BACK TO THE FUTURE!
Star Trek: Picard
SERIES PREMIERE
Thursday, Jan. 23, CBS All Access
or the first time since the 2002 film , Patrick Stewart, aka Jean-Luc Picard, is seated on a 24th-century starship’s bridge, booming “Engage!” in that stentorian British accent as he and the crew head out on an interstellar mission. It’s a scene from , a series no one expected to see. Certainly not Alex Kurtzman, cocreator of another CBS All Access show, , who conjured the idea for this eighth Trekverse entry. “I put the odds at zero that Patrick would agree to reprise the role,” he recalls with a chuckle. And not Stewart, (1987–94) and four movie sequels, he had completed his job as arguably the most popular captain. (We’ll clear space for your letters championing William Shatner’s James T. Kirk.)
