[PHOTO] ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3 Spoilers: Michael Dorn as Worf

(*3*)Star Trek: Picard‘s final season looks like it’ll be fairly the homecoming — and it by no means hurts to have a bit further safety at these items.

In the most recent installment of our 2023 First Look collection, TVLine has an unique sneak peek at Michael Dorn reprising his Next Generation position as Worf, the Enterprise‘s Klingon chief security officer, in Season 3 of the Paramount+ series. (This Friday also happens to mark Dorn’s seventieth birthday — so pleased birthday, Michael!) In the photograph above, Worf comes face-to-face as soon as once more together with his former captain Jean-Luc Picard, and we see that the years have turned his hair and goatee a brilliant white… however he nonetheless appears able to tackle yet another mission. He’s sporting conventional Klingon garb and carrying a brand new sword referred to as a Kur’leth, which was designed by Trek visible results guru Dan Curry, who additionally created the Klingons’ Bat’leth blade.

Season 3 of Picard finds Jean-Luc assembling his previous Enterprise friends as he faces a brand new menace from Amanda Plummer’s villainous Vadic, who has beef with Jean-Luc and intends to precise vengeance together with her warship the Shrike. In addition to Dorn, LeVar Burton and Gates McFadden return as Geordi La Forge and Dr. Beverly Crusher, becoming a member of fellow TNG alums Jonathan Frakes (Riker) and Marina Sirtis (Troi). This is probably not the Worf we bear in mind, although: In a Picard teaser launched final month, he tells Riker, “You should know that I now prefer pacifism to combat.” (Worf, is that basically you?!)

Star Trek: Picard‘s third and remaining season premieres Thursday, Feb. 16 on Paramount+. Check out the first-look photograph above, after which hit the feedback to share your hopes for Season 3.