First Teaser For Season 2 Of Star Trek: Picard! (And Yes; Hes Back!)

First Teaser for Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard! (And yes; he’s back!)

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Head cannons about what the crew was like as teenagers?

Picard: He was an unreasonably suave little shit, who got himself tangled up in flings for the brief sensation of being wanted, because he never got that validation at home. He also threw himself full-force at every available father figure to try and fill the void that his own father left by being coldly cynical of him at every turn. This kid just really wants to be NOTICED and VALUED.

Beverly: She was a goal-oriented bookworm, who threw herself into her studies wholeheartedly with genuine interest in every subject. People who mistook her for a wallflower would be in for a surprise, though, because she had a sharp tongue and could cut anyone who tested her patience down to size.

Riker: He worked really hard to project the image of a casanova. He WANTED to seem effortlessly cool and likeable, but underneath he was constantly terrified because he grew up in isolation after his father left and his family home didn't have a lot of the technology that most people had access too. He's bluffing his way through everything, constantly, and somehow getting away with it.

Deanna: She was a sensitive teenager who could be easily reduced to tears by the smallest of things. Because she didn't have total control of her empathic abilities yet, she was constantly overwhelmed by the emotions of others and tended to keep to herself, up until she hit the age of seventeen and decided to use this disadvantage for good and started fighting to understand and control her abilities, helping her develop a quiet strength. She was definitely sweet and kind, if sometimes distant.

Tasha: Angry, untrusting, and fierce. All the things that women aren't "supposed" to be is everything Tasha is in order to survive. She's not a child who's lost their innocence, but one who never had the luxury of having any. She can, has, and WILL endure and survive things that some people three times her age would have never imagined. Definitely the kind of girl you don't want to fuck with.

Data: He was never really a teenager, but in the years soon after his activation on Omicron Theta, he looked out into the world with even more wonder and interest than he does in later years. Everything is new and exciting to him. He's eager to share information and make friends, but often isolated because the people around him are wary of him. He often writes scripted conversations in his head to offer anyone who comes near, certain that he'll make a friend if he does it right, but no one gives him the chance.

La Forge: Awkward. Awkward boy. He didn't grow up with anyone his age to talk to, since most of his life was spent aboard Starships, so he has trouble relating with people -- especially since his interests lie in Engineering, even from a young age. He's studious and mostly keeps to himself because he's paralyzed with anxiety about putting himself out there.

Worf: He is LARGE and INTIMIDATING and he knows that's what a Klingon should be... but he was raised by humans and part of him yearns to be accepted and understood. He squashes that part as best he can and stays away from the humans who mock his appearance and bait his temper so that they can shout and prove every prejudice they have against him as being correct.

Ro Laren: She's tired and angry. Tired of living in rags, of hearing children cry out from hunger pangs and loneliness when their parents don't come home. Angry at the Cardassians who taunt them and hurt them. Angry at Federation who looks away from the hurt so they don't have have to sacrifice an uneasy alliance with the Cardassians. She wants justice so badly that she can taste it like blood in her mouth and she counts down every day until she'll have the ability to make a real difference for her people. Ro Laren is fourteen when a child dies of starvation and fever in her arms and she vows on that child's life that she'll use every second of her own to make a difference.

Guinan: She was a whimsical and carefree teenager. Equal parts childlike wonder and ancient wisdom. An enigma and the apple of her father's eye. Full of a quiet strength that promises her survival. She never cries.

Lore: He's a hellion in his first few years of existence. He doesn't collect knowledge as gently as his brother will -- he consumes it. And when he tries to share the kill with the people around him, the people who resent his artificial existence, their disgust tells him that he's going to have to get used to being alone. Lore wasn't EVIL. It wasn't a flaw in his programming that started to harden him against humanity. It was his father's blind trust in his own genius and the man's unwillingness to believe Lore when he tells tales of the Colonists hissing insults at him. He's the blueprint of mistakes that Noonian will learn from when he starts again. And knowing that sows the first seed of hatred in his artificial heart.

Q: He was never a teenager, but he was once a young Q. He won't speak on the subject, but maybe there was something a little more gentle in him then.

Barclay: He had more imaginary friends than real ones, because everything goes right in a daydream while reality is just too harsh for him to adjust his eyes too. He's a walking ball of anxiety, but he dreams of a future where social shortcomings won't matter and that gives him something to look forward to.

Lwaxana: She's loud, daring, and delighted by existence. She's the prototype for every quirky best friend trope, except no one has ever stolen the spotlight from her. Being around her is like entering a pocket of the universe where everything is fun and endearing.

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