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WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 2, "Disengage." The introduction of Ferengi gangster Sneed (Aaron Stanford) in Star Trek: Picard season 3 finally pays off the original vision that Gene Roddenberry had for Star Trek: The Next Generation ' s villains. The Ferengi were created by Gene Roddenberry and Herbert J. Wright as new antagonists for the crew of TNG 's new USS Enterprise-D. As the Cold War came to an end toward the end of the 1980s, it was felt that TNG should have a new conflict to replace the tensions between the Federation and the Klingon Empire which had defined Star Trek: The Original Series .

To conceive the Ferengi, Wright took inspiration from the " greed is good " philosophy of Ronald Reagan's America in the 1980s. The idea of capitalist barbarians in space felt like a logical choice of antagonist for Gene Roddenberry's egalitarian utopia. Unfortunately, the Ferengi didn't work as Klingon replacements because they came off as too comical to be taken seriously as a threat. The Ferengi were redefined thanks to Quark (Armin Shimerman) and the other Ferengi characters in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , but Star Trek: Picard' s Sneed is the closest that Star Trek has come to realizing the potential of the Ferengi as serious villains.

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Sneed Is The Villainous Ferengi Intended By Gene Roddenberry

The issue with many of the early Ferengi stories in TNG is that they're very underdeveloped as a species. For example, in their second appearance "The Battle", Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) is the victim of a Ferengi revenge plot hatched by DaiMon Bok (Frank Corsentino). Bok's plot immediately raises suspicions because he offers Picard's old starship, the USS Stargazer back to Starfleet for free. It completely robs the story of its jeopardy or intrigue. Worse still, it indicates that the TNG writers room didn't fully understand the potential of villains that prize profit over all else.

Star Trek: Picard season 3 does understand this, however, as proved by the scene between Commander Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) and Sneed. The Ferengi gangster is utterly repulsive, and everything he does is to protect himself and his profits. He gets his customers hooked on the narcotics he provides to get a steady income stream, and also has no issues with murderously tying up loose ends that may jeopardize his business interests. Sneed decapitates the alleged Romulan terrorist behind the Red Lady attack to stop the investigation leading back to him. As a weapons trader, drug dealer, and murderer, Sneed is every inch the greedy barbarian first envisioned by Gene Roddenberry and Herbert J. Wright.

Picard Shows DS9 Didn't Change All Ferengi

By the end of DS9 , Nog (Aron Eisenberg) had become both the first Ferengi in Starfleet and a war hero. Meanwhile, the leader of the Ferengi Alliance, Grand Nagus Zek (Wallace Shawn) had introduced sweeping gender equality legislation on Ferenginar, thanks to the positive influence of Ishka (Cecily Adams), the mother (Moogie) of Quark and Rom (Max Grodénchik). At the end of DS9, Rom became the new Grand Nagus and continued his Moogie's reforms. However, Sneed's villainy proves that the changes made by DS9 's Ferengi family didn't appeal to everyone within the Ferengi Alliance.

It would be interesting if Star Trek went back to Ferenginar in the future to explore the divide between the more progressive Ferengi of DS9 and the more unsavory villainous contingent of profiteers and criminals. In Star Trek: Picard, Sneed's business is located in District Six on M'Talas Prime, a veritable hive of hedonism and criminal activity, and presumably a prime location for any Ferengi seeking to make a profit. Sneed shows that while the Ferengi have made considerable cultural strides since their first encounter with the Enterprise in TNG , many of them are still as dangerous and conniving as ever.

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‘Star Trek: Picard,’ Season 3, Episode 2: Another Next Generation

Jean-Luc Picard has not traditionally been much of a family man, but that may be changing.

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Season 3, Episode 2: ‘Disengage’

Um, wait, what? WHAT?!

A lot happened in this episode, but I’m mostly focused on the ending.

Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher had a kid together?

And that son, Jack, is named after Beverly’s first husband? The one who died and was a close friend of Jean-Luc’s?

Let’s break this down, because it is an interesting revelation on several levels. Before “Picard,” Jean-Luc had long kept his career at the forefront of his existence, at the expense of family and love. The closest he came to embracing a family came in the classic episode “The Inner Light,” where Picard is struck by an energy beam and somehow lives the life of someone completely different. It showed Jean-Luc what his life could have been. Romance has historically been rare for him, though there have been some brief flings, including Anij from “Star Trek: Insurrection,” but never officially with Beverly.

Also, Jean-Luc has generally hated children. In “Encounter At Farpoint,” the “Next Generation” pilot, he lectures Beverly that children aren’t allowed on the bridge — which is amusing now given that in the future, she will be the mother of one of his children. (Let’s not forget one of the worst written lines in “Trek” history: Picard yelling, “Shut up, Wesley!” to Wesley Crusher.)

There was the time Jean-Luc was turned into a child, in the hilarious “Rascals” episode. And he also seems to be a father figure to his nephew René, who dies in “Star Trek: Generations.”

Picard was married to the Enterprise. He never seemed to want more than that.

But people grow and change. Look at Beverly, who has spent several years traversing the galaxy as a rogue doctor with her son. In some ways, she was the most levelheaded member of the Enterprise crew. She was rarely impulsive and always thoughtful, which made her an ideal match for Jean-Luc. So it must have taken something serious for her to evolve to this.

In “Picard,” Jean-Luc appears to be more interested in being a father and family generally. He has a romance with Laris and is essentially a father figure to Dahj, her twin Soji and Elnor.

But Jack being Jean-Luc’s son raises many questions. Did Jean-Luc know this whole time about Jack? Or did he find out when he and Beverly exchanged looks on the bridge of the Titan? (This is something likely to be addressed in upcoming episodes, but given the tendencies in the previous seasons of “Picard,” we shouldn’t assume anything.) If Jean-Luc didn’t know, why in the world did Beverly keep the knowledge of a child from his own father and one of her closest confidantes? (In the episode “Attached,” Beverly learns about Jean-Luc’s feelings for her, and that he never acted on them out of respect for her late husband . It’s possible that Beverly kept the knowledge of Jack Jr. from Jean-Luc because of that respect.)

Does Jack know? I would guess no based on their conversation while in the brig. (But Jack is professional liar, so again, the assumption thing.) When Jean-Luc asks, “Who is your father?” Jack replies, “I never had one.” I thought I saw a hint of knowing remorse in Patrick Stewart’s face in response, and one could easily interpret Jack’s response as a dig at Jean-Luc for being an absentee father.

And what about Wesley?

There’s also the matter of Jean-Luc and Beverly actually having been together. That’s never been confirmed until this season of “Picard,” although the creative team more or less revealed this publicly in the summer.

Odds and ends

Captain Vadic (Amanda Plummer) makes a solid debut as this season’s villain — she has a sinister cadence, a predatory ship and an apparent unusual familiarity with the old Enterprise crew, as well as Shaw.

Maybe this is a reflection on Todd Stashwick’s charming performance, but despite the show’s best efforts to make Shaw seem like a jerk, he really is an admirable captain. Shaw agrees to save Riker and Picard from Vadic’s Shrike at great personal risk to the Titan, even though the pair had duped the ship’s crew and taken them outside of Federation space. Shaw also declines to throw Riker and Picard in the brig, though he would be in the right to do so. (Not to mention the shuttle that Riker and Picard stole, leading to its destruction.) Shaw also continues to let Seven of Nine serve aboard the ship, despite her betrayal of him. And repeatedly, he expresses — very rightfully — his concern for the lives of his crew members.

Raffi, apparently now a member of Starfleet Intelligence, has been trying to figure out who attacked a lower-tier Starfleet building. She chooses her profession over her son Gabe — again. But what happened to her relationship with Seven?

And it turns out Raffi’s handler is Worf, who promptly beheads the Ferengi Tony Soprano. Quite an entrance, though I fear this may be an example of “Picard” writers opting for short term payoff and forgetting who these characters actually are. Worf moderated the Klingon penchant for violence, particularly as he rose in command in “Deep Space Nine.” So much so that he was actually named ambassador to the Klingon home world at the conclusion of the series. (Then again, Worf did murder the Klingon chancellor Gowron, so maybe he is whatever the plot needs him to be.) I am certainly curious how one of the most famous Klingons in the galaxy — renowned in both Starfleet and among Klingons — ends up working in intelligence.

The episode ends with a classic “Trek” trope: An outgunned Starfleet ship sneaking into a nebula to hide.

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Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Is Hiding a Big Secret Cameo in Plain Sight

The arms dealer Sneed is not just another grouchy Ferengi in Star Trek: Picard, but also former 12 Monkeys star Aaron Stanford!

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The 21st Rule of Acquisition teaches us “Never place friendship above profit.” By that measure, no one has proven to be less Ferengi than Terry Matalas. The Star Trek: Picard showrunner has always made a point of including his friends in his series, even if only in fun cameos. Take season two of Picard , which saw Impractical Joker Brian Quinn drop by as a dog walker in Guinan’s bar, or the addition of 12 Monkeys star Todd Stashwick to the Picard cast as USS Titan Captain Liam Shaw (Matalas co-created the Syfy series). It’s clear the showrunner likes inside jokes, even if the audience doesn’t always get it.

That tendency is on full display in the latest episode of Picard season 3, “Disengage.” While investigating the terrorist attack from the last episode , Raffi’s now-unofficial Starfleet intelligence mission leads her to a Ferengi criminal called Sneed. Like the best Ferengi, Sneed knows that war is good for business (Rule of Acquisition #34), so he operates as a black market arms dealer who can get you the weapon you need… for the right price.

The Federation has blamed a small-time Romulan criminal for the attack but Raffi isn’t buying the official story and immediately smells a cover-up. Her handler, who we learn is actually Worf (!) , tells her to ignore her instinct but instead she ignores his instructions. Sneed has been pegged as the guy who sold the terrorist the experimental weapon that destroyed the Starfleet facility and Raffi wants to know who the true buyer was.

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Fans paying close attention might recognize Sneed as Aaron Stanford, an actor with a long history in nerd media. Stanford broke out playing evil mutant John Allerdyce aka Pyro alongside Patrick Stewart in 2003’s X2: X-Men United . Since then, he’s been seen in a number of geeky franchises, including the gnarly Alexandre Aja remake of The Hills Have Eyes , the assassin series Nikita , and, most notably, playing James Cole on 12 Monkeys . The man certainly has been busy, fulfilling Rule of Acquisition #95, “Expand or Die.”

To be sure, it was a risky move to take on a role first played by the great Bruce Willis in a beloved Terry Gilliam movie, but it has certainly paid off (“The riskier the road, the greater the profit,” Rule of Acquisition #62).

Equally risky is playing a Ferengi, one of the more complex races in the Star Trek universe. Initially introduced in the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation , the Ferengi were planned to be the series’ big enemy race, as the Klingons had entered a peace treaty with the Federation. But their introduction in the season one episode “The Last Outpost” failed to establish them as a threat, their laser whips and annoying money-grubbing falling short of the Klingon’s grandeur (see also Voyager baddies the Kazon).

However, when Armin Shimerman took on the role of bartender Quark in Deep Space Nine , the Ferengi finally found their place. Thanks to savvy performances by Shimerman — as well as Max Grodénchik as brother Rom, Aron Eisenberg as nephew Nog, and Jeffery Combs as antagonist Brunt (FCA!) — the Ferengi became one of the more interesting and complex races in the Star Trek universe, a group with a moral code that was certainly present, even if it clashed with Federation values.

Unfortunately, this is the end of the road for Stanford’s Sneed, who gets his head chopped off by Worf in his debut episode, but what a good run it was. Perhaps Sneed has a twin brother for Stanford to play on another Matalas show down the line?

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Star Trek: Picard Season 3's Ed Speleers, Michael Dorn, and Michelle Hurd Dig Into Episode 2's Major Reveals

Who is jack crusher how do worf and raffi know each other "disengage" addresses some burning questions from the show's season 3 premiere..

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The second episode of Star Trek: Picard ’s third and final season dropped quite the bombshell for longtime fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation and its lead character, Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ). It at once honors something that could have occurred in the last 25 years since the TNG cast went their separate ways following the feature film Star Trek: Nemesis , but also is something fans may regard with disbelief; in fact, it’s enough of a surprising turn that we had to wait until episode 2 streamed to publish our chat with series newcomer Ed Speleers .

Spoiler alert: The following reveals details from Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 2, “Disengage.” Stop reading here if you haven’t watched the episode and wish to avoid spoilers.

The reveal that Picard has a child may be familiar to TNG fans from an episode of that series called “Bloodlines.” In that very late episode of Next Gen ’s final season, Picard learns from an old Ferengi adversary that he has a son, a petty criminal now marked for a final attempt at revenge. The whole thing turns out to be a ruse and the young man is not Jean-Luc’s child. In light of this not particularly well-regarded episode of TNG , it might be tempting to believe Speeler’s Jack Crusher is another ploy on the part of the still-mysterious enemy. But Dr. Beverly Crusher’s ( Gates McFadden ) look at Picard when she walks onto the Titan ’s bridge and Picard’s immediate and unequivocal declaration “He’s my son” should put all doubt aside.

In fact, when Rotten Tomatoes caught up with Speleers shortly before the season debuted, we took Picard’s paternity at face value while asking the actor about the Next Gen cast’s famous team spirit and what it means to join Star Trek .

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Ed Speleers: It’s interesting, isn’t it? Because he’s French, but he’s got a very strong British accent, which I’ve always found quite curious, and considering he’s played by a Yorkshireman, that baffles me even more because the accent’s very distinctly from the South. I don’t know. I mean, I think maybe there is a similar timbre in mine and Patrick’s voice potentially, but I don’t know if it’s completely hereditary, because he didn’t grow up with him. I feel that Jack heard many different sounds and was influenced by many different elements. And, also, something I think about accents is they change . They change with time, they change with circumstance. I feel, for me anyway, that depending on where you are, you adapt. I don’t think it’s necessarily any different here.

How do you think fans are going to react to Jack?

Speleers: I hope that there’s enough intrigue. I hope that people want to uncover what he’s all about and what is making him tick and why he’s even here, why he’s been presented to us. Whether they like him or not is a different thing, but I hope that they go on his journey and want to see it through.

Despite the roguishness and seeming self-centeredness, there are the shades of altruism with him that are interesting because of the contrast.

Speleers: Yeah, and that’s one of the great challenges and one of the great draw cards as well, I think: is to play someone who might be ruffling feathers and he might be a criminal. He’s naughty. He’s not above the line. But some of his criminality and some of his roguishness is grounded in something that is for the greater good and is actually fundamentally trying to make the galaxy a better place. He is driven by that notion of making the world a better place, the universe a better place. And if it means getting into trouble, he’ll take it.

What was it like observing the Next Gen cast? Is that sense of comradery as strong as it seems on the DVD special features and convention appearances?

Speleers: Yeah, it really is. It’s quite amazing to think that these people have known each other for 30-plus years, and the love that pulls out amongst them is quite a sight to behold. And that then completely trickles down into, dare I say, the younger generation, and I feel that we got on board with that. But they’re so effusive with one another and in turn for us that they made us scallywags very much part of the picture.

And as one of those scallywags, what does it feel like to become part of the Star Trek legacy? Conventions are open to you and there’s the possibility no matter what happens to Jack, that you’ll get a call and they’ll say, “Oh, hey, we’re doing this thing.” Is that daunting or exciting?

Speleers: Exciting. I mean, certainly the latter part of your question. I feel that conventions, of course, can be fantastic, but I feel from a creative standpoint, what really drives me is this idea that I could play this part again. That this is a role that I hold very close to myself, and that I loved stepping into his shoes every day. I was excited to commute out to Santa Clarita Studios. I loved every minute of it. So, if there’s more to come for him in some guise or fashion, I’m there.

And that fan interaction?

Speleers: I look forward to it because I love meeting people, but I feel that there is pressure there because the fans, they’re so passionate about this and they’ve been living with it for so long — much longer than I have — that the daunting thing is I don’t want to let them down. I want them to come on that journey with Jack, and I want to be able to [really enjoy it]. They are so full of zest and love for so many of these characters, and I’d love to be a part of that with them.

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Bonus Intel: Michael Dorn and Michelle Hurd on Raffi and Worf’s Partnership

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Episode 2 also revealed the identity of Raffi’s ( Michelle Hurd ) Section 31 handler: Worf ( Michael Dorn ). Although it is still unclear what brought Worf back to Starfleet after becoming a Klingon ambassador at the end of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , the pairing of the two characters is one of those great Trek convergences — so much so, we’re wondering if they might have something to do with the Section 31 series, starring Michelle Yeoh, that’s been in development. The timelines don’t align, but both Star Trek: Discovery  and Picard re-established that hopping universes and time travel are a thing in this franchise, so we’ll see.

When we spoke to the actors, they offered a few thoughts on the unlikely, but now essential partnership.

When are we going to get a Star Trek: Major Case Squad with Raffi and Worf? Pairing the two of these characters is the show I didn’t know I needed, but now I desperately want.

Hurd: First of all, you just speaking it into existence, manifesting it, I love it. Put it out there as many times as you want … Oh, my goodness. All the stories we could do! Oh, gosh!

Dorn: Well, the thing of it is that you’re in space … so you can do anything you want to do. I hope that they see that. Maybe they do. You never know what’s in studios’ minds. It seems like it’s the right thing, [because Worf and Raffi] are the muscle on the show. They can run and jump and slice people up and their relationship is a real, “You didn’t do that.” “Yes, I did.” “Well, why don’t you —?” thing. We’re really at each other, but it’s almost like an older brother [dynamic].

Hurd: Right. It’s a real relationship. It’s not unicorns and white picket fences — stones are being thrown. I think that these two characters, these two people, really can have so much more to say and more to do and represent so much of our community and of the world.

Dorn: But they’re different than what we see with the Star Trek shows … These guys are down and dirty.

Hurd: We’re down and dirty, yeah. I like it.

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Star Trek 's intergalactic used car dealers known as the Ferengi overcame a rocky start to become franchise favorites thanks to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . They've been less common in the modern era, save for a few tantalizing glimpses in Star Trek: Discovery and Dal's duplicitous foster parent Nandi on Star Trek: Prodigy. They were even absent from the initial seasons of Star Trek: Picard , despite their prominent role in some of the title character's early heroics.

Picard Season 3, Episode 2, "Disengage" changes that with Sneed, a duplicitous ne'er-do-well connected to Raffi's search for stolen weapons. He comes with an ever-so-brief Easter egg: his rap sheet lsting his crimes and known associates. Though it's only on screen for a second or two, it paints a comprehensive picture of Star Trek 's underworld -- including a fistful of recognizable canon figures. Sneed knows some very familiar faces.

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After the Ferengi failed to catch fire as bad guys in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine reimagined them as petty criminals. Quark was the principal fulcrum for that and became a beloved character in the process. He ran all manner of hustles and scams from his bar on Deep Space 9, and a number of DS9 's most classic episodes centered around the fallout from some scheme or another. In his own way, Quark followed a tradition of characters acting as narrative gateways for their species that started with Spock in The Original Series and continued with Worf on The Next Generation .

Brunt Was Quark's Foil on Deep Space Nine

Brunt was described as one of Quark's business associates, though Deep Space Nine presented him more as a foil or even a straight-up antagonist. He was a Ferengi "liquidator" charged with the dissolution of Ferengi businesses, making him the equivalent of a hitman in their cutthroat capitalist society. He first appeared in DS9 Season 3, Episode 23, "Family Business," but returned six more times in various capacities. The character played by horror icon Jeffrey Combs deeply disliked Quark, but was forced to ally himself with the bartender more than once out of pure self-interest.

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Morn Was Quark's Best Customer and a DS9 Running Joke

Morn was a Lurian -- the first of his species to appear on Star Trek -- who seemingly ran a courier business. DS9 Season 6, Episode 12, "Who Mourns for Morn?" revealed far shadier details: he once participated in a big-time heist and chiseled his partners out of their cut. He appeared in a whopping 96 episodes of Deep Space Nine , though rarely as a central figure. Most of the time, he just sat at the end of Quark's bar and drank. His name is the reverse of Norm in an homage to George Wendt's barfly from the beloved sitcom Cheers . As if that wasn't amusing enough, one of the show's biggest running jokes was about his chattiness or loud voice... when Morn never spoke in any of his appearances.

Larell Was a Professional Thief and Morn's Former Partner

Larell is the most obscure figure on Sneed's list, having appeared only in "Who Mourns for Morn?" She was a thief who worked with Morn on the aforementioned big heist and came to Deep Space 9 looking for her cut of the loot. He turned the tables on her and his other ex-partners so they were arrested by the episode's end. Sneed's rap sheet in Star Trek: Picard suggests that Larell either avoided or escaped prison before returning to cause Morn more trouble.

Okona Is Picard's Only Name Not From Star Trek: DS9

Of the five canon names Picard mentions, the "outrageous" Thadiun Okona is the only one not to have appeared on Deep Space Nine . That makes his inclusion on Sneed's list particularly intriguing. Considering that Sneed was arrested on Deep Space 9, the rap sheet may be describing Okona's first visit there. He debuted in The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 4, "The Outrageous Okona" and Billy Campbell reprised Okona in Star Trek: Prodigy as well as a brief cameo on Star Trek: Lower Decks . He's a smuggler and freighter captain with copious charm and a penchant for heading for the exit when trouble arrives... making him a perfect fit for Sneed's rogues gallery.

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Sneed was a male Ferengi crime lord who operated on M'talas Prime in the early 25th century . He was responsible for creating and distributing the narcotic splinter . He collected Human antiques , including a baseball and a grenade , and was fond of the beverage Slug-o-Cola .

Born on Ferenginar in 2342 , Sneed grew up as a scavenger in District Seven of M'talas Prime alongside the Vulcan Krinn . The two considered themselves brothers and had sworn a blood oath of loyalty to each other. ( PIC : " Disengage ", " Imposters ")

In 2352 , Sneed was arrested on Ferenginar for falsifying documents and fined five bars of gold-pressed latinum by the Ferengi Alliance . In 2364 , the Cardassian Union arrested him on Cardassia for fraud , and sentenced him to two years of labor at a Bajoran colony . In 2370 , he was caught smuggling in Federation space and imprisoned for four years. In 2384 , he was again arrested by the Federation for committing arson on Deep Space 9 , and imprisoned for three months.

Sneed's known associates included Jae Hwang of Earth , Larell of Renhia , Morn of Luria , Quark of Ferenginar , Brunt of Ferenginar, and Thadiun Okona of the Omega Sagitta system .

In 2401 , Sneed was paid by rogue Changeling Titus Rikka to orchestrate the destruction of a Starfleet recruitment center, using a portal weapon the Changelings had stolen from Daystrom Station . He framed Romulan rebel Lurak T'Luco for the attack, which prompted Commander Raffi Musiker , via her ex-husband Jae, to arrange a meeting with Sneed at his lair in District Six . During the meeting, Musiker claimed to work for T'Luco, which Sneed knew to be false as he had already had T'Luco murdered to cover his tracks and was keeping his severed head with him as a trophy . Sneed coerced Musiker into taking splinter to try and expose her true employer. When this failed, he ordered his bodyguards to kill her, but she managed to escape with the timely appearance of Worf , who beheaded Sneed during the ensuing melee. ( PIC : " Disengage ", " Seventeen Seconds ")

Sneed's death left a power vacuum in the District Six underworld, which Worf and Musiker exploited to draw out his "brother" Krinn, so as to learn how the Changelings' breach of Daystrom Station had been accomplished. His file was among the data collected by Commander Ro Laren pertaining to the Changeling infiltration of Starfleet, which she passed to Admiral Jean-Luc Picard shortly before her death. ( PIC : " Imposters ")

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10 Best Star Trek: Picard Episodes, Ranked

After Patrick Stewart agreed to reprise his role as Jean-Luc Picard for a sequel series, fans of Star Trek were cautiously optimistic. However, much of the series was nothing like Star Trek: The Next Generation , even when the third and final season brought back the principal cast of the show.

When looking at the highest ranked episodes of Star Trek: Picard , it's hard to overlook how beloved the third season is. Just looking at IMDB user ratings, and the majority of fans' "Top 10" Star Trek: Picard episodes, it's no surprise to see many from Season 3 hit their lists. This is because no series is ever about just one character. In fact, the only episode not from Picard's final season represented here is one that features no fewer than three classic USS Enterprise-D crewmembers.

'Dominion' Showed the Effects of Starfleet's Last War Still Resonated

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Because of a regime change in the executive suites at Paramount, the second wave of Star Trek came to an unceremonious end after Star Trek: Nemesis failed to make a profit and Star Trek Enterprise's network failed to survive . Thus, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine never got the epilogue the groundbreaking show deserved. At least, not until "Dominion," in which the mysterious villain Vadic was revealed to be a prisoner of war captured and experimented on by the nefarious Section 31.

The black ops division of Starfleet made the captured Changeling Founders even more powerful. When Vadic escaped, she was able to share her "upgrades" by creating the perfect operatives to infiltrate and take down Starfleet . Contracted by the Borg, who had their own vendetta, she was all too happy to hurt Jean-Luc Picard, his crew and family in the name of revenge. Luckily, thanks to Picard's newly-discovered son, Jack Crusher , Vadic and her soldiers were defeated. Of course, Starfleet's problems were just beginning.

'Nepenthe' Brought Back Classic Star Trek: The Next Generation Characters

Jean-luc picard was reunited with will riker and deanna troi.

The first season of Star Trek: Picard was very different from what fans expected, presenting the beloved former captain of the USS Enterprise as a disillusioned and bitter man. Only after discovering Data's "daughter," a synthetic lifeform named "Soji," Picard was able to rediscover a purpose. However, because she was being hunted by a dangerous group of Romulan anti-synth zealots, Picard and Soji had to take refuge somewhere lest they be captured or killed. That brought them to Nepenthe, the planet where William Riker and Deanna Troi retired to in an effort to save their dying son .

Not only did Jean-Luc reunite with his beloved Number One and his most trusted advisor Deanna, he also got to meet their surviving child. Kestra (named after Deanna Troi's deceased sister) became fast friends with Soji. Even with the loss of their child, this was a lighter episode in Season 1 that showed for all the changes Picard endured, some things remained the same. Troi and Riker were forever loyal to their friend and captain, with Riker eventually assembling the fleet to save Picard , Soji and an entire planet of Data's synthetic "children."

'The Next Generation' Brought Jean-Luc Picard Back to His Roots

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The Season 3 premiere of Picard was the beginning of a new era even as the series itself began its swan song. Picard was originally planned to only run three seasons, but thanks to Star Trek veteran and showrunner Terry Matalas , the final season was the Star Trek: The Next Generation movie fans never got but always wanted. It kicked off the season's story by introducing Captain Liam Shaw, a traumatized officer who was not swayed by Picard's and Riker's reputations. It also put Star Trek: Voyager -alum, Seven of Nine, into a Starfleet uniform for the first time, which is where she always belonged .

Despite the excellence of this cast's first series, Beverly Crusher was underserved by The Next Generation , never reaching her full potential. From the first scene of "The Next Generation," this was changed. Dr. Crusher was no longer just a doctor, but a more valued member of Starfleet. She was also once more a mother . Even though audiences wouldn't learn her son Jack's identity until later, it helped explain why Dr. Crusher would cut herself off from Picard and the rest of her crewmates. It was a thrilling start to an incredible season that delivered what The Next Generation fans wanted from the moment Picard was announced.

'Seventeen Seconds' Challenged Picard Like Never Before

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After learning that Jack Crusher was his son (and that Beverly kept him a secret from Jean-Luc ), Picard wasn't sure how to feel. On the run from Vadic and her overpowered warship, The Shrike, Picard had to figure out how to protect Jack and the crew of the USS Titan-A who weren't even supposed to be in this mess. The title of the episode ties into the "seventeen seconds" it took the turbolift to go from the bridge to sickbay. Riker first mentions it when talking about being summoned because of difficulties during the birth of his late son Thaddeus. It was also how long it took Picard to get to Jack after he was almost killed by a Changeling imposter.

The episode was emotionally taxing, with the USS Titan-A outmatched and outwitted by Vadic and the crew of the Shrike. After Admiral Picard agreed to serve as Captain Riker's "Number One," the two friends and allies had a bitter, heartbreaking argument. When the ship is seemingly disabled beyond repair, Riker throws Picard off the bridge , declaring Jean-Luc "just killed us all." It was the kind of conflict fans never got to see before, largely because of the so-called "Roddenberry Box" from the The Next Generation era. It elevated the series and the overall story with dire stakes in a hopeless situation.

'Surrender' Was a Low Point for Picard and the USS Titan Crew

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The crew of the USS Titan-A set a trap for Vadic and her Changeling soldiers, that backfired thanks to the return of classic The Next Generation enemy, Lore. The heroes surrendered, and the villains took control of the ship, killing crewmembers, including the incredibly cool Vulcan science officer T'Veen. However, Jack Crusher discovered a mysterious and spooky ability, allowing him to see through and control the minds of certain Starfleet officers. With a classic risky gambit, Jack and Seven of Nine were able to wrest control from Vadic sending her to her death in the cold vacuum of space.

Yet, "Surrender" is a title with a double meaning. The highlight of the episode was the internal conflict of the new Soong-type synthetic lifeform that contained the consciousness of both Data and Lore . In trying to erase his brother, Data seemingly surrendered his memories to Lore. Yet, by doing so, Data was able to "overwrite" his villainous brother's consciousness and regain control of his body . Once he was back in charge, his technological abilities helped regain control of the ship. This episode also marked the first time all the principal The Next Generation characters were reunited on the USS Titan-A.

'Imposters' Closed a Long Dangling TNG Story Thread in a Tragic Story

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After rescuing Picard's best new character, Raffi , from a villainous Ferengi, she and Worf teamed up. Working together outside of Starfleet, the two investigated the plot threatening Starfleet. Worf and Raffi became a truly delightful team, at least until a Vulcan crime lord forced them to fight to the death. However, Worf survived, and he and Raffi uncovered the crucial piece of information they needed to get to the bottom of the mystery. This was also the episode in which the USS Titan-A crew learned about the new, more dangerous Changelings and their infiltration of Starfleet.

The episode also brought back Ro Laren, a former crewmember of the USS Enterprise-D who eventually betrayed Picard by joining the Maquis. After escaping Vadic, Ro showed up to investigate Picard and Riker for treason, specifically for stealing the USS Titan-A. However, she was working her own angle. She'd been both Worf's and Raffi's Starfleet handler trying to unravel the conspiracy. The episode allowed Picard and Ro to get closure after her betrayal, preparing the (retired) Admiral for his mission to save Starfleet from the Changeling threat. This episode also features the most tragic death in Star Trek: Picard , when Ro Laren's shuttle is destroyed .

'The Bounty' Reunited the Enterprise Crew and Other Classic Ships

Star trek: picard's big finish kicked off in this thrilling episode.

One complaint some viewers had about Season 3 was the perceived fan service in Star Trek: Picard . While this is true, it didn't manifest the way people expected. The producers, directors and everyone else involved are fans of this universe and that drove some of the storytelling. The most blatant (and rewarding) instance of this came when the USS Titan-A went to the Fleet Museum, the old Space Dock introduced in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock . Commodore Geordi La Forge was the curator, overseeing the place where some of the most important vessels in Starfleet history were stored.

There are many Star Trek Easter eggs in "The Bounty," but the title was itself a spoiler. The HMS Bounty was the captured Klingon Bird of Prey used in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home . In order to avoid detection by Starfleet, Jack Crusher, Sidney and Alandra La Forge stole the ship's cloaking device to install on the Titan. Meanwhile, in the Daystrom Vault, Worf, Raffi and Riker discovered the newly-constructed synthetic body housing Data and Lore . While they were able to rescue the beloved android, Riker was taken captive by Vadic and her Changeling imposters.

'No Win Scenario' Put Picard and His Crew to the Ultimate Test

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The USS Titan-A was immobilized by the Shrike and left to drift in what everyone thought was a nebula. However, this area of space was actually a kind of gestational cloud in which an alien lifeform (not unlike the creature in The Next Generation 's pilot episode) was ready to give birth. While there was some great ship-to-ship combat, including Riker "throwing an asteroid" at the Shrike, Dr. Crusher saved the ship with some good, old-fashioned Star Trek sci-fi technobabble. It proved that even with the previous episode's conflict, no group can unite to do the impossible like a Starfleet crew.

The final scene of the episode is one of the series' best, in large part due to the beautiful score from Stephen Barton and Freddie Weidmann. After escaping the Shrike and their dire situation, the crew of the Titan watches in awe as the countless "space babies" emerge from their tumultuous womb and take to the stars . The episode began with the characters at their most hopeless, and it ends with a reminder of why these nerdy space adventurers risk their well-being to seek out new life.

'Vx' Sent Star Trek: Picard Headlong Into Its Endgame

The penultimate episode brought back the borg and the uss enterprise-d.

The penultimate episode of Star Trek: Picard reveals the Borg's involvement in an insidious plot to assimilate Starfleet. The Changeling imposters used transporter trickery to rewrite the DNA of younger officers to effectively instantly assimilate them all when they receive an activation signal. This signal was destined to come from Jack Crusher, explaining his mysterious ability to enter the minds of some of the crew on the Titan. Yet, the big moment in this episode was the revelation that over the past decades, Geordi La Forge restored the USS Enterprise-D, after it was mostly destroyed in Star Trek: Generations .

The final moment of the episode put these iconic characters on that iconic bridge for one final adventure. In the series finale of The Next Generation , Jean-Luc Picard was diagnosed with "Irumodic Syndrome" a neurological affliction that killed him in Season 1. However, "Võx" reveals this was left behind by the Borg after Picard was assimilated and became Locutus. It was passed on to Jack , making him the vessel through which the nearly-decimated Borg could make one last attempt to assimilate Starfleet and, eventually, Earth.

'The Last Generation' Was the Perfect Sendoff for TNG's Crew

The episode said farewell to picard and company while kicking off the future.

The series finale of Star Trek: Picard is unsurprisingly the best ranked episode of the show. As the 12 Monkeys series finale proved , Terry Matalas knows how to end a story in a satisfying, uplifting way. The USS Enterprise-D goes back into action, flying through a gigantic Borg cube to destroy these villains once and for all . There's even an incredible shot when the gigantic Galaxy-Class vessel swoops in overhead to rescue Worf, Riker, Picard and Jack at the last moment. Meanwhile, Seven of Nine proves why she deserves to command the USS Enterprise-G, by retaking the ship from the Borg without killing one assimilated crewmember.

Still, for all the breathtakingly cinematic action, the true climax of the episode is an emotional one. Distant from people all his life, Jean-Luc Picard is willing to sacrifice himself by refusing to leave his son. Consumed by the Borg, Jack doesn't want to disconnect from the hive mind, and Picard simply says he'd stay with him, knowing his crew is certain to destroy them both. Star Trek endures not because of the ships or technology. Rather, it’s the familial relationships of the characters that allows it to remain fresh, even decades later, in the hearts of audiences .

The complete Star Trek: Picard is available to own on DVD, Blu-ray, digital and is available to stream on Paramount+ .

Star Trek: Picard

Retired Admiral Jean-Luc Picard is drawn back into action when a mysterious young woman seeks his help, triggering a journey that leads him to confront the ghosts of his past. As he assembles a new crew to uncover the truth behind a dangerous conspiracy, Picard navigates a galaxy that has changed significantly since his days aboard the Enterprise.

Release Date January 23, 2020

Cast Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd

Main Genre Sci-Fi

Genres Drama, Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure

Rating TV-MA

Franchise(s) Star Trek

• Cast & crew
• User reviews
• Episode aired Apr 30, 1994

Picard races the Ferengi in an effort to track down the son he never knew he had. Picard races the Ferengi in an effort to track down the son he never knew he had. Picard races the Ferengi in an effort to track down the son he never knew he had.

• Gene Roddenberry
• René Echevarria
• Patrick Stewart
• Jonathan Frakes
• LeVar Burton
• 14 User reviews
• 8 Critic reviews

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard

• Commander William Thomas 'Will' Riker

• Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge

• Lieutenant Worf

• Doctor Beverly Crusher

• Counselor Deanna Troi

• Lieutenant Commander Data

• (as Peter Slutsker)

• Enterprise Computer

• Starfleet Ensign
• (uncredited)
• Crewman Garvey
• Crewman Martinez
• Ensign Kellogg

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• Trivia The only time the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition - the running gag from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) - are mentioned in TNG.
• Goofs The Xendi Sabu system is misnamed as Xendi Cabu by Picard; all other characters get it right.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I like climbing. There's something about... actually having your fate in your own hands.

• Connections Edited from Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Hunted (1990)
• Soundtracks Star Trek: The Next Generation Main Title Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage

User reviews 14

• Sep 23, 2017
• April 30, 1994 (United States)
• United States
• Official site
• Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (Studio)
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• Runtime 46 minutes
• Dolby Digital

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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that even among the greatest television shows in Star Trek history, most of them take two seasons to stop being kind of bad. Never has that been more true or more excruciating than in the case of Star Trek: Discovery .

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Often it felt like what Discovery was really doing in its early seasons was discovering what didn’t work. Strong performances from a great cast? That works. A Klingon design that absolutely nobody liked ? Definitely not. But despite the stumbles, Discovery season 1 had still averaged C’s and B’s with reviewers, and had built an audience and a subscriber base for Paramount Plus. On the strength of Disco ’s first season, Paramount greenlit Star Treks Picard , Lower Decks , and Prodigy , three new shows covering a huge range of ages and nostalgic tastes. And spinning out of Disco ’s second season, which introduced familiar , nostalgic characters and a brighter, more Star Trek-y tone, Paramount produced Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , inarguably the best new addition to the franchise since 1996.

Star Trek: Discovery crawled so that the rest of modern Trek could run... and then it started to walk. The show’s third season saw the USS Discovery and crew in the place that should have been their starting blocks: the bleeding future edge of Star Trek’s timeline. Thanks to season 3’s groundwork, season 4 became the first time that Discovery had a status quo worth returning to. In its fifth and final season, Star Trek: Discovery is finally free — free in a way that a Star Trek TV series hasn’t been in 23 years.

Star Trek: The Next Generation is such an elder statesman of the television elite that it’s easy to forget that it was daring. The show’s triumph wasn’t just that it featured a new cast of characters, but also its audaciousness in imagining the future of the future — and making that future unmistakably different . The Original Series showed a racial and national cooperation that seemed fantastical in its time, with an alien crewmember to denote the next frontier of embracing the other . Next Generation saw that bet and raised it, installing a member of the Klingon species, the Federation’s once-feared imperialist rival state, as a respected officer on the bridge of Starfleet’s flagship.

Next Generation ’s time period — one century after Kirk’s Enterprise — wasn’t a nominal choice, but a commitment to moving the story of Star Trek forward. From the show’s foundations, Gene Roddenberry and his collaborators, new and old, set a precedent that the Federation would evolve. Therefore, in accordance with the utopian themes of the franchise, old enemies would in time become friends. Next Generation embraced The Original Series ’ nemeses and the rest of ’90s Trek saw that bet and raised it again, pulling many of Next Gen ’s villains into the heroic fold. Voyager welcomed a Borg crewmember and disincorporated the Borg empire; Deep Space Nine gave the franchise the first Ferengi Starfleet cadet, and brokered a Federation-Klingon-Romulan alliance in the face of an existential threat.

But Discovery — at least until it made its Olympic long-jump leap 900 years into the future — couldn’t move Star Trek forward. So long as it was set “immediately before Kirk’s Enterprise,” hemmed in by the constraints of a previously established era of Star Trek history, it could graft on new elements (like Spock’s secret human foster sister) but it couldn’t create from whole cloth (like a galaxy-wide shortage of starship fuel that nearly destroyed the Federation). Like its predecessor, the ill-fated Star Trek: Enterprise of the ’00s, it was doomed to hang like a remora on the side of the events of The Original Series , or, if you’ll pardon another fish metaphor, doomed like a goldfish that can only grow as large as its half-gallon fishbowl will allow.

Discovery ’s later, free seasons in the 32nd century have shown the Federation at its most vulnerable, a subtler echo of Picard ’s own season 1 swing at fallen institutions . (Fans of Voyager and Deep Space Nine know that this is an extremely rich vein of Trek storytelling.) In its third season, Discovery solved a galaxy-wide fuel crisis that had shattered the community of the Federation. In its fourth it fought for a fragile new Federation alliance and its millennia-old ideals.

And those seasons have also boldly committed to the idea of imagining the future’s future — 900 years of it. The centuries-old rift between Vulcans and Romulans is long healed, Ferengi serve as captains in Starfleet, the work of Doctor Noonien Soong has brought new medical technologies to the fore.

Even still, Discovery hasn’t been truly free in its third and fourth seasons. Star Trek: Picard was out there, forming new past elements of a post- Next Gen / Voy / DS9 era that Discovery had to abide by. And, after all, the show still had to make sure there was something for its own next season to come back to.

But now — with Prodigy and Picard finished, and Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks locked into their settings of Star Trek’s established past, and Starfleet Academy and Section 31 not yet in production at the time that its final season would have been written — Discovery has reached the final final frontier for a Star Trek show. If you’re a Star Trek fan, that should excite you.

Not since Deep Space Nine in 1999 and Voyager in 2001 has a Star Trek series had the freedom to wrap up its run with the Federation in any state it wants to. With franchise flagship Next Generation at an end, and Voyager restricted to the Delta Quadrant only, Deep Space Nine used its last seasons to throw the Federation into all-out war, making sweeping changes to the established ficto-political norms of ’90s Trek. Voyager used its finale to do what Captain Picard never could: defang the Borg (mostly).

We don’t know exactly what Discovery will do with that freedom. Season 4 directors have talked about reaching “ into the past to get further into the future ,” and likened it to Indiana Jones. Official news releases have said the crew will “uncover a mystery that sends them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries.” But speculating on what that means would be beside the point.

Discovery , the show about an intergalactically teleporting starship, can finally, actually, go anywhere. It’s been almost a quarter of a century since a beloved Star Trek series was so free to boldly go. Let’s hope they’re very bold indeed.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5 premieres with two episodes on April 4 on Paramount Plus.

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This week IDW continues its new miniseries all about the kids. Sons of Star Trek is a 4-issue spinoff of IDW’s Star Trek: Defiant series that takes a closer look at the children of Star Trek’s heroes. The new series is being written by first-time Trek writer Morgan Hampton ( Cyborg ) and features art from Trek comic vet Angel Hernandez. We have a preview of the third issue, out this week.

Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek #3

In a- SNAP! -turn of events, Q Jr has kidnapped three of Starfleet’s eldest sons and transported them to an alternate reality.By way of a bold maneuver with Lieutenant Jadzia at the helm, the  U.S.S. Avery  crew finally avoided being turned to shrapnel by the Breen… for now. But the crew now face a new challenge: The infamous Curzon maneuver has left them sitting dead in space, and the Breen have already begun infiltrating the ship. To make matters worse, QJ’s powers have stopped working. It’s do or die for Jake Sisko and the crew of the  Avery -for real this time!

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RI cover by Andy Price

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Sons of Star Trek continues Wednesday

Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek #3 arrives on Wednesday, June 5. You can order issue 3 and other Trek comics at TFAW or pick up individual digital editions at Amazon/comiXology .

The mini-series wraps up on July 3rd. Here is the cover for the final issue…

The paperback collection of all four issues will be released in November. You can pre-order that now at Amazon .

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…funny? joke but would you really have to pay for Starfleet Academy?

Trek has had trouble committing to being in the future. Money keeps creeping in to the Federation. It’s also why phasers keep becoming more like guns and less like phasers.

I don’t think variant covers are canon, folks. 🙄