Star Trek Producer Explains Q’s Return in Picard Period 2

Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Denise Crosby as Lieutenant Tasha Yar, Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi and John de Lancie as “Q” in STAR TREK: THE Next Technology 1987 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved

What is old is new again as Hollywood finds alone caught in a cyclical loop of nostalgia and desire success. Chief among these recurrent blasts from the earlier is the reinvigorated interest in a huge-ranging Star Trek universe (the assets has certainly lived very long and prospered).

Paramount+’s Star Trek: Picard may perhaps have been uneven around its promising however streaky 10-episode initial year previous 12 months. But what it lacked in regularity and focus, it gained in one of a kind reintroductions to familiar figures. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) was no longer the embellished Captain often in regulate that lovers came to passionately winner in The Subsequent Technology. Instead, he was an aged person filled with regret, which is just what confident Stewart to return to the role. Voyager‘s Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) popped back again up soon after 19 a long time as an embattled badass thrust into a bigger scale conflict than ever just before. Even Details (Brent Spiner) was creatively deployed in new methods.

Now, Star Trek producer Akiva Goldsman is hoping to do the very same for TNG‘s legendary Q (John de Lancie). In a latest job interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he defined how the artistic staff ideas to reintroduce the cosmic entity in Period 2 in a way that suits with Picard‘s far more really serious, serialized tone as compared to The Following Era. 

“[Co-showrunner] Terry Matalas and I really don’t pretend that the interstitial several years did not occur. No, definitely, chronological time is a lot less relevant to Q. The time concerning shows is probably not even the blink of an eye in Q time — if you even have Q time. But we absolutely chose to abide by accommodate when it arrived to him. So as we tried using to evolve the other characters, the identical is true of Q. This is a show of a various time with actors of a distinctive age. We’re now talking about the difficulties that come up in the last [stage] of your lifetime. We desired a Q that could enjoy in that arena with Picard.”

Jean-Luc Picard has dropped religion in the Federation and expended years questioning his individual selection-creating and mourning the decline of Info when we very first appear him in Picard. He is as considerably from a TNG redux as you can visualize and the display is a superior collection for it. How that reinvention could apply to Q remains to be observed. But Matalas’ practical experience reinventing 12 Monkeys as a Tv sequence will match him nicely in this endeavor.

He, Goldsman and the rest of the innovative group want to leverage the importance of Q’s connection with Picard for the character’s really-expected return. This indicates a amount of reminiscing that could plot a course ahead, according to Goldsman.

“There are a whole lot of people who think of Q as trickster God, correct? And he is. But he’s also a profoundly major connection in Picard’s existence. There is a good deal of discussion in Picard season two about the mother nature of connectedness. Q’s sort of a good lightning rod for that, because in some strategies he’s just one of Picard’s deepest — not deep in the exact way that Riker is or Beverly Crusher was — but in its very own uniquely, profoundly deep relationship.”

The 10-episode next season is presently in generation and is expected to debut on Paramount+ in 2022.