Every sci-fi and fantasy show you should watch in 2022

Star Trek: Picard season 2 — Paramount+ — March 3

2022 is going to be the year of Star Trek. Let’s begin with the second season of Star Trek: Picard, which brings back Patrick Stewart in the role of Jean-Luc Picard, which he originated on Star Trek: The Next Generation. This new show catches up with Picard in his twilight years enjoying an unhappy retirement on his vineyard. The first season saw him get back into the game, find a new crew, get closure about the loss of his old friend Data, and even get a new cyborg body. A pretty eventful year for an octogenarian ex-starship captain.

The second season will get weirder and wilder. I’ll quote Picard himself from the trailer above: “Q went back in time and turned our world into a totalitarian nightmare…The only way to heal our future is to go back and repair the past…There are ways of traveling in time.”

Yep, the second season will see Picard and company travel back to our time, a trick Star Trek has used before in 1986’s Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. It was fun then and it looks pretty fun now.

The second season of Star Trek: Picard premieres on Paramount+ on March 3. And that’s not the only Trek show coming in early 2022…

Star Trek: Discovery season 4, part 2 — Paramount+ — February 10

The first new Star Trek show to air in years continues on February 10, when Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) continues her quest to discover the threat behind the mysterious Anomaly…or, more intriguingly, perhaps realize there is no threat and convince the other members of the Federation not to attack what could be an innocent alien species. Star Trek has always been at its best when it presents difficult moral quandaries, and Discovery is continuing in that tradition.

The first chunk of season 4 already aired towards the end of 2021. This will be the second and final part. But even after it and Picard season 2 are done, don’t worry: there’s more Star Trek on the way. But we’ll save that for later. — Dan