Star Trek Picard: 8 Things Everyone Missed In The Final Trailer

4. That's Actually Earth

Given the occasionally strange (although understandable from a budget and effects perspective) trope of always showing planets drenched in sunlight, this shot from the trailer actually feels like some new ground for Star Trek. On rare occasions we did see the dark side of planets - like, for example, Voyager's opening credits - there was never any clear indication of life below.

Plus on the even rarer occasions Star Trek has taken us back to Earth, we're usually presented with one of the more immediately recognisable landmasses just to drill home precisely where we are. Europe, North America, even Australia in First Contact, we're accustomed to getting a very pre-school globe view of the world on TV, despite the realities of space meaning you can approach at literally any angle.

Thus, and you're going to have to twist your neck slightly for this, the brief shot in the Picard trailer is of Earth. Visible are the Caspian and Black Seas, as well as Turkey, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Whether this means the shots of "Vulcan" are actually Earth's own Middle East, we shall have to wait and see.