WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.330 --> 00:00:01.920 This week, Sir Patrick Stewart joins us 2 00:00:01.920 --> 00:00:03.100 to discuss everything that happened 3 00:00:03.100 --> 00:00:04.450 in the Star Trek: Picard premiere. 4 00:00:04.450 --> 00:00:07.060 We get a behind-the-scenes look at the new U.S.S. Stargazer; 5 00:00:07.060 --> 00:00:09.190 plus, we've got an exclusive sneak peek 6 00:00:09.190 --> 00:00:11.280 from next week's episode of Star Trek: Picard, 7 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:13.000 just waiting for you to watch it. 8 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:14.070 All of that and more 9 00:00:14.070 --> 00:00:16.020 is coming to The Ready Room, right now! 10 00:00:23.460 --> 00:00:26.140 Hey nerds, I'm Wil Wheaton, and this is The Ready Room, 11 00:00:26.140 --> 00:00:27.920 your official behind-the-scenes hub 12 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:29.810 for all things Star Trek Universe. 13 00:00:29.810 --> 00:00:34.030 Today is an extra special day for our Ready Room crew, 14 00:00:34.030 --> 00:00:36.750 because we are looking at the Season 2 premiere 15 00:00:36.750 --> 00:00:38.500 of Star Trek: Picard. 16 00:00:38.500 --> 00:00:42.650 And not only that, we have the illustrious, the ultimate, 17 00:00:42.650 --> 00:00:46.020 my dear friend, mentor, and former captain, 18 00:00:46.020 --> 00:00:49.210 Sir Patrick Stewart, joining us in person 19 00:00:49.210 --> 00:00:51.280 for the first time since Season 1. 20 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:54.770 That is why I am wearing a suit as if I were an adult. 21 00:00:54.770 --> 00:00:56.120 But before we go any further, 22 00:00:56.120 --> 00:00:58.491 I think it's time for red alert!. 23 00:00:58.491 --> 00:00:59.790 If you haven't seen 24 00:00:59.790 --> 00:01:02.330 Jean-Luc Picard's glorious return with your own eyes, 25 00:01:02.330 --> 00:01:05.760 then you need to turn around right now and make it so. 26 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:07.080 Seriously, I'm not being cute here, 27 00:01:07.080 --> 00:01:08.650 we have a ton of stuff to talk about, 28 00:01:08.650 --> 00:01:10.640 and I am not going to keep Patrick waiting in his green room 29 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:12.060 any longer than we have to. 30 00:01:12.060 --> 00:01:14.650 Go, go watch and rejoice! 31 00:01:14.650 --> 00:01:16.187 Now, for those of you who have seen the premiere 32 00:01:16.187 --> 00:01:18.020 and those of you who are now just rejoining us-- 33 00:01:18.020 --> 00:01:20.830 welcome back--have we got a show for you. 34 00:01:20.830 --> 00:01:22.680 After my chat with the admiral himself, 35 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:25.290 we'll have even more exclusive content coming your way, 36 00:01:25.290 --> 00:01:27.400 including a deep dive into Picard's return 37 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:29.390 to his first ship, the Stargazer. 38 00:01:29.390 --> 00:01:31.410 We've been lucky enough to hear from the folks 39 00:01:31.410 --> 00:01:34.670 who helped bring this revered ship back into the spotlight. 40 00:01:34.670 --> 00:01:36.240 Plus, we'll have a brand new clip 41 00:01:36.240 --> 00:01:38.030 from next week's episode of Picard. 42 00:01:38.030 --> 00:01:39.550 But before we get to any of that, 43 00:01:39.550 --> 00:01:41.440 we know this week's Star Trek: Picard premiere 44 00:01:41.440 --> 00:01:43.310 was jam-packed with surprises, 45 00:01:43.310 --> 00:01:47.060 but one that absolutely filled my little nerd heart with joy 46 00:01:47.060 --> 00:01:50.330 was getting to see Whoopi Goldberg return as Guinan, 47 00:01:50.330 --> 00:01:51.660 and, as luck would have it, 48 00:01:51.660 --> 00:01:53.410 we got to catch up with Whoopi 49 00:01:53.410 --> 00:01:56.560 to talk all about her Next Generation character's return 50 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:59.240 in this never-before-seen video. 51 00:01:59.240 --> 00:02:01.820 You ready for our first video package of the season? 52 00:02:01.820 --> 00:02:04.913 I know you are. Control room, engage. 53 00:02:13.989 --> 00:02:15.822 I'm gonna need some tea. 54 00:02:15.822 --> 00:02:18.505 Earl Grey, piping hot. 55 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.480 Well, some of my best times as an actor 56 00:02:23.480 --> 00:02:26.420 was working with this crew and cast, 57 00:02:26.420 --> 00:02:29.060 and now to be able to hang out with Picard 58 00:02:29.060 --> 00:02:34.040 and be part of this larger story that is being told 59 00:02:34.040 --> 00:02:35.640 is kind of heavenly for me. 60 00:02:35.640 --> 00:02:37.515 [Picard] Perhaps something stronger. 61 00:02:39.530 --> 00:02:41.880 Whoopi and I have two solo scenes, 62 00:02:41.880 --> 00:02:45.754 and it was a wonderful day... 63 00:02:46.696 --> 00:02:48.262 I think for both of us. 64 00:02:49.290 --> 00:02:53.120 I had not seen Whoopi for a long time, 65 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:56.480 and it was wonderful to be together again, 66 00:02:56.480 --> 00:02:59.579 and, as with true friendships, 67 00:03:00.980 --> 00:03:02.779 as if we'd never been apart. 68 00:03:03.654 --> 00:03:05.220 Guinan. 69 00:03:05.220 --> 00:03:06.803 Please, come in. 70 00:03:06.803 --> 00:03:09.322 Are you sure? You look like you're preparing 71 00:03:09.322 --> 00:03:10.510 for a quiet evening. 72 00:03:10.510 --> 00:03:12.040 No, I'm delighted to see you. 73 00:03:12.040 --> 00:03:13.254 Can I get you something to drink? 74 00:03:13.254 --> 00:03:14.117 No, thank you. 75 00:03:14.117 --> 00:03:16.640 Guinan is as close to a confidant. 76 00:03:16.640 --> 00:03:20.910 Guinan is as close to a speaker to Picard's heart 77 00:03:20.910 --> 00:03:23.420 as anyone that has been on the show. 78 00:03:23.420 --> 00:03:25.970 There are people that you get to work with in your life, 79 00:03:25.970 --> 00:03:28.757 and you think, "Gee, that was great experience," 80 00:03:28.757 --> 00:03:29.794 and you see them 81 00:03:29.794 --> 00:03:31.497 and then suddenly somebody says, 82 00:03:31.497 --> 00:03:33.975 "Hey, you wanna come play again?" 83 00:03:33.975 --> 00:03:37.180 And it's like you've been lifted off 84 00:03:37.180 --> 00:03:42.160 to a special world where people understand you, 85 00:03:42.160 --> 00:03:43.800 and you understand them, 86 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:48.270 and they're welcoming, and everything makes sense. 87 00:03:48.270 --> 00:03:50.990 This is for your private reserve. 88 00:03:50.990 --> 00:03:52.040 Oh! 89 00:03:52.906 --> 00:03:54.314 With you pushing a century 90 00:03:54.314 --> 00:03:55.707 and me pushing several, 91 00:03:55.707 --> 00:03:57.382 I don't really think at our age 92 00:03:57.382 --> 00:03:59.331 we should be reserving anything. 93 00:03:59.331 --> 00:04:01.940 In my mind, Patrick is one 94 00:04:01.940 --> 00:04:04.800 of the many, many, many, many, many grandchildren 95 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.970 that Guinan has, 'cause she's been around a long time. 96 00:04:07.970 --> 00:04:10.370 So I think that she's met and seen 97 00:04:10.370 --> 00:04:12.780 and worked with her grandchildren 98 00:04:12.780 --> 00:04:14.250 and lots of her great-grandchildren. 99 00:04:14.250 --> 00:04:16.300 They may know her, they may not. 100 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:17.230 What is it? 101 00:04:17.230 --> 00:04:18.203 Just try it. 102 00:04:26.163 --> 00:04:30.197 You see? It's an Earth drink, prune juice. 103 00:04:31.770 --> 00:04:32.897 Warriors' drink. 104 00:04:33.860 --> 00:04:36.340 I love science fiction as a kid 105 00:04:37.410 --> 00:04:39.880 and when Star Trek showed up on television, 106 00:04:39.880 --> 00:04:40.880 I was really happy. 107 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:44.720 And then, out came Uhura. 108 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:48.680 Landing party to Enterprise, no sign of Dr. McCoy. 109 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:49.670 Search progressing. 110 00:04:49.670 --> 00:04:54.060 And she was a babe, 111 00:04:54.060 --> 00:04:56.610 and she was in charge of communications, 112 00:04:56.610 --> 00:04:59.600 which meant you couldn't talk to anybody 113 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:01.300 without going through her. 114 00:05:01.300 --> 00:05:04.870 Captain, Starfleet acknowledges report on our situation 115 00:05:04.870 --> 00:05:05.710 and confirms. 116 00:05:05.710 --> 00:05:09.643 And I thought, "Oh." All the movies I've seen 117 00:05:09.643 --> 00:05:11.552 up 'til 1963, 118 00:05:11.552 --> 00:05:13.240 all the television shows, 119 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:16.070 nowhere are people of color, 120 00:05:16.070 --> 00:05:18.630 Black people, in particular, represented. 121 00:05:18.630 --> 00:05:23.630 So to see her be hot and be in charge of communications 122 00:05:24.170 --> 00:05:28.010 was like, "Well, hell, we might just take over the future." 123 00:05:28.010 --> 00:05:29.461 And so years later, 124 00:05:29.461 --> 00:05:31.390 when LeVar Burton told me 125 00:05:31.390 --> 00:05:33.880 he was working on The Next Generation, 126 00:05:33.880 --> 00:05:36.687 I said to him, tell them I wanna come play. 127 00:05:36.687 --> 00:05:41.433 And Gene Roddenberry, he said, "So what is this you want? 128 00:05:42.540 --> 00:05:43.410 What do you want?" 129 00:05:43.410 --> 00:05:45.470 I said, "Let me explain to you, 130 00:05:45.470 --> 00:05:47.040 when I was a little kid, 131 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:50.650 the only way I knew I was gonna be in the future 132 00:05:50.650 --> 00:05:51.910 was watching Star Trek 133 00:05:51.910 --> 00:05:55.380 because Lieutenant Uhura was the only person of color 134 00:05:55.380 --> 00:05:59.490 that I ever saw that I thought, "Oh, there we are. 135 00:05:59.490 --> 00:06:02.180 Like everybody else, there we are." 136 00:06:02.180 --> 00:06:04.220 Days go by and he calls, 137 00:06:04.220 --> 00:06:06.023 he says, "I'm gonna build you a bar 138 00:06:06.023 --> 00:06:09.130 and I wanna name you after a woman named Texas Guinan." 139 00:06:09.130 --> 00:06:10.940 And I said, "Why?" 140 00:06:10.940 --> 00:06:13.920 He said, "Because I didn't realize 141 00:06:15.080 --> 00:06:19.855 that we're doing something 142 00:06:19.855 --> 00:06:20.996 so substantial 143 00:06:20.996 --> 00:06:25.996 that it had big ramifications for lots of little kids 144 00:06:26.210 --> 00:06:28.160 that we hadn't thought about." 145 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:29.510 So that's how I got the part. 146 00:06:29.510 --> 00:06:31.750 That's how I came to Star Trek, 147 00:06:31.750 --> 00:06:36.160 and I wanted to be Uhura for somebody else 148 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:39.780 who maybe didn't think Star Trek meant 149 00:06:39.780 --> 00:06:42.500 that they would be in the future, but it does. 150 00:06:42.500 --> 00:06:46.630 It means everyone that you see on the show 151 00:06:46.630 --> 00:06:49.238 will be represented, could be represented 152 00:06:49.238 --> 00:06:52.560 in the hundreds of thousands of years to come. 153 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:55.160 I suggest that we drink... 154 00:06:56.450 --> 00:07:01.212 because I think there's one final frontier yet to come. 155 00:07:05.590 --> 00:07:07.150 My first guest of the season 156 00:07:07.150 --> 00:07:09.330 is the only guest I could imagine 157 00:07:09.330 --> 00:07:11.800 being my first guest of the season. 158 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:13.640 He is an acting legend. 159 00:07:13.640 --> 00:07:16.780 He is the North Star of Star Trek: Picard. 160 00:07:16.780 --> 00:07:20.040 And I have been lucky to call him a dear friend and mentor 161 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:22.800 for over 30 years, Sir Patrick Stewart. 162 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:25.460 Thank you so much for joining me in The Ready Room today. 163 00:07:25.460 --> 00:07:29.210 Wil, it's a great pleasure always to be talking with you, 164 00:07:29.210 --> 00:07:30.740 instead of all those other guys 165 00:07:30.740 --> 00:07:32.750 that I have to work with every day. 166 00:07:32.750 --> 00:07:35.321 - They're the worst. - It is so refreshing. 167 00:07:35.321 --> 00:07:39.750 And I hope they're paying you appropriately 168 00:07:39.750 --> 00:07:42.020 for how much good you do me. 169 00:07:42.020 --> 00:07:44.330 You're so kind. Thank you very much. 170 00:07:44.330 --> 00:07:46.693 It's wonderful to see you. 171 00:07:47.700 --> 00:07:49.370 Let's get into this. 172 00:07:49.370 --> 00:07:51.410 At the beginning of this episode, 173 00:07:51.410 --> 00:07:53.960 we get a glimpse of Picard's past 174 00:07:53.960 --> 00:07:56.490 in this wonderful childhood flashback, 175 00:07:56.490 --> 00:07:59.500 which sets up this idea that this season of Picard 176 00:07:59.500 --> 00:08:01.880 might be looking a bit more internally 177 00:08:01.880 --> 00:08:06.880 into Jean-Luc's story, his history, where he came from. 178 00:08:07.030 --> 00:08:09.530 Without giving anything away, 179 00:08:09.530 --> 00:08:12.030 do you think we will peel back some layers 180 00:08:12.030 --> 00:08:15.853 of Admiral Picard in this season? 181 00:08:15.853 --> 00:08:18.570 I think it's unlikely 182 00:08:18.570 --> 00:08:22.490 that there will be any peeling back in Jean-Luc. 183 00:08:22.490 --> 00:08:25.890 What we are going to see 184 00:08:25.890 --> 00:08:30.890 are the things that he has kept buried 185 00:08:31.272 --> 00:08:32.381 and secluded 186 00:08:32.381 --> 00:08:33.690 from the outside world. 187 00:08:33.690 --> 00:08:36.581 And what Season 2 is going to do 188 00:08:36.581 --> 00:08:39.046 is going to give information 189 00:08:39.046 --> 00:08:43.512 about what he recalls 190 00:08:43.512 --> 00:08:45.327 of times past. 191 00:08:45.327 --> 00:08:49.330 And there's no guarantee 192 00:08:49.330 --> 00:08:52.690 that what he recalls is what actually happened. 193 00:08:52.690 --> 00:08:53.950 I was going to ask you, 194 00:08:53.950 --> 00:08:56.490 is he a bit of an unreliable narrator? 195 00:08:56.490 --> 00:09:01.490 Well, when it comes to childhood experiences, 196 00:09:01.640 --> 00:09:05.280 I think, in a certain sense, we all are. 197 00:09:05.280 --> 00:09:09.320 I know there are things about my childhood, 198 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:12.990 maybe in therapy, I have talked about, 199 00:09:12.990 --> 00:09:17.190 but doing an interview for TV, isn't exactly therapy. 200 00:09:17.190 --> 00:09:18.860 - I understand. - Although, 201 00:09:18.860 --> 00:09:21.040 seeing your smiling face is therapy. 202 00:09:21.040 --> 00:09:22.140 It makes me feel good. 203 00:09:23.060 --> 00:09:24.720 During this premiere episode, 204 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:26.904 it is hinted that Picard and Laris 205 00:09:26.904 --> 00:09:29.870 have deeper feelings for each other 206 00:09:29.870 --> 00:09:31.270 than we first thought. 207 00:09:31.270 --> 00:09:33.030 And I felt like there was a bit of a spark 208 00:09:33.030 --> 00:09:34.598 between them last season, 209 00:09:34.598 --> 00:09:37.773 but it's very apparent in this season. 210 00:09:37.773 --> 00:09:40.380 As a member of the audience, 211 00:09:40.380 --> 00:09:42.790 just as someone who is a fan of the show, 212 00:09:42.790 --> 00:09:44.100 I have always thought, 213 00:09:44.100 --> 00:09:45.857 and maybe this is a little presumptuous 214 00:09:45.857 --> 00:09:50.270 that Picard didn't necessarily have room or space 215 00:09:50.270 --> 00:09:51.950 in his life for a partner. 216 00:09:51.950 --> 00:09:54.130 That there were just other things going on for him 217 00:09:54.130 --> 00:09:56.662 and it wasn't necessarily the priority 218 00:09:56.662 --> 00:09:58.933 that maybe it is now. 219 00:09:58.933 --> 00:10:01.430 First of all, do you agree with that at all? 220 00:10:01.430 --> 00:10:03.400 And either way, would you talk about it? 221 00:10:03.400 --> 00:10:05.740 Of course. The role we're talking about, 222 00:10:05.740 --> 00:10:07.630 I have to say right at the beginning 223 00:10:07.630 --> 00:10:09.970 is played by Orla Brady, 224 00:10:09.970 --> 00:10:14.030 who, in the months gone by when we were filming, 225 00:10:14.030 --> 00:10:16.400 has given me some of the best experiences 226 00:10:16.400 --> 00:10:19.890 of sharing a scene with another actor that I've ever had. 227 00:10:19.890 --> 00:10:20.723 I love that. 228 00:10:20.723 --> 00:10:22.253 [Patrick] She's extraordinary. 229 00:10:23.897 --> 00:10:28.897 It's not that there hasn't been room in Jean-Luc's life 230 00:10:29.068 --> 00:10:32.080 for even a relationship. 231 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:36.422 I mean, at one point he does talk about, he's been in love. 232 00:10:37.972 --> 00:10:39.688 But I said that, and... 233 00:10:39.688 --> 00:10:43.246 as I was saying it on camera, 234 00:10:43.246 --> 00:10:45.350 I wasn't really believing it. 235 00:10:45.350 --> 00:10:46.870 I mean, it's Picard. 236 00:10:46.870 --> 00:10:50.440 It was something that he has created, 237 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:56.440 which might be a past that never actually happened. 238 00:10:56.440 --> 00:11:01.282 Maybe, but blaming the job is 239 00:11:01.282 --> 00:11:02.573 just an excuse. 240 00:11:03.490 --> 00:11:08.490 He has fundamental problems about 241 00:11:08.981 --> 00:11:10.681 intimate relationships, 242 00:11:10.681 --> 00:11:14.910 and that is one of the things that Season 2, 243 00:11:14.910 --> 00:11:19.440 particularly Episode 201, will show us. 244 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:21.540 There is drama, 245 00:11:21.540 --> 00:11:25.140 and possibly you might call it tragedy. 246 00:11:25.140 --> 00:11:27.650 Well, it is actually in this childhood, 247 00:11:27.650 --> 00:11:30.750 but about the details I can say no more. 248 00:11:30.750 --> 00:11:32.570 I wanna talk about the Stargazer. 249 00:11:32.570 --> 00:11:34.530 As a fan of the original series, 250 00:11:34.530 --> 00:11:37.490 the bridge of the Stargazer was a really big deal to me 251 00:11:37.490 --> 00:11:39.600 when it existed on our stages. 252 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:42.130 The history of that set is pretty cool. 253 00:11:42.130 --> 00:11:43.690 As I understand it, 254 00:11:43.690 --> 00:11:47.690 the bridge of the Stargazer, Picard's first ship 255 00:11:47.690 --> 00:11:52.640 was a redress of the battle bridge of the Enterprise-D, 256 00:11:52.640 --> 00:11:57.503 which was itself a redress of the Enterprise-A set, 257 00:11:58.900 --> 00:12:01.730 where all the original series casted all their movies. 258 00:12:01.730 --> 00:12:06.020 So that set had real history into it. 259 00:12:06.020 --> 00:12:09.585 This season, we get to see you on the bridge of a new ship, 260 00:12:09.585 --> 00:12:13.600 captained by Rios, that is also called the Stargazer. 261 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:15.480 I don't know what's gonna happen with that ship, 262 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:17.500 but you get to be on the bridge of a ship 263 00:12:17.500 --> 00:12:21.660 at the beginning of that bridge's history, is that cool? 264 00:12:21.660 --> 00:12:24.853 I hope it will be found to be cool, 265 00:12:26.250 --> 00:12:31.250 even though the the bridge of our Stargazer 266 00:12:31.350 --> 00:12:33.960 is totally different. 267 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:36.750 When I first walked onto that set, 268 00:12:36.750 --> 00:12:39.110 I was stunned by the scale of it 269 00:12:40.520 --> 00:12:44.830 because Picard's starship was modest, 270 00:12:44.830 --> 00:12:46.150 - [Wil] It's very small. - [Patrick] in his bridge, 271 00:12:46.150 --> 00:12:48.750 compared to what we have now. 272 00:12:48.750 --> 00:12:50.200 It's spectacular, 273 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:54.388 and, of course, I spend a lot of time shooting scenes, 274 00:12:54.388 --> 00:12:58.220 or maybe sometimes when we're shooting adjacent scenes 275 00:12:58.220 --> 00:13:00.560 in the observation room, for example, 276 00:13:00.560 --> 00:13:02.288 that's where we wait. 277 00:13:02.288 --> 00:13:05.100 So the bridge has kind of become our home. 278 00:13:05.100 --> 00:13:06.290 That's wonderful. 279 00:13:06.290 --> 00:13:09.010 I find myself looking around 280 00:13:09.010 --> 00:13:12.440 the architecture of the Stargazer bridge, 281 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:17.110 and I just wish I could take all of our fans 282 00:13:17.110 --> 00:13:19.790 and lead them through. 283 00:13:19.790 --> 00:13:21.920 Just the bridge would be enough, 284 00:13:21.920 --> 00:13:26.650 so that they can get a feeling for the immensity of it 285 00:13:26.650 --> 00:13:31.650 and the beautiful design and construction of it. 286 00:13:32.300 --> 00:13:36.730 I hope that somehow the set of the Stargazer 287 00:13:36.730 --> 00:13:40.440 that we're on now could be preserved 288 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:42.780 and somehow put somewhere 289 00:13:42.780 --> 00:13:47.480 because to experience the Enterprise 290 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:50.691 and then to experience the new Stargazer 291 00:13:50.691 --> 00:13:54.930 would be a wonderful experience for our fans and followers. 292 00:13:54.930 --> 00:13:56.780 I know what it feels like 293 00:13:56.780 --> 00:13:58.850 to walk into a situation like that. 294 00:13:58.850 --> 00:14:01.170 When I walked onto the version 295 00:14:01.170 --> 00:14:04.070 of our Enterprise bridge in Las Vegas, 296 00:14:04.070 --> 00:14:06.540 when they had that big theme park experience, 297 00:14:06.540 --> 00:14:10.230 the overwhelming emotion for me of stepping back into time 298 00:14:10.230 --> 00:14:13.068 and just being there on our bridge was amazing. 299 00:14:13.068 --> 00:14:17.500 I can only imagine what it would be like for our fans 300 00:14:17.500 --> 00:14:22.500 to get to walk through that set and kind of feel it. 301 00:14:22.680 --> 00:14:27.140 I recall our bridge just feeling so enormous and so special 302 00:14:27.140 --> 00:14:28.360 and I loved what you said 303 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:30.970 about that becoming the place where you all hung out. 304 00:14:30.970 --> 00:14:34.530 Because my memories of us on Next Generation 305 00:14:34.530 --> 00:14:39.170 is that the place we became a family was on our bridge. 306 00:14:39.170 --> 00:14:43.757 Just those endless hours of blue screen on the bridge 307 00:14:43.757 --> 00:14:47.000 and just those late Friday nights on the bridge. 308 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:49.650 And I've talked to members of other Star Trek casts, 309 00:14:49.650 --> 00:14:53.300 and it seems like the bridge is where it all comes together. 310 00:14:53.300 --> 00:14:55.020 Everybody who works on Star Trek 311 00:14:55.020 --> 00:14:59.750 just cannot wait to be on the bridge, and I love that. 312 00:14:59.750 --> 00:15:02.930 I'm so happy to hear that that endures. 313 00:15:02.930 --> 00:15:04.873 That's really, really wonderful. 314 00:15:05.950 --> 00:15:07.840 Prior to filming Season 2, 315 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.070 you famously invited Whoopi Goldberg 316 00:15:11.070 --> 00:15:15.350 to come back to reprise Guinan, on The View. 317 00:15:15.350 --> 00:15:17.270 Whoopi said yes. 318 00:15:17.270 --> 00:15:20.690 What would you like to tell us about that experience? 319 00:15:20.690 --> 00:15:21.560 Oh my God! 320 00:15:21.560 --> 00:15:25.230 Well, I knew that I was gonna be appearing on The View, 321 00:15:25.230 --> 00:15:26.630 which I've appeared on before. 322 00:15:26.630 --> 00:15:30.010 and I have enjoyed every one of them so much. 323 00:15:30.010 --> 00:15:33.190 And I will take responsibility 324 00:15:33.190 --> 00:15:38.190 for being the person to suggest maybe she should be told 325 00:15:38.230 --> 00:15:40.886 that she's being offered a role in the new series 326 00:15:40.886 --> 00:15:43.166 on live television. 327 00:15:43.166 --> 00:15:47.627 I think that's a fairly unique incident. 328 00:15:47.627 --> 00:15:52.627 And, of course, it did depend upon Whoopi saying yes. 329 00:15:55.860 --> 00:15:58.440 As you can see from what happened, 330 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:01.250 she had no idea that that was going to happen, 331 00:16:01.250 --> 00:16:04.600 so everything from the moment that I asked the question 332 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:06.260 is totally authentic, 333 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:10.853 and she has been back several times. 334 00:16:12.060 --> 00:16:17.060 Having Whoopi on the set impacts everyone. 335 00:16:17.740 --> 00:16:18.629 Oh, absolutely. 336 00:16:18.629 --> 00:16:23.629 There is a quality of respect that is shown towards her. 337 00:16:24.780 --> 00:16:27.027 It's something like when... 338 00:16:28.760 --> 00:16:31.235 when I first found myself 339 00:16:31.235 --> 00:16:34.080 in the company of Gregory Peck, 340 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:36.070 who had been one of my heroes 341 00:16:36.070 --> 00:16:38.850 when I was first going to the movie theater, 342 00:16:38.850 --> 00:16:43.850 and I couldn't be quite myself 343 00:16:44.270 --> 00:16:48.000 because I was in the presence of this extraordinary actor 344 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:51.240 and delightful individual. 345 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:52.690 And it's the same with Whoopi. 346 00:16:52.690 --> 00:16:56.732 People love Whoopi, and I'm one of them. 347 00:16:56.732 --> 00:16:58.593 As am I. 348 00:16:59.540 --> 00:17:02.553 To put my arms around her and embrace Guinan 349 00:17:02.553 --> 00:17:07.553 is perhaps the easiest thing I have to do in Star Trek. 350 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:09.560 It's been such a very long time 351 00:17:09.560 --> 00:17:11.690 since the two of you performed a scene together, 352 00:17:11.690 --> 00:17:15.290 so I am thinking about her first day on the set. 353 00:17:15.290 --> 00:17:17.403 And I am thinking about getting into it, 354 00:17:18.390 --> 00:17:22.900 putting the scene up, walking around it, feeling it out, 355 00:17:22.900 --> 00:17:25.440 her coming into Guinan again 356 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:28.290 after being out of Guinan for so many years, 357 00:17:28.290 --> 00:17:29.770 and the two of you together. 358 00:17:29.770 --> 00:17:32.950 There's a professional experience that happens, 359 00:17:32.950 --> 00:17:36.640 that kind of runs parallel to the emotional experience 360 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.010 that we have of reuniting with someone 361 00:17:39.010 --> 00:17:43.724 who is familiar to us, who we're excited to work with. 362 00:17:43.724 --> 00:17:46.040 How long does it take you? 363 00:17:46.040 --> 00:17:47.740 Does it just turn on immediately 364 00:17:47.740 --> 00:17:51.440 to settle down the excitement and the joy and the reunion? 365 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:53.860 To get into, "All right, now look, we're professionals, 366 00:17:53.860 --> 00:17:55.700 we're doing our job, let's nail this scene." 367 00:17:55.700 --> 00:17:56.780 Does it happen right away 368 00:17:56.780 --> 00:17:58.880 or did it take a little bit to get used to it? 369 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:03.010 Throughout my career, I have experienced, 370 00:18:03.010 --> 00:18:05.360 particularly as I've got older, 371 00:18:05.360 --> 00:18:10.360 that there is something about working with 372 00:18:10.592 --> 00:18:12.050 a beloved friend. 373 00:18:12.050 --> 00:18:15.550 There are things you don't have to manufacture. 374 00:18:15.550 --> 00:18:17.750 They just exist. They're there, 375 00:18:17.750 --> 00:18:20.410 which is why I said putting my arms out 376 00:18:20.410 --> 00:18:23.680 and embracing Whoopi as Guinan 377 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:28.030 is exactly the same experience 378 00:18:28.030 --> 00:18:30.980 because that how I feel when I first see her 379 00:18:30.980 --> 00:18:35.980 and the atmosphere on that set was 380 00:18:36.455 --> 00:18:37.990 unique. 381 00:18:37.990 --> 00:18:39.290 Let's get back to this episode. 382 00:18:39.290 --> 00:18:41.450 There is a section in 201 383 00:18:41.450 --> 00:18:44.600 where Picard gives an incredible speech 384 00:18:44.600 --> 00:18:49.600 to a new class of Starfleet cadets, including Elnor, 385 00:18:49.730 --> 00:18:52.300 which I thought was magnificent and beautiful, 386 00:18:52.300 --> 00:18:53.570 and I loved it. 387 00:18:53.570 --> 00:18:56.752 Then he gets drafted into a deep space mission 388 00:18:56.752 --> 00:19:00.832 to investigate this anomaly. 389 00:19:00.832 --> 00:19:03.490 This is a real change of direction for Picard. 390 00:19:03.490 --> 00:19:05.470 We kind of feel like, "Oh, I guess he's gonna settle 391 00:19:05.470 --> 00:19:07.540 into being a guy at Starfleet Academy." 392 00:19:07.540 --> 00:19:10.470 I get the sense that Picard isn't thrilled about this, 393 00:19:10.470 --> 00:19:13.460 but he's settling into it and it's gonna be all right. 394 00:19:13.460 --> 00:19:15.930 Knock, knock, hello, Admiral Picard, 395 00:19:15.930 --> 00:19:17.950 we need you to go on another last minute mission 396 00:19:17.950 --> 00:19:19.480 to an anomaly somewhere. 397 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:21.150 It seems like Picard is just like, 398 00:19:21.150 --> 00:19:23.683 "Yes, an anomaly, let's go!" 399 00:19:25.350 --> 00:19:26.590 Would you agree with that? 400 00:19:26.590 --> 00:19:29.780 Yes, in part, Wil. 401 00:19:29.780 --> 00:19:33.900 There is so much material. 402 00:19:33.900 --> 00:19:38.170 When we first began talking, so many ideas came up 403 00:19:38.170 --> 00:19:43.170 and one of them was that as a career, 404 00:19:43.350 --> 00:19:46.050 Picard is now an academic. 405 00:19:46.050 --> 00:19:51.050 He is a teacher. He is a lecturer at Starfleet Academy. 406 00:19:51.950 --> 00:19:54.294 And that, to me, would make sense 407 00:19:54.294 --> 00:19:56.520 knowing the man that I knew 408 00:19:56.520 --> 00:19:59.360 when he was a professional with Starfleet 409 00:19:59.360 --> 00:20:01.053 and now is retired. 410 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:06.680 What we have there is just a little tiny piece 411 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:08.190 of what it might have been 412 00:20:08.190 --> 00:20:12.790 if his career had been, "Now I am dedicated to the academy." 413 00:20:12.790 --> 00:20:14.880 It would not have been possible 414 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:16.750 to have done some of the things that we have done. 415 00:20:16.750 --> 00:20:20.807 At the very end of this episode, Q comes back. 416 00:20:20.807 --> 00:20:25.073 Mon capitaine, how I've missed you. 417 00:20:25.073 --> 00:20:28.115 No. No, no. No, no, no. 418 00:20:28.963 --> 00:20:32.700 Oh dear, you're a bit older than I imagined. 419 00:20:32.700 --> 00:20:34.147 Let me catch up. 420 00:20:35.500 --> 00:20:37.680 There, now we're even. 421 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:38.513 Q. 422 00:20:39.763 --> 00:20:41.890 Goddamn Q. 423 00:20:41.890 --> 00:20:46.890 Q reveals himself as, quite possibly, a significant player 424 00:20:47.170 --> 00:20:50.125 in this season's larger storyline. 425 00:20:50.125 --> 00:20:54.180 You know that I think of us in the TNG cast as a family. 426 00:20:54.180 --> 00:20:58.060 I think of John as a cousin in our family, for sure. 427 00:20:58.060 --> 00:20:59.130 He's not in the house every day, 428 00:20:59.130 --> 00:21:01.330 but he's at every big event that matters. 429 00:21:01.330 --> 00:21:02.720 He's there for all the holidays 430 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:05.150 and all of the different things that we do together. 431 00:21:05.150 --> 00:21:07.020 Would you talk a bit about being reunited 432 00:21:07.020 --> 00:21:08.590 with John as an actor 433 00:21:08.590 --> 00:21:11.730 and to be reunited with Q as a character 434 00:21:11.730 --> 00:21:14.350 after all of these years away from one another? 435 00:21:14.350 --> 00:21:17.808 Well, I think your family analogy 436 00:21:17.808 --> 00:21:21.947 that you made about Q is very right. 437 00:21:21.947 --> 00:21:23.843 Maybe a second cousin. 438 00:21:23.843 --> 00:21:24.676 Okay. 439 00:21:27.350 --> 00:21:29.410 But it's very true. 440 00:21:29.410 --> 00:21:34.410 First of all, John is part of our 441 00:21:34.976 --> 00:21:36.092 heart, 442 00:21:36.092 --> 00:21:38.610 the heart of what is Star Trek. 443 00:21:38.610 --> 00:21:40.860 You cannot exclude Q, 444 00:21:40.860 --> 00:21:43.480 in the same way that you cannot exclude Guinan. 445 00:21:44.910 --> 00:21:49.670 And what John de Lancie brings to the role 446 00:21:49.670 --> 00:21:54.010 and brings to the set, the atmosphere on the set, 447 00:21:54.010 --> 00:21:58.902 the workload, his style of performance 448 00:21:58.902 --> 00:22:02.290 are so first class and outstanding. 449 00:22:02.290 --> 00:22:05.370 I have found myself playing scenes with John, 450 00:22:05.370 --> 00:22:08.430 where I realize I am standing there, 451 00:22:08.430 --> 00:22:11.950 looking at him and listening to him, not as Jean-Luc Picard, 452 00:22:11.950 --> 00:22:14.330 but entirely as Patrick Stewart 453 00:22:14.330 --> 00:22:18.920 and going, "Oh Lord, that's so good, that's really good." 454 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:21.300 I have had that experience myself 455 00:22:21.300 --> 00:22:24.040 with wonderful actors in my career. 456 00:22:24.040 --> 00:22:26.647 And that moment of the voice in my head going, 457 00:22:26.647 --> 00:22:28.700 "Get back into your job, man!" 458 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:32.050 It's always so loud. 459 00:22:32.050 --> 00:22:36.083 John has an essential part of 460 00:22:36.975 --> 00:22:39.180 the Picard series. 461 00:22:39.180 --> 00:22:41.030 He will have an impact, 462 00:22:41.030 --> 00:22:44.738 and what-- 463 00:22:44.738 --> 00:22:47.390 I think I can say this, safely-- 464 00:22:47.390 --> 00:22:49.330 what we will learn 465 00:22:49.330 --> 00:22:51.771 is that 466 00:22:51.771 --> 00:22:56.029 as Picard is undergoing certain changes 467 00:22:56.029 --> 00:23:00.310 in his nature and attitude, so is Q. 468 00:23:00.310 --> 00:23:03.160 - Interesting. - And, I think 469 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:05.460 it will be those aspects 470 00:23:05.460 --> 00:23:10.460 that intrigue Picard in his moments with Q, 471 00:23:11.050 --> 00:23:14.780 but should, I hope, intrigue our audience, as well. 472 00:23:14.780 --> 00:23:17.163 I don't think I should say anything more about it. 473 00:23:18.220 --> 00:23:21.100 Except it was an absolute delight. 474 00:23:21.100 --> 00:23:25.517 And, actually, when John wrapped, which was 475 00:23:25.517 --> 00:23:26.917 several weeks ago, 476 00:23:26.917 --> 00:23:29.150 and it was announced on the set, 477 00:23:29.150 --> 00:23:31.333 both of us had tears in our eyes. 478 00:23:32.520 --> 00:23:36.810 His came first, and then I followed suit 479 00:23:36.810 --> 00:23:40.220 because it was a very potent moment. 480 00:23:40.220 --> 00:23:42.810 Right now, we're talking about Picard Season 2, 481 00:23:42.810 --> 00:23:45.470 but in our actual prime timeline, 482 00:23:45.470 --> 00:23:50.080 you are very close to finishing Picard Season 3. 483 00:23:50.080 --> 00:23:54.890 Is there any sense of "Well, yeah, we're really, we're done. 484 00:23:54.890 --> 00:23:56.530 We're putting it on the shelf." 485 00:23:56.530 --> 00:24:01.210 It has been a particularly intense experience, 486 00:24:01.210 --> 00:24:04.500 unlike any other Star Trek experience 487 00:24:04.500 --> 00:24:09.500 because we shot Season 2 and Season 3, back to back. 488 00:24:09.560 --> 00:24:13.430 We wrapped Season 2 at six o'clock one evening, 489 00:24:13.430 --> 00:24:17.400 and we began Season 3 at seven o'clock the next morning. 490 00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:22.400 So my past year has been 491 00:24:23.125 --> 00:24:25.666 overwhelmed by Star Trek, 492 00:24:25.666 --> 00:24:30.660 and it has taken up all my life, all my time. 493 00:24:30.660 --> 00:24:32.070 I mean, where I'm sitting now, 494 00:24:32.070 --> 00:24:34.760 this chair is where I learn my lines. 495 00:24:34.760 --> 00:24:38.010 It's where I study a new script when it comes. 496 00:24:38.010 --> 00:24:39.200 I sit in this chair 497 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:43.500 and--because it feels a place 498 00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:48.160 where I can focus exclusively on the work that I'm doing. 499 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:52.050 But we have done 20 one-hour episodes. 500 00:24:52.050 --> 00:24:54.000 That's a lot. 501 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:56.700 Continuously, yeah, it is, with one more to go. 502 00:24:56.700 --> 00:24:58.303 No, I'm sorry, two more to go. 503 00:24:59.737 --> 00:25:04.737 It does mean that we are in the finishing straight. 504 00:25:05.280 --> 00:25:07.970 Now I wouldn't say that the finishing line 505 00:25:07.970 --> 00:25:10.360 was actually in sight yet, it's not. 506 00:25:10.360 --> 00:25:15.360 But we're probably coming around the last corner. 507 00:25:15.600 --> 00:25:18.670 Wow, it's a very, very long way away, 508 00:25:18.670 --> 00:25:21.020 but I'm so hopeful that I'll get to talk to you 509 00:25:21.020 --> 00:25:22.560 toward the end of Season 3, 510 00:25:22.560 --> 00:25:24.730 so we can revisit this moment 511 00:25:24.730 --> 00:25:27.120 in a more real time sort of sense. 512 00:25:27.120 --> 00:25:29.040 And also, I just think it's unbelievably cool of you 513 00:25:29.040 --> 00:25:30.550 to share with the audience 514 00:25:30.550 --> 00:25:33.140 that the chair you are in, is where it happens. 515 00:25:33.140 --> 00:25:34.560 That's really cool. 516 00:25:34.560 --> 00:25:37.210 That's the sort of thing that I, as a nerd, 517 00:25:37.210 --> 00:25:40.800 just think, "Wow, that's really awesome, I love that." 518 00:25:40.800 --> 00:25:42.320 I've taken up so much of your time, 519 00:25:42.320 --> 00:25:43.990 you have been so generous and gracious. 520 00:25:43.990 --> 00:25:45.923 I'm gonna finish with one last thing. 521 00:25:46.780 --> 00:25:51.780 We know that eventually, at some point, the motley crew 522 00:25:52.040 --> 00:25:54.610 ends up in sort of a modern day Los Angeles. 523 00:25:54.610 --> 00:25:56.130 And we don't know a lot about it. 524 00:25:56.130 --> 00:25:57.111 It looks like maybe it's, 525 00:25:57.111 --> 00:25:59.240 it's possibly an alternate timeline, 526 00:25:59.240 --> 00:26:00.700 maybe it's a potential timeline. 527 00:26:00.700 --> 00:26:02.400 We don't know what it is gonna be, 528 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:05.190 but at some point, Jean-Luc Picard 529 00:26:05.190 --> 00:26:07.079 and a lot of your crew mates, 530 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:11.753 come to our Los Angeles. 531 00:26:12.730 --> 00:26:17.110 That's kind of off of Star Trek's primary path. 532 00:26:17.110 --> 00:26:19.760 It's not in the future. It's in our present. 533 00:26:19.760 --> 00:26:22.570 I imagine that was quite a different experience 534 00:26:22.570 --> 00:26:24.510 that presented some of its own challenges. 535 00:26:24.510 --> 00:26:26.410 Do you wanna talk about or tease anything? 536 00:26:26.410 --> 00:26:30.800 It was unusual and a little unsettling 537 00:26:31.970 --> 00:26:36.303 to be in a totally contemporary atmosphere 538 00:26:36.303 --> 00:26:39.453 and an atmosphere that is both 539 00:26:39.453 --> 00:26:42.569 social and work related. 540 00:26:42.569 --> 00:26:44.093 We were in Hollywood. 541 00:26:45.090 --> 00:26:49.040 And although, actually, technically speaking, 542 00:26:49.040 --> 00:26:53.450 I'm not sure we were in Hollywood, as such, 543 00:26:53.450 --> 00:26:58.143 but the one thing that intrigued me and delighted me so much 544 00:26:58.143 --> 00:27:00.518 was to learn 545 00:27:00.518 --> 00:27:05.518 how the term Ten Forward came about 546 00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:10.533 because that's an element of our story. 547 00:27:11.470 --> 00:27:12.720 I know what you're talking about. 548 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:15.027 It is one of my favorite moments of the season. 549 00:27:15.027 --> 00:27:18.130 And I accept your invitation here, right now, publicly. 550 00:27:18.130 --> 00:27:20.518 When Season 3 is ready to go, 551 00:27:20.518 --> 00:27:23.440 or even perhaps when Season 3 is winding up. 552 00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:25.510 Let's try and do this again, Wil, shall we? 553 00:27:25.510 --> 00:27:27.170 I would love it so very much. 554 00:27:27.170 --> 00:27:30.310 Oh, how I hope we can actually share some physical space. 555 00:27:30.310 --> 00:27:31.910 That would be so wonderful. 556 00:27:31.910 --> 00:27:33.220 It will happen. 557 00:27:33.220 --> 00:27:35.730 To me, you are my friend, Patrick, 558 00:27:35.730 --> 00:27:37.340 who I have loved for 30 years. 559 00:27:37.340 --> 00:27:40.110 To the world, you are Sir Patrick Stewart, 560 00:27:40.110 --> 00:27:43.634 an absolute gift to all of us as a performer. 561 00:27:43.634 --> 00:27:46.770 I greatly appreciate your time with us today. 562 00:27:46.770 --> 00:27:48.720 I know the audience appreciates it. 563 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:50.020 It's lovely to see you. 564 00:27:50.020 --> 00:27:54.253 Please enjoy finishing up telling Jean-Luc's story. 565 00:27:55.290 --> 00:27:58.957 Thank you, it's been a privilege to do that. 566 00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:20.230 This week's episode is titled "The Star Gazer," 567 00:28:20.230 --> 00:28:22.680 a nod to Picard's primary life interests, 568 00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:25.740 but also the name of the first starship he captained. 569 00:28:25.740 --> 00:28:27.730 Starship where Wesley's dad kind of died. 570 00:28:27.730 --> 00:28:30.070 It's awkward, we try not to talk about it. 571 00:28:30.070 --> 00:28:33.780 The episode begins and ends on an all-new Stargazer, 572 00:28:33.780 --> 00:28:35.820 and we were fortunate enough to get to hear 573 00:28:35.820 --> 00:28:38.460 how this legendary starship was brought back to life. 574 00:28:38.460 --> 00:28:39.570 Let's take a look. 575 00:28:39.570 --> 00:28:42.180 [Narrator] The Season 2 premiere of Star Trek: Picard 576 00:28:42.180 --> 00:28:46.224 sees the Admiral reunited with many familiar faces 577 00:28:46.224 --> 00:28:50.293 and a familiar starship as well, the U.S.S. Stargazer. 578 00:28:52.510 --> 00:28:54.640 We brought the Stargazer back 579 00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:56.400 because it's not the Enterprise, 580 00:28:57.330 --> 00:29:01.350 and yet it Picard has a deep emotional attachment to it. 581 00:29:01.350 --> 00:29:05.330 And we wanted to reach backwards in time. 582 00:29:05.330 --> 00:29:07.620 The Stargazer was my first command. 583 00:29:07.620 --> 00:29:11.110 Not this Stargazer, of course. 584 00:29:11.110 --> 00:29:11.943 But... 585 00:29:13.518 --> 00:29:14.751 being here... 586 00:29:16.451 --> 00:29:19.840 It feels like my life has gone full circle. 587 00:29:19.840 --> 00:29:20.673 The Stargazer 588 00:29:20.673 --> 00:29:24.060 was a Constellation-class starship with four nacelles, 589 00:29:24.060 --> 00:29:25.940 and it originally appeared as a model 590 00:29:25.940 --> 00:29:29.510 in Captain Picard's ready room on the Enterprise-D. 591 00:29:29.510 --> 00:29:32.280 Serving 22 years aboard the Stargazer, 592 00:29:32.280 --> 00:29:35.730 Captain Picard honed his leadership and tactical skills 593 00:29:35.730 --> 00:29:37.530 aboard this special ship. 594 00:29:37.530 --> 00:29:39.480 He even devised what would later be called 595 00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:40.710 the Picard Maneuver 596 00:29:40.710 --> 00:29:43.870 in order to outwit an attacking Ferengi ship. 597 00:29:43.870 --> 00:29:45.250 I dropped into high warp, 598 00:29:45.250 --> 00:29:47.780 stopped right off the enemy vessel's bow, 599 00:29:47.780 --> 00:29:49.090 fired with everything I had. 600 00:29:49.090 --> 00:29:51.160 Years later, the father of a Ferengi 601 00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:53.560 who died in that battle sought revenge, 602 00:29:53.560 --> 00:29:55.580 putting Picard back on the Stargazer 603 00:29:55.580 --> 00:29:58.782 to relive the encounter in a hallucination. 604 00:29:58.782 --> 00:30:02.673 Die well, Captain. 605 00:30:06.170 --> 00:30:10.070 In creating the newest, greatest Starfleet technology, 606 00:30:10.070 --> 00:30:12.480 we wanted to move the technology further, 607 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:15.050 but also keep it in the world that we understand. 608 00:30:15.050 --> 00:30:16.880 We looked at the change 609 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:19.780 from the Next Generation era to the original series. 610 00:30:19.780 --> 00:30:21.190 And it's like, how much of an upgrade 611 00:30:21.190 --> 00:30:22.550 and kind of played in that realm. 612 00:30:22.550 --> 00:30:24.400 So we didn't want to change everything, 613 00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:25.850 but we wanted to keep it iconic. 614 00:30:25.850 --> 00:30:27.587 So we looked at the original Stargazer, 615 00:30:27.587 --> 00:30:30.730 but we wanted to keep that idea of the four nacelles. 616 00:30:30.730 --> 00:30:32.840 It wanted to feel like the old Stargazer, 617 00:30:32.840 --> 00:30:34.410 but a newer, upgraded version 618 00:30:34.410 --> 00:30:37.360 where it's sleeker, newer, and more modern. 619 00:30:37.360 --> 00:30:40.690 The older these refits get, the younger they look, 620 00:30:40.690 --> 00:30:42.510 unlike myself. 621 00:30:42.510 --> 00:30:44.960 This show, this year 622 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:48.450 is about reaching backwards in time. 623 00:30:48.450 --> 00:30:50.962 It's about trauma because the closest things 624 00:30:50.962 --> 00:30:55.290 that human beings have to time travel is trauma. 625 00:30:55.290 --> 00:30:58.590 I guarantee you that a piece of you 626 00:30:58.590 --> 00:31:01.290 is stuck in the worst moment you've ever had. 627 00:31:01.290 --> 00:31:03.720 That's what human nature is. 628 00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:07.137 That is how we survive loss, and we work through it, 629 00:31:07.137 --> 00:31:09.090 and we move past it, or we don't. 630 00:31:09.090 --> 00:31:11.460 And if we don't, we're trapped in time. 631 00:31:11.460 --> 00:31:14.530 And that is the thematic truth of the season. 632 00:31:14.530 --> 00:31:16.459 And so anything that could be seen 633 00:31:16.459 --> 00:31:20.200 both yesterday and today is useful for us, 634 00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:21.410 whether it be seen literally 635 00:31:21.410 --> 00:31:23.290 or in somebody's heart and imagination. 636 00:31:23.290 --> 00:31:25.710 With so many memories, good and bad, 637 00:31:25.710 --> 00:31:28.010 it's all too fitting that Admiral Picard 638 00:31:28.010 --> 00:31:31.740 finds himself aboard this new iteration of the Stargazer 639 00:31:31.740 --> 00:31:33.500 right as he's about to learn 640 00:31:33.500 --> 00:31:37.667 just how connected the past and present truly are. 641 00:32:03.860 --> 00:32:05.280 Now, as Q told Picard, 642 00:32:05.280 --> 00:32:07.600 we may be at the end of the road not taken, 643 00:32:07.600 --> 00:32:09.540 but I think I just found a side street 644 00:32:09.540 --> 00:32:11.860 to an exclusive clip from Season 2, Episode 2 645 00:32:11.860 --> 00:32:15.151 of Star Trek: Picard, titled "Penance." Enjoy. 646 00:32:20.910 --> 00:32:22.266 What is this? 647 00:32:22.266 --> 00:32:25.700 This? This is home. 648 00:32:25.700 --> 00:32:27.517 And where are the crew of the Stargazer? 649 00:32:27.517 --> 00:32:29.870 Ah, how quaint, how provincial. 650 00:32:29.870 --> 00:32:32.400 How yesterday's Enterprise of you. 651 00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:34.353 There is no Stargazer. 652 00:32:35.380 --> 00:32:37.790 What do you mean? What have you done? 653 00:32:37.790 --> 00:32:39.320 Show them a world of their own making 654 00:32:39.320 --> 00:32:43.173 and they ask you what you've done. So human of you. 655 00:32:43.173 --> 00:32:46.050 Q, have you had enough of playing games 656 00:32:46.050 --> 00:32:47.680 with other people's lives? 657 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:49.500 I am no longer your pawn! 658 00:32:49.500 --> 00:32:51.300 Oh, you undersell yourself, Jean-Luc. 659 00:32:51.300 --> 00:32:53.760 You are more than just a piece. 660 00:32:53.760 --> 00:32:54.760 Why, you're the very board 661 00:32:54.760 --> 00:32:56.513 upon which this game is played. 662 00:32:56.513 --> 00:32:58.790 And I am too old for your bulls***. 663 00:32:58.790 --> 00:33:02.913 Old, yes! How unfair time is. 664 00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:08.713 So many wrinkles, so many disappointments. 665 00:33:10.040 --> 00:33:13.232 What do you want, Q? Will you come to the point? 666 00:33:14.270 --> 00:33:15.410 Thank you all so much 667 00:33:15.410 --> 00:33:17.630 for joining me here in The Ready Room today. 668 00:33:17.630 --> 00:33:19.620 I'm so glad you and I can spend this time together 669 00:33:19.620 --> 00:33:21.520 looking at all the behind-the-scenes goodness 670 00:33:21.520 --> 00:33:23.570 from Star Trek: Picard's Season 2 premiere. 671 00:33:23.570 --> 00:33:24.490 We're gonna have a lot of fun 672 00:33:24.490 --> 00:33:26.410 looking at all the behind-the-scenes goodness, 673 00:33:26.410 --> 00:33:29.080 from the entire season for the next nine episodes. 674 00:33:29.080 --> 00:33:31.070 Next week, the incomparable John de Lancie 675 00:33:31.070 --> 00:33:32.120 will be paying us a visit 676 00:33:32.120 --> 00:33:34.530 to talk about his nefarious return to Star Trek 677 00:33:34.530 --> 00:33:37.660 as my favorite letter of the alphabet. You know the one. 678 00:33:37.660 --> 00:33:41.393 Until then, I'm Wil Wheaton. Live long and prosper.