Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway join Patrick Stewart's Picard show

Briones is a relative newcomer to the world of film and TV, having mostly previously worked as a theater actress. Treadaway—not to be confused with his equally twitchy actor brother, Luke—will be best known to American audiences from either Penny Dreadful or Mr. Mercedes. And Pill, to quote Variety, “is best known for playing Maggie Jordan on Aaron Sorkin’s HBO series The Newsroom,” because apparently we’re pretending like Kim Pine in the Scott Pilgrim movie just never existed, huh?

The trio of new stars join a cast that also includes Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, and Evan Evagora. Meanwhile, the show’s producers have given absolutely zero indication of what the series will be about, or what tone it’ll strike—beyond a very vague notion of it being “the next chapter” of Picard’s life—so, hey, maybe it will be that vinification masterclass we’ve all been dreaming of, and these new whippersnappers are just his students, hanging on his every crisply-accented word.