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[Narrator] The Season 2 premiere

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of Star Trek: Picard
sees the Admiral reunited

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with many familiar faces, and
a familiar starship, as well:

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the U.S.S. Stargazer.

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We brought the Stargazer back because

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it's not the Enterprise,

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and yet Picard has a deep
emotional attachment to it,

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and we wanted to reach backwards in time.

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The Stargazer was my first command.

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Not this Stargazer, of course.

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But being here,

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it feels like my life
has come full circle.

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[Narrator] The Stargazer was

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a Constellation-class
starship with four nacelles

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and originally appeared as a model

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in Captain Picard's ready
room on the Enterprise-D.

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Serving 22 years aboard the Stargazer,

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Captain Picard honed his leadership

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and tactical skills
aboard this special ship.

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He even devised what
would later be called the

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Picard Maneuver,

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in order to outwit an
attacking Ferengi ship.

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I dropped into high warp, stopped right

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off the enemy vessel's bow,

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fired with everything I had.

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[Narrator] Years later, the
father of a Ferengi who died

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in that battle sought revenge,

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putting Picard back on the
Stargazer to relive the encounter

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in a hallucination.

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Die well, Captain. [laughs]

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In creating the newest,
greatest Starfleet technology,

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we wanted to move the technology further,

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but also kind of keep it in
the world that we understand.

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We looked at the change
from The Next Generation era

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to The Original Series and it was like,

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how much of an upgrade?

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And kind of played in that realm.

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It's like, we didn't want
to change everything,

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but we wanted to keep it iconic.

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So, we looked at the original Stargazer.

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We wanted to keep that
idea of the four nacelles.

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We want it to feel like the old Stargazer,

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but a newer upgraded version
where it's sleeker, newer,

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and more modern.

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The older these refits
get, the younger they look.

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Unlike myself.

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This show this year is about
reaching backwards in time.

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It's about trauma.
Because the closest things

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that human beings have
to time travel is trauma.

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I guarantee you that a
piece of you is stuck

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in the worst moment you've ever had.

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That's what human nature is.

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That is how we survive loss
and we work through it,

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and we move past it or we
don't. And if we don't,

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we're trapped in time,

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and that is the thematic
truth of the season.

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And so anything that could
be seen both yesterday

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and today is useful for us.
Whether it be seen literally

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or in somebody's heart and imagination.

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[Narrator] With so many
memories, good and bad,

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it's all too fitting that
Admiral Picard finds himself

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aboard this new iteration
of the Stargazer,

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right as he's about to learn
just how connected the past

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and present truly are.