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The first season of Star Trek: Picard debuted on 23 January 2020 on the on CBS All Access streaming service (USA) and CraveTV (Canada), with consecutive episodes released weekly through 26 March 2020. Season episodes released for an international audience through Amazon Prime the following day.

Episodes

Watched? Title Episode Production number Date US release date

"Remembrance" 1x01 101 2399 2020-01-23

"Maps and Legends" 1x02 102a 2399 / 2385 2020-01-30

"The End is the Beginning" 1x03 102b 2399 / 2385 2020-02-06

"Absolute Candor" 1x04 103 2399 / 2385 2020-02-13

"Stardust City Rag" 1x05 104 2399 / 2386 2020-02-20

"The Impossible Box" 1x06 105 2399 2020-02-27

"Nepenthe" 1x07 106 2399 2020-03-05

"Broken Pieces" 1x08 107 2399 / 2385 2020-03-12

"Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1" 1x09 108 2399 2020-03-19

"Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2" 1x10 109 2399 2020-03-26

Summary

At the end of the 24th century, and fourteen years after his retirement from Starfleet, Jean-Luc Picard is living a quiet life on his vineyard, assisted by his two Romulan friends and housekeepers Laris and Zhaban. After Dahj Asha comes to him for help, Picard finds reason to believe Dahj is connected to Data and feels compelled to help her, but she is killed by a mysterious force.

On an abandoned Borg cube known as the Artifact, Soji Asha (twin sister of Dahj) works for the Borg Reclamation Project. Like her sister, Soji is being followed and endangered by Romulan forces, namely Narek.

Without Starfleet's support, Picard is left to recruit a crew of his own: Dr. Agnes Jurati, estranged former colleague Raffi Musiker, pilot and former Starfleet officer Cristóbal Rios, the young Qowat Milat-trained martial artist Elnor, and a rescued Fenris Ranger Seven of Nine. Picard and his team, aboard the civilian freighter La Sirena, track Bruce Maddox to Freecloud, believed to be key to finding and protecting Soji. Their fight to protect Soji takes them to the Artifact, Nepenthe, and Coppelius, where Picard and his crew come head to head with the mysterious forces threatening Soji and other forces threatening the galaxy.

Background information

Teaser poster

Teaser poster

Reception

The review site Rotten Tomatoes gave the first season of Picard a score of 87%. However, it has also recorded a much lower audience score of 56%, with an average rating of 3.2 out of 5. [2] Customer reviews on Amazon.com showed a audience rating of 4.3 out of 5, as well as a much higher rough 80/20 like/dislike divide within the viewership/fanbase itself. [3]

The review site Metacritic quoted the lower 76% critics' rating score for the first season – against Tomatoes' 87% average rating – and also reported a viewership rating of 4.1 out of 10, with the like/dislike divide showing a rough 40/60 split. [4]

Awards

CBS Broadcasting embarked in early May 2020 on substantial efforts in the form of an mailer, online videos, social media, outdoor campaign and multiple events, in order to gain traction for their 2020 Emmy Awards nomination chances, aiming for a nomination in "Outstanding Lead Actor" category for Patrick Stewart. [5]

The five nominations that the season did pick up, were all in the technical categories, and of which only the prosthetic makeup nomination was won. [6]

The Golden Reel Award win concerned a tie with the acclaimed Netflix series The Queen's Gambit, whose episode "End Game" also won the award in the same category. [7]

In the 2021 Saturn Awards, which were awarded on 26 October 2021 having been postponed for nearly two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, covered the genre films and television seasons of both 2019 and 2020, Picard lost out to franchise sibling Discovery (whose 2020 third season was nominated for the same award) in the most prestigious television category: "Best Science Fiction Television Series". Patrick Stewart won the award in the category he was not considered for at the Emmys, that of "Best Actor in a Television Series". [8] Stewart incidentally, had already won the exact same, then-called "Best Genre (TV) Actor" award back in 1990 for the same role, that of Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, apart from being nominated for it again in 1997 for his performance as such in Star Trek: First Contact. [9]

2020-2021 Star Trek: Picard Season 1 awards and honors
Award Category Nominee(s) Result
CDG Awards Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television Christine Bieselin Clark nominated
CCA Super Awards Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Series CBS All Access/CBS Television Studios
Best Actor in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Series Patrick Stewart won
Dragon Awards Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series Michael Chabon nominated
Emmy Awards Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Limited Series, Movie or Special ("Absolute Candor") James Robert MacKinnon (Special Makeup Effects Department Head), Vincent Van Dyke (Prosthetic Designer), Richard Redlefsen & Alexei Dmitriew (Special Makeup Effects Artists), Neville Page (Prosthetic Designer), and Michael Ornelaz (Makeup Effects Artist) won
Outstanding Period And/Or Character Hairstyling ("Stardust City Rag") Maxine Morris (Department Head Hairstylist), Maria Sandoval (Assistant Department Head Hairstylist), Wendy Southard (Key Hairstylist), Sallie Nicole Ciganovich (Additional Hairstylist), Ashleigh Childers & Yesim Osman (Hairstylists) nominated
Outstanding Period And/Or Character Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) ("Stardust City Rag") Silvina Knight (Assistant Department Head Makeup Artist), Robin Beauchesne (Key Makeup Artist), David Williams, Peter De Oliveira & Natalie Thimm (Makeup Artists)
Outstanding Sound Editing for a One Hour Comedy or Drama Series ("Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2") Matthew E. Taylor (Sound Supervisor), Tim Farrell, Harry Cohen, Michael Schapiro, Sean Heissinger & Clay Weber (Sound Editors), Moira Marquis & Stan Jones (Music Editors), Alyson Dee Moore & Chris Moriana (Foley Artists)
Outstanding Sound Mixing For A One Hour Comedy Or Drama Series ("Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2") Peter J. Devlin, CAS (Production Mixer), Todd M. Grace, CAS & Edward C. Carr III, CAS (Re-Recording Mixers), and Michael Perfitt (Scoring Mixer)
Golden Reel Award Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Episodic Long Form – Dialogue and ADR ("The Impossible Box") Matthew E. Taylor (supervising sound editor) and Sean Heissinger (dialogue editor)
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Episodic Long Form – Effects and Foley ("Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2") Matthew E. Taylor (supervising sound editor), Tim Farrell (sound designer), Harry Cohen (sound designer), Michael Schapiro (sound effects editor), Clayton Weber (foley editor), Darrin Mann (foley editor), Alyson Dee Moore (foley artist), and Christopher Moriana (foley artist) won
Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award Best Special Makeup Effects – Television Series, Limited Series or Miniseries, or New Media Series James MacKinnon, Richard Redlefsen, Alexei Dmitriew, and Vincent Van Dyke nominated
Hollywood Professional Association Awards Outstanding Sound – Episodic or Non-Theatrical Feature ("Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2") Matthew E. Taylor, Todd Grace, Ed Carr, Tim Farrell, Sean Heissinger, and Peter J. Devlin won
NAACP Image Award Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series ("Remembrance") Hanelle Culpepper
Online Film & Television Association Awards Best Actor in a Drama Series Patrick Stewart nominated
Best Sound in a Series (Season one) CBS All Access
Best Visual Effects in a Series (Season one)
ReFrame Stamp Top 100 Popular Television 2019-202 (Season one) CBS All Access won
Saturn Awards Best Actor in a Television Series Patrick Stewart
Best Science Fiction Television Series CBS All Access/CBS Television Studios nominated
Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series Isa Briones
Best Guest Performance in a Television Series Jeri Ryan
Young Artist Award Best Performance in a Streaming Series – Young Actor ("Absolute Candor") Ian Nunney (Elnor) won

Credits

Starring

Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard
Alison Pill as Dr. Agnes Jurati
Isa Briones as Soji Asha ("Remembrance" – "Absolute Candor", "The Impossible Box" – "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2")
Evan Evagora as Elnor ("Absolute Candor" – "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2")
Michelle Hurd as Raffi Musiker ("Maps and Legends" – "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2")
With
Santiago Cabrera as Cristóbal Rios ("The End is the Beginning" – "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2")
And
Harry Treadaway as Narek ("Remembrance" – "Absolute Candor", "The Impossible Box", "Nepenthe", "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1 and 2")

Special guest star

Brent Spiner as Data / Altan Soong ("Remembrance", "Et in Arcadia Ego, Parts 1 and 2")
Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine ("Absolute Candor" – "Stardust City Rag", "Broken Pieces" – "Et in Arcadia Ego, Parts 1 and 2")
Jonathan Frakes as William T. Riker ("Nepenthe", "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2")
Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi ("Nepenthe")

Crew

Directors
Hanelle M. Culpepper ("Remembrance" – "The End is the Beginning")
Jonathan Frakes ("Absolute Candor", "Stardust City Rag")
Maja Vrvilo ("The Impossible Box", "Broken Pieces")
Douglas Aarniokoski ("Nepenthe")
Akiva Goldsman ("Et in Arcadia Ego, Parts 1 and 2")
Casting by
Liz Dean, CSA
Music and Theme by
Jeff Russo
Costume Designer
Christine Clark
Edited by
Andrew Coutts, C.C.E. ("Remembrance", "Stardust City Rag", "Nepenthe", "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2")
Steve Haugen ("Maps and Legends", "The End is the Beginning", "The Impossible Box", "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2")
Sarah C. Reeves ("Absolute Candor", "Broken Pieces", "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1")
Production Designer
Todd Cherniawsky
Director of Photography
Philip Lanyon ("Remembrance", "Maps and Legends", "The Impossible Box", "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1 and 2")
Darran Tiernan, I.S.C. ("The End is the Beginning" – "Stardust City Rag", "Nepenthe", "Broken Pieces")
Consulting Producer
Jenny Lumet ("Remembrance" – "Stardust City Rag")
Supervising Producers
Ralph Gifford
Kirsten Beyer
April Nocifora
Jason Zimmerman
Co-Executive Producers
Ayelet Waldman ("The Impossible Box" – "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2")
Damani Johnson
Hanelle M. Culpepper ("Remembrance" – "Stardust City Rag")
Samantha Humphrey
Douglas Aarniokoski
Dylan K. Massin
Aaron Baiers
Executive Producers
Eugene Roddenberry
Trevor Roth
James Duff
Patrick Stewart
Heather Kadin
Akiva Goldsman
Michael Chabon
Alex Kurtzman
Based Upon Star Trek: The Next Generation Created by
Gene Roddenberry
Created by
Akiva Goldsman
Michael Chabon
Kirsten Beyer
Alex Kurtzman
Associate Producer
Robyn Johnson
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Series Stunts
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Series Animation Department
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Series Transportation Department
Series Other crew

See also

External links

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