SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 - Continuing with our upcoming Star Trek: Picard season 3 teasers, Terry Matalas shares how we’ll see that Picard has grown even more as a character over the course of seasons 1 and 2.

He says that season 3 could not have been done unless (a version) of seasons 1 and 2 had happened. The character of Jean-Luc Picard is closer to the person that we left off with in Star Trek: The Next Generation’s final episode “All Good Things...,” but older and wiser in his later (synthetic) years, discovering that the most important part of his life isn’t necessarily related to your job, but rather, to your family. But, we will be treated to seeing him doing his job once again.

Matalas also said that season 3 will return to more of the humor that was seen in TNG. He’s certainly brought up how there is more “family” in the upcoming season, but then elaborated that what we’ll be seeing is not necessarily what the fans have already come up with in their minds.

“It is the story of a family coming together. This is a tough thing to do. With respect to that, I remember watching [Star Wars:]The Force Awakens and I found it really jarring that they weren’t all hanging out still… I was like, ‘Wait, Luke Skywalker is on an island and Han and Leia had a divorce and their son is a Sith and even R2D2 is miserable and depressed and sleeping.’ And it took a bit to get my mind around at all. That’s not what’s happening here, but I think the hard part for some fans will be ‘Hey, the thing that I thought in my head was that the Next Gen cast gets together for Thanksgiving every year.’ That doesn’t happen and hasn’t happened - and why and how and is that a good story? So, your preconceptions over the last 20 years of novels and rewatching the series might send you to an expectation that’s not quite where we go here. That’s not to say you won’t get those feelings again, certainly by the end, but there’s going to be some surprises as to what they’ve been up to.”

He also says that Riker will be “a blast” this year. There will be the familiar humor that we came to love in TNG and that Picard and Riker become season three’s Butch and Sundance. He said that this is what he felt was missing in the first two years and that in writing season 3, and knowing that Jonathan Frakes is hilarious, he wanted to “write to his voice” and use it for the character of Riker.

“We see a Riker who is no longer Picard’s Number One, has been a captain himself and re-establishing with characters he hasn’t seen in a long time. For example, Worf is different from the last time we see him, and Riker becomes our (the audience’s) voice with the ‘what’s going on here?’ reactions.”

Matalas also promises a new character who is a smart-aleck that appears and will become a fan favorite by the time the series is over. (This journalist is guessing it will be LaForge’s daughter and the hopeful spinoff series mentioned previously.

It looks like there will be much to look forward to in season 3 of PIC, which has not yet had an exact announced air date but is being reported as coming in 2023.

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