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Star Trek: Picard 's latest Next Generation cameo was all about 'doing a paranoia thriller'

"I so desperately wanted to see the conclusion to that relationship," says showrunner Terry Matalas of Jean-Luc Picard and the latest surprise guest.

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Warning: This article contains spoilers from Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 5.

Patrick Stewart 's Jean-Luc is touring his greatest hits in the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard by bringing back a bevy of familiar faces from The Next Generation . The reunions keep coming in episode 5, titled "Imposters," which sees a character showrunner Terry Matalas says he really wanted for his story arc.

Actress Michelle Forbes returns as Ro Laren, a Bajoran member of Starfleet who served on the U.S.S Enterprise-D. Trekkies last saw her in season 7 of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1994. The character now arrives on Picard to question Jean-Luc and Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) about the Titan's activities, but similar to her past story arcs, there's a secret, more pressing reason why she's really there.

"There was nothing I wanted to do more than bring Ro Laren back," Matalas tells EW. "It felt like such a hanging chad from Next Generation . That episode to me is very special. It's the idea of doing a paranoia thriller."

Ro made her first appearance on The Next Generation in 1991 in the episode "Ensign Ro," and her colorful background includes a conviction for disobeying orders and getting eight crewmen killed. She was first stationed on the U.S.S. Enterprise on a secret mission to make a deal with a suspected Bajoran terrorist, but her principles in the matter are what gained her respect from Picard.

The last time Picard saw her — at least on screen — was in season 7 when she was sent to infiltrate a resistance group known as the Maquis and ended up defecting. A lot has seemingly happened to Ro off screen since that time. To use Picard's own words, "How the hell is Ro Laren back in Starfleet?!" It turns out she was once again rehabilitated and brought up through Starfleet Intelligence.

She beams aboard the U.S.S Titan in Picard season 3 with two armed security guards from the U.S.S Intrepid as Jean-Luc and Riker face potential treason charges. Once both Picard and Ro break the ice and confirm neither of them are Changelings, she reveals her true purpose for being there is because Starfleet has been infiltrated at the highest level by Changelings.

"The only way to be sure that the person that you're talking to is actually the person you hope they are is by getting through a catharsis of trauma of the past of this relationship, [which] to me felt like it could be really good television," Matalas says. "That was Ro and Picard, and I so desperately wanted to see the conclusion to that relationship."

Closure comes just in time. The episode concludes with the death of Ro, who realizes too late that her own detail has been infiltrated by Changelings who plant a bomb on her shuttle. She's at least able to leave behind her Bajoran earring containing all her files on the Changelings before crashing her shuttle into the Intrepid.

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Michelle Forbes Opens Up About Returning As Ro Laren For ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3

| March 22, 2023 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 45 comments so far

The big surprise in last week’s episode of Star Trek: Picard was the return of Michelle Forbes. The actress and showrunner are talking about the return of Ro Laren to Star Trek and why it was essential for the season.

Forbes talks Ro’s return

Michelle Forbes appeared in seven episodes spanning the last three seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Bajoran ensign Ro Laren. Producers wanted Forbes to continue the role as a series regular for the spinoff series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , but she declined. Three decades later, she did return for a single episode of Star Trek: Picard (last week’s “Imposters”). The actress offered her thoughts on Ro and her return with a photo slide show on Instagram, saying in part, “Ro taught me a lot. I’ve held those lessons close.” Forbes also talked about how she was happy to reunite with Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes “and eat breakfast and laugh together again!” She also offered up her thanks to Gene Roddenberry for creating the Star Trek universe and for TNG producers Rick Berman and Jeri Taylor for creating the character of Ro, adding “It’s been sweet to carry and hold her for decades. She’s such a deep part of my heart and I love that we share that.”

You can scroll through some of her pictures from the set in her Instagram post below…

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Bringing Ro back was essential

The episode “Imposters” focused on exploring the Changeling conspiracy within Starfleet when security was sent to investigate the events on the Titan. Speaking to Collider , showrunner Terry Matalas explained how putting Ro in charge of that investigation made it all come together.

This story was always—the pitch that I had for it was, “How great would it be to do a paranoia thriller with someone that you have all this baggage with?” The only way to be sure you’re sitting across from the person that you hope you’re sitting across from is to get through your trauma with them. I thought that if we could pull that off, we’d have a really interesting episode of television. But that required us getting Michelle Forbes and convincing the studio and the network it was the right idea, and educating a lot of people on who Ro Laren [was].

Michelle Forbes as Ro Laren in “Imposters”

Matalas talked to Entertainment Weekly about how bringing back Ro was an opportunity to provide closure to the character’s arc (and her relationship with Jean-Luc Picard) following her final appearance in the season 7 episode “Preemptive Strike.”

There was nothing I wanted to do more than bring Ro Laren back. It felt like such a hanging chad from Next Generation . That episode to me is very special. It’s the idea of doing a paranoia thriller… The only way to be sure that the person that you’re talking to is actually the person you hope they are is by getting through a catharsis of trauma of the past of this relationship, [which] to me felt like it could be really good television. That was Ro and Picard, and I so desperately wanted to see the conclusion to that relationship.”

Michelle Forbes as Ro Laren and Patrick Stewart as Picard in “Imposters”

On Tuesday, Paramount+ released a clip on social media showing the tension between Picard and Ro.

Ro Laren came to take names and eat hasperat, and she's all out of hasperat. What was your reaction to seeing her confront Picard again after all this time? #StarTrekPicard pic.twitter.com/nszs0Ukt1Y — Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) March 21, 2023

You can buy Ro’s Bajoran earring

One of the plot points in “Imposters” regarded Ro’s Bajoran earring, which she gave to Jean-Luc Picard before departing the USS Titan. Ro wearing a Bajoran earring was part of their history together, plus this particular earring contained all of her files so Picard and the team on the Titan could continue her investigation.

Ro gives Picard her Bajoran earring in “Imposters”

Star Trek licensee Rock Love Jewelry has announced the release of a replica of this earring. Thanks to collaboration from Picard prop master Jeffrey Lombardi, the replica uses the exact same sculpts as those made for the show. The Rock Love version is sculpted in solid sterling silver, plated in polished genuine rose gold, with three glittering cubic zirconia crystals. The Picard Bajoran Cuff Earring replica is available to buy from Rock Love for $95 .

Rock Love Picard earring

Ro’s pre- Picard story told in new comics

You can find out more about Ro Laren in the just-launched Star Trek: Defiant comic series from IDW. Set before the events of Star Trek Nemesis , it’s a spinoff of IDW’s ongoing Star Trek series launched in 2022. In Defiant , Worf leads a new team with his own mission on the USS Defiant and his crew includes Ro Laren.

Ro and B’Elanna Torres on the B cover for Defiant #3

The third and final season of Picard premiered on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., and Latin America, and on February 17 Paramount+ in Europe and elsewhere, with new episodes of the 10-episode-long season available to stream weekly. It also debuted on Friday, Feb. 17 internationally on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories. In Canada, it airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave.

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One of the best moments of this season was Picard and Ro’s moment of realisation through their own trauma that they each were who they said they were! “You broke my heart” the first time since Tasha Ya’s death I have shed a tear watching Star Trek. Granted I was a very young child when I first saw that.

Exactly. This is how you do emotion without turning it into a weepy melodrama like Discovery feels like every season. It was emotional but not overdone or drawn out. I loved how they both genuinely had grievances with each other but the situation they were under made it feel more tense. They were both angry at each other but at the same time wasn’t even sure they were even talking to the real person until they realized they were. Just so well done.

I love Disco but they was a masterclass in emotional Trek. Such a satisfying scene.

This was such an earned return of Ro. Executed perfectly and loved every minute of it,

Am I mistaken or does her nose – in the last of her Insta pics – look different from how it looked on the Picard episode?

It seems the low, ambient lighting may have lost the detail that we see in a brightly lit makeup trailer.

It really looks like less ridges, spaced further apart and more pronounced, than what I saw on screen. Could’ve been form a make-up test.

Yeah, that’s what I thought… 👃🔍🫤 It looks a lot more pronounced with larger ridges, and in the episode itself, much more subdued.

If it’s still a small prosthetic, I wonder why they changed it so drastically from how she looked on TNG, especially the stern “V” at the top between the eyebrows, that’s now completely disappeared. Curious. 🤔

I was hoping she’d be featured on The Ready Room in a behind-the-scenes interview, but all they made time for was a trivia question about the character.

The stern V as you call it was gone a long time ago, since that part of the prosthetic kept peeling off on actors, due to sweating. None of the later Bajorans have them any more. But I do wish they would’ve gone with the more pronounced nose in that pic for her final look.

I do remember them doing away with the “V” for Bajorans, but always thought that Ro Laren retained hers until her final appearance. I just checked… and nope, it’s just the zig-zag on top. But it looks like she didn’t even keep that exact shape for her final performance, did they? 🫤

Thankfully, it’s not as severe as what they did to the Trill; but I would’ve still preferred a bit more consistency, so that we don’t have to head-canon the issue… 👃🤛 …she lived quite dangerously, after all! 😅

The whole topic reminds me of what they did with the various Romulan looks in PIC season 1, depending on what area/region they’re from — I thought that was a clever, respectful way to honor everything that came before.

I was genuinely happy to see her again. Michelle Forbes is great.

I was, too, and yes, she is! 🤩

Very talented and attractive actress, imo. She’s had a lot of great roles over the years. Post Trek, I especially enjoyed her turn as a villain in True Blood. It was great to see her again in PIC.

I rewatched “Pre-emptive strike” this week for the first time in many years. What a disappointment. the actors playing Maquis were awful. No conviction, no real emotion. The scene in the ship with the woman Maqui was silly. And the soap opera with the old guy. Last weekend’s Picard’s show was orders of magnitude better in terms of script, performance, emotion, dramatic acting, character development, well … everything. But killng off Ro was a disappointment and, frankly, superfluous. I think we already understood the seriousness of the conspiracy without that.

The way you describe Preemptive Strike is pretty much ’90s Trek in a nutshell. I liked the death of Ro myself. It gave nice closure to the relationship, and capped off some powerful scenes, while also raising the emotional stakes (you’re focused on plot, I’m focused on character).

Well said, it was a very clever and emotional plot to the episode and how it it brought Worf and Raffi into the story line was great

The magnitude of the conspiracy is one thing, but now Picard can’t let Ro’s death be in vain, especially after the two of them just had their emotional breakthrough. Without that, Picard is really only emotionally motivated to protect Jack, which by itself probably wouldn’t be enough to stop the Changeling/Mystery Villain Big Threat.

Also, it follows the themes of the season: family, loss, and legacy.

at the heart of most of ST

Well…..maybe she’s stuck in the transporter buffer.

If she does reappear, we can’t be sure if it’s her. I don’t think they have time to go over that again.

I was very happy to see Ro Laren again. However, the story about the Changelings is closely linked to DS9, so I’m hoping for surprises here as well. A visit to DS9 would be wonderful.

Great! Now do Tom Riker

I’m still not certain Will isn’t actually Tom.

It looked like they were setting that up in the beginning, but too many character beats for Will have happed that just wouldn’t work for Tom at this point.

On paper, this should have worked. . . yet Ro’s reappearance after all these years just didn’t feel believable to me. Perhaps another episode to allow the personalities to play out might have helped, but her abrupt appearance and departure within one episode mainly felt like fan service to me.

I was thinking the same thing here she is one minute and at the end..gone. Actually, I was thinking she was going to be a Changeling until her ties to Worf was confirmed. Also, being unable to escape the shuttle seemed a little unconvincing. She could have donned a space suit and jettisoned out.

The other ship didn’t put up its shield to protect it from the shuttle explosion/impact? Come on. You’d think there’s a 24th century equivalent of various collision avoidance features on a Starship like we do with the newest cars today.

As Admiral Cain on the new Battlestar Galactica she was INCREDIBLE.

Her return here is VERY welcome and while sad in-universe, brings much needed closure and the discussion she ALWAYS had to have with Picard. GREAT acting in the 10 forward scene and so powerful.

I’m very happy she agreed to return. Not at all fan-service but very organic story-telling.

LOVING this season!

I also have to wonder if they asked her if she’d ever be interested in being a recurring/regular character again, and once she said no, they made the decision to kill her off.

Yes she was terrific as Cain. So much the strength of Ro and yet so much unlike her in every way.

Yeah it was great to see Forbes back as Ro. Of course I assumed she could come back and I thought it was a possibility but I never really thought it would happen.

And I actually rewatched both Preemptive Strike and Imposters together over the weekend. Those episodes really line up in terms of the stakes and emotions. I forgot how much of a hardass Picard was to her when she was having doubts over her mission and it really tied in great with how she felt Picard treated her and he was always too far up Starfleet’s butt lol, then and now. I also liked how you can tell Riker had a lot more sympathy for what she did then and still defended her in the episode.

I can tell some people are bothered by her death but I think they handled it well by showing how much she did ultimately care for Starfleet and her friends. They probably could’ve drawn it out to another episode, but that’s the problem when you only have ten episodes and you have to keep things moving…in this case literally.

Overall though all the legacy characters have been handled so well on this show IMO. It’s just great to see them all back and can’t wait for the next surprise appearance.

I agree, Ro was handled incredibly well, given the time restraints of the season.

Sooo excited for the next one! ✊️💫 It’s just a few more hours away… 😁

I thought the next episode was even BETTER than this one!!! We are living in good times my friend! :)

I actually always felt Episode 6 was the weakest, but still really good. Glad to heat you liked it. Curious what the broader sentiment is.

I probably need to rewatch it a few more times to make up my mind, but weaker than all others in the season it was not, IMO.

And I usually don’t mind fan service all too much, but this was the mother lode… ALMOST too much with all the ships, Genesis, Kirk, and Attack Tribbles, even with a TNG-pilot-clip flashback, and the DataLalLoreB4Soong revival. 😵‍💫💫

But then again, I feel like celebrating it, instead of needlessly lamenting… 😄🎉

From a narrative/writing perspective it was the weakest. It was definitely the most fan-squealing, even for me. Aside the ships, seeing Geordi meet Data gain, seeing Picard with Geordi, etc. Heck, even the final revelation was kind of cool.

But overall, it wasn’t as strong as past episodes. The lack of Shaw was a big reason :)

I liked it too, I think. Maybe even loved it? Still digesting it all from last night… they really laid it on thick, that’s for sure! 😅

I’m VERY curious to hear your thoughts. Not so good with names, but if I recall, you’ve been hard on the show (or was that someone else?). That you liked this, is interesting!

I really expected a big backlash from it. But it seems Terry really gets what fans want.

I’ve been hard on the dumpster fire that’s DSC. PIC, I’ve mostly liked from the start. Not entirely the first season, but it had its moments. The second season, I probably liked better than most commenters on here. The third, though, is fantastic so far.

Sure, there are minor logic flaws here and there, but you can tell that the writers’ room took the story through the wringer, while making sure that the entertainment value stays high, pretty much consistently, which is why I can appreciate this last episode’s LD-level of nods and Easter eggs (after all, the holiday takes place early this year)! 😉🐰🥚

Yeah, I think keeping your audience entertained with well written characters that have wits and/or heart (and aren’t just virtue signaling on steroids), and a compelling story that continuously sheds its revelatory layers like an onion being peeled (instead of the hasty plot dump near the very end), are key to this season’s success.

Ro or Michelle’s performance was just fantastic and reminiscent of one of Discovery’s best characters, Admiral Cornwall

One of the best moments on the show was seeing ro again. One of the worst moments in television history was writing this character to be stupid as their exit. She was a marquis! Somehow she forgot to think? She could have simply ejected into space and beamed over the titan. Did no one else think that as an almost reflex reaction to that situation?

Where was Troi when you needed someone “EJECTED INTO SPACE!!!!”

I… don’t even know how to respond to this. Eject into space? Are you serious? When have we ever even heard of that as a viable option?

Besides…her sacrifice made perfect sense precisely BECAUSE she was a Maquis. She doesn’t want to save herself, she wants to achieve the mission, and if that means sacrificing her life to give Picard and his team a chance to get away and finish that mission, that’s exactly what she’s going to do.

People can survive a few seconds in space and it will only take one or two to beam her aboard. Her “sacrifice” meant nothing because it could have been done without dying. “keep a lock on me, I’ll be blowing the hatch.” she sets shuttle course, blow the hatch, titan beams her over. There are instances of people surviving in vacuum of space. One instance is from season 5 of tng called “disaster” where crusher and LaForge ejected the contents of shuttle bay and were exposed to the vacuum of space until the bay shields were reactivated. If that’s a viable option to remove something from the bay, why is it unimaginable to eject yourself to get yourself away from something?

I’m not ashamed to say that I teared up a lot when Ro died. The tragedy of lost opportunities in relationships, how the actors brought that home in those last moments, was just absolutely brilliant. The realization of what they really meant to each other, and that they wouldn’t get to act on that.. heartbreaking.

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Star Trek: Picard Boss Explains the Surprise Return of a Next Generation Favorite: ‘It Felt Like We Had to Do It’

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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Thursday’s Star Trek: Picard .

We knew this season of Star Trek: Picard would see Jean-Luc cross paths with a lot of his former Enterprise crewmates — but we didn’t see this one coming.

In Thursday’s episode, Starfleet sent a team of investigators to question Jean-Luc and Riker about their insubordination aboard the Titan , and the team was led by… Ro Laren, the Bajoran lieutenant played by Michelle Forbes on Star Trek: The Next Generation . (Jean-Luc was left deeply disappointed by her on TNG when she left the Enterprise to join a band of resistance fighters.) Forbes reprised her role as Ro Laren this week, and it was clear the wounds between her and Jean-Luc hadn’t exactly healed over the years.

Star Trek Picard Ro Laren Season 3 Episode 5

Jean-Luc still felt betrayed by Ro Laren’s abrupt departure all those years ago, labeling her a “traitor,” and he also suspected she could be one of the changelings that have infiltrated Starfleet. That led to a riveting scene where Jean-Luc and Ro held phasers on each other while arguing about their old rift on the holodeck — “You broke my heart,” he told her, and she replied: “And you broke mine” — and that intense conversation convinced Jean-Luc that she was the real Ro Laren.

For Matalas and the Picard writers, “the opportunity to tell a story that’s essentially a paranoia thriller, where both of them are looking at each other, not entirely certain if each other are who they say they are, and the only way to verify their identity is to work through this kind of catharsis about how they feel, [felt] like it could be good television.” He admits “it was a tough one to crack, but it was brilliantly written by our writers, and I think it’s satisfying. But it felt like we had to do it.”

By episode’s end, Ro Laren exposed the changelings within Starfleet and nobly sacrificed herself, piloting a shuttle carrying a bomb into another ship to allow Jean-Luc and the Titan time to escape. “She sets them on the path, hopefully, that could save the galaxy,” Matalas notes.

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Brilliant !!

I enjoyed the first two seasons, but these episodes feel like a real continuation of TNG. Very well done.

This third season of Picard has been some of the best Star Trek ever put out. It’s been incredible.

Loved her character and she was like a surrogate daughter for Picard. I haven’t watched yet….

Crazy effing good ep. right there! Never saw that coming. No way. No how.

Outstanding that Michelle Forbes came back to conclude Ro’s story. A brilliant performer whose presence 30 years ago made TNG better and whose appearance in ST:P continues the high quality of this season. And a well-deserved special guest star notation in the credits, as she was one of the recurring stars in TNG as relevant to the series as the regular cast.

yea bring her in then make her stupid. she was in the maquis for pete’s sake. even i could figure out how to get out of that situation. blow the hatch, then while you’re outside you get beamed over. i’m sure she has many more ideas, but writers chose to write her stupid.

Yeah, sure. Blow up the hatch in the small shuttle without a) blowing up herself, b) jump into space and hope that the Titan is faster than the Intrepid and c) that the transporter block on the shuttle is limited to the dimensions of the shuttle.

She did the best she could with the times she had left and did what she said: she gave them a fighting chance to escape.

The communication link was cut off several seconds before the explosion, so its possible she did some maquis trick in that time to survive. Just a theory but strange it didn’t stay connected until the explosion.

It was a very welcome surprise that Michelle Forbes came back, not only that but a character (Ro) we did not know as this surprise was kept, and not released on all the spoiler sites. Not sure how I feel yet about them killing her off, well not true, I would have preferred her to have survived. This season has been a lot better than i thought it would be.

Fantastic episode. I never expected a conclusion to this TNG storyline, just wonderfukl.

Also another 12 Monkeys alumn joined as a guest star, Kirk Acevedo as a Vulcan crime Lord. Who would have thought?

During DS9 the Cardassians joined the Dominion and together waged war on the Maquee. During Voyager we learned that the entire Maquee resistance was wiped out. Ro Larin should have died sometime around 2373 give or a take a few years. Moreover, had she turned herself in before then, Picard would have absolutely been made aware. This was a retcon. An illogical and frankly pointless one at that. She might have been recruited by a section 31 like organization, but never starfleet security. This show is making a mockery of starfleet and star trek canon. Did these writers even watch the DS9 two parter “Home front/Paradise Lost?”

How is this a retcon when it is realistic? The entire Marquis is wiped out? Well, some of them were in the Delta Quadrant. Obviously it wasn’t the entire Marquis. What makes you think that others didn’t also survive? It’s not like Q snipped his fingers and actually wiped them out. You also don’t know when she turned herself in. She only said after years with the Marquis. That could have been well before that all happened. Also you assume that Picard would have been informed. Maybe, or maybe not. Missing information happens all the time. Non of this is a retcon, just nitpicking.

1. Ro Laren joined the Marquis sometime in 2370. It would have been later in the year based on the events and episodes that take place between her return to the enterprise and her defection. The Marquis were wiped out approximately 3-4 years later.

2: Picard was her mentor and commanding officer. She wouldn’t be thrown in jail without a court martial, and they would definitely inform him and seek his testimony in such a proceeding.

3. Torres makes it pretty clear that every base was destroyed and the vast majority died. If she was a lucky survivor then they should have said so in the episode. This was clearly an error by the writers who were probably not very familiar with the events of DS9 and Voyager.

4. A spy who defects is not a good spy. Using her in intelligence is a huge risk. Section 31 would recruit her in a heartbeat. She should have been section 31. This would be even more significant as 31 is the group that created and disseminated (through Odo,) the original Changeling virus/bio weapon. I assume the new found powers/abilities of the Changelings are tied directly to surviving it.

5. That a random Commander would put the pieces together and be allowed to live, and interact freely with JLP is silly writing. Why not replace her instead of her underlings. Especially if she is making noise trying to get to Janeway and other trusted admirals and raise the alarm about the infiltration.

Not only is it a retcon, it is bad writing.

Yes, definitely nitpicking. Nothing Ro said is contradicting established canon. You are just making a lot of assumptions what people would have done or should have done when there are multiple possible scenarios. Just because she didn’t detail every single second of what happened after she left the Enterprise means it’s bad writing or a retcon.

You are over complicating stuff when what happened can also be a lot simpler and still work. It might just not work for you and that is fine. I just don’t agree with it.

Or, they wanted to use an actress who had history with TNG, a character who would be a fun callback, and a character fans would believe Picard would trust. To accomplish this, the ignored the fact that the Marquis only lasted another few years after Roe joined. The better choice would be someone like Miles O’Brien. That said I am not sure they could get the actor to reprise that role.

It’s nice that you are such a devoted fan, but I also think you are nitpicking. They wouldn’t have known if every single Maquis member died. This is not the stretch you are making it out to be.

Crazy good episode! Fantastic way to tie up that loose end!

The season has been a lot better but its weird they way everyone treats Picard. He’s a dinosaur that doesn’t know what happening around him. Everyone seems to lecture/scold him for every idea he has. The show is very antagonistic toward its main character.

On a scale of 1-10 this episode was a 12!!

This season has been incredible. It makes me feel like this third season should have just been a limited series because the first two seasons were not good overall.

If Michelle Forbes isn’t Performer of the Week, I’m going to riot.

(Okay, one person can’t riot but you get what I mean.)

Better and better! . The first few episodes were a little mixed, for me — wonderful performances, but some of the occasion for them seemed shoehorned in, such as the issue between Ryker and Troi. There was the danger of making this into a series of set pieces rather than a story. The business in the nebula had its function, establishing the new bad guy and giving some time for character interactions, and giving a moment of beauty and wonder, but ultimately it got resolved by pulling a rabbit out of a hat, or, rather, stuffing a couple into the port nacelles. . But now things are cooking. As someone who saw TNG when it first aired and subsequently forgot all about it, I had no idea who Ro Laren was, but I still found the scenes with her moving, particularly at the end. Michelle Forbes was just very good, and Patrick Stewart as well, of course. . One standout that no one seems to mention is Michelle Hurd, who’s really brought it, and apart from her solo performances, her chemistry with Michael Dorn has been amazing. Put on top of that their impressive stunt work. . If there actually was another season of this, it would not be a bad thing.

Wil Wheaton had both Dorn and Hurd on The Ready Room, and they discussed the chemistry that developed and prep for the fight scenes quite a bit.

Big plug here for Ready Room. It’s been stellar this season with lots of insights into the characters from the primary players.

I absolutely loved the DS9 tie in here – it was so appropriate. And it gave Michelle Forbes a final reprise, a meaty, heroic, buzzyworthy one.

I have hated every nuTrek series, including Star Trek Picard. It was all garbage. But I can honestly say that season 3 is good Trek. Not perfect. There is some retconning and some misunderstanding of the changelings (the bucket), but it has some great character work, and a pretty cool arc. And there is a son of Beverly Crushers whom I don’t hate! Now I want to see more Trek like this, and it is the last season!

We now need a standalone tv movie to explore the story of Ro. Like RAZOR did for her Admiral Cain.

I liked the return a lot but it really saddened and surprised me that they killed her off.

It didn’t surprise me that they killed her off. They had an interesting character, so of course they killed her off. Shock value. I seriously doubt she’ll be the last.

The biggest shame of killing off Ro was that, with no chance of Yeoh doing it, Ro would have been amazing leading a Section 31 series. I can’t imagine that Forbes would have any interest in playing Ro for that commitment any more than she did back in the 90’s, but one can dream.

Could she have survived the shuttle explosion? I only got 3 words….advanced tactical training!

What a great idea and ep.

Cried so hard.

The confrontation is one of the best scenes in all of ST. Masterfully written and masterfully played by the actors.

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‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3 Gives This 'TNG' Episode a Satisfying Resolution

When a prodigal crewman from Picard's past returns, they bring with them a beautiful resolution to a story that was left unfinished for decades.

Editor's note: This article contains major spoilers for Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Episode 5, "Imposters."

Star Trek: Picard Season 3 has been delivering week after week of incredible episodes, and Episode 5, "Imposters" is certainly one for the books. With the crew of the Titan successfully making it out of the gravity well and away from Vadic, Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) and Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) were in for a rude awakening as Shaw ( Todd Stashwick ) reported their insubordination—commandeering his ship for their rescue mission—to Starfleet. Little did we know that with that call, Shaw set in motion an emotional resolution to a story we've needed closure on for nearly 30 years.

When Ro Laren ( Michelle Forbes ) turned that corner of the Titan, I audibly gasped. The return of prodigal daughter Ro Laren is something I never expected to see, and simultaneously exactly what we needed from Picard . Within the space of this 55-minute episode, writers Cindy Appel and Chris Derrick deliver a thrilling and heartfelt resolution to Ro's story which has always felt somewhat unfinished since her final appearance on The Next Generation . Season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas described his pitch for this episode as a "paranoia thriller" in which "the only way to be sure you're sitting across from the person that you hope you're sitting across from is to get through your trauma with them."

Ro and Picard had a rocky relationship from their first meeting, however, over the course of the final three seasons of Next Gen, Picard had grown proud of how far she'd come since they first met, coming to think of her as a sort of surrogate daughter. While it's been around 20 years since Picard saw many of his friends from his days on the Enterprise, it's been closer to 30 years since he last saw Ro after she broke his trust (and his heart) on her way out of Starfleet. With that in mind "Imposters" serves as a perfect follow-up to Ro's final appearance on Next Gen , the penultimate episode of Season 7, "Preemptive Strike."

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Ro Laren's Complicated History With Starfleet

Ro's experience with Starfleet has always been a mixed bag. As a character who has a hard time making friends and a total resistance to authority figures, you might assume that Ro Laren isn't actually cut out to be a Starfleet officer. Regardless of her social skills, Ro is highly skilled at operations, as well as espionage, in part because of her hardened exterior, which made her quite the effective tool for Admirals and Starfleet brass to use in their more questionable dealings. She would quite often be given missions that require getting her hands dirty, missions that more "noble" officers like Picard would be appalled at, as seen in her first episode, "Ensign Ro."

As a child of war, Ro learns from a very young age to never show a single sign of weakness after watching her father be tortured to death at the hands of the Cardassians. While Picard's inherent morality causes the two of them to butt heads often, it also inspires a bit of vulnerability and honesty in Ro, letting down her walls in a way that the audience knows she rarely does with anyone else. While many believe her to be duplicitous and untrustworthy, Ro is clear about her intentions from the start, saying, "I serve the Federation, but I am Bajoran," leaving no question that she'll always take the opportunity to help her people whenever she can, even if that means going against the Federation.

By opening up to Picard and leveling with him in her first episode, Ro gains a bit of respect from the seasoned Captain together they hatch a plan that both protects the Bajorans and Starfleet's moral high ground. In turn, it's then Picard who encourages her to stay aboard the Enterprise and further her career with Starfleet, saying, "I think it would be a shame for Starfleet to lose someone of your potential." It's clear that he sees a lot of himself in Ensign Ro that he wants to nurture—Picard serves as a father figure to a lot of people on the Enterprise, but this moment is one of the most direct.

What Happened in Ro's Last Episode of 'The Next Generation'?

In "Preemptive Strike," Ro returns from advanced tactical training for a mission that very neatly book-ends her first appearance; however, now she has a real family aboard the Enterprise and a shiny new rank of Lieutenant. From the first moments of this episode, it's easy to see how much the crew has come to care for Ro in contrast with her dark reputation when she first joined them. As the Federation has reached a peace treaty agreement, the Enterprise is drawn into a complicated mission when they find the rebel militia group, the Maquis, attacking a Cardassian ship.

When Starfleet hatches a plan to infiltrate the Maquis, they choose Lieutenant Ro as their operative, putting her in an extremely difficult position, forcing her to suppress her hatred for the Cardassians for the sake of their "common enemy." Despite her reservations about the mission, Ro accepts in order to validate Picard's faith in her. However, while she's embedded with the Maquis she finds that her personal goals and morals actually align with their mission, seeing the people that Starfleet has labeled as terrorists as freedom fighters seeking to protect the Bajorans and keep the Cardassian threat at bay.

While she's there, Ro meets another man who reminds her of her father—and then she watches helplessly as he too dies at the hands of the Cardassians. It's enough to convince her that the Maquis' fight against the Cardassians is a cause worth leaving Starfleet for, even if it means letting Picard down. In the final moments of the episode, Ro must make the decision to go through with Starfleet's mission or betray Picard's faith in her by following her heart and doing what she knows is right. Picard's loyalty to Starfleet and his own privilege as the Captain of their flagship blinds him to Ro's motivations, and all he can feel is her betrayal and that's the state that their relationship is left in until we see her again on the Titan.

"Imposters" Gives Ro a Fitting Send-Off and an Emotional Resolution to Her Relationship With Picard

When Commander Ro Laren shows up on the Titan it's a shock. The last time she was seen she had joined the Maquis, so to see her suddenly among Starfleet's higher-ups coming to deal judgment to Picard for his crimes is entirely unexpected. With the Changeling issue aboard the ship, the paranoia that Ro could be an imposter is very high, and it's not immediately clear that she isn't one given that they can get past superficial tests. At face value neither Ro nor Picard has any reason to trust the other, in fact, they have plenty of reasons to distrust each other. Picard is ready and willing to dole out judgment on her, and despite "clawing her way back into Starfleet" she will never gain back his respect. Here Ro lands one of the best lines in recent Star Trek memory by telling Picard that "blind faith in any institution does not make one honorable."

When Ro pulls Picard into the holodeck, they're able to get out some of the things that they need to say to each other, airing out their anger to get to the root of their mutual heartbreak: "You broke my heart." "And you broke mine." Once this air is cleared between them, Ro is able to reveal vital information about how deeply the Changelings have infiltrated Starfleet, reiterating Beverly's message from the beginning of the season to trust no one. Despite years of lost love between these two, it's clear that they still care for one another—and at this point in his life, Picard is perhaps a little more willing to join Ro in the mud, understanding that not everything is as black and white as it might have looked from his ivory tower on the Enterprise.

Ro completely understands the severity of their situation, something that she has always been able to cut straight to when she needs to. She intends to buy Picard and the skeleton crew of the Titan, but before she goes she shares a truly profound moment of vulnerability with her former captain calling back to the kindred spirit that they recognize in each other: "I wish you'd known me, and that I had known you." It's such an emotional moment, and to see that level of sensitivity from Ro is honestly breathtaking; she's always had a hard exterior, but beneath that is someone who cares so deeply for her fellow man, particularly Picard.

What happens next is quick and devastating as Ro's imposter companions are beamed off of her shuttle leaving her with a bomb and no way to escape. Ro knows that she has only minutes left, and instead of using that time to save herself she uses it to do exactly what she said she would—she gives them a fighting chance. It's incredibly sad to lose Ro as soon as we get her back, but it's also an incredibly fitting way for her to go. She dies doing what she was always fighting to do every day of her life—protecting her people.

Having Ro return at this point is an interesting parallel to Picard's relationship with Jack ( Ed Speleers ). Picard is trying so desperately to connect with his son, but after 20 years it's not exactly the easiest task. Suddenly, his prodigal daughter returns and as soon as he begins to realize what she meant to him, she's gone. This episode beautifully backs up the messaging of the previous episode which saw Picard telling a story about how Starfleet has always been the only family he has ever needed without knowing that he was saying this to his actual son. At the beginning of this episode, we see Picard urging Jack to join Starfleet, which he staunchly brushes off. But by following that moment with such an emotional journey between Picard and Ro, it's abundantly clear that Picard has made a very real family within Starfleet. It isn't about the institution itself but about the deep human connections that he has made with his fellow officers, and he wants Jack to join Starfleet because he wants Jack to be a part of his family.

Ro is and always has been an emotional anchor point for Picard, and seeing her return in such a meaningful way and reach a resolution of true understanding with him is incredibly satisfying. This was such an important relationship on The Next Generation , as Ro-centric episodes were often on Star Trek 's more serious side exploring complex moral quandaries with high emotional stakes. With her final episode of that series ending in such a melancholy way, leaving a rift between her and Picard, it's healing to see them finally truly understand each other in her final moments, and it makes losing her all the more meaningful.

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‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: Old Friends Return

In this week’s “Picard,” Jean-Luc encounters a familiar face. And he must contain his anger.

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By Sopan Deb

Season 3, Episode 5: ‘Imposters’

I am rarely truly surprised when it comes to television, but my jaw literally dropped when Ro Laren, played by Michelle Forbes, appeared as one of the Federation officers sent to upbraid Jean-Luc and Riker for their antics.

A genuinely stunning callback. The last time we saw Ro, she had become a traitor to the Federation by joining the Maquis in their fight against the Cardassians. This was a betrayal so cutting that it left Captain Picard speechless in one of Patrick Stewart’s stronger acting moments. That wasn’t supposed to be the last we saw of Ro, one of the more storied occasional characters in Trek lore. “Deep Space Nine” wanted Forbes to resurrect Ro as part of the cast, but she turned it down.

What made Ro a brilliant character is that she was one of the rare figures in “Next Generation” who didn’t automatically buy the righteousness of Starfleet hook, line and sinker.

She notes to Jean-Luc during their tense reunion: “Blind faith in any institution does not make one honorable.”

Ro questioned the status quo and valued her personal identity — as was signified by her insisting on wearing her Bajoran earring, which Jean-Luc astutely notes is missing when we see her again. This makes her the perfect person to tell the captain she once turned on that Starfleet is compromised at the highest level. Ro, on some level, has always believed that Starfleet is corrupt — just not as blatantly as it is now.

It falls somewhere between appropriate and ironic that Ro wants to question her former commanding officers about committing treason. Jean-Luc, understandably, is still enraged that Ro betrayed him all those years ago, though it’s a bit rich at the moment, given why he is in trouble.

“Empathy is one thing; betraying a commanding officer is another,” Jean-Luc rages, though we should remember that Jean-Luc just stole a shuttle from the Titan and put the entire crew in danger. But let’s move past that.

In the “Picard” version of Ro, she is a commander now, not an ensign. I was mostly fine with the story of how she got there. She was court-martialed, did some time and was recruited to Starfleet Intelligence, which included an “arduous rehabilitation program.” One small quibble: At no point during this process did Starfleet let Jean-Luc know that Ro had turned herself in.

Jean-Luc is able to vent his frustrations to Ro directly, though he does it at gunpoint in the holodeck. Historically, Jean-Luc’s family has always been his crew, not his actual family. So to be betrayed by someone he took under his wing is the deepest shiv someone could stick in him, especially on a Starfleet mission. But he has always fundamentally misread Ro: Jean-Luc wanted Ro to be Starfleet’s finest — as she notes — whereas Ro just wanted to be Ro.

But even so, Picard’s crew is still family. So when Ro asks Jean-Luc if he trusts her, he immediately says yes. Changelings are everywhere within Starfleet, Ro tells Jean-Luc; and as it turns out, they are right next to her, planting a bomb on her shuttle and thus bringing a closure to Ro’s character that she never properly received on “Next Generation.”

That Ro was the behind-the-scenes handler of Worf and Raffi was a nice touch. The three of them have much in common as outsiders who never quite fit the Starfleet mold. Using Ro’s earring as a data chip that could reunite Worf with Riker and Jean-Luc was innovative — and it tells us something else about Ro: She knew she was going to die when she handed the earring to Jean-Luc.

This was the best episode in what is turning out to be a strong season for “Picard.”

Odds and Ends

Genuinely loved the shots showing the Titan being repaired in space. Good example of how much the visuals of Trek have advanced over the decades.

Even after all this, Jean-Luc still insists on trying to get his Jack to join Starfleet. “Perhaps you might consider choosing a more honest vocation,” Jean-Luc says. The elder Picard, at his core, is a company man through and through, and even in trying to guide Jack, all roads lead back to Starfleet, despite its being obviously not a good fit. And as we find out later in the episode, the honesty of that vocation is up for debate at the moment.

The ship that Starfleet uses to bring its investigators is the U.S.S. Intrepid, a descendant of a ship that appeared on the original series.

Ro tells Jean-Luc that she has transferred most of the Titan crew to the Intrepid. Why would they need to be reassigned? If Ro didn’t trust anybody on her own ship or in the rest of Starfleet, wouldn’t she be putting those crew members in danger? This is borne out when Ro crashes her shuttle into the Intrepid to give the Titan time to run, but that also presumably hurt the Titan crew members that were beamed to the Intrepid.

I was also surprised that Jean-Luc and Riker encouraged Shaw to take the Titan and run so quickly with Titan crew members on board the Intrepid. Let’s assume the corrupted Starfleet ship wants to frame the Titan for Ro’s death. And lets assume that everyone knows the changelings aren’t afraid to murder. It stands to reason that Picard, Riker and Shaw would want to take their crew with them.

I’m enjoying the show’s willingness to offer fresh takes on members of certain species, like Krinn, a villainous Vulcan, or Sneed, the gangster Ferengi. But this story line is turning out to be unintentionally hilarious. How exactly did Worf and Raffi come up with their plan to capture Krinn?

Worf: “OK, Raffi. You set up with your rifle up top while a hologram version of you stands next to me on the ground. Then they’ll discover that. Then Krinn will make us fight each other. Then you stab me, but not too hard. Then when they think I’m dying, I’ll surprise them.” Raffi: “That seems complicated. What if they shoot us on sight?" Worf: “Trust me.”

A mea culpa: Last week, I wrote that Picard, while having his haddock, “blithely discusses the accident” that killed Jack Crusher Sr. Multiple readers noted that Picard was talking about a different incident, not the one that killed his old friend. My apologies, a changeling took over my body.

An earlier version of this recap misidentified the species of the gangster Sneed. He is a Ferengi, not a Vulcan.

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"imposters" ups the stakes for picard 's final season, while expertly showcasing the kind of storytelling the star trek show has longed to tell from the start..

Star Trek: Picard is a show that, for its first two seasons, vacillated wildly between whether or not it wanted to be a self-serious look at how time had changed and wounded Jean-Luc Picard, or a daring, often unhinged heroic adventure for its titular hero. Its third season has been as strong as it is nostalgic, but its halfway point feels like it’s finally synthesized those two halves into some incredible television.

“Imposters” marks the halfway point for Picard ’s third and final season, and after last week ended the first phase of the season and the immediate threat of Vadic—for now at least—the time has come for each and every one of our heroes to reckon with the return of the Changelings . That is, until Captain Shaw thinks he’s about to get the one-up on Riker and Picard by gloating that he has alerted Starfleet to expedite bringing the old friends in to face the music for their insubordination. The USS Intrepid arrives to bring Picard and Riker in, but first a knife has to be twisted when it’s revealed that the officer responsible for investigating them for treason is none other than one of Jean-Luc’s biggest regrets:

Michelle Forbes is back as Ro Laren, the Bajoran former Next Generation Starfleet e nsign and protégé of Captain Picard aboard the Enterprise , turned Maquis defector in what was Next Generation ’s final storyarc before “All Good Things...” brought the show to a close. In a sea of nostalgic TNG returns this season, Ro’s return being kept as a pleasant surprise is refreshing. B ut what’s even more refreshing is that Picard manages to beautifully investigate and conclude her arc with Picard, start ed all those decades ago, in a way that is not simply nostalgic , but reflective of a new dramatic ethos underpinning this returned Changeling threat. I n a world where these rogue denizens of the Great Link are now better than ever at infiltrating the solids’ ranks, it’s not technology and scans that can root them out. It’s good old fashioned relationships and connections—and in Picard and Ro Laren’s case, a lot of grief and trauma to wade through.

From the get-go, Ro’s shocking return into Picard’s orbit is primed for two things. T he first is fiery conflict: t hough Riker is free-wheelingly understanding with the now Commander Ro, Picard is furious , an d n ot just because Ro of all people is the one investigating him for treason. H ere is Jean-Luc Picard, the irascible Admiral who falls in and out of favor with Starfleet like it’s going out of fashion, a t this moment of emotional vulnerability—he has just become a father, after all—being preached to, lectured at by one of the few people to hurt him the most in his entire life? This season has been about presenting a Picard we’ve rarely seen at times, and that includes a lot of ugly emotions the reserved man usually keeps tight to his chest. B ut there is none of that tightness here; it all falls out as Ro and Picard pick up almost exactly where they left off when she defected to the Maquis in TNG ’s “Preemptive Strike, ” and amplify all that regret and anger across nearly three decades of time.

The other priming of course is that we’re going to expect that the secret of the season’s big bad is now out, that Ro is a Changeling. I n his blind fury and shame, Picard throws himself into it to try and make his way out of confronting why Ro is here and now and back in Starfleet. After all, Ro left Starfleet for some extremely valid reasons, and even with so much time passed, her appearance here at this moment of all moments is immediately suspicious—her clipped, professional tone; the way she sets up the Titan to have as few crew left aboard as possible while her security officers sweep for Jack Crusher (who, by the by, is having a hell of a time with those creepy visions, leading to a horrifying moment where he goes numb and coldly executes four C hangelings who find him hiding in plain sight in a Starfleet uniform among the Titan crew); even, as Picard goes on to note to Ro, the fact she no longer wears the traditional Bajoran earring she fiercely fought to wear as an Ensign, in spite of Starfleet’s uniform rules. The setup is there, and Picard knows it as much as its hero does, and the episode spends plenty of time leading you down this expected path.

But thankfully Picard is better in this moment—an evolution of maturity that I’m not quite sure prior seasons would’ve been capable of—than that, and Ro brings Picard into the Titan ’s holodeck recreation of 10 Forward for an incredible, explosively emotional coup de grace. It’s practically a screaming match in a way we’ve rarely ever seen Star Trek do, as all this hurt and sadness pours out from the two of them. “You broke my heart ,” Picard wails, and it feels so earnestly real, as Ro matches him in pain: “And you broke mine! ” It’s here that the mask finally lifts. For all the Changelings have evolved to avoid traditional forms of detection fashioned by Starfleet in the Dominion War , making them better infiltrators than ever before, they cannot duplicate the unifying power of grief, the hurt it inspires in people and the hurt that grief then is then in turn inflicted on other people. Both equally skewered by the other, Picard and Ro realise that they are both who they say they are, and the latter can at last reveal her true intentions—the Changelings have already compromised Starfleet with plans to assault it during Frontier Day, and Ro is one of the remaining loyalists who has been investigating what’s going on.

This is the kind of nostalgia that Picard rightfully wields with a delicate and effective touch, and far more effective than just having old faces show up for the ride because that’s fun and nice. Is the end outcome still largely the same—a familiar friend (or really frenemy, with Ro) coming in to set the heroes on a path to victory? Yes, but it is removed from the rose-tinted view of Picard as this mythic legend, and fully exposes just how devastating one of his greatest failures as a c aptain has haunted him in the time that has passed between these two shows. This is the kind of examination that Picard ’s first season was too scared to commit to , and that its second was too busy being absolutely bonkers to even consider—and in the moment, it works thoroughly, tying a bow on a character arc that had lingered for generations after TNG , while setting up the stakes of this new “ final” chapter in Picard’s tale.

But of course, not all things can be truly happy after this moment of catharsis. Having confided her investigation in the remaining Titan crew and ready to go back to her ship and continue the work there, Ro finds that she herself has been compromised: the Intrepid is in Changeling hands, and after she kills the two shapeshifting officers on her shuttle she finds a bomb planted to silence her. In one last act of touching faith, Ro sends a message to the Titan warning them, and Picard discovers that Ro’s earring, gifted to him as a farewell and reconciliation, is holding all the data of her Changeling research so far—as he is forced to watch her make a hit-and-run sacrifice on the Intrepid , smashing her shuttle into its warp nacelles so the uncompromised Titan can escape.

It’s a tragic but beautifully bittersweet end to one of The Next Generation ’s unsung and most complex of characters, and a suitably powerful re-enforcement of the stakes at play as Picard season three enters its endgame. With all our heroes so far re united, as Raffi and Worf beam aboard the Titan with information in tow about the secrets of the Daystrom Station, the die is cast for Starfleet’s finest to save the day once again—even as one of those finest heroes gives their lives for that fighting chance.

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A Major Star Trek: Voyager Cameo Didn't Make The Cut For Picard Season 3

The showrunner of the third season of "Star Trek: Picard," Terry Matalas, began the season with a few cute references and cameos to whet the appetites of nostalgia-hungry Trekkies. One of the first shots of the season was a slow pan over the belongings of Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden), and sharp-eyed fans would likely recognize several trinkets and pictures and audio logs left over from "Star Trek: The Next Generation." For five episodes, Matalas played light and fair with additional nostalgic references, focusing instead on new characters, a new ship, and the story at hand.

In the back half of the season, however, the dam burst, and the cameos and references began coming fast and furious. There were small notable roles for Ro Laren (Michelle Forbes), Tuvok (Tim Russ), and Commander Shelby (Elizabeth Dennehy). The eighth episode saw the entire central cast of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in the same room at the same time, and it was revealed that the Borg were once again the villains of the piece. The final episode of the series, called "The Last Generation," featured an audio cameo from Walter Koenig, playing Anton Chekov, the son of Pavel Chekov. And, of course, the finale centered the Enterprise-D, the ship that was destroyed in "Star Trek: Generations."

In a roundtable discussion, attended by /Film's own Vanessa Armstrong, Matalas revealed that he actually wanted to cram in even more references and cameo appearances. He mentioned that he wanted justice for Harry Kim , the eternal ensign, by giving him a captaincy. He also wanted to establish that two characters, presumed dead or imprisoned, were alive and well, and he wanted a cameo from the first two seasons of "Picard." Notably, he wanted an on-camera appearance from Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), the captain of the U.S.S. Voyager.

The reason he couldn't have the cameos, Terry Matalas said, was an issue of both budget and of scheduling. Getting all his intended actors in the room at the same time would have been a logistical nightmare, and not everyone he wanted was available during the "Picard" shooting window. Additionally, he noted that Paramount didn't have the budget to pay all the actors in question; it seemed getting the "Next Generation" cast back was expensive enough. He also wanted to link this season of "Picard" — which largely stands apart from the previous two seasons — back to the first. It seems Soji (Isa Briones) was a part of Matalas' original ideas. He explained:

"[T]here were characters I really wanted to see again. In the original finale script ... look, it was a giant movie that we were building on a television time schedule. The fact that you saw what we saw was miraculous that we pulled it off. It nearly killed us all. But there was a scene with Soji and Data that we could not afford to do. And another actor."

Matalas was coy about who "another actor" might have been.

Soji, for those who forgot, was a central character in the early episodes of "Picard." It seems that a Federation scientist salvaged a particle of Data's android brain, left exploded after the events of "Star Trek: Nemesis." Someone then essentially "cloned" Data from the particle, not only re-growing his consciousness and memories (!), but also creating a pair of organic android twins. Even for "Star Trek," the pseudoscience was far-fetched, but it resulted in a character, Soji, who found herself struggling with the revelation that she was an artificial being with false childhood memories.

Because she is technically Data's daughter, Matalas wanted Soji to meet Data.

Janeway herself

At the end of "The Last Generation," Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) is recommended for a promotion to captain. Terry Matalas wanted an additional Starfleet officer present for her promotion, an officer that Seven served with for many years aboard the U.S.S. Voyager. Yes, Matalas wanted Admiral Janeway to be there. He also mentioned that he wanted to resurrect Tuvok and Ro and Harry Kim. Sadly, none of this was in the budget. In his words:

"Ro, there was a scene in which they found Ro Laren in the dungeons of the Intrepid with Tuvok, and that she had survived. We weren't able to pull off. Harry Kim had appeared at one point. We really wanted to bring back ... we wanted Kate Mulgrew to be part of Seven of Nine's promotion. These are all things that ... they're all in the first script, and then your line producer says 'Are you out of your f***in' mind? You can't afford these things. You are not 'Avengers: Endgame.” So they got to go away. And so those are our regrets. But I'm very happy with what we were able to pull off."

While a scene between Mulgrew and Ryan would have pleased the many "Voyager" fans, it should be noted that modern "Trek" is not absent Captain Janeway. The character appears — in two different forms — on the animated series "Star Trek: Prodigy." One version of Janeway is an instructional hologram that constantly instructs and subtly mothers a crew of non-Federation teenagers. Later in the series, after the teens manage to fly their ship into the outer edges of Federation space, they run into the real Janeway, now grumpy after switching from coffee to tea.

She might not have been in "Picard," but she is present in "Trek."

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Michelle Forbes’ Ro Laren returns for Star Trek Picard season 3

Michelle Forbes has returned as the Star Trek character Ro Laren in Star Trek Picard season 3 episode 5. Forbes made her debut as the Bajoran Ensign Ro Laren in the season 5 TNG episode ‘Ensign Ro’.

From there onwards, Forbes would have a recurring guest role as Ro Laren in TNG, right up until the penultimate episode of the show, ‘Preemptive Strike’.

Her character Ro Laren quickly became a fan-favourite, standing out from the rest of the TNG cast of characters in a way not dissimilar to Lieutenant Barclay. Unlike the rest of the characters, she was disobedient and hot-headed, and would frequently have personal conflict and drama with other characters like Riker, Geordi, and Picard.

Now, in Star Trek Picard season 3 episode 5, Forbes has returned as Ro Laren. She is called to the USS Titan by Captain Shaw to investigate the actions of Picard and Riker, but her presence soon adds to the next stage of drama when she reveals she’s working undercover to draw out a Changeling conspiracy within Starfleet itself.

Her appearance, decades after she had last played the role, comes as a surprise to fans because it is one of the returning cameos that had not been signalled in the trailers.

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Star Trek: Picard Season 3's USS Enterprise-E "What Happened" Joke Explained By Showrunner

Worf's joke in Picard season 3 about the missing USS Enterprise-E adds humor and mystery to the storyline, leaving fans guessing.
Showrunner Terry Matalas purposely chose not to reveal the fate of the Enterprise-E, sparking speculation and imagination among viewers.
The potential spin-off Star Trek: Legacy could shed light on Worf's final mission on the Enterprise-E, but for now, it remains a mysterious running gag.

Showrunner Terry Matalas explained the joke about Captain Worf (Michael Dorn) and the missing USS Enterprise-E in Star Trek: Picard season 3. Picard season 3 brought the cast members of Star Trek: The Next Generation back together for one final adventure aboard the rebuilt USS Enterprise-D. In Picard season 3, Worf is working with Starfleet Intelligence and serves as the handler for Commander Raffi Musike r (Michelle Hurd). Picard season 3 confirmed that Worf was the last Captain of the Enterprise-E , which suffered a mysterious fate.

Captain Worf's protest, "That was not my fault!" is all Star Trek: Picard season 3 says about the missing USS Enterprise-E. It's a hilarious joke, and Picard showrunner Terry Matalas deliberately chose to leave the true fate of the Sovereign Class starship up to the viewer's imagination. As reported by TrekMovie , Matalas joined a Zoom chat with members of the Master Replicas Collectors Club, and here's what he had to say about Picard season 3's Worf and the Enterprise-E joke:

We had ideas, but in the moment where they’re asking, ‘What about the Enterprise-E?’ it would not have been good for someone to be like, ‘Well, the Battle of duh, duh, duh.’ You are looking at the Enterprise-D! You couldn’t do it, and you wouldn’t do it justice, whatever it is. You could say it is in storage or we are repainting it. You could, but I thought it was way funnier if they all turned to Worf, and he’s like, 'It wasn’t my fault.' So everyone is going, 'What the hell happened?' That’s way more fun. Somebody can tell that story some day about what happened with Worf and the Enterprise-E, but it’s more fun to imagine yourself all the possibilities. Is it lost in an interdimensional rift and it’s still out there somewhere? Was it an accidental self-destruct? Who knows? The question is almost better than the answer.

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With the long-rumored Star Trek: Picard spin-off, Star Trek: Legacy , currently a no-go, the fate of the USS Enterprise-E will likely remain a mystery. While it's always possible a future Star Trek project could explain what happened to Worf's former command, the creators behind Star Trek could decide to leave the ship's fate unknown. It would be a fun running gag for characters to reference the Enterprise-E without ever revealing what actually happened to it. Still, Worf's last mission on the Enterprise-E would likely make for a great story, and it would be a shame for Star Trek to miss the opportunity to tell it.

All we know is what Star Trek: Picard told us — the Enterprise-E is no more and, whatever happened, it was definitely not Worf's fault.

The USS Enterprise-E is certainly not the only Enterprise to be destroyed , and its loss does not necessarily make Worf a bad Captain. Worf took over command of the Enterprise-E from Captain Picard sometime after Star Trek: Nemesis , but very little has been revealed about his time as Captain. In the quote above, Terry Matalas posits a few possibilities regarding the fate of the Enterprise-E, but ultimately leaves it up to the viewer to speculate. Whether the fate of the E gets revealed through a line of dialogue or depicted on screen in its full glory, hopefully, the question will be answered someday. For now, all we know is what Star Trek: Picard told us — the Enterprise-E is no more and, whatever happened, it was definitely not Worf's fault.

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Star Trek Theory: Picard Retconned the Divisive Enterprise Series Finale

One shot of the NX-01 in Star Trek: Picard suggests the Star Trek: Enterprise series finale didn't happen the way fans think - and that may be good.

Picard Season 3 slyly changes Star Trek history by introducing an NX-01 redesign, challenging Enterprise's controversial finale.
The inclusion of the NX-01 refit in Picard hints at a major retcon in Enterprise's finale, suggesting a different fate for Trip Tucker.
The theory that Trip survived the final mission creates a fresh perspective on the Star Trek universe, potentially altering canon.

With all the big action and high emotions in Star Trek: Picard Season 3, fans can be forgiven for missing a detail in Episode 9, "Võx" that could retcon the divisive series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise . The last series of "second-wave" Star Trek , its sudden cancelation led to an ignominious end not just for the show but for that entire era of the franchise.

During Picard Season 3, Episode 6 "The Bounty," a number of ships appeared in the Fleet Museum, including the NX-01 from Enterprise. However, when the heroes returned to the Fleet Museum in "Võx," pop culture critic and YouTuber Jessie Earl noticed something about that early-era Starfleet vessel. Rather than the design seen in the series with a saucer section and two nacelles, it was the "NX-01 refit," a redesign meant to debut in Season 5 if the series hadn't been canceled. This means the new NX-01 is as officially canon as anything in Star Trek can be. Since the NX-01 hadn't been redesigned by Enterprise 's finale, Earl suggested Picard implies that episode was not the true end of the first Enterprise 's mission. This theory is critical because it's about more than which ship was correct; it's about saving the life of a fan-favorite character.

Updated March 18, 2024, by Joshua M. Patton: In the year since Picard's final season debuted, there has been no more information released about what the inclusion of the NX-class refit means to Star Trek canon. So, the notion that "Trip Tucker lives" is still very much in the realm of "fan theory." Yet, the idea the NX-01 Enterprise refit means the ship seen in the series finale is inaccurate is a strong theory. This article has been updated to include more information about the Enterprise finale, "These Are the Voyages" and comport to CBR's current formatting standards.

Why the Star Trek: Enterprise Finale Was Controversial Among the Fans and Cast

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Star Trek: Enterprise producers tricked UPN into greenlighting a fourth season, so it wasn't really a surprsie the series was canceled that year. While Enterprise was the network's highest-rated show, UPN just didn't have enough reach to bring in the advertising dollars needed to sustain it. Since the finale for this series was going to be the end of an unprecedented 18-year run for Star Trek under Rick Berman, the producer wanted to make "a valentine" to the whole endeavor and the fans , according to a conversation he and Brannon Braga shared on the complete series home release. The only way to bring the 22nd Century cast into the 24th -- without time travel and changing Star Trek canon -- was to use the holodeck. However, this irked many of the Enterprise cast who felt they were being sidelined in their own finale. In another special features conversation, Braga and Bakula discussed the fight they had about this very subject.

Other actors, including Jonathan Frakes, felt uncomfortable with the decision, too, according to The Fifty-Year Mission - The Next 25 Years by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman. Frakes said he agreed because he "always says 'yes'" to Star Trek , and that Scott Bakula was a gentleman on set. "I would have been so insulted. I don't think that was our finest hour," Frakes said. Actor Jeffery Combs, a mainstay in the universe but most notably the Andorrian commander Shran on Enterprise was less charitable. He said he believed Berman's choice to include The Next Generation was a way to remind the studio and the fans that he "had a successful" show in TNG . In the Enterprise special features, Braga apologizes more than once for the finale, though he admits he thought it was a "cool" idea at the time, including the death of Trip Tucker.

Still, the actors held no grudges. Along with Bakula's grace in welcoming the guest stars, the others in the cast spoke highly of their TNG co-stars. On an episode of The Shuttlepod Show with Frakes , former host and Malcom Reed actor Dominic Keating told the Riker actor he enjoyed working with him. He told him "one of the funnest days [he] had shooting [on the series] was with [Frakes] in that galley." While Star Trek is lousy with time-travel, there are no do-overs in real life. However, "The Bounty," may have stealthily retconned the Enterprise finale and Trip's death.

Theory: The Enterprise Finale Was Based on Faulty Historical Information

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Star Trek: Enterprise ended its voyage in 2005, but the NX-01 refit didn't debut until six years later in Doug Drexler's official Ships of the Line calendar. The redesign added the round deflector dish and body of the ship to the original -- bridging the gap between the NX-01 and the NCC-1701 Enterprise . That this version of the ship was at the Fleet Museum suggests the changes were made before the NX ships were decommissioned. As Earl explains , this means the ship the crew occupied in the finale was not the correct ship. It was a work of historical fiction.

What made the Enterprise finale so divisive was that it was technically an episode of The Next Generation . Riker and his wife Deanna Troi appeared, sharing scenes that take place during TNG Season 7, Episode 12, "The Pegasus." Troi suggested Riker use this holodeck program of the last mission of the original Enterprise to help make a tough decision. While the ship had undergone changes from what viewers were used to seeing, it didn't have an entirely new section. The NX-01 wasn't actually seen in the finale except on display monitors, but there was a scene in its shuttle bay. Since it wasn't redesigned, that suggests the ship in the holodeck program was not the accurate ship .

Earl also pointed out how Riker influenced events when he appeared as the ship's chef -- a character mentioned but never seen during the run of Enterprise . At the end of the episode, the vessel was boarded and Chief Engineer Trip Tucker died saving everyone. However, Earl noted a Star Trek novel called The Good Men Do , by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin, introduced the idea that Trip faked his death to go on an undercover mission involving Romulans. A simpler retcon of Trip's death is the holodeck program was just historical fiction or somehow inaccurate. Whatever the case, the redesigned ship means the holoprogram could've gotten more things wrong. It's a possibility Troi acknowledged when Riker noted that security officer Malcolm Reed was shorter than he expected.

Why Picard May Have Stealthily Retconned the Enterprise Finale

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Star Trek: Enterprise was the second of the franchise's second-wave series to not be made for syndication. It debuted on the United Paramount Network (UPN), which failed and became half of The CW five years. Brannon Braga, showrunner for most of Enterprise , said in a conversation with the cast on the complete series home release that he regrets the story they told. He was a bit too hard on himself. It was a good episode of Star Trek , it was just a poor series finale for Enterprise . In their last episode, rather than actual human beings with agency, the crew of the NX-01 were just holographic action figures.

In "Võx," Worf made a casual reference to the USS Enterprise -E's destruction by saying, "That was not my fault." Picard showrunner Terry Matalas tweeted that this was essentially a layup for Star Trek novel writers. Perhaps the NX-01 refit inclusion was another or, as Earl suggested, a nod to The Good Men Do . Matalas worked on Enterprise and had an on-camera appearance in the series finale as an Enterprise-D crewman, walking past Troi as she got on a turbolift -- so he may like the Enterprise series finale just as it is.

Since this is all an off-screen story and headcanon, it is possible that the NX-01 refit was a different ship than the first Enterprise . It might be in the Fleet Museum just so Doug Drexler's amazing design made it on-screen just once. Yet if any Star Trek series finale could use a do-over, it's Enterprise , and even the guy who wrote it agrees. As Earl says, this Picard theory is a great way to live life knowing Trip survived the final mission. But, if a fan happens to love the finale? Then it would take more than the appearance of a ship to change that. It's been a long road from Enterprise to Picard , and it's nice the NX-01 refit design got to make the journey.

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The proposed continuation for Star Trek: Picard season 3 dubbed Star Trek: Legacy may become a streaming movie according to a new report.

Star Trek: Legacy may become a movie instead of a TV series.
Rumored Star Trek streaming movie "Legacy" may happen if Section 31 succeeds, says Variety report.
Star Trek: Legacy has been campaigned for by fans since Picard season 3 ended.

Star Trek: Legacy , the rumored follow-up series to Star Trek: Picard , gets an update courtesy of a new report. In addition to reuniting the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation for one last mission, Picard season 3 set up a new Star Trek show featuring Captain Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) as commander of the USS Enterprise-G, tentatively titled Star Trek: Legacy . The cast ideally would include Commander Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) as First Officer; Ensign Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers), as well as several returning Picard characters.

A new Variety cover story about the future of the Star Trek franchise includes a long-awaited, albeit brief, update on the possibility of Star Trek: Legacy happening as a Star Trek streaming movie made for Paramount+ if Star Trek: Section 31 is a success. Read the quote below:

And Kurtzman is already eyeing more opportunities for TV movies, including a possible follow-up to “Picard.”

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The fan-led campaigns to greenlight Star Trek: Legacy certainly show that demand for the new Star Trek: Picard spinoff exists, but demand alone isn't enough to warrant a whole new Star Trek series going into production. Even though Picard season 3 clearly set up Legacy , with its potential cast of new characters, Captain Seven catchphrase cliffhanger, and even a visit from Q (John de Lancie), there was never a guarantee that the premise would result in a multi-episode, ongoing Star Trek show, especially with 3 other Star Trek shows currently in production.

The new Variety report suggests that Star Trek: Legacy may come to exist as a streaming Star Trek movie, which would be a more financially sound move , even if it isn't exactly what fans have been clamoring for. Star Trek: Section 31 was intended as a series before being modified into a more cost-effective feature-length telefilm, and its success could lay the groundwork for a collection of similar Star Trek content on Paramount+. Legacy as a Star Trek movie may not be ideal, but it would still see the continuing adventures of the USS Enterprise-G crew, and that's better than no Star Trek: Legacy at all.

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