The final season of “Star Trek: Picard” is closely approaching. Created by Terry Matalas, the series will reunite Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard with most of the main cast of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Returning to the “Star Trek” universe are LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, and Jeri Ryan, who reprise their respective roles as Geordi La Forge, Worf, William Riker, Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi, Lore, and Seven of Nine.
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While speaking to trekmovie.com, Matalas explained that he wanted to bring back the main cast of “The Next Generation” because he felt that “the Next Generation characters never got their due finale. Nemesis didn’t feel like the end. I was always hoping they were going to get their own Undiscovered Country, where we got to see them in a high-stakes adventure. Each one of those characters plays a major part and ties up arcs that go back 30 years.”
The fact that Paramount+ is distributing the final season also allowed Matalas to craft deeper relationships for the show’s upcoming final season, stating that “what happens in the streaming world and sometimes in serialization is, that they all kind of start to blend together… So, in the case of season 3, there is an episode identity… A lot of these characters, when you’re serialized, you get to go deeper into them. There’s a relationship story in season 3 with Riker and Troi that is not something you would not be able to do had the show just been episodic. They’re put into a situation where they you really get to the core of what makes them great.”
Produced by Matalas, Stewart, Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, Heather Kadin, Aaron Baiers, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Doug Aarniokoski, and Dylan Massin, season three of “Star Trek: Picard” will premiere on Paramount+ on February 16.
