Captain Picard and His Crew Try to Work From Home

During the U.S.S. Enterprise-D's extended mission of exploration in the 24th century, Captain Jean-Luc Picard briefly experimented with conducting mission debriefs via real-time subspace visual conferencing.

This archival footage was recovered from a classified Starfleet systems log, declassified under Starfleet General Order 32, Subsection 47.

This particular meeting was marked by irregular uniform compliance, signal degradation across multiple comm nodes, and an undefined agenda structure.

It remains to be seen whether Starfleet will release more of these classified meetings.

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For avoidance of any doubt, AI was obviously used in the making of this video (and I'm not referring to Data). Original Star Trek content is property of Paramount.

A few notes on how this was made, for the curious…

There’s no magic AI (at least none I know of) that can generate something like this from a simple prompt. I created over 200 individual clips on my own PC using open-source models, and pieced them together manually — starting from real frames of the show. The “fake” elements? Worf’s shirt, Spot the cat, a bottle of prune juice, and a certain lady crew member.

I recorded all the dialogue myself, trying to match the character voices as closely as possible before running them through voice-conversion tools — which is why some of you may have noticed my Captain Picard occasionally sounding a bit… Australian. My wife always finds this process hilarious listening from the other room.

All the rest — the visual effects, compositing, timing, and audio work — was done in DaVinci Resolve.

I’m sure I’ll still get the usual “ugh, AI slop” comments. But for me, as a somewhat creative person, AI is just one more tool — a way to bring ideas to life that seem bizarre yet plausible and oddly familiar.

Feel free to ask more about the process in the comments.

🖖 Live long and prosper.