Star Trek: Picard Makes an Unseen Subsequent Era Journey Canon

This Star Trek: Picard article comprises spoilers.

Star Trek: Picard is protecting numerous floor in its closing season. Not solely is the present a correct sendoff to The Subsequent Era crew however a continuation of conflicts from Deep House 9 and even a postscript to the film First Contact. There’s so much occurring within the Alpha Quadrant, and the newest episode of season 3, “No Win State of affairs,” ups the ante much more by together with a serious reference to a basic Voyager villain.

In a flashback, we watch as retired Admiral Jean-Luc Picard has his meal interrupted by a gaggle of excited Starfleet cadets who’ve tons of questions on his previous adventures. Picard recounts a number of for them, together with his encounter with the Tamarians within the basic Subsequent Era episode “Darmok.” However then he references an journey we’ve by no means seen earlier than: a battle involving the Hirogen, a race of hunters from the Delta Quadrant finest identified for antagonizing Captain Janeway and her crew in Voyager. However with many of the Enterprise-D missions going down within the Alpha Quadrant, this has left some followers questioning how and when precisely Captain Picard and his crew met this predatorial species.

Sadly, the episode doesn’t actually dive into the Hirogen incident past a short point out. That stated, it’s not unreasonable to imagine that, for the reason that Hirogen are a nomadic folks with no homeworld to maintain them tethered to 1 a part of the galaxy, these hunters ultimately traveled into different Quadrants. Since their tradition turned so intertwined with the USS Voyager all through that present’s run, it’s attainable the Hirogen one way or the other adopted them out of the Delta Quadrant and into Federation area. The Subsequent Era and Voyager featured the Barzan wormhold, which generally (however not at all times) related the Alpha and Delta Quadrants, permitting for starships to journey the extraordinarily lengthy distance between the 2 in moments. It’s definitely very straightforward to think about rogue Hirogen touring by way of this area phenomenon, after which terrorizing unsuspecting and defenseless colonies in deep area, forcing the Enterprise-D to ultimately reply to the menace posed by the faction.