Star Trek: Picard Season 2 is finally back in production February 2021 after facing delays due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It suffered the same fate as other film and tv productions — a battle it could not warp away from.
According to Star Trek veteran, Jeri Ryan via Twitter, Picard Season 2 resumes filming specifically February 1st of next year. Ryan reprises her Star Trek: Voyager role once again as Seven of Nine.
Star Trek: Picard Season 2 is one of the three live-action shows in the Star Trek Universe heading into production in 2021. Franchise producer Alex Kurtzman recently confirmed, Things are just starting to shoot again,” Kurtzman told SFX Magazine. “We would have been in production already on Picard, but we couldn’t be because of COVID. It’s pushed our Discovery and Strange New Worlds dates just a little bit, but I think we’re actually planning on staying on track for those. By the time they shoot, we will have innovated with a couple shows, and we will know where we are. And we will be a little bit more down with a process.”
Ryan played a former Borg drone called Seven of Nine who converts and joins the Star Trek: Voyager crew. She was part of the show for 4 seasons. Ryan admitted returning to her Borg role didn’t come naturally. She struggled to find her more “human” voice.
Her co-star, Jonathan Del Arco, who also reprises his Borg drone role from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Hugh, helped her with her struggle.
“Jonny saved me,” Ryan said on Deadline’s Star Trek: Picard podcast. “I was panicking… He saved my ass, totally, because I was panicking, totally, when I finally saw the first script. And I know, for this character specifically… I had four years of playing a character that was very specific. And she went from being full Borg to meaning mostly human, but there was a lot of transition, but she was still pretty stylized and specific at the end of that four years.”
Ryan continues explaining, “This is 20 years later, and when I saw the first script, not knowing a lot of or really any of the backstory yet… I panicked because I couldn’t find her voice. I couldn’t hear her in any of this dialog because it was so different. Her voice was so specific for those four years. Partly because of the character the way it was written and developed but partly also because Brannon Braga wrote or rewrote most of Seven’s dialogue over that four-year period. Not every line, but a lot of it, so it was a very specific voice. And this was so different, so much more casual and human and slangy and not Seven to me, and I panicked.”
The Star Trek Universe continues to expand with more tv shows and movie projects. The Star Trek: Discovery spin-off series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will also go into production in 2021. Another animated series called Star Trek: Prodigy is in production while Star Trek: Lower Decks is currently streaming on CBS All Access.
There is no premiere date set for Picard Season 2, but the first season is also available to watch on CBS All Access.
