[Narrator] The Season 2 premiere
of Star Trek: Picard sees the Admiral reunited
with many familiar faces, and a familiar starship, as well:
the U.S.S. Stargazer.
We brought the Stargazer back because
it's not the Enterprise,
and yet Picard has a deep emotional attachment to it,
and we wanted to reach backwards in time.
The Stargazer was my first command.
Not this Stargazer, of course.
But being here,
it feels like my life has come full circle.
[Narrator] The Stargazer was
a Constellation-class starship with four nacelles
and originally appeared as a model
in Captain Picard's ready room on the Enterprise-D.
Serving 22 years aboard the Stargazer,
Captain Picard honed his leadership
and tactical skills aboard this special ship.
He even devised what would later be called the
Picard Maneuver,
in order to outwit an attacking Ferengi ship.
I dropped into high warp, stopped right
off the enemy vessel's bow,
fired with everything I had.
[Narrator] Years later, the father of a Ferengi who died
in that battle sought revenge,
putting Picard back on the Stargazer to relive the encounter
in a hallucination.
Die well, Captain. [laughs]
In creating the newest, greatest Starfleet technology,
we wanted to move the technology further,
but also kind of keep it in the world that we understand.
We looked at the change from The Next Generation era
to The Original Series and it was like,
how much of an upgrade?
And kind of played in that realm.
It's like, we didn't want to change everything,
but we wanted to keep it iconic.
So, we looked at the original Stargazer.
We wanted to keep that idea of the four nacelles.
We want it to feel like the old Stargazer,
but a newer upgraded version where it's sleeker, newer,
and more modern.
The older these refits get, the younger they look.
Unlike myself.
This show this year is about reaching backwards in time.
It's about trauma. Because the closest things
that human beings have to time travel is trauma.
I guarantee you that a piece of you is stuck
in the worst moment you've ever had.
That's what human nature is.
That is how we survive loss and we work through it,
and we move past it or we don't. And if we don't,
we're trapped in time,
and that is the thematic truth of the season.
And so anything that could be seen both yesterday
and today is useful for us. Whether it be seen literally
or in somebody's heart and imagination.
[Narrator] With so many memories, good and bad,
it's all too fitting that Admiral Picard finds himself
aboard this new iteration of the Stargazer,
right as he's about to learn just how connected the past
and present truly are.