What Happened To Picard and Riker After Star Trek: Nemesis?
After all that epic Star Trek action, what's next for Picard and Riker? You know, the ones that always showed up and saved the day? The events of Star Trek: Nemesis changed their lives and those of the Romulans forever.
Did The Romulans Help Picard And Riker Out After Nemesis?
That's right! Those two super heroic captains actually got sent to handle the relationship between the Romulans and the Federation after Star Trek: Nemesis, the last Star Trek: The Next Generation film, played out! Those were kind of crazy times - there was a real threat of those Romulans trying to take over. The Dominion War happened right before that - that was super messy! But they ended up doing some major team work! In fact, Riker's next gig was actually being in charge of talking to the Romulans and figuring things out!
Remember when Picard and Riker worked with that cool Romulan commander - Donatra - she helped the Enterprise crew get things back to normal when they were messed up? After the battle with Shinzon! Now, it seems that it’s like their responsibility to help the Romulans out - it's kind of like they earned that favor for helping them!
What Were Their Missions?
- Admiral Picard had a long run. He had some great moments in Star Trek: Picard! That all had a super sad twist when it seemed like those Romulans were all going to die. Those were wild events, right? He was leading those rescue armada, but something bad happened, and Picard was super bummed! And that is exactly why he ended up leaving Starfleet, the first step toward making those diplomatic relations happen!
- As for Riker, the one who actually got command of the USS Titan? His main task was getting some talks happening between the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire! He did what he needed to do but no one knows how it worked out! The last time we saw him, in Star Trek: Lower Decks, his crew was dealing with those totally weird Pakleds.
- That was a while back. But when the big super nova threatened to blow up the Romulans, it was Admiral Picard who went to the rescue, and it seemed like everything worked out pretty good! They actually had some success for a short time - for real, even before that attack on Mars messed everything up.
The Romulan's History
Here's the thing, even though Picard and Riker have these awesome missions to work out these diplomatic issues with the Romulans, it has been a super-long and hard history for those two!
- That Neutral Zone between the Federation and Romulan Star Empire was there to prevent them from fighting! Think like an early stage of diplomacy between countries.
- Back in the day, in the very first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, we saw a whole bunch of chaos because the Romulans attacked!
- But in the 24th century, there was actually that big shift in relations to stop the Dominion, an even bigger threat. It seems they learned to put their differences aside to work together to take down a common enemy. It actually makes you wonder if they got those relationships to a better point in the Star Trek universe.
So even though things were rough, they've gotten a lot better. Even with those tense moments when things go wild in the Star Trek universe!
