Star Trek Is Still Cleaning Up Mistakes Picard’s TNG Enterprise Made

The USS Cerritos on Star Trek: Lower Decks spends much of its time cleaning up mistakes made by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Captain Picard is often regarded as one of Starfleet’s – and Star Trek’s – best captains, but that doesn’t mean he never made mistakes. Because of Starfleet’s Prime Directive, which prevents interference in other cultures, Picard often had very limited options when it came to helping alien worlds. While the Enterprise crew always tried to leave planets better off than when they found them, Starfleet rarely checked in on these planets after Picard left.