Picard just revealed a major Star Trek character is queer

Star Trek: Picard spoilers follow for the season 1 finale.

There's a lot to unpack from the first season of Star Trek: Picard, not least the revelation that Seven of Nine is queer.

During the closing scenes of the show's first season finale, we found out about the sexuality of Jeri Ryan's iconic character in a scene where she romantically holds hands with Raffi (Michelle Hurd) before La Sirena blasts off from Coppelius.

There may have been subtle hints about both characters' sexuality before this, but these final moments served as the first official confirmation.

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Fans were teased about Seven's potential queerness in episode five, following strong hints that she and crime lord Bjayzl (Necar Zadegan) were involved in the past.

Raffi's sexuality was also hinted at more subtly, despite the fact she was previously married and has an estranged son, Gabe.

So whether or not you saw it coming, it's a very welcome surprise.

The show's season finale didn't stop there with the emotional moments. A key character from The Next Generation delivered one of the episode's stand-out scenes.

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Jean-Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) helped defend the homeworld of an advanced race of androids from the Romulan armada, but later died after succumbing to his neurological illness.

Before he was resurrected, his consciousness ended up in a quantum, sort-of after-life, and presented Picard with the opportunity to have a poignant heart-to-heart with his old friend Data (Brent Spiner).

While we've already seen Brent Spiner return once in Picard, playing a human relation of his iconic character Data in last week's episode, the finale re-introduced us to Data himself, after he sacrificed his life to save Picard's in 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis and allowed Picard to relinquish his guilt and confess his love for his friend.

Star Trek: Picard airs on CBS All Access in the US and Amazon Prime internationally, including the UK.

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