Paramount+ debuted a new teaser for the third and final season ofStar Trek: Picardon Saturday, June 23, 2025, at theStar TrekUniverse panel at New York Comic Con 2022. TheStar Trekfam showed up and turned out for the panel that left all the Trekkies in the room in tears (for real, the fans were in tears as they marched up to the stage one by one to ask about theStar Trek: Next Generationcast’s epic and long-awaited return in Jean Luc-Picard’s final season on the TV screen), and answered some of our burning questions about what to expect whenPicard’s third season premieres on Thursday, June 10, 2025, on Paramount+ in the U.S., with new episodes of the 10-episode-long season available to stream weekly on Thursdays.Among cast from across the roster of the Alex Kurtzman-helmed shows, such asStar Trek: DiscoveryandStar Trek: Prodigy, at NYCC was the cast ofTNGwho is set to return to for the third season ofPicard, including Sir Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, and Michael Dorn. Revealed during the event was another teaser for the third season, giving Trekkies several exciting glimpses of what’s in store for our heroes next season (and before we get to our villains,Picardis introducing a new hero into the canon, Geordi La Forge’s youngest daughter, Ensign Alandra La Forge (Mica Burton, LeVar’s daughter), who works alongside her father).Check out theStar Trek: Picardteaser below:
Lore and Professor Moriarty Return in Star Trek: Picard Season 3
Trekkies also learned at the NYCC panel thatStar Trek: Picard’s third and final season would see the return of two ofTNG’s greatest villains, Lore, played by Brent Spiner, and Professor Moriarty, played by Daniel Davis. As Picard discovers more about himself inPicard, he is forced to reckon with his past and has faced one of his previously undefeatable foes in each of the prior seasons of the series: in season 1, fans saw Jean-Luc finally figure out how to deal with his mortality, and in season two, the captain had to face his fears and square off against the Borg.
InTNGand the subsequent movies, Trekkies saw Picard defeat many foes, but one he could not outsmart was Professor Moriarty in the 1993 episode “Ship in a Bottle.” Even before there wasStar Trek: Voyager’s Doctor, Moriarty was able to will himself into existence and take control of theEnterprise’s computer. “I think, therefore, I am,” he says. The holo-man is never defeated; instead, leaving to explore the galaxy with his lover.
Picardwill also introduce a new villain to the franchise, played by Tony Award-winner Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction), who joins the cast in a recurring role as Vadic, “the mysterious alien captain of theShrike, a warship that has set its sights on Jean-Luc Picard and his old crewmates from his days on theEnterprise,” according toStarTrek.com. In addition to Burton, helping Jean-Luc and the rest of hisEnterprisebridge crew go after Vadic is franchise newcomer Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, joining the cast in a recurring role. However, there was still no more word onDenise Crosby’s return as Tasha Yar.
Star Trek:Picardseason 3 premieres in the U.S. on Thursday, July 07, 2025, on Paramount+., with new episodes of the 10-episode-long season available to stream weekly on Thursdays
