10 Crazy Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Theories

1. Lore Is Lagging

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You might have noticed one thing in all the trailers and teasers for Picard season three. How do I put this as delicately as possible? Lore looks a bit… worse for wear? Other than the obvious natural rigours of time in the real-world, if he's a Soong-type Android then why would he have aged at all? They did their best with the de-aging look for Data in season one, but still got a bit lost in The Uncanny Valley.

Perhaps Lore really is growing old like the rest of us? We wonder if he went to see Altan Inigo (AI) 'Hippie' Soong for some ageing treatment, or what he calls his 'reverse-Hollywood process'. Lore may even have transferred his consciousness into one of those golem-type androids as did Picard and so would be, in essence, human. By the way, and thanks to TrekCulture writer Clive Burrell for this suggestion, what did they do with Picard's body after they transferred his consciousness? Do you have a funeral for the living dead?

More to the point, Lore was supposedly permanently deactivated (by Data) and disassembled at the end of The Next Generation episode Descent Part II. Did the nefarious Vadic put him back together as part of her revenge plot against Picard and the Federation?

I'm not Often Wrong, but I guess we'll find out Soong.

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Jack has been a content creator for TrekCulture since 2022, and a Star Trek fan for as long as he can remember. He has authored over 170 articles, including one of TrekCulture's longest, and has appeared several times on the TrekCulture podcast. He holds a first-class honours degree in French from the University of Sussex, a master's with distinction in Language, Culture and History: French and Francophone Studies and a PhD in French from University College London (UCL). He has previously worked in the field of translation. His interests extend to science-fiction television and film more widely. His favourite series is Star Trek: Voyager, followed closely by Stargate SG-1.