One of Jupiter's large moons and the destination of the 2024 Europa Mission, the flight on which Renée Picard's safe launch decided the course of history.
Europa is an icy moon of Jupiter. In the second season of Picard it gives its name to the Europa Mission, a crewed flight launched in April 2024 aboard the spacecraft Shango X-1. One of its astronauts is Renée Picard, a distant ancestor of Jean-Luc Picard.
Q's interference in the timeline centres on her. If she flies, she brings back a microorganism found on the voyage that she believes to be sentient, a discovery that helps humanity repair its environment. If she stays behind, Adam Soong's technology fills the gap and Earth becomes the tyrannical Confederation.
Picard and his crew, stranded in 2024, guard her through the pre-launch gala in Two of One and the launch itself in Farewell. Tallinn takes Renée's place to draw out Soong and dies of the poison meant for her, and the mission departs as it should.