Star Trek: Picard season 3 is deliberately ignoring a Next Generation icon

Star Trek: Picard’s third season keeps coming up as a disappointment already.

Star Trek: Picard is the show that many will be happy to see it end. It’s been a mess, and many fans are done with it. It still has its supporters and there’s nothing wrong with liking the show, but many fans have seen too much go wrong to keep supporting the show.

We know that characters like Q, Wesley Crusher, and Guinan are unlikely to return for season three, making their roles in Season 2 seem less impactful knowing that the rest of the Next Generation cast of characters popped up for the final season. It hurts, even more, knowing that the main villain of season three is just some woman. It would’ve made more sense to go with Tasha Yars’ daughter, Sela, who was arguably the most personal non-Borg villain Picard ever had to deal with.

All that was bad enough but Terry Matalas is finding even more ways to hurt fans. According to the Picard showrunner, one of the greatest aspects of the Next Generation and its films won’t be involved in the final season of Picard and potentially the final chapter in Patrick Stewart’s Star Trek career; season three of Picard won’t feature the U.S.S. Enterprise-E.

Not having the Enterprise-E in the final season is an absolute gut punch

Let’s get one thing straight, Picard is the Star Trek version of Star War’s the Last Jedi. It’s a needlessly dark and edgy piece of media that “subverts” expectations. To what end? The new Star Wars trilogy was awful, but they at least knew fans would mark out for the nostalgia. Which is why they put so much of that aspect into the film.

Could you imagine doing a Star Wars film with Han Solo and not having the Millenium Falcon?

Now imagine having a Star Trek story about Jean-Luc Picard that didn’t have the Enterprise. Then watch the third season, because you don’t need to imagine that horror.