
Sutra | Main | |||
Kore Soong | Main | |||
Harry Treadaway | Narek | Main | ||
Michelle Hurd | Raffi Musiker | Main | ||
Santiago Cabrera | Chris Rios | Main | ||
Evan Evagora | Elnor | Main | ||
Jeri Ryan | Seven of Nine | Recurring [lower-alpha 1] | Main | |
Orla Brady | Laris | Recurring | Main | Guest |
Tallinn | Main | |||
Brent Spiner | Data | Special guest | Recurring [lower-alpha 2] | |
Altan Inigo Soong | Special guest | Special guest | ||
Adam Soong | Main | |||
Lore | Recurring | |||
Ed Speleers | Jack Crusher | Main | ||
Recurring cast | ||||
Jonathan Del Arco | Hugh | Recurring [lower-alpha 3] | ||
Jamie McShane | Zhaban | Recurring | ||
Tamlyn Tomita | Commodore Oh | Recurring | ||
Peyton List | Narissa | Recurring | ||
Rebecca Wisocky | Ramdha | Recurring | ||
Annie Wersching | Borg Queen | Recurring | ||
John de Lancie | Q | Recurring [lower-alpha 2] | Guest | |
Whoopi Goldberg | Guinan | Special guest | ||
Ito Aghayere | Recurring | |||
Penelope Mitchell | Renée Picard | Recurring | ||
Sol Rodríguez | Dr. Teresa Ramirez | Recurring | ||
Jonathan Frakes | William Riker | Special guest | Recurring [lower-alpha 2] | |
Marina Sirtis | Deanna Troi | Guest [lower-alpha 4] | Recurring [lower-alpha 4] | |
Gates McFadden | Beverly Crusher | Recurring [lower-alpha 2] | ||
Todd Stashwick | Captain Liam Shaw | Recurring | ||
Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut | Sidney La Forge | Recurring | ||
Michael Dorn | Worf | Recurring [lower-alpha 2] | ||
Amanda Plummer | Vadic | Recurring | ||
LeVar Burton | Geordi La Forge | Recurring [lower-alpha 2] | ||
Mica Burton | Alandra La Forge | Recurring | ||
Special guests | ||||
Wil Wheaton | Wesley Crusher | Guest | ||
Thomas Dekker | Titus Rikka | Guest | ||
Daniel Davis | Professor James Moriarty | Guest | ||
Michelle Forbes | Commander Ro Laren | Special guest | ||
Tim Russ | Tuvok | Special guest | ||
Elizabeth Dennehy | Fleet Admiral Elizabeth Shelby | Special guest | ||
Alice Krige | Borg Queen | Special guest |
Jean-Luc Picard (portrayed by Patrick Stewart) is a retired Starfleet admiral and former captain of its flagship vessel USS Enterprise . Stewart was reprising his role from Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent television series and movies by August 4, 2018. [1] In the series, Picard has been retired from Starfleet for 14 years, living in his chateau in France, until he meets Dahj and goes on his personal mission to find and to protect her sister. He has a brain condition that is terminal. At the end of the first season, he dies from his brain anomaly, but his consciousness is transferred into a new synthetic "golem" body that Soong had prepared.
Agnes Jurati (portrayed by Alison Pill) is a doctor working for the Daystrom Institute's Division of Advanced Synthetic Research in Okinawa who was recruited by Dr. Bruce Maddox. She hopes to interact with an actual synth. After being subject to a Vulcan mind meld by Commodore Oh where she sees the atrocities from the Admonition, she is ordered to join Picard's crew to kill the synth as well as Maddox, who was also her lover. She also ingests a tracker that allows Oh and Narek to track the La Sirena.
Dahj and Soji Asha (portrayed by Isa Briones) are the twin android daughters of the late Lieutenant Commander Data. In the opening episode, Dahj asks Picard to help her find out why she is being attacked—and why she is able to defend herself so well. She is destroyed before his eyes. Meanwhile, Soji has been working on a Borg cube known as the "Artifact", now in the hands of Romulans, where she helps to reclaim victims of the Borg. Briones also portrays Sutra, an android on her home planet Coppelius, created by Bruce Maddox and Altan Inigo Soong. Sutra's twin, Jana, was killed prior to the series' events when she and another synth named Flower were the envoys to make first contact with USS Ibn Majid.
Narek (portrayed by Harry Treadaway) is a Romulan at the Artifact Borg cube, spying on Soji Asha for the Zhat Vash. At the beginning of the series, he befriends and becomes Soji's lover as part of his cover. In the episode "The Impossible Box", he guides Soji through a Zhal Makh meditation exercise so that she reveals the whereabouts of her home world, and then betrays her. He then pursues Rios's ship, eventually following it to Soji's home world Coppelius. Although he is captured, he is freed by Sutra and returns to the Artifact. He works a deal with Rios to try to infiltrate the synth base and disable their newly built beacon. Picard showrunner Michael Chabon said there was originally a scene where Narek was taken into custody by the Federation but it was dropped during the editing of the episode finale. [2]
Rafaella "Raffi" Musiker (portrayed by Michelle Hurd) [3] [4] is a former Starfleet intelligence officer struggling with substance abuse who served as Picard's first officer during the Romulan evacuation. [5] When she joins Picard's crew, she handles communications and is able to get clearances so Picard and friends can land on the planet. At Freecloud, she meets her son, who is married with an expectant child, but he rejects her attempt at reconciliation. She begins a relationship with Seven at the end of season 1 and rejoins Starfleet before season 2.
Cristóbal "Chris" Rios (portrayed by Santiago Cabrera) is a former Starfleet officer, now owner and pilot of La Sirena. He is also a skilled thief. Picard has hired his services on Raffi's recommendation. Cabrera also plays Rios's ship's 5 holograms, each with their own area of expertise in servicing the ship and its crew. He left Starfleet because of what happened on the USS Ibn Majid; he returns to Starfleet before season 2
Elnor (portrayed by Evan Evagora) [lower-alpha 1] [4] [7] is a Romulan refugee, who was relocated from Picard's efforts 14 years prior. He is an expert in hand-to-hand combat and is fiercely loyal to Picard. [8] He was raised from a young boy by the sisters of the Quat Milat. Because of their core tenet of absolute candor, he is trained never to lie. In the first season, he pledges to support Picard, and then briefly supports Hugh when Picard and Soji escape from the Artifact. He joins Starfleet Academy and is a cadet in season 2.
The actors from the Star Trek franchise who have made appearances in the series. Some of the major ones are billed as special guest stars.
Series original characters introduced in season 1
Q is a fictional character, as well as the name of a race, in Star Trek, appearing in the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Lower Decks, and Picard series and in related media. The most familiar Q is portrayed by John de Lancie. He is an extra-dimensional being of unknown origin who possesses immeasurable power over time, space, the laws of physics, and reality itself, being capable of altering it to his whim. Despite his vast knowledge and experience spanning untold eons, he is not above practical jokes for his personal amusement, for a Machiavellian or manipulative purpose, or to prove a point. He is said to be almost completely omnipotent and he is continually evasive regarding his true motivations.
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The Borg are an alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the Star Trek fictional universe. The Borg are cybernetic organisms (cyborgs) linked in a hive mind called "The Collective". The Borg co-opt the technology and knowledge of other alien species to the Collective through the process of "assimilation": forcibly transforming individual beings into "drones" by injecting nanoprobes into their bodies and surgically augmenting them with cybernetic components. The Borg's ultimate goal is "achieving perfection".
Star Trek: Picard is an American science fiction television series created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access. It is the eighth Star Trek series and was released from 2020 to 2023 as part of Kurtzman's expanded Star Trek Universe. The series focuses on retired Starfleet Admiral Jean-Luc Picard. It begins at the end of the 24th century, 20 years after the character's last appearance in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).
Isabella Camille Briones is an American actor and singer. A veteran of musical theatre, she rose to prominence for her starring roles in the CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard (2020–22), including Soji, an android "daughter" of Data. In 2023, she starred as Margot Stokes in the Disney+/Hulu series Goosebumps.
The first season of the American television series Star Trek: Picard features the character Jean-Luc Picard after he retired from Starfleet following the destruction of the planet Romulus. Living on his family's vineyard in 2399, Picard is drawn into a new adventure when he is visited by the daughter of android lieutenant commander Data. The season was produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Secret Hideout, Weed Road Pictures, Escapist Fare, and Roddenberry Entertainment, with Michael Chabon serving as showrunner.
The second season of the American television series Star Trek: Picard features the character Jean-Luc Picard in the year 2401. He and his companions are trapped in an alternate reality by the extra-dimensional being Q as part of the ultimate trial for Picard, and must travel back to 2024 Los Angeles to save the future of the galaxy. The season was produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout, Weed Road Pictures, and Roddenberry Entertainment, with Akiva Goldsman and Terry Matalas serving as showrunners.