The second season of Star Trek: Picard’s continues this week, with its third episode titled “Assimilation”
Picking up immediately after the events of “The Star Gazer,” “Penance” takes us to a dark alternate timeline where Q (John de Lance) has altered the timeline, Earth is no longer the utopia we have come to know and instead of The United Federation of Planets, the galaxy is ruled by The Confederation of Earth and General Jean-Luc Picard is its greatest hero, having subjugated many other races, including the Vulcans, Klingons, Cardassians, and even the Borg.
Even Q seems to have changed and has an unusual sense of urgency about him. Clearly, something is wrong, are his actions a way of indirectly asking Jean-Luc for help or is there another motivation?
This Week
After gathering up the crew of La Sirena, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew must go back in time to Los Angeles 2024 with the help of the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching) to find what exactly Q has changed in the hopes of doing so will right the wrongs and realign the timeline back to how it should be.
Promo Images
Here are fourteen new photos from this week’s episode
Syopisis
Assimilation – Picard and the crew travel back to 2024 Los Angeles in search of the “Watcher,” who can help them identify the point at which time diverged. Seven, Raffi and Rios venture out into an unfamiliar world 400 years in their past, while Picard and Jurati attempt to gather information from an unlikely, and dangerous, ally.
Written by: Kirsten Beyer & Christopher Monfette
Directed by: Lea Thompson
Trailer
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The Ready Room
Q is running amok in The Ready Room this week as Wil Wheaton welcomes John de Lancie. Get a primer on the all-powerful trickster, explore the dark timeline he’s created in Penance, and more!
Picard airs on Paramount+ in the United States, and on CTV Sci-Fi Channel and Crave in Canada. Outside of North America, the series is available on Amazon Prime Video
