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Star Trek: Picard – why did Jean-Luc leave Star Fleet after synthetic terrorist attack?
STAR Trek: Picard has finally kicked off on Amazon and fans are LOVING it.
The sci-fi series certainly lives up to the hype that comes with such an acclaimed franchise.
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Star Trek: Picard – why did Jean-Luc leave Star Fleet after synthetic terrorist attack?
We knew from the trailer that in this new Star Trek series that Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc would be a changed man from when we last saw him in The Next Generation.
We now know it was because of the destruction of Romulus - with the opening episode of this new series explaining all.
The pilot, titled Remembrance, is set on the anniversary of the supernova that wiped out Romulus.
We meet Picard in his later years, and he is much changed from his days as a captain.
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In the season opener Picard has agreed to a rare interview with the Federation News Network, as he hopes to raise awareness of the continued suffering of the surviving Romulans.
But then questions arise about previous career as a captain and this is where we find out about why Picard left the Starfleet.
As teased in the trailer (watch above), Picard led a mass evacuation of 900 million Romulan lives from the endangered planet in 10,000 warp-capable ferries.
However, tragedy struck when some synthetic beings went rogue and launched a terrorist attack on a Martian shipyard, resulting in the deaths of 93,000 people.
Following this, Starfleet banned synthetics, something Picard did not agree with, telling the News Network: “We don’t know why the synthetics went rogue and did what they did that day. But I believe the subsequent decision to ban synthetic lifeforms was a mistake.”
As a result of their new isolationist, Starfleet withdrew from aiding the Romulan refugees any further.
This was the final straw for Picard, who then resign from his post in despair.
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When is the next episode of Star Trek: Picard available?
Each episode of this brand new series is being dropped every Friday on Amazon Prime.
This means the next one will be avilable on the streaming service on January 31, 2020.
There will be ten episodes in total.
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