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It seems Jean-Luc Picard won’t spend the entirety of his new Star Trek series hanging out in France, making wine. A new set of photos out of the Star Trek: Picard panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019 take the legendary captain back to space and give more of a look at what we can expect when the series goes to warp later this year.

Before Comic-Con, we knew precious little about the new Picard series, which will air exclusively on CBS’s streaming service, CBS All Access, just like Star Trek: Discovery and the upcoming animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks. Picard was the captain from Star Trek: The Next Generation and four Star Trek movies that followed it, played by Patrick Stewart. We last saw the character back in 2004 in Star Trek: Nemesis when he was still a captain.

The Enterprise crew from Star Trek: TNG more or less disbanded at that point, but the panel at Comic-Con revealed that Picard will feature several Star Trek alumni, including Brent Spiner (Data on TNG), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager), Jonathan Del Arco (Hugh on TNG), Jonathan Frakes (Will Riker on TNG), and Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi on TNG). The panel also saw the release of a new trailer for Star Trek: Picard.

A teaser trailer released in May for Picard explained that Picard went on to become an admiral in Starfleet before retiring. The teaser’s voice-over narration states that Picard led the “largest rescue armada” in Federation history 15 years before the show, and apparently saved a lot of lives in doing so. But something tragic also happened during that event, which resulted in Picard abandoning the life of an explorer for a simpler, more terrestrial existence. It’s a retirement we saw hinted at back during the series finale of TNG, “All Good Things,” which showed a flash-forward of Picard tending his family’s vineyard in France.

Check out all the photos above, and check out the rest of our full Picard and Star Trek coverage on our Comic-Con hub.

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Before the release of Star Trek: Discovery’s second season, smaller short film-like episodes of a series called Short Treks were released online. During the San Diego Comic-Con Star Trek panel, it was confirmed that six new ones are in production, including three that focus on the USS Enterprise.

These new Short Treks will feature stories focused on Pike, Number One, and Spock, three major characters in current Star Trek fiction. Additionally, two of these new Short Treks will be animated. Further details on exactly what they’ll involve weren’t revealed, but there will no doubt be more information as they get closer to release. They’re said to be “very fun standalone stories” but that everything connects. Their titles are:

• “Ask Not”
• “Q&A”
• “The Trouble With Edward”
• “The Girl Who Made The Stars”
• “Ephaim And Dot”
• “Children Of Mars

We did learn that the last one will be a teaser for Picard, which “will give you a sense of some background 15 years before the series.” You can watch the first Short Treks trailer here.

The Star Trek panel also delivered details on Season 3 of Discovery which, according to creator Alex Kurtzman, is heading further into the future than any Star Wars series before it. There will be a new character called Cleveland “Book” Booker, who is a bit of a rule-breaker. You can learn more about Star Trek: Discovery Season 3’s new details here.

For more on San Diego Comic-Con as a whole, check out our SDCC 2019 hub. All the latest news, whether it’s for TV, movies, comics, or collectibles, can be found there.

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During SDCC 2019, a new trailer for the upcoming Watchmen HBO series was released. The trailer further details the escalating conflict that will take center stage in the show: A world set after the events of the legendary comic series where police have elected to wear masks like vigilantes following a coordinated attack on cops everywhere–what’s the difference between a masked policeman and a dangerous vigilante, though? That’s the rub. The trailer also takes time to flesh out the motivations of some of the key characters, some more familiar for fans of the comics than others. You can watch the new San Diego Comic-Con trailer above.

Based on the comic of the same name, Watchmen takes place in an alternate version of the US in which vigilantes rose to prominence and then quickly became outlawed after billionaire “philanthropist” Adrien Veidt staged a catastrophic attack on New York City to prompt a sort of unification of the world in shared terror of extraterrestrial threats. Seriously, there’s a giant squid and everything–it’s just as crazy as it sounds.

In the show, however, costumed heroes as criminals and the police have stepped into their place, wearing masks and bending laws and reigning terror down on the people they’re supposed to be protecting. Superheroes may still exist in this new status quo, however–several characters from the comics are featured in the trailer, including Hooded Justice and the omnipotent blue Doctor Manhattan, who moved to Mars during the events of the comics and apparently remains there.

Watchmen has always been, at its core, an exploration of the “reality” of a society populated with vigilantes–superpowered or otherwise, and a text looking to question the ability of anyone to engage in violent actions with little accountability. The trailer suggests that tone will be maintained, though from a completely different angle.

Airing on HBO, Watchmen will debut in October 2019.

During the Star Trek panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, Star Trek Discovery creator Alex Kurtzman provided some new information about the show’s upcoming third season. Discovery kicked off the panel and Kurtzman confirmed that the show will take a “radical jump 1000 years into the future.”

This leap of time, he noted, was further than any Star Trek has gone before. As such, the show will introduce numerous changes. There will be “things you recognize, things you don’t recognize,” Kurtzman said. “We get to honor canon, but shake it up quite a bit. It’s still Star Trek, and it will always be Star Trek the way Roddenberry wanted it.”

Continuing, David Ajala was introduced and confirmed to be playing a new character, Cleveland Booker, nicknamed Book. He’s a character that is described as written to “break the rules a little bit.” Ajala added: “And we do break the rules at the start of the season.” Book is also said to be someone you don’t initially expect.

The crowd was then shown a photo of Book and Burnham, the protagonist of Discovery played by Sonequa Martin-Green, wearing long coats standing by the water. The photo was taken in Iceland. Martin-Green stated, “We go to the deepest level of Discovery in Season 3 because we’re in this new place together. We have to figure out where we are and who we are. It’s exciting.”

Kurtzman continued, “They (the discovery crew) choose each other for eternity and leave their families behind. People you’ve met will take center stage, there will be a ton of new characters. The thing that defines Trek is that it’s always about the little, always about the humans, the interspecial interaction. Our focus is on what does it mean and what does it do for the characters?”

One key question is who will be captain, and that’s a subject left intentionally unanswered during the panel.

Expect quite a bit more on Star Trek, including details on Picard. For more on what’s been happening at the show, check out our SDCC 2019 hub, where you’ll find all the latest news. We’ve also put together a roundup of all the coolest trailers from SDCC, so it’s the place to go if you want to catch up on what TVs and movies have in store for us.

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As expected, the countdowns in Fortnite: Battle Royale that we saw pop up recently were leading to a fight between a giant mech robot and a huge monster. The live event took place on the afternoon of Saturday, July 20, and the robot has emerged victorious–an event that brings with it a few changes, as you can see in the video above.

Season 9’s story has involved the potential emergence of a monster, and so the robot was essentially built in preparation. The monster showed up during today’s event, with the mech activating in response. The two squared off across the island, with the mech losing an arm at one point. The two tried to break into the Loot Lake vault, but despite being down an arm, the robot was successful in doing so; this caused a sort of orb to appear that gave it the strength to stagger the monster.

Having bought some extra time, the robot was able to pull a large sword out of the ground (its hilt was actually a statue at Neo Tilted pond) and stuck it right through the monster’s head. The robot then flew off (having flossed and saluted onlookers), leaving behind both the monster and sword as new elements on the map.

Just before “The Big Showdown,” as Epic refers to it, took place, the developer disabled all game modes to ensure this was showcased. Players who were online at the time of the event were able to watch all of this action unfold with the help of jetpacks, which helped make it easier to take it all in. They were not active participants, however; this was purely a battle between the two giants. What exactly this portends for Season 10 is unclear, but it was nonetheless cool to see–watch a replay of the event above.

With the impending arrival of Batwoman, The CW isn’t holding back when it comes to bringing out the big guns. During the show’s inaugural San Diego Comic-Con panel, two major names were revealed as being integrated into the series.

First and foremost, it was announced that Burt Ward, the iconic actor who played Robin on the original Batman TV series, will appear in the Crisis on Infinite Earths five-part crossover this season. While it wasn’t confirmed he would be appearing as the Boy Wonder, it’s worth noting that Legends of Tomorrow star Brandon Routh will appear as a version of Superman. So it sounds like Ward’s Robin may pop up somehow.

Another major reveal was that Season 1 will see the introduction of Tommy Elliot, who Batman fans know as the alter ego of the villain Hush. Based on what showrunner Caroline Dries said, it sounds like viewers will see the origin of the character. For those that don’t follow the comics, Elliot was a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne who ultimately killed his abusive father before eventually becoming the masked killer known as Hush.

Dries also noted that Batwoman will not be recycling villains from elsewhere in the Arrow-verse, but will instead dig deep into the library of baddies from the Batman and Batwoman comics. As for whether Batman himself will make a substantial appearance, Dries claimed “anything is possible.”

That said, executive producer Sarah Schecter pointed out that in the beginning, at least, the focus is entirely on Kate and her story, much like the first seasons of Supergirl were about Kara’s (Melissa Benoist) journey. It’s worth pointing out, though, that Supergirl did introduce Superman (Tyler Hoechlin) so anything truly is possible.

Batwoman premieres October 6 on The CW.