I knew that the initial pitch to Patrick, that he would have to assimilate himself again, to face the big trauma of his life, to save his son. How much of the finale did you have in your head when you were building out the season?Ī very surprising amount, actually. He also shares the scenes he wanted to shoot for the finale but couldn’t, and his unconventional approach to filming that poker scene. That certainly seems like the set up for a “Picard” spinoff series, but in his interview with Variety, Matalas says that wasn’t quite his intention. Even Q (John de Lancie) - the omnipotent being who has been a “Trek” mainstay since the “Next Generation” series premiere “Encounter at Farpoint” - shows up in a post-credits sequence in which he tells Jack that his trials “have just begun.” Jack, a new member of Starfleet, is stationed on the ship, along with Geordi’s daughter Sidney (Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut). Enterprise-G, and Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) - the “Star Trek: Voyager” character who has been on “Picard” from Season 1 - is promoted to be its captain. If that wasn’t enough, in the aftermath of the battle with the Borg, the U.S.S. In the final scene, they all toast to their success and happiness and play a game of poker, a callback to the final scene of the “Next Generation” series finale “All Good Things.” That’s exactly what Matalas has done with “The Last Generation,” the thrilling series finale of “Star Trek: Picard”: Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) save their son Jack (Ed Speleers) - and the entirety of Starfleet - from assimilation by the Borg, with Data, Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Troi (Marina Sirtis), Geordi (LeVar Burton) and Worf (Michael Dorn) all contributing to save the day. For me, that felt important as a fan, to feel like that’s where we left ‘The Next Generation.’” Knowing that there is a bright future for ‘Star Trek’ and for their families. The Enterprise-D not crashed, but in a museum. “If it’s the last we see of them, we see them in a wonderful grand moment together around the poker table. “In the most fanboy sense, I wanted to place the action figure set neatly and safely back on the shelf,” Matalas says. And he brought back the Enterprise-D, the starship that had been destroyed in the climax of the first “TNG” film, 1994’s “Star Trek: Generations.” In doing so, Matalas sought to rectify some of the perceived sins of the “TNG” movies: He resurrected Data and endowed him with a consciousness that allowed the android to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming fully human. We could give each one of these characters more, and end in a sense of family in ways that they didn’t have time in a two-hour movie to do.” “In this case, we had 10 hours, so we could do better. “I wanted it to feel like a proper send-off in the way that I felt watching ‘Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country,’” Matalas says of the final film to feature the full original “Star Trek” cast.
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