Jean Luc Picard: Last News

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments in Season 5, Episode 1 of “Star Trek: Discovery,” now streaming on Paramount+. For most of the season premiere of “Star Trek: Discovery,” the crew of the titular Federation starship are kept in the dark about their mission’s main objective.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Patrick Stewart writes in his new memoir, “Making It So,” that Paramount executives wanted him to audition for the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” with a wig on, which required his then-wife Sheila Falconer to ship a hairpiece from London to Los Angeles. “Right as I was boarding my plane at Heathrow, my London agent called Sheila at home and notified her that the Paramount people had been in touch, asking if I owned a hairpiece, and if I did, could I bring it to the audition?” Stewart writes (via Insider). “Sheila diligently retrieved my ‘audition wig’ from its space in my wardrobe and boxed it up, whereupon a British Airways representative collected it and placed it on a later flight to Los Angeles.” “I do not know if my hairpiece flew first class,” he continues.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Patrick Stewart shares blunt thoughts on 2002’s “Star Trek: Nemesis” in his new memoir, “Making It So” (via Insider). The film, the fourth and final “Star Trek” feature to star “The Next Generation” cast, featured one of Stewart’s least memorable outings as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, at least according to the actor himself.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Patrick Stewart reveals in his new memoir, “Making It So,” that longtime friend and colleague Ian McKellen advised him to turn down “Star Trek” and stay in theater when Stewart was debating whether to make the jump to a major Hollywood franchise (via Insider). Stewart originated the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” starting in 1987. Prior to “Star Trek,” Stewart was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and won a Laurence Olivier Award for starring in a West End production of “Antony and Cleopatra,” among other theater accomplishments.

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Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments in Season 3, Episode 9 of “Star Trek: Picard,” currently streaming on Paramount+. Gates McFadden didn’t know what to expect when she first got on a Zoom call with “Star Trek: Picard” executive producers Terry Matalas and Akiva Goldsman. A few years earlier, Patrick Stewart had taken the cast of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” — Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, Brent Spiner and McFadden — to dinner to announce that he was going to star on the spinoff series without them. But for the show’s third and final season, Matalas wanted to bring the full cast back together. 

Admiral Jean-Luc Picard answered a distress signal from Doctor Beverly Crusher and learned she had a secret son on Thursday's season premiere of Star Trek: Picard.The season three episode titled The Next Generation began with a captain's log entry from Picard [Patrick Stewart] saying at the time that the USS Enterprise remained concealed in a dust cloud and that the Borg was waiting for them to come out of hiding.The show then flashed back to the present with Beverly [Gates McFadden] getting an alert on her ship that she was receiving hull damage and there was an unauthorized docking. She called out for the ship to maneuver to warp drive, but it was too late for the other ship already had docked.Beverly picked up a weapon to defend herself as two armed aliens boarded her ship. They engaged in a gun fight until Beverly's gun ran out of power. Beverly was wounded, but at the last second grabbed a new gun and successfully killed the intruders.

Star Trek: Picard is set to air later this week.The Star Trek spin-off was first announced back in 2018 with a trailer following in 2019. Star Trek: Picard then premiered in 2020, with a second season airing in 2022.Set in in 2399, 20 years after Jean-Luc Picard’s last appearance in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), Star Trek: Picard finds the character deeply affected by the death of Data and the destruction of the planet Romulus.“Retired from Starfleet and living on his family’s vineyard, Picard is drawn into a new adventure when he is visited by an apparent daughter of Data, one of several new synthetic beings, or ‘synths’,” reads a synopsis.A third and final season was “informally” green lit back in 2020, so it could be filmed back-to-back with season 2 before Stewart officially confirmed the season in 2021, with filming wrapping in March 2022.US audiences can watch the first episode of Star Trek: Picard season 3 on Thursday, February 16 via Paramount+ with the show hitting Amazon Prime Video the following day (February 17) for UK audiences.Episodes will then be released weekly, with UK viewers able to watch them at midnight GMT.

Star Trek Day. Celebrated each year on September 8, the date of the show’s original premiere, Star Trek Day pays homage to one of the most enduring works of sci fi storytelling in this or any other universe.

Scientists may have discovered a cure for baldness. Stem cells responsible for healing the body are also found in hair follicles – and boffins discovered a protein known as TGF-beta can turn them on or off, making them grow or die.

The cast and crew of Paramount Plus' Star Trek: Picard descended upon San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend, and unveiled the new trailer for Season 3.Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard) was joined by co-star Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher) executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Rod Roddenberry for the panel on Saturday.It was also confirmed thatLeVar Burton (Geordi LaForge), Michael Dorn (Worf), Jonathan Frakes (Will Riker), Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Adam Soong), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine) and Michelle Hurd (Raffi Musiker) will star in the final season.

Patrick Stewart received an otherworldly reception on his arrival on stage at this year’s Cannes Lions conference, where he was clearly in his element discussing ‘Long-term Creative Effectiveness – Building Fandoms with the Star Trek Franchise.’

Star Trek: Picard is getting some very familiar faces!

SPOILER WARNING: This story discusses specific events in Season 2, Episode 4 of “Star Trek: Picard,” currently streaming on Paramount Plus.As even casual fans of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” know, one of the beloved sci-fi show’s most meaningful relationships was between Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the proprietor of the main bar on the U.S.S.

Paramount+ this March. The streaming platform's new action-packed series adaptation of the popular video game,, premieres this month alongside plenty of new shows and movies.

Starfield director Todd Howard announced at Tokyo Games Show 2021 that Bethesda‘s sci-fi RPG will feature “over 300 actors and over 150,000 lines of dialogue”, more than double the amount in Skyrim.This is certainly in line with the “large scale goals and storytelling” Howard promised for the game back in June. For context, Skyrim had around 70 voice actors and 60,000 lines of dialogue, and Oblivion had 14 voice actors — one of them being British actor Sir Patrick Stewart, famous for playing Professor Xavier in X-Men and captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek.Starfield is Bethesda’s first new IP in 25 years — the developer has focused on sequels to existing properties in the meantime.

STAR Trek star Nichelle Nichols gives the famous vulcan sign as she meets her younger character actress Loren Lott. The sci-fi legend, 88, was in California for the new film from the franchise Renegades: Ominara.

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CBS All Access before it rebrands as Paramount+), high-profile options (HBO Max, Apple TV+, Disney+, Peacock) and new choices competing for your wallet (Discovery+), it's almost impossible to subscribe to everything --on top of a cable bill.

Bernie Sanders sparked a social media frenzy on Wednesday thanks to his dressed-down look to attend the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris.

the original Enterprise on its five-year mission or bringing Captain Jean-Luc Picard out of retirement to prevent an AI-induced apocalypse, Star Trek has always been about the allure of the unknown, the strange worlds, new life, and new civilizations that turn up when the United Federation of Planets goes where no one has gone before. But what about what happens after that? Even if no one was asking the question, the promising new animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks is here to supply the answer via the adventures of the USS Cerritos, a starship specializing in making Second Contact.