JANUARY 23, 2022 - Hot on the heels of the announcement that Star Trek: Picard’s second season would drop on March 3rd, Paramount+ has unveiled a full-length trailer for the time travel adventure, one that promises high-stakes excitement and the return of a beloved Next Generation character to offer aid to her long-time friend.

The nearly two-minute preview underscores the critical dilemma introduced in the teaser trailer released last year: time has been broken, Q is somehow involved, and it’s up to the crew of La Sirena to save reality itself. “There are some moments that haunt us all our lives,” Picard intones solemnly over a fast-paced montage of space combat, “moments upon which history turns.” Clearly one of those history-turning moments has gone wrong as we see Jean-Luc stunned to find himself in a world he doesn’t recognize, with only Q’s cryptic hints to help him understand what’s happened.

Thankfully for Picard, he’s not left alone to decipher the mystery. The trailer follows him to Los Angeles as he tracks down the ever-mysterious Guinan, who has helped him understand disjointed time streams more than once in stories like “Yesterday’s Enterprise,” “Time’s Arrow” and the feature Star Trek: Generations. From there the focus shifts to Los Angeles in the year 2024, with a glimpse of some of the characters who await Jean-Luc and his crew when they travel to the past, including a member of the Soong family, played by Brent Spiner, and Annie Wersching’s Borg Queen.

With so much to take in: alternate realities, time travel, Borg, Q, (yet another) Soong, Guinan, and more, it seems the best approach for Picard season two may be to simply sit back and enjoy the ride, which will begin on March 3rd on Paramount+. Until then, you can catch up on season one streaming now.