Star Trek: The Next Generation Cast Gave Input on Picard Season 3 Return
The Star Trek: The Next Generation reunion in Picard season 3 was crafted with input from TNG's cast. In The Next Generation, Gene Roddenberry continued the adventures of the starshipEnterprise in the 24th century with a new crew of Starfleet officers led by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). The series found incredible popularity and, like Star Trek: TOS, garnered several feature films for its characters. Then, in 2020, Stewart reprised his role as Jean-Luc in Paramount+'s Star Trek: Picard.
While Picard tells an original story that delves deeper into Jean-Luc as a character, Picard season 3 will use the help of some familiar faces to continue doing so. LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, and Marina Sirtis from Star Trek: The Next Generationwill reprise their roles as Geordi, Worf, Riker, Dr. Crusher, and Troi, respectively. Brent Spiner will also return, although not as Data as he died in Star Trek: Nemesis and was given a final farewell in Picard season 1. Notably, Wil Wheaton's Wesley Crusher, who appeared in Picard season 2 as a Traveler, has not been reported to be part of season 3's TNG reunion.
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Picard season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas discusses the upcoming TNG return on the Inglorious Treksperts podcast (via Collider). During the podcast, Matalas reveals that TNG's cast was crucial to determining where their characters would be in Picard's 25th-century setting. He sought out their input to help craft their upcoming arcs. Check out Matalas' full explanation below:
«I didn’t want to make anything that they didn’t want to make… They all have big things to do. We all meet them and find out where they are now. And some of those
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