Terry Matalas breaks down the biggest reveals in the Star Trek Picard series finale
Spoiler Warning: This article includes MAJOR spoilers for the series finale of Star Trek: Picard season 3 . Make sure you’ve seen the season 3 finale of the show before reading any further.
As the curtains close on Star Trek: Picard, Terry Matalas has lifted the lid on the final season’s big reveals. In an exclusive interview with SFX Magazine, the showrunner explains that big Borg reveal, as well as why it was the right time to pass the Enterprise to a new leader.
The biggest rug-pull moment came in episode nine when it was revealed the Borg played with Captain Picard's DNA when he was assimilated as Locutus. Just how long has Matalas had this epic storyline in his head? "A while," he considers, "but I never thought anyone would ever let me write it. It was just always this idea percolating in the back of my head that if Picard ever had a kid, he would have passed on this Locutus gene. At best I thought it might be a comic book I could write someday."
The reveals didn't stop there either. In the season 3 finale, the crew of the USS Enterprise-D managed to defeat the Borg by rescuing Picard’s son Jack Crusher and destroying their Queen. The final moments of the episode then flash forward by one year as Jack becomes a Starfleet Ensign and the Enterprise-D falls under the command of Captain Seven of Nine.
Speaking about making this choice, Matalas tells SFX that it was something he’s been planning for a while. "From the beginning of the season, I said to them, 'How amazing would it be to end the series with Seven of Nine as the captain of the Enterprise and Raffi’s her First Officer, the new Number One,'" Matalas explains. "Obviously, that meant their relationship would have to be put on hold for Starfleet
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