Check Out Atmospheric Photo Gallery Of ‘Star Trek: TNG’ And ‘Picard’ Cast On New Enterprise-D Bridge

Paramount+ has released a nice set of publicity photos featuring members of the cast of season 3 of Star Trek: Picard on the rebuilt USS Enterprise-D set, which was first featured in the most recent episode “Vox.” The photos include the Next Generation cast along with Picard season 3 series regulars.

Next Gen cast returns to the bridge

Here are photos featuring the reunited Next Generation cast on their old bridge.

Jonathan Frakes as Riker, Sir Patrick Stewart as Picard, Brent Spiner as Data, LeVar Burton as Geordi, Michael Dorn as Worf and Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

This new photoshoot seems to a bit of an an homage to the smoky bridge cast photos from 1987

Individual characters

Patrick Stewart as Picard in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Patrick Stewart as Picard in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Patrick Stewart as Picard in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Jonathan Frakes as Riker in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Jonathan Frakes as Riker in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Michael Dorn as Worf in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Michael Dorn as Worf in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Brent Spiner as Data in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Brent Spiner as Data in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Picard cast on the TNG bridge

There are also some images featuring the Picard series regular Ed Speleers and and Jeri Ryan, but not Michelle Hurd, nor guest stars like Todd Stashwich or Ashlei Aharpe Chestnut and Mica Burton.

Jonathan Frakes as Riker, Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, Sir Patrick Stewart as Picard, Brent Spiner as Data, LeVar Burton as Geordi, Michelle Hurd as Raffi, Michael Dorn as Worf, Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher and Ed Speleers as Jack Crusher in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher and Ed Speleers as Jack Crusher in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher, Patrick Stewart as Picard and Ed Speleers as Jack Crusher in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher and Ed Speleers as Jack Crusher in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+. Photo Cr: Sarah Coulter/Paramount+. © 2023 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Fan adds Shaw back in

Fan Bill Roper added a ghostly Captain Liam Shaw into the bridge photo, which Jeri Ryan retweeted, calling it “PERFECT.”

The third and final season of Picard premiered on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., and Latin America, and on February 17 Paramount+ in Europe and elsewhere, with new episodes of the 10-episode-long season available to stream weekly. It also debuted on Friday, Feb. 17 internationally on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories. In Canada, it airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave.


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The one with the Crushers is nice – I wish we’d seen the two of them interact with each other more this season.

Maybe we’ll get some Short Treks. It would be cool to see a couple of their adventures well before Beverly had to call Picard for help.

Note that the smoky bridge from 87 didn’t actually look that way on the show – that was one righteous fight GR was on the proper and winning side over, basically saying there’d only be smoke on the bridge of a Starfleet vessel if the ship was on fire, not for the sake of trendy ‘atmosphere.’

And now Discovery has flamethrowers on the bridge that just shoot into the air at random intervals like it’s an Anthrax concert.

You’d think by the 32nd Century they’d figure out a way to keep flammable gas lines away from personnel. At least in the 22nd through 25th centuries they just had to contend with electrical sparking from EPS overloads.

Wow, you’ve given me something to youtube today! It’s beginning to sound like contempotrek has found visual footing in the emulation of ancient MTV vids, what with the smoke, the pyro, the lighting rigs and needless,frequently OTT cutting.

“Fire! Fire in the observation lounge!”

(Ensign Costanza runs away)

I never teared up so hard over a Star Trek episode until this one. I just love seeing Picard back in that chair again. Never thought we would see it again and yet here we are nearly 30 years later. Thank you Matalas! You gave millions of fans a great gift. Thank you very much!

This is exactly how I feel Tiger2. You so well represent what I believe is the majority viewpoint of the Star Trek fandom. What a gift this season has been for long time Trek fans. To see the Enterprise-D with the full TNG crew, including Data, back in action again… just wow. Thank you Terry Matalas indeed!

A little nostalgia is fine now and again, but this season is nothing but fanfic. The storyline is shockingly weak and plot hole ridden—if this had been DSC it would have been torn to shreds, mark my words. Alas, it really does seem many of the fans don’t want anything new. They just want callbacks to the old; characters, ships, villains, old obscure episode references and there are enough easter eggs to rot anybody’s teeth.

I’m not sure how that would sustain a franchise moving forward. Basically Terry Matalas is a middle-aged fanboy writing for middle-aged fanboys. I think that’s gonna be the safe route going forward, but I don’t find it all that satisfying. They needed a really brilliant storyline and some meaty Trek themes and I’m pretty sure we’ve had neither. Oh well.

If it was Discovery, it would’ve easily been ten times worse, so…

If you weren’t blinded by the nostalgia you’d see it suffers from many of the same problems as Discovery. But the tears in your eyes have blinded you because an ’80s set gets you misty eyed like a baby seeing its bottle.

I’m not blinded… Discovery would still suck if the Enterprise showed up there too.

Your comment proves my point lol.

LOL you’re hilarious man!

😁

Indeed.

Amazing how Picard gets a pass for horrible writing, enormous plot holes, and just being a dark in brooding in everything it does. Its just Discovery with nostalgia.

So true, Tiger2. I have seen the last scene 3 times already. Can’t believe how accurate they have built the Fat One! The Bridge and the CGI, both are perfect.

Picard himself seemed to have de-aged decades. His voice lost all the old-man gravelliness when he said “Engage!” Also, the music!!!!!!!

I nearly choked on my emotions when the Bay 12 doors opened and I’m saying in my head “It can’t be…It can’t be…!!!” and then that glorious close up of old NCC-1701D!

But then the turbolift doors opened and the set progressively lit up! I was an instant mess! Never in my dreams did I think I’d see our beloved TNG crew back on that bridge again. Watched that last 10 mins over and over!

Terry Matalas and team nailed it! Thank you so much!.

Right there with you bro. 🥲

This might be the saddest thread of comments in TrekMovie history.

It’s like an episode of Discovery. 😥

So, like an episode of Picard, or your weekends.

If you’re talking about watching Picard,’s first two seasons AND Discovery on a weekend then, yeah, definitely.

And I’ve done it before. 😂🙄

ZING! You got me! You’ve successfully insulted a TV show!

I couldn’t agree more with you, Tiger. I just got a chance to watch the episode last night. Such a rollercoaster ride of emotions. A great gift indeed.

Fully agree Tiger2. You captured how I feel about this season and last weeks episode perfectly.

Wow I had no ideas the responses I would get over this. But yes nice to see so many of you feel the same way! It’s always great when fandom as a whole looks at something so positive and moving. If we’re all so moved by it, I can only imagine what it must’ve felt like for the cast themselves to step on that bridge for the first time in thirty years.

It’s a great time to be a fan! :)

Jeri Ryan still looking amazing as Seven of Nine!

Jeri Ryan would look amazing wearing a burlap bag…💓

I’ll be in my bunk.

I am hopeful the 1701D is going to be given the hero treatment in the finale – saves the day and returns to Earth and gets a fireworks welcome.

Nuhhh-nuh-nuh-nuh-no-stal-gia
Nostalgia no-stal-gia-uh-uh-uh-uhhhh

I could hear the theme playing with that :)

They must have been rushing to take those pics and not waiting for the atmosphere to settle, cuz the smoke trails behind Riker and World are so heavy in some of them that it is like the Murasaki 312 effect from GALILEO 7 has invaded the bridge (story is that the effect was just cigarette smoke, which I think is likely.)

Since Kurtzman is saying they will be doing mini-series, I would love a 6 part episode story of Captain Worf on the Enterprise E….and how he wasn’t to blame for destroying it. ;)

I think there are a lot of what Matalas calls ‘hanging chads’ remaining after this season for legacy characters and new ones.

Worf’s story, Geordi’s own trauma after running the Mars Planitia synth construction project, Riker & Troi’s reintegration into regular service, Jack’s (presumed) recovery and path to redemption.

Even if Jack has the agency to save himself and turn on the Borg queen, he’s still going to need an arc before he’s ready for anything else. Best that be done in a limited series where Beverly, Picard and perhaps Troi can appear without taking away from the main cast of a new ship-based show.

Totally agreed. I think there will plenty left to explore for a lot of these characters. But then that’s probably on purpose since they set up a back door pilot for the spin off. I would love to see any of those characters back for even a mini-series if a full on show is out of the cards.

I know this is only legacy guest stars and main Picard cast, but I’m unhappy not to see Shaw.

Not actually liking having pictures of Jack on that bridge at present given the hundreds of thousands of officers he’s responsible for the deaths of. I understand the logic in releasing these photos now, but touching Crusher-Picard family photos are very much premature.

Yeah. It’s not real. These are actors on a set.

Also, when and where have “hundreds of thousands” of officers been killed so far?

It’s doubtful that most of the officers and enlisted on those ships were under 25, even after key infiltrations with Changelings.

From what we know, everyone not assimilated is being killed one way or another.

Not all of those ships were on skeleton crews. If 500 or 750 is a typical complement, it’s just arithmetic to get to 100k.

TrueL lots of deaths, anyway,

It doesn’t really make sense for the character that he just suddenly joined the Borg, no questions asked because, hey, he can hear them and always could. I feel like we’ve been told a lot about Jack but not actually shown much of his character or motivations.

The Jack/Borg stuff still feels shoehorned in, for me.

Absolutely. Feel this is Prime Philippa Georgiou all over again. Why killing a great character?

These all look soooo good. But the one with the force ghost of Shaw, hilarious. I spit out my earl gray tea! (Comedy)

Noticed that they positioned Jeri Ryan’s hair in each of the photos to cover up the amount of pips she has. Wonder if that’s possibly a tell that she might be Captain Seven of Nine when this is over.

I hope not.

She’s only been a commissioned officer for less than three months. More, for whatever reasons, the writers have chosen to keep reinforcing how much she isn’t ready for the centre seat.

Dude they made her Captain in season 2 when she wasn’t even in Starfleet yet lol. The very last words Shaw said is basically confirmed she’s now the Captain. They wouldn’t have him say that otherwise. I’m pretty sure the final episode will make it official.

Shaw said that she ‘had the con’ after saying Titan was already her ship.

The first was the formal and necessary transfer of command to his first officer in hearing of the ship’s computer. The second may have been an allusion to the Borg takeover that she is equipped to respond to in ways he cannot. Or, it may have referred to the steady erosion of his own captaincy as Picard took over the ship.

Her irregular brevet command with the Fenris rangers was just that. A temporary command of a former vessel with irregular crew under exceptional circumstances.

Even regular officers aren’t always confirmed in brevet or acting promotions. In fact, in real life they mostly are not in peacetime. It helps make the case for future advancements though. Someone who had an acting command on a large ship, might be offered a slightly smaller class of ship with a promotion. In wartime, it’s more likely to be confirmed.

That brevet command Seven had on the Stargazer was enough that she could join Starfleet with a commission at command rank, but doesn’t mean she’s ready for the responsibility of captain of a ship as large as Titan.

Her actions throughout the season have demonstrated she isn’t ready. They could have written it otherwise but they didn’t.

This is one of those things where fans are giving Picard a pass but Discovery is relentlessly criticized. Burnham was already recommended for promotion to captain after several years as a commissioned officer. Her mutiny was real, but she was unfairly scapegoated for the Klingon war.

Her journey to redemption and readiness for captaincy was unevenly written, but it took more than two seasons and repeated
heroism to get back where she started. There were many who still said her captaincy was unearned, and they addressed this with the President’s skepticism of her readiness for a more modern ship in season four.

While Jeri Ryan as an actor is more than ready to helm a show, and there’s long fan attachment to Seven, I don’t see why they have left her character open to exactly the same kind of criticism that Sonequa’s faced.

Again, nostalgia shouldn’t wash away the need for them to do better on this stuff or critiques when they don’t.

They turned cadet Kirk into a Captain after being in space for four days and got one thing right… you’re overthinking it!

As I was saying, it was obvious where it was going. I don’t even disagree with your issues…but it’s still just a TV show at the end of the day. They know fans want a Captain Seven show, so now they may get it one day.

No one had an issue with Burnham being Captain, but once you’re classified as a muntineer, which she plead guilty to, then it’s harder to come back from that. So the two aren’t remotely equal. But they still made her one anyway lol. And guess what, no one even cares anymore, right? I actually like her better as Captain.

As it turns out, Mutiny gets scrubbed off your record after 900 years.

Even in the best case scenario where Picard and the Enterprise crew are able to stop this, there’s going to be a HUGE manpower shortage for Starfleet. There will be a need for senior officers given that a large number will have been murdered by their Borgified crew.

And even the junior positions will probably suffer, since some of those, even if freed from Borg assimilation, will not be able to function as Starfleet officers anymore after the trauma of being mentally raped and forced to kill.

This is a more realistic reason for Seven’s promotion.

Her readiness for a ship of Titan’s size is still a question.

Again, I would like to note that many of the fans who were critical of Burnham’s promotion in season three of Discovery are the same who now are giving a much less experienced Seven a pass.

Okay as someone who experienced what you keep comparing this to first hand, not all violating experiences are that. Yes, it’s absolutely violating, there’s no denying that, and it’s absolutely someone imposing their world view onto others in a way that the victims didn’t consent to and about control but again like I said already.

Was there dialogue on that three month thing? I know the character talked about her accelerated Academy/Starfleet training at the beginning of the season, but there is at least 1.5 years between the conclusion of S2 and the beginning of S3. I’m not saying you’re wrong – maybe she spent a year at the Academy and shot straight to XO.

Unfortunately, like far too many details, Matalas has confirmed this on Twitter.

It’s the only way to reconcile the stated timeline.

Setting season three in 2401, when season two was the same year, is the problem.

Over on TOR, they’ve speculated that the season’s arc was originally set to take place later, noting Jack being 23 or 24 would line up with that. In 2401, he should be 21 or just turned 22 at most.

Whatever the case, they wrote themselves into a situation where Seven, who has been dropped into a fairly high rank from outside is complaining bitterly after just a couple of months under a captain who’s a stickler.

Matalas has also said on Twitter that she’s in an accelerated development program. Those are designed and known to be very tough in any large organization. She’ll have been matched with a captain who will challenge her on her weak points.

Star Trek 09 logic still permeates through Trek

A dying Queen
A fight for family
A search for Shaw

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Star Trek: The Search for Shaw

The one who has surprised me the most has been Geordi. He’s a character I never connected with, even though TNG is my favorite Trek show. Burton always brought way too much seriousness to the role, as if everything he was saying was the gravest, most important thing ever. Also, Geordi could be downright condescending to Data when Data tried to be more human, and he was creepy as heck around women. But this season Burton has made Geordi one of the best characters in the cast. Geordi has grown as a person and Burton has clearly grown as an actor. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Geordi is my favorite thing about PICARD.

Burton modulates so much of his performance with his eyes.

Looking at his facial movements around the orbits, I think it’s clear that this was always going on under the ‘visor’. I think the acting was always there, we just saw less of its nuance.

Geordi was written to be a younger, nerdly man. His friendship with Data always came across as that of a young male friend who was bemused that his friend wasn’t satisfied with the wonder of who he was.

Regarding women, I agree he was creepy. It was also a time when those kinds of social boundaries were first being articulated and explored in media. The idea of stalking was new, as were the laws related to it. It’s unfortunate that the character was the victim of stereotyping simply because he was the engineer.

Sexism was a huge issue with legacy Trek. Stuff like this and Reg Barclay and Julian Bashir, etc., should we hold that against the characters? In my opinion, no. It should be held against the writers though.

I definitely side with this take.

And I’d add that the seriousness which Burton deployed when it came to Geordi doing his job lent the role real gravitas that it needed. He consistently had some of the worst technobabble any actor has ever had to utter in Trek, and I believed it every time.

Agreed! Geordi and Rider here were both big revelations for me. I’d never liked either of them on TNG or in the movies.

Seven looks fantastic in the light! I wish we had more light on the cast throughout the season, but Seven of Nine! Slay!

But it doesn’t make sense. Why is the light source behind them at the door. And why would there be a distinct plume of smoke behind Riker?

And if you wanted to do a homage… do the blue pastel color tone. This is more like they are parked next to the Amargosa Star from Generations.

F-it. I’m happy they are all back on the bridge.

It’s surreal after all of these years to see Seven on the bridge of the Enterprise D. Jeri Ryan looks fantastic.

Yes, it’s so cool to see her there. I would love to actually see her on it in the finale, but it looks like she will probably stay on the Titan and assist Enterprise when they regain the ship.

Could they put everyone back in the transporters to remove Borg DNA? Could that also bring Shaw back somehow?

Careful, the one with Seven on the bright might be a spoiler.

I was going to post something on these pictures, but I forgot what I wanted to say. All I can remember is Jeri Ryan.

It is really neat seeing her on the old Enterprise, too. Funny to think that when she joined Trek it had been less than 3 years since that bridge had last been seen.

I just hope we can see her soon in a future iteration of Trek. Great actress and if I remember from Voyager she has one hell of a signing voice too.

I have no doubt in my mind that we will. ;)

I’m haven’t seen season 3 of Picard yet (or any of the show, I’m saving it on Blu-ray), but it is so amazing and cool to see those actors on that bridge again. That bridge set, to me, is now as iconic as the original bridge set from Star Trek.

I recall watching “Encounter at Farpoint” and seeing the new Enterprise for the first time. I’d seen a black and white picture of the ship in a newspaper and, from what I saw, I liked that the design was reminiscent of the original Enterprise and the movie version. It wasn’t until I saw more of it in the episode that I realized how drastically the saucer and nacelles differed from the original ship, but I grew to really like and appreciate those differences.

But what they did with the bridge was even more drastic! It was so big and looked so comfortable and user friendly with Mike Okuda’s LCARS interfaces. It was beautiful and really demonstrated, like the Ent-D model itself, that this was an evolved Enterprise. It was the furthest thing from the Nicholas Meyer aesthetic of Wrath of Khan and the original bridge, which were darker in tone and lighting.

I hope this set is preserved and not auctioned away and squandered like so many other ST props were at the end of the Berman era. That was sickening.

Brent’s photos crack me up. He’s either just told a naughty joke, or is about to :)

Fun, you write “There are also some images featuring the Picard series regular Ed Speleers and and Jeri Ryan, but not Michelle Hurd, …” and right below that you show a picture that has Michelle Hurd in it. :)
Maybe you meant there is none that specifically features her alone, but she’s featured as one of the people in the group shot. That said, yes, would have been nice to have Shaw, the LaForge sisters, and others in one as well.