Yesterday’s shock information that Star Trek: Picard’s third and remaining season will reunite Patrick Stewart with Gates McFadden, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, and returning Picard visitor stars Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, and Brent Spiner had the heads of Next Generation followers spinning. But after the preliminary pleasure wore off, questions lingered… and showrunner Terry Matalas was completely satisfied to reply at the very least just a few.

Matalas spent a lot of yesterday afternoon on Twitter teasing out a bit of what followers may anticipate with Picard’s remaining outing when it got here to the TNG crew. First and foremost on the entrance of everybody’s minds: are these simply transient cameos, or will we get to spend tangible quantities of time with the Enterprise crew? Well, excellent news—Picard’s third season is a “proper send off” not simply to Picard, however the TNG crew at giant.

Not to be executed simply there, Matalas additionally teased “Federation starships galore,” a figuring out reference to the complaints from Riker’s arrival within the climax of Picard’s first season, the place the previous Number 1 commandeered a fleet of identical-looking vessels to assist save the day. Season two of the sequence already touched on this by opening with a premiere that featured a wonderful fleet of basic—and acquainted to Star Trek Online followers, as well—Federation ship designs, but it surely’s form of telling that even now, the present continues to be attempting to ask for forgiveness for that preliminary little bit of drama.

It’s extra than simply starships and prolonged appearances although. One character specifically Matalas centered on when answering fan questions was the return of Michael Dorn as Worf. Worf presents one thing of an interesting problem to up to date Star Trek. The Klingon race underwent some radical aesthetic overhauls when Star Trek: Discovery first started, and even with tweaks in its second season to bridge the hole between the brand new look there and the extra conventional Klingon look, we’ve but to see a “modern” Klingon design within the present crop of Trek reveals past the animated iterations seen in Lower Decks. So… will Worf appear to be followers keep in mind him, or will his design be up to date to the touch upon the modifications set in place on Discovery? According to Matalas, throughout a number of more and more joking tweets, it could be the previous:

But it wasn’t simply the aesthetics of Worf that Matalas touched on. After all, post-TNG Worf went on to be a serious participant in Deep Space Nine, and went via the traumas of surviving the Dominion War. Even if it is a TNG love-in, being set within the wake of that battle—even when Picard is an effective couple many years past it now—it’d be bizarre to not use Worf’s return to look at how his time on the frontlines of an unprecedented battle just like the Dominion War modified him. According to Matalas, it looks as if it’s going to be an enormous a part of the character’s story:

The showrunner went on contact on just a few extra issues—just like the possibilities of cameos past TNG within the season, or how the sequence might touch on how the Federation was rebuilt after the Dominion War—so it’s properly value heading on over to his Twitter account to be taught extra. But relaxation assured, for now: you’re going to be getting a lot of TNG love when Picard returns for its third and remaining season.

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