Picard — Everything We Know About Riker's New Ship

Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard‘s Season 1 Finale

The season 1 finale of Star Trek: Picard debuted the usS. Zheng He, beneath the command of Appearing Captain Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes); nevertheless, little is thought in regards to the new starship. In accordance with Patrick Stewart’s have to not retread Star Trek: The Subsequent Know-how, Star Trek: Picard is purposely not set on the Starship Enterprise and even one different Starfleet vessel. Instead, Picard and his motley crew warped throughout the galaxy aboard the unregistered starship La Sirena, captained by Cristobal Rios (Santago Cabrera).

It took until Star Trek: Picard’s season 1 finale, “Et in Arcadia Ego, Half II”, for Starfleet to make its presence felt inside the story, nonetheless as soon as they did, they acquired right here in full drive, with an armada to rescue Jean-Luc and the factitious inhabitants of the planet Coppelius from a Romulan warbird fleet. Similar to the cavalry arriving merely inside the nick of time, Riker confirmed up aboard the Zheng He, backed by an entire lot of equal starships. As a result of the Romulans’ chief, Commodore Oh (Tamlyn Tomita), was moreover the Head of Starfleet Security, she was correctly aware of the firepower and combat capabilities of Riker’s squadron. When Jean-Luc effectively urged Soji (Isa Briones) to vitality down the beacon that summoned an historic race of synthetics which will destroy all pure life inside the galaxy, Oh correctly stood down and retreated once more to Romulan space. In spite of everything, Starfleet’s armada ‘escorted’ them once more.

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Spectacular as they've been, Star Trek: Picard‘s new class of Starfleet ships have been solely seen briefly, and the episode did not provide too many particulars about them. Nonetheless, in his Instagram account the place he solutions fan questions, Star Trek: Picard showrunner Michael Chabon revealed that Riker’s flagship, the Zheng He, is a “Curiosity-class starship.” Showing Captain Riker bragged to Oh that the Zheng He’s the “hardest, quickest, strongest ship Starfleet ever put into service” — and his squadron was primarily comprised of equal Curiosity-class starships. Sadly, Trekkers didn't get so see the Zheng He in combat to make good on Riker’s boasts, nonetheless viewers can take his phrase for it that the ships are Starfleet’s cream of the crop.

The Curiosity-class is a model new topic of starships launched by Star Trek: Picard and these ships are named for Earth explorers who've been largely ignored by Western historic previous. Nonetheless the Zheng He actually is just not the first such ship talked about inside the assortment. Once more when he was in Starfleet, Chris Rios served on the usS. ibn-Majid, which was moreover a Curiosity-class starship. This suggests the Curiosity-class has been in service for on the very least 9 years; Rios left Starfleet in 2390, virtually a decade sooner than Star Trek: Picard‘s essential story set in 2399. Nonetheless, the Zheng He’s virtually definitely the newest mannequin of the Curiosity-class and rather more formidable than the ibn-Majid was.

It's also worth noting that though the Zheng He was known as Riker’s flagship, that was in reference to it being the flagship of this particular squadron despatched by Admiral Kirsten Clancy (Ann Magnuson) in response to Picard’s SOS. The exact flagship of the United Federation of Planets continues to be the usS. Enterprise-E, which is commanded by Captain Worf. The Enterprise’s storied legacy supplants the Zheng He's just-off-the-assembly-line newness, even when Worf’s Sovereign-class starship, which debuted in Star Trek: First Contact, is roughly 25 years earlier in Star Trek: Picard‘s period.

The Enterprise-E hasn’t appeared in Star Trek: Picard and Trekkers solely found Worf turned its Captain as a result of prequel novel Star Trek: Picard: The Ultimate Best Hope. Naturally, along with the Enterprise-E’s whereabouts, followers moreover marvel what turned of the usS. Titan, the starship Riker took over as Captain when he left the Enterprise in Star Trek: Nemesis. Nonetheless, on Instagram, Michael Chabon hinted that the Titan continues to be in service elsewhere inside the galaxy. Whereas Trekkers certainly not actually obtained to see Riker on the bridge of the Titan, it's now moreover an older ship by 2399. On Star Trek: Picard, it was very cool to see Will save Jean-Luc whereas answerable for the newer, additional extremely efficient U.S.S. Zheng He.

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Star Trek: Picard Season 1 is obtainable on CBS All-Entry and internationally on Amazon Prime Video.

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