When we first conceived of Star Trek: Picard,
Patrick challenged us with, "Let's tell a story
that shows how he's aged and how things have
changed in his life."
Unlike the life that we saw him in Next Generation,
Season 1 and 2 of Picard, Jean-Luc was alone.
I am not a man who needs a legacy.
He had kind of forgotten himself.
Which gave us a journey for him to get back to.
By the time we circled around to Season 3,
the next step is to begin the journey
of bringing the cast back.
Then the same questions that we applied to Picard
suddenly apply to the TNG cast.
It's been 30-plus years.
And so out of the blue,
he receives an SOS from Beverly Crusher.
Admiral Picard, listen to me very carefully.
The person who she knows has great integrity
is Jean-Luc Picard.
He knows that she would not be contacting him
just to say "Hi."
If anyone will help her, he will.
Trust no one.
Bringing back the Next Generation cast,
we wanted to make sure we were all on the same page
as to what these characters were up to.
The value of revisiting these characters is that
the years have changed them.
Jean-Luc is not the same person
that he was when he was captain of the Enterprise.
Even throughout all of those changes and differences,
we still recognize who these people are.
It is sentimental.
But what we were looking forward to, as a cast,
was working together again.
Our dynamics were exactly the same on the set
and off the set, as they were 30 years ago.
It's a lot like going back in time,
and in many ways it feels as if we'd never left.
But it's also been fun because we've had time
to take chunks of character moments
that we didn't have before.
You know, we're extremely grateful.
And I'm sure that a lot of the fans
would like to see this.
I think that fans are gonna love hearing
characters that they already know and embrace.
There's humor, there's action.
It's in the great tradition of Star Trek.
The journey to get here,
from Season 1 to Season 3 has been epic.
I think people are gonna be delighted.
I think they're gonna be surprised by what they see.
I think it's incredibly satisfying.