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STAR TREK PICARD

Across seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation and four epic movies, Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise battled terrifying threats to the galaxy, from the Duras Sisters to the Borg. Now, 18 years after his last appearance in Star Trek Nemesis, Sir Patrick Stewart’s legendary character returns in Star Trek: Picard. Driven by the memories of his dear friend Data and accompanied by a brand new crew – as well as some much-loved familiar faces – he once again comes to the aid of the Federation in its hour of dire need……

STAR TREK PICARD

Here’s precisely how much Sir Patrick Stewart missed Jean-Luc Picard and how much he missed playing one of Star Trek’s most iconic characters: “Not at all,” the former Star Trek: The Next Generation actor says, shaking his head side to side for emphasis. Really? “No, because after seven years of doing the series, I was more than ready to move on,” Stewart replies, warping into a measured, thoughtful, and detailed explanation. “The series was all-consuming. We shot 22 episodes a season, and I think [for] two seasons we actually shot 24 episodes. So, we only ever got five or six weeks off in the year. It took up all the rest of the time. And after seven years of that, I was going stir crazy for something else to do.…

A SIDE POCKETS ASIDE

There’s almost no better sound than that of Patrick Stewart laughing. And laugh he does, several times, and loudly, while sharing anecdotes about, of all things in the known galaxy, pockets in the pants of his Star Trek: Picard costumes. To quickly provide some context, the form-fitting uniforms Stewart almost always sported on Star Trek: The Next Generation and in the Next Generation features rarely ever included pockets. That changed in a major way on Picard, much to Stewart’s great pleasure and bemusement. “I wasn’t in a uniform,” Stewart explains. “I was wearing fairly contemporary clothes. Our costume designer [Christine Clark] has done a brilliant job in creating a 24th-Century civilian world. I mean, an ordinary, everyday working world. It’s sensational what she’s done. And one of the most important…

PAST IS PROLOGUE A PROFILE OF PICARD

Born in La Barre, France, on Earth in 2305, Jean-Luc Picard stands as one of the 24th Century’s most distinguished Federation citizens. Although his family owned a traditional vineyard, Picard set his sights on exploration and enrolled in Starfleet Academy. He initially demonstrated an undisciplined and arrogant attitude, but gradually harnessed those passionate traits to become an incredibly promising cadet. Soon after Picard’s graduation, a violent encounter with Nausicaans at Starbase Earhart left the freshly minted officer with a near-fatal wound to his heart. Doctors installed an artificial device in order to save Picard, yet the ordeal served as an important benchmark in the young man’s journey. Confronted by his own mortality and the realization that life was fragile, Picard began to cherish each moment and seize the opportunities that…

ALEX KURTZMAN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

“Seize the time… Live now!” Jean-Luc Picard once exhorted. “Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.” Alex Kurtzman has clearly heeded that call. Kurtzman is this generation’s Gene Roddenberry or Rick Berman – the creative brain tasked with guiding the Star Trek franchise into the future. He co-created and executive produces Star Trek: Discovery; Star Trek: Short Treks; two upcoming animated Trek shows; the forthcoming Section 31 saga; and, of course, Star Trek: Picard – all of which build on his previous Trek experience writing and producing the movies Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness. Here, Kurtzman addresses his ongoing Treks and takes a deep dive into Picard, from collaborating with Sir Patrick Stewart to the prospect of a second season, and much…

ALEX KURTZMAN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Isa Briones, Star Trek: Picard’s leading lady, hails from a family of performers. Her father is Jon Jon Briones, best known for the stage musical Miss Saigon, while her mother, Megan Johnson Briones, is an actress and singer who has performed concerts all over the world. Then there’s her younger brother, Teo, who’s already amassed nearly 20 film and television credits. So, it’s no surprise to hear 21-year-old Isa – who counts among her own credits a recent year-long run in the touring version of the blockbuster stage show, Hamilton: An American Musical, as well as the films Takers and Lonely Boy, plus an episode of American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace – characterize her own desire to act and sing as something just short of destiny. “Growing up…

“I definitely grew up in the heyday of Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Alison Pill recalls. “I was very much aware of that show. Growing up, our neighbor was a huge Star Trek fan. Her family were huge fans. I remember going all around my house with my headband on, pretending to be Geordi [La Forge]. It was definitely a part of my life growing up, but I was not a massive fan, by any means. I would say I was familiar with Star Trek. So, when I got Picard, I knew that working with our writers – who are such amazing fans of the franchise – would make it obvious what things I should catch up on in order to best serve the franchise.” Pill, who hails from Toronto,…

MICHAEL CHABON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/SHOWRUNNER

Michael Chabon brings quite the pedigree to his roles as executive producer, showrunner, and writer of Star Trek: Picard. As an author, he’s won a Pulitzer Prize, as well as Nebula, Hugo, and Sidewise awards. His bestselling books include The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Gentlemen of the Road, Telegraph Avenue, and Moonglow. He’s also dabbled in Hollywood, developing several as-yetunrealized film projects and working on the screenplays for John Carter and Spider-Man 2. Chabon was collaborating on a script with Star Trek: Discovery writer and producer Akiva Goldsman when Goldsman invited him to write a Star Trek: Short Treks episode. Chabon, a lifelong Trek fan, took him up on the offer, contributing “Calypso” and, later, “Q&A.” These episodes…

MICHAEL CHABON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/SHOWRUNNER

Michelle Hurd is capping the 30th year of her career with the greatest gig of her life: the butt-kicking, ready-to-rumble Rafaela “Raffi” Musiker on Star Trek: Picard. Get her talking about both – three decades as an actor and now joining the Picard cast – and the adjectives spew out faster than phaser fire. “It’s insane, amazing, surreal, very strange,” she enthuses. “It’s all those words. The thing that is so beautiful about Picard – and I keep saying to my family and friends – is it took 30 years for me to get a really well-defined, well-textured, layered, complex, imperfectly perfect character. And I thank [Executive Producers] Michael Chabon, Akiva Goldsman, and Patrick Stewart for that. So, I’m pretty proud of my 30-year legacy.” “Star Trek has always been…

“Rios is ex-Starfleet, so that’s a connection that he has to Picard and his world,” Santiago Cabrera says by way of introducing Cristobal “Chris” Rios, his character on Star Trek: Picard. “But Rios had a very traumatic experience in his past. He’s a guy with a lot of inner demons due to a fallout he had, a bad experience which created the fallout, and he holds a grudge towards Starfleet. Now, Rios meets Picard, who is the walking embodiment of Starfleet. He is Starfleet himself. Immediately, there is a reticence, and a challenging aspect there. Rios isn’t too warm to Picard. He’s just not ready to receive him yet. “So, that’s the history there, between the two of them,” says Cabrera, who was born in Venezuela and raised primarily in…

HANELLE CULPEPPER DIRECTOR

Sleepy Hollow led to Star Trek: Discovery, which led to Star Trek: Picard. That’s the short version of the long story that resulted in Hanelle Culpepper directing the first three episodes of Picard, and thus creating the template for the rest of the season. Here, Culpepper – who counts among her other directing credits episodes of such shows as Parenthood, Criminal Minds, How to Get Away with Murder, The Originals, Gotham, Supergirl, and Counterpart – discusses her Star Trek experiences past, present and, hopefully, future… Star Trek: Picard – The Official Collector’s Edition: How familiar were you with Star Trek before you worked on Star Trek: Discovery? Hanelle Culpepper: I was a Star Trek fan when I first started with Discovery. I became a Star Trek fan from watching The…

HANELLE CULPEPPER DIRECTOR

Is it possible that Jeri Ryan got rid of her Borg alcove just a bit too soon? “No,” Ryan replies, unleashing one of her raucous laughs. “And I say that because I gave the alcove to a very dear friend, who is really kind of the reason I’m doing this role again. I gave it to James.” BACK TO THE BORG Time for some much-need context. Upon the end of her four-year stint as Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager, Ryan arranged to take one of the show’s Borg alcoves – sort of her home away from home during production – as a memento of her experience. She showcased it for ages in the entertainment room at the house in Los Angeles she shared with her husband and kids.…

If one were to employ Vulcan logic to the return of Brent Spiner as Data in Star Trek: Picard, it should really surprise no one. The series centers on Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) approximately 20 years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, in which Data gave up his life to save his beloved captain, though some of Data’s memories lived on in the B-4 prototype android. Picard’s guilt about his friend’s demise and sacrifice – along with the dissolution of the Romulan Empire – factored into Picard’s decision to leave Starfleet and settle into a far quieter life. But when Picard returns to action, it sets the stage for Data – or one of his iterations – to do so as well. And that means Spiner is back, too, reprising…

Jonathan Del Arco is a really good actor – and masterful at keeping a secret, though he’d deny that second point. When he spoke face to face with Star Trek Magazine in October 2018 at Destination Star Trek Birmingham, he never for a nanosecond let on that he’d committed to reprise his role as Hugh Borg, a.k.a Third of Five, in Star Trek: Picard. Yet here he is, in late 2019, at Star Trek Las Vegas, in a quiet room, just steps from the main stage. In a few minutes, he will join Jeri Ryan and Jonathan Frakes for a panel in which they will discuss their participation in Picard, all to the wild cheers of 6,000 appreciative fans. As a warmup, Del Arco first sits down to talk with…

It’s funny how things can change, and so swiftly, too. Harry Treadaway, heading into Star Trek: Picard, admittedly didn’t know much about Star Trek. “Not really at all,” Treadaway explains. “I remember seeing it, being aware of it. It was one of those shows that was just part of growing up, I guess, on TV. It was always on after school. So, you’d see it if even if you weren’t meaning to. But I also remember the diverse casts, and I remember the episodic nature of the shows, just different stories every week, but with through-lines to previous storylines. I didn’t watch it [regularly] as a kid, but I remember it being part of the TV culture.” Now, the 35-year-old British actor is helping bring Jean-Luc Picard back to that…

Take a bow, Marie Evagora. Somewhere out in Melbourne, Australia, Mrs Evagora instilled in her seven kids an appreciation of Star Trek. That appreciation came in very handy for her youngest child, Evan, first when he auditioned for Star Trek: Picard, and then later on as he played the long-haired, sword-wielding Romulan, Elnor, on the newest Trek show in the galaxy. “I’d watched a few episodes of the original series, and the original series movies – The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, and everything,” Evagora recalls. “Those were my mum’s favorites when I was growing up. We used to watch Next Generation reruns in the kitchen during dinner. My mum pretty much made us grow up on all things sci-fi. She was a big fan. Whenever my mum was…

Jonathan Frakes was there. He heard it from the man himself. And yet he still didn’t quite believe that he’d be involved in any way, shape, or form. Back in 2018, at the annual Star Trek Las Vegas gathering, Sir Patrick Stewart shocked the 6,000-plus fans in the room – and the world at large – by announcing that he’d be reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard for a new show that we now know to be Star Trek: Picard. Stewart even informed Frakes – his longtime friend, Number One to his Picard, and his frequent director – that he wanted him to direct the show; and though fans everywhere clamored for Stewart’s Star Trek: The Next Generation co-stars to join him on Picard, Frakes didn’t place bets on that…

The last time Marina Sirtis played Deanna Troi was, of course, also the last time Jonathan Frakes played William Riker. It was 2005, and they’d been recruited by executive producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga to help close out an 18-year-long era of Star Trek – encompassing Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, and a quartet of TNG feature films – by appearing in the Enterprise series finale, “These Are the Voyages…” Fast forward to summer 2019, and to a set in Los Angeles, where Sirtis and Frakes got their Imzadi groove on once again for Star Trek: Picard – meaning they also shared scenes with Picard himself, Patrick Stewart. Sirtis has been busy lately – making her West End…

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