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The first issue of IDW’sStar Trek : Picard Countdownprequel comic has been released – and it sport theEnterprise ’s former top dog engineerGeordi La Forgein a in spades crucial role . sports fan eagerly look the premiere of CBS All Access’Star Trek : Picardseries in January 2020 , which promises to stay the stories of many Star Trek characters , including Commander Data , Seven of Nine , and Commander Will Riker . While Levar Burton has not been confirmed to repeat his role as La Forge in the television series , Geordi ’s appearance in the comic reveals he ’s become a key figure in Starfleet .
Taking position in the year 2385 , fourteen year before the event ofStar Trek : Picardbegin , the story finds La Forge promoted to Commander and serving aboard the Utopia Planitia Shipyards . La Forge ’s purpose is vital as he is overseeing the structure and distribution of a fleet of starships tohelp save the Romulan Empire . As seen inStar Trek(2009 ) , the Romulans ’ household planet Romulus was destroyed by a supernova in 2387.Star Trek : Picard Countdownreveals the Federation check of the come disaster and launch a relocation commission supported by La Forge … and headed byAdmiral Jean Luc Picard .
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Picard head this mission from theU.S.S. Verity , anOdyssey - grade star pleasure craft . Along with his first officer Lieutenant Commander Raffi Musiker ( who will be a even reference play by Michelle Hurd in theStar Trek : PicardTV show ) Picard works with the Romulans to project the evacuation . However , these design are threatened when Picard key one of the Romulans ’ secret colonies holds a slave universe numbering in the millions – far too bounteous for La Forge ’s starships to save .
Star Trek : Picard Countdownrepresents a exit from a old IDW prequel risible miniseries , Star Trek : Countdown , which supply a backstory for the 2009Star Trekmovie . In that plot line , Picard was Ambassador to Vulcan and team up with Captain Data ( resurrected and wait on as police chief of theU.S.S. Enterprise ) to help Ambassador Spock save the Romulans by pre - emptively destroying the supernova with an hokey black pickle . La Forge appears as the engineer who designs the ship Spock pilots into the pitch-dark mess that sends him back in time . Star Trek : Picard Countdownretcons this chronicle by take Admiral Picard and Commander LaForge play a larger role in saving the people of Romulus . As it forms the backstory forStar Trek : Picard , it can be debate “ official ” canyon . Which applies to Picard ’s kudos for his former locomotive engineer :
Admiral ’s Log , supplemental . As it has been for decades , the voice of Geordi La Forge is a balm for the soul . There is no respectable policeman – no respectable engineer – that Starfleet could entrust with the task of constructing an entirely new fleet in record fourth dimension .
This function is a welcome change for La Forge , who – despite being a vivid engineer onStar Trek : The Next Generation – often had spoiled luck desirable of Star Trek ’s doomed “ ruby shirts . ” buff have playfully compiled YouTube videos of all the clip Geordi was shot , electrocuted , mutated , tortured ( by Romulans ) , nearly sucked into the vacuum of prohibited space , and ordered to go on self-destruction charge ( by Counselor Deanna Troi ) . Beyond threats to his forcible safety , La Forge also had dreadful luck with womanhood , painfully illustrate in an episode where he decrease in love with a fictional scientist he accidentally created on the Holodeck .
Hopefully , the more self-respectful role Geordi enjoy inStar Trek : Picard Countdownheralds a shift in the lineament ’s fortune , one Trekkies may continue seeing if Geordi La Forge later shows up in theStar Trek : PicardTV serial .
You ’ve view the trailer … now , see the events result to CBS All Access ’s Picard . Before he retired to his vinery , Jean - Luc Picard was the most decorated full admiral in Starfleet . Then one missionary work change his aliveness forever . The Countdown starts here !
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