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[Data] This is curious.

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Shields are lowering and
weapons are redirecting.

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What is this?

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It's...

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an invitation.

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Watching the crew take
their stations again

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after all this time,

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intermixed with the new
crew on this mission.

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It's amazing to see
them all together.

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I think that you
locked in so emotionally

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on these characters and
what they were going through

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and yet it opened doors

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that they could never even
imagined for themselves.

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Who else?

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Who else could have
saved the next generation

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other than The Next Generation?

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But we're back.

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And then on top of that,

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we see, essentially, the other
younger members of the ship

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turn into, Borgs, Borgified.

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There's this transition into
this dark, ominous shadow

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that kind of takes
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but like obviously the
whole last two episodes.

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The Titan is exposed.

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Proceed to retake command.

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Jean-Luc becomes subject
to a family storyline

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that has the biggest impact
on him of anything else.

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But it was what made the filming

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of Picard so very interesting.

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At last, Locutus has returned

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to his true family.

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When we see that Borg Queen,

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this is a dying queen

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that has basically
consumed her children

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to sustain herself to this moment

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to create a new kind of Borg.

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That's also a story
of the last generation

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and the next generation.

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So it all felt thematic about
the stories we were telling,

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which is parents and their children,

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and how the next generation

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inherits the sins of the
the previous generation.

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I feel for Jack,

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the revelation that he's part
Borg, it's a complete shock.

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How do you process that?

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With Jack, it comes as such
a surprise to Jean-Luc.

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This all goes back
to the moment that

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Picard was turned
into his greatest enemy

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and has still lived with that.

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What if he had
passed that on to his son?

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Throughout the series,

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it's always felt like an illness

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but this is such
a much bigger thing.

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And if you look
back at what it meant

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when Picard was Locutus.

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So for that to suddenly
be Jack's story,

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it is a huge weight
to try and comprehend.

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When Picard plugs himself in.

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Jean-Luc!

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[Ed] And they go into that
sort of dreamworld sequence,

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it's the ultimate moment of
what Jack has been looking for.

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It's connection.

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That's what destroys the evil
that's been eating him up.

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It needed Picard
to realize that as well.

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[Picard] You have
changed my life forever.

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One final toast, huh?

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[Reciting] There was a
young lady from Venus--

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[everyone interrupts] Data!

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I've always wanted to finish that.

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We didn't dare hope

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that we'd ever get to play
together as an entire family.

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At the end of the season,

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all seven of us are back together,

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including a wonderful sequence
that we did in 10 Forward.

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To that end.

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-Yes, yes!
-[everyone yells]

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Absolutely.

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Terry Matalas, who directed
the final block of the show,

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had the--for Star Trek,
I think--unique idea

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to let us ad-lib, to let
us improv, to let us vamp.

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[Terry] All right,
here we go, action!

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[Michael] That's the right and
the wrong thing to tell us.

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We can get a little out of control

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and it's hard to bring us back.

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[Jonathan] So we had a
little bit of dialogue

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that we took care of

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and then we just improvved

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and really took the
piss out of each other.

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-[Geordi] Worf?
-[Beverly] I'm up.

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I fold.

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[everyone laughs]

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It was very emotional
actually, to play cards again,

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Patrick doing his Shakespeare.

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I had a tear in my eye,
that's for sure.

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That was a really
satisfying scene to play,

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because it was a throwback
to the original series.

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People will remember that
in the very final scene

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of Next Generation, when
we were playing cards,

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the whole group
of us around the table

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and Picard says,

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I should have done
this a long time ago.

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The moments
of us being ourselves,

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as well as the characters,

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the line becomes invisible.

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That's how close I think
we are to these characters.

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[Gates] The best thing of all of it

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and I bet you most of my
castmates would say the same,

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we are like family to each other.

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We were all galvanized to
be playing poker again.

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It's one of the moments
in the entire series

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that always moved me very deeply.

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My goal was this
needs to be a sendoff

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to the Next Gen cast.

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It felt like a great
way to honor Star Trek

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and reflect on where
these characters are now.

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This finale has been amazing.

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We get to see something familiar

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but there's also a growth and
depth in those characters.

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[Patrick] There were
these new experiences,

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quite unlike any that we'd
had before in Next Generation,

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and I think that played
a very, very important part

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for all of us that we were
experiencing this together.

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[Picard] It's been an
honor serving with you all.

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And I just think it's
such beautiful closure

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to end this series this way,

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and with this huge new beginning

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with Seven, Raffi, Jack,
and Sidney La Forge

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and just all of the
younger crew members.

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I just think it's
a beautiful beginning

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of that next journey.