List of Star Trek series episodes and movies that give background to the story and characters of Star Trek: Picard.
I tried to make the list as short as possible and comprehensive enough so a person not familiar with Star Trek is able to understand “Picard”.
| Series | Episode # | Episode | Topic | Star date | Year |
| ST:TOS | S01E24 | Space Seed | Augments | 3141.9 | 2267 |
| movie | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Augments | 8130.3 | 2285 | |
| ENT | S04E04 | Borderland | Augments | 2154 | |
| ENT | S04E05 | Cold Station 12 | Augments | 2154/2143 | |
| ENT | S04E06 | The Augments | Augments, androids | 2154 | |
| ST:TNG | S01E13 | Datalore | Data | 41242.4 | 2364 |
| ST:TNG | S01E26 | The Neutral Zone | Romulans | 41986.0 | 2364 |
| ST:TNG | S02E09 | The Measure of a Man | Data, Bruce Maddox | 42523.7 | 2365 |
| ST:TNG | S02E16 | Q Who | Borg | 42761.3 | 2365 |
| ST:TNG | S03E10 | The Defector | |||
| ST:TNG | S03E16 | The Offspring | Data, androids | ||
| ST:TNG | S03E26 | The Best of Both Worlds I | Borg, Borg Queen | ||
| ST:TNG | S04E01 | The Best of Both Worlds II | Borg, Borg Queen | ||
| ST:TNG | S04E02 | Family | Picard | ||
| ST:TNG | S05E07 | Unification 1 | |||
| ST:TNG | S05E08 | Unification 2 | |||
| ST:TNG | S05E23 | I Borg | |||
| ST:TNG | S06E14 | Face of the Enemy | |||
| ST:TNG | S06E26 | Descent 1 | |||
| ST:TNG | S07E01 | Descent 2 | |||
| movie | First Contact | ||||
| ST:VOY | S03E25 | Scorpion 1 | |||
| ST:VOY | S04E01 | Scorpion 2 | |||
| ST:VOY | S05E15 | Dark Frontier 1 | |||
| ST:VOY | S05E16 | Dark Frontier 2 | |||
| ST:VOY | S06E16 | Collective | |||
| movie | Nemesis | ||||
| movie | Star Trek 2009 | ||||
| ST:Short Treks | Children of Mars | ||||
| ST:PIC | S01E01 | Remembrance |
Legend:
- ST:ENT – Star Trek: Enterprise
- ST:TOS – Star Trek: The Original Series
- ST:TNG – Star Trek: The Next Generation
- ST:VOY – Star Trek: Voyager
- ST:PIC – Star Trek: Picard