Star Trek: Picard - Season 3
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Patrick Stewart stars as Picard, reprising his role from the series Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as other Star Trek media, with Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, and Ed Speleers also starring. The season features recurring stars who also reprise their roles from previous Star Trek media, including Stewart's Next Generation co-stars Jonathan Frakes (Riker), Gates McFadden (Crusher), LeVar Burton (La Forge), Michael Dorn (Worf), Marina Sirtis (Troi), and Brent Spiner (the android Data). A third season of Picard was informally green-lighted by January 2020, allowing it to be filmed back-to-back with the second season. Some third-season scenes were filmed during production on the second, which began in California in February 2021, before filming segued fully to the third in September. Stewart officially announced the season soon after, and filming ended in March 2022. The return of the other Next Generation cast members was confirmed a month later. Matalas hoped to make the season a satisfying ending for Picard's story and the whole Next Generation cast.
In February 2019, during development of the series Star Trek: Picard, star Patrick Stewart said \"we are set up for possibly three years of this show\".[12] Showrunner Michael Chabon and the writers were reported in January 2020 to have begun work on a second and third season, with Terry Matalas joining them to fill the void that would be created by Chabon's planned departure later that year. CBS officially announced the second season then, but did not confirm an informal third season green-light. The latter allowed the second and third seasons to be filmed back-to-back,[13] which helped save costs and simplify scheduling.[14] Stewart officially announced the season in September 2021,[14] shortly after filming had begun.[15] By February 2022, the producers had decided to end the series with the third season.[16] Matalas served as the sole showrunner for the season.[4]
The third season begins just over a year after the second.[17] It tells a new story, despite the two seasons being developed together,[18] and Matalas said the third season was \"incredibly different\" from the first two.[19] He hoped it would be a satisfying conclusion for Picard's story,[19] and said it would be less intimate and have some \"game-changing Star Trek Universe ideas\". Matalas added that some elements from Star Trek: The Original Series and the films starring the Original Series cast would be used in the season to \"tie some Star Trek together\",[20] including the Spacedock and boatswain's whistle from those films.[21] The season also has references to the films' \"more nautical, cat and mouse submarine-movie\" ideas.[19] Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) was a \"major touchstone\" for the season, which features mind games between Picard and a new villain.[22]
In April 2022, when it was revealed that other Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members would be starring in the season, Matalas recalled watching that series as a child and said it was \"most fitting that the story of Jean-Luc Picard ends honoring the beginning, with his dearest and most loyal friends from the USS Enterprise\".[4] The producers felt the group's final appearance in the film Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) had not been a proper send off and wanted to use the final season of Picard to \"send [them] off the right way\",[23] similar to what the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) had done for the Original Series cast.[24] This was Matalas's core pitch to Stewart and the other returning actors, and he developed each of their storylines with them to avoid telling a story that they were not happy with.[21] He aimed to create endings that also promise more story for the characters.[1] Kurtzman said the season would take its time showing where each character is before bringing them all together,[22] which Matalas compared to Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) revealing where the original Star Wars characters are after many years.[1] Matalas also compared the season to a serialized version of a theoretical The Next Generation season eight,[25] and said it was \"passing the torch from one generation to the next\" like when actors from The Original Series guest starred on The Next Generation.[21] He suggested that a more appropriate title for the season would be Star Trek Legacy rather than Star Trek: Picard, but still felt it was \"truly a Picard story\".[26]
In April 2022, members of the Next Generation cast were confirmed to be starring in the third season with Stewart: LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge, Michael Dorn as Worf, Jonathan Frakes as William Riker, Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher, Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi, and Brent Spiner.[4] Matalas confirmed that these would not be brief cameo appearances and said all of the cast would appear together in the season.[29][30] After initially avoiding bringing back the full cast, executive producer Alex Kurtzman said they had a good story reason to reunite them in the third season and the producers felt that they had earned the right to do so after the first two seasons.[31] McFadden said she loved the story that had been written for the cast in the season,[32] while Sirtis said they had been \"cherished\" by the producers in contrast to their experience on Nemesis.[23] Burton said he would be happy if he did not portray La Forge again after getting to \"put a period at the end of this sentence and close the book\" on the character with this season.[33] After Spiner decided that he would not portray his Next Generation character Data again after the first season,[34] Matalas said he would play a \"new old character that you have seen and never seen before\" that connects to the plot of the third season.[1] This was revealed in October 2022 to be a version of the android Lore, Data's evil twin.[9]
Wil Wheaton, who starred as Wesley Crusher in The Next Generation and made a cameo appearance in the second-season finale, was not included in the season. After the second-season finale was released in May 2022, series regulars Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, Evan Evagora, and Isa Briones revealed that they did not return for the third season.[5] Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, and Orla Brady did return as Seven of Nine, Raffi Musiker, and Laris, respectively.[5][10] Matalas said budget and time limitations meant some \"hard choices\" had to be made about which characters to bring back for the season, especially with the need to sign on all of the returning Next Generation actors.[21][24]
Matalas said each season of Picard would be differentiated visually, but he and production designer Dave Blass wanted the second and third seasons to return to the visual style of the Next Generation era.[19] In April 2022, Blass announced that several crew members from Next Generation era Star Trek had returned to work on the design team for Picard: computer graphics engineer Ben Betts, visual effects producer Dan Curry, set designer Daren Dochterman, concept designer and visual effects artist Doug Drexler, starship designer John Eaves, graphic designer Monica Fedrick, graphic designer Alan Kobayashi, production designer Geoffrey Mandel, video engineer Larry Markart, computer playback supervisor Todd A. Marks, production illustrator Jim Martin, art director Karl J. Martin, and graphic designer Michael Okuda who designed the LCARS computer system for The Next Generation.[40]
The sets for the USS Stargazer from the second season were re-dressed to portray a different starship in the third,[42] the USS Titan.[43] The Titan previously appeared in the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks as a Luna-class ship designed by Sean Tourangeau, but Matalas felt that design was specific to the Next Generation era and wanted to consider new designs that aligned with the Picard era's Stargazer design. He worked with Blass, Drexler, and Eaves to determine what the design could be based on potential fictional events that would impact Starfleet design decisions. They decided that some older design elements from before the Next Generation era could be brought back for the new period of scientific exploration, which led to them creating the USS Titan-A, a new version of the ship that was refit to feature Constitution-class design elements (based on the starships from the Original Series era) after the original was retired. The new ship is a Neo-Constitution- or Constitution III-class ship, and was based on Star Trek fan Bill Krause's designs for an Original Series-era Constitution-style ship called the Shangri-La-class. The season also reveals that before the Next Generation-era Luna-class Titan there was an earlier version of the ship that was Shangri-La-class. Matalas described the USS Titan-A as a \"long-range workhorse of a ship. Harkening back to the Constitution-class that was designed for the long 5-year missions. It is an exploratory vessel with some serious maneuvering capabilities.\" He compared the use of an older-style ship to Tom Cruise's Pete \"Maverick\" Mitchell flying a P-51 Mustang fighter plane from the 1940s in Top Gun: Maverick (2022).[44]
The season also introduces the SS Eleos, a former Starfleet science and medical ship that Beverly Crusher uses, as well as a new Spacedock based on the one that was first introduced in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984).[44] Matalas added that the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) would have a role in the season.[42] The last Enterprise to appear in the official timeline was the USS Enterprise-E in Nemesis; the Enterprise-F is an Odyssey-class starship that was designed by Adam Ihle for 25th-century stories in the Star Trek Online video game.[45][46] Star Trek Online designer and associate art director Thomas Marrone built the digital model of the Enterprise-F, which he provided to Picard's visual effects team just as he did with other starship models for the previous season.[46][47][48] 781b155fdc