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When we first conceived
of Star Trek: Picard,

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Patrick challenged us with,
"Let's tell a story

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that shows how he's
aged and how things have

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changed in his life."

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Unlike the life that we
saw him in Next Generation,

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Season 1 and 2 of Picard,
Jean-Luc was alone.

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I am not a man who needs a legacy.

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He had kind of forgotten himself.

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Which gave us a journey
for him to get back to.

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By the time we circled
around to Season 3,

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the next step is
to begin the journey

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of bringing the cast back.

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Then the same questions
that we applied to Picard

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suddenly apply to the TNG cast.

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It's been 30-plus years.

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And so out of the blue,

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he receives an SOS
from Beverly Crusher.

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Admiral Picard,
listen to me very carefully.

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The person who she
knows has great integrity

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is Jean-Luc Picard.

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He knows that she
would not be contacting him

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just to say "Hi."

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If anyone will help her, he will.

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Trust no one.

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Bringing back
the Next Generation cast,

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we wanted to make sure
we were all on the same page

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as to what these
characters were up to.

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The value of revisiting
these characters is that

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the years have changed them.

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Jean-Luc is not the same person

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that he was when he
was captain of the Enterprise.

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Even throughout all of
those changes and differences,

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we still recognize
who these people are.

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It is sentimental.

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But what we were looking
forward to, as a cast,

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was working together again.

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Our dynamics were
exactly the same on the set

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and off the set,
as they were 30 years ago.

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It's a lot like going back in time,

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and in many ways it
feels as if we'd never left.

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But it's also been fun
because we've had time

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to take chunks
of character moments

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that we didn't have before.

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You know, we're extremely grateful.

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And I'm sure that a lot of the fans

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would like to see this.

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I think that fans are
gonna love hearing

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characters that they
already know and embrace.

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There's humor, there's action.

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It's in the great tradition of Star Trek.

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The journey to get here,

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from Season 1 to Season 3
has been epic.

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I think people
are gonna be delighted.

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I think they're gonna be
surprised by what they see.

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I think it's incredibly satisfying.