Spoilers Star Trek: Picard General Discussion Thread

New interview with Terry Matalas via Trekmovie.com: https://trekmovie.com/2022/08/12/po...erry-matalas-about-star-trek-picard-season-3/

There’s a few new nuggets of information:

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They ARE using the backstory that Worf commanded the Enterprise-E after Picard. Matalas kinda alluded to this before but has confirmed it this time. But as we know, he’s not in command by this point.

The hero ship is neither the Stargazer or the Enterprise, but we will get “our Enterprise fixes” during the season. And the hero ship does use the Stargazer bridge, with less gloss. So the ship that needed to be blurry out on that video from a month or two back may not even be the Enterprise after all.

 

Yes!

 

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Maybe Seven is put in commmand of the E-F at the end of the season?

It would fit Terry brimming with enthusiasm about directing Jeri Ryan in the final episode.

It would allow Picard to go out with a bang.

For her to go back to the Rangers, she would be ending up where she started (albeit with Raffi possibly in tow). It would be anticlimactic.

Seven left the Rangers for a reason. She needs structure and accountability.

Starfleet can give it to her. Why would she go back?

 

It would depend on how it plays out, I think. Seven had the whole vengeance quest hanging over her head while she was in the Rangers, but now that's past. So now she's presumably had a clearer perspective on what it's possible to achieve in both Starfleet and the Rangers, and make a decision on where she feels she can do the most good. So I think that arc could potentially be less ending up where she started, and more confirming that she was in the right place to begin with. But it feels like SH is leaning pretty hard toward Seven going Starfleet, and with all the TNG cast coming back and needing their time in the spotlight, I doubt she's going to get a big enough role to really explore any potential conflict anyway.

 

So, I just listened to part 1 of the interview with Terry Matalas on Trekmovie and I'm getting excited.

Just to confirm though Re: Worf

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He says that they neither confirm nor deny Worf was the captain of the Enterprise-E but they do allude to it. Basically it's canon if you want it to be canon I think is what's trying to say.

A couple of other little nuggets:

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Laris is in season 3 but it sounds like probably only in the first episode. Matalas says that her "scene" in season 3 is his favourite Laris moment of the whole series. But it sounds like the narrative thrust of the season, at least in terms of Picard's love life, is going to involve Beverly.

Speaking of Beverly, he confirms that the very first scene of the season is a Beverly Crusher scene (which seems to confirm RMB's earlier spoilers) and also that he just had David Goodman (former Enterprise writer who now works on The Orville) watch a very important scene between Picard and Crusher which he (along with Stewart and McFadden) spent weeks working on.

And then a few random brow raising mentions: Troi has a major revelation this season. Raffi's story heavily involves one of the TNG cast and she is in a "good place" this season. He wanted to have an episode center around Seven and Naomi Wildman but they couldn't make it work.

I also liked his frank thoughts on Season 2. Basically covid screwed their original plans.

 

Oh man, that would have been nice

 

I listened to the podcast and Terry reveals alot of interesting things for the TNG characters in season 3.Sometime soon Trekmovie will post part 2 of Terry Matalas' interview about Picard season 3.

 

Thanks for this. Still haven’t found time to give it a listen.

 

I found an interesting video on Picard.. Slightly long a 58 minutes

 

Star Trek Picard broke what?

 

Our childhood and our home. Probably.

 

My instinct for most things on YouTube that have “Its so bad!” in the thumbnail is to promptly ignore them.

 

I would agree with that but I gave the video a chance and he makes a few good points. I mean season 2 was a bit all over the shop

 

Season 2 might have been flawed, but I don't see the need to watch a YouTube video that's longer than most season 2 episodes just to hear someone rant about those flaws.

 

According to my dream last night, the TNG crew reunites to save Sisko for some reason I can’t remember.

Avery Brooks returned.

And also T’Pol showed up looking like she hasn’t aged a day.

 

When I was younger, maybe.

 

Honestly, I would have had even less patience for an hour long YouTube video in my youth

 

Patience for it? No. Willingness to listen to it and argue about it? Yeah, that was definitely me.

 

Another breakdown of that TrekMovie interview with Terry, this one by TrekMovie itself

https://trekmovie.com/2022/08/17/in...n-3-gives-the-tng-characters-a-proper-finale/

He comments on Kurtzman making the WoK comparison, he feels like the season is more like TUC.

Season 3 isn't a 10 hour movie, it's a 10 Part miniseries