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Olivia d’Abo guest starred in the role of Amanda Rogers in Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “ True Q ” episode / Season 6 which aired on Fox in 1992.  The full season will be released June 3, 2014 on Blu-ray, which includes rare deleted scenes. Pre-Order Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6 on Blu-ray at Amazon .

True Q episode details: The Federation starship Enterprise brings aboard a young Starfleet intern, Amanda Rogers (Olivia d’Abo), who plans to study biological sciences under Dr. Crusher. The crew soon finds that Amanda has unusual abilities such as redirecting a falling cargo crate to avoid injury to Commander Riker, and the ability to contain an explosion in the warp core. Q appears and admits that Amanda is actually a member of the Q Continuum, having been conceived by two other Q when they opted to take on human forms and forfeited their Q-enabled abilities. Q has arrived to teach Amanda how to harness her powers, as well as to decide whether to return to the Q Continuum, or remain living a normal human life.

Captain Picard, suspicious of Q’s motives, orders Lt. Commander Data to investigate Amanda’s parents. He finds that they died from a freak tornado in their Kansas home, something that would be nearly impossible with Earth’s weather modification network. Picard asks Q about this, and Q reveals that the Continuum, having seen Amanda’s parents as a threat, killed them while they were mortal. Picard forces Q to reveal his true intentions: to determine if Amanda is truly a Q, or if she is a Q-human hybrid, in which case he has orders to destroy her. Picard argues with Q, and eventually Q agrees to give Amanda the choice of joining the Q or remaining human and voluntarily resisting using her powers.

As Amanda contemplates her choice, the ship receives a distress call from a nearby planet where their ionic anti-pollution systems are failing rapidly, which would flood the atmosphere and block out the sun. The Enterprise crew races to help but cannot keep up with the failures. Q taunts Amanda that should she not join the Continuum, it would be difficult to resist using her powers in cases such as this. Amanda makes her choice and uses her abilities to restore the pollution systems to normal, saving the planet. Q prepares to take Amanda to the Q Continuum, but she requests time to say goodbye to the crew, fearing that she will not see them again—particularly Dr. Crusher, who reminds her that as a Q, she can do anything she wants.

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The villain of Star Trek: Picard season 3 has a deeper, more literal connection to Star Trek: The Next Generation . The final season of Picard will finally reunite the crew of the Enterprise-D for one last adventure, and it appears that they're being hunted down by someone with a grudge against Starfleet and the Federation. While Vadic is seemingly a new character, they're played by Amanda Plummer, who has a familial connection to the Star Trek franchise.

Amanda Plummer's father Christopher played the villain in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country . The final movie for the original Enterprise crew was a political thriller that dealt with the resistance against potential peace between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. It was a fitting farewell for the Star Trek: The Original Series cast, something which was denied to the TNG cast due to the commercial and critical failure of Star Trek: Nemesis . Picard season 3 is planned to be the proper farewell that the TNG crew never had, and the inclusion of Plummer in the cast strengthens the link with Star Trek 6 .

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Amanda Plummer Is Literally Star Trek's Next Generation

Amanda Plummer is the perfect actor to play the villain in the TNG crew's final adventure. As the daughter of Christopher Plummer, she literally represents the next generation of a well-known Star Trek villain. It's a nice link to the TOS crew's final Star Trek movie, but the connections between Picard season 3 and Star Trek 6 run deeper than the involvement of the Plummer family.

Other Ways Picard Season 3 Connects To Star Trek 6

Somewhat shockingly, the new Picard season 3 trailer sees Federation headquarters destroyed in a terrorist attack. It's a serious escalation from the attempted assassination of the president at the climax of Star Trek 6 and implies that the Picard season 3 story will have elements of political thriller. It's still not clear exactly what Vadic's plans are, but they appear to be motivated by hatred of the Federation and Picard. While that may suggest a thematic link with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , it should be remembered that hatred also motivated the conspirators in Undiscovered Country - be it hatred of the Klingons or the Federation.

From the trailer, it appears that Picard is operating outside Starfleet jurisdiction, despite being aboard Riker's old ship, the Titan . In one scene from the trailer, Geordi exclaims " Worf and Riker, you roped them into this too? " Geordi's shock implies that the three Enterprise legends are responding to the threat in a more unorthodox fashion. This is similar to how Spock and the crew of the Enterprise also went against Starfleet to prove the innocence of Kirk and McCoy and unmask the conspiracy against the peace process.

Not only that, but as a former helmsman who is now a Starfleet commodore, Geordi could essentially fulfill the role of Captain Sulu, who aids the Enterprise's unsanctioned mission while commanding the Excelsior. Like Sulu's daughter Demora in Star Trek: Generations , Geordi's daughters also appear in Star Trek: Picard season 3. The Star Trek: The Next Generation actor LeVar Burton's daughter Mica also plays Geordi's daughter Alandra LaForge, which alongside the Plummers, furthers the final season's literal links to the next generation.

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Original air date: October 26, 1992

A young intern named Amanda Rogers boards the Enterprise while they're trying to alleviate the ecological woes of Tagra IV. As Riker leads her to her quarters, she wishes her three puppies were here as she makes puppy-dog eyes at the Commander...and when Riker leaves, three puppies appear!

The next day, we get more of Amanda's backstory: She's an orphan, her parents having been killed in an accident when she was young. Then, when she goes to the cargo bay, she sees a container fall right at Riker's head! But she moves her hand and the thing just barely misses him. Then after Techno Babbling a few solutions for Tagra IV's environmental troubles, the warp core breaches unexpectedly, as foreshadowed in the previous episode. As the core explodes, Amanda comes in to save the day! But how?

An answer comes in the form of Q, who tells a stunned command staff that Amanda is a member of the Q Continuum. Her parents weren't human, but actually Q who decided to live like disgusting humans , including the abominably disgusting act of mating. The Continuum was unsure whether this foul act would beget an offspring with Q powers, so they sent Q to oversee her and make sure she doesn't destroy the multiverse with her newfound powers. He wants to take Amanda back to the Continuum for study, but she objects and throws him across the room. Picard suggests that he not do things like walk through a wall and inspect her like a human would inspect a bacteria, then tells Data after he leaves to look into her parents' "accident." Meanwhile, Q's shadow asks him for a progress report. He tells the Q he may have to "terminate the girl," but he may not.

Dr. Crusher convinces Amanda to talk to Q again. Amanda doesn't want anyone on board to treat her any differently from any other member of the crew now that she's a Q. Q takes a more conversational tack, telling her that the Q are indeed omnipotent, and she can do anything she wants, like see her actual parents again or speed up the process of the slow experiment Crusher has her doing. When Crusher complains, Q turns her into a barking dog, but Amanda changes her back.

Once again trying to alleviate her concerns, Q gives Amanda more Q lessons by playing Hide and Seek around the ship using teleportation. Q hides in the warp core and then on the outer hull of the ship. Amanda starts to appreciate the wonders that her powers make her capable of. Meanwhile, Data informs Picard that Amanda's parents were killed by a Suspiciously Specific Tornado, one that shouldn't have even happened thanks to the Federation's all-powerful weather control machine. It suddenly appeared over the Rogers home, demolished just that one building, and then vanished.

Later, Amanda's eating lunch in Ten-Forward when she sees Riker again, and whisks herself and Riker to a romantic gazebo. Unfortunately, this does nothing to woo Riker until she manipulates his mind to love her. But, of course, the artificial love proves unsatisfying, and Amanda puts him back the way he was.

Meantime, Q is summoned to Picard's ready room, where Picard berates him from hiding the truth from Amanda. Q admits that the tornado was the Q's doing. They let Amanda survive because she was deemed an innocent in all this, but now Q must determine if she's fully Q or some sort of human/Q hybrid. If she's not fully Q, she'll be fully dead.

On Tagra IV, Geordi, Riker, and the Tagrans have whipped up some Techno Babble that might work in their situation, and are going down to fix everything, just as Picard tells Amanda that the Q might have to kill her. Q shows up and says the Q are willing to make a deal: She can live as a human, but only if she agrees to never use her powers. She immediately chooses to live as a human, though Q warns her that it won't be as easy as she assumes.

Cue Tagra IV blowing up. Picard immediately accuses Q of rigging this catastrophe as a test, but Q pleads innocence. Needless to say, Amanda uses her newfound powers and saves the day. More than, in fact: she completely restores Tagra IV's ecosystem to peak condition. One crisis averted, another so very, very not. Q says he knew she would do it, and now she has to come with him. Amanda decides to accept her new status as a Q and go with them. And so, with a heart-felt goodbye to Dr. Crusher and her foster parents, Q whisks her away to the Continuum.

• Badass Adorable : Amanda. She may be new to the whole Q thing, but she proves herself a match for Q.
• Beware the Silly Ones : This is one of those rare times that Q isn't just goofing around being a nuisance but is acting as a direct agent of the Continuum on a mission of great importance. He still acts like his usual irritating self, but the episode is still another reminder of how dangerous it is to associate with a literally omnipotent being.
• Comically Missing the Point : Q explains thats he tampered with the warp drive to get Amanda to use her powers and fix it, before the ship got destroyed. Crusher, very concerned, asks, "What if she hadn't been able to stop it?" Q responds with, "Then I would know she isn't Q."
• The circumstances of the tornado that killed Amanda's parents are initially seen as this. The moment that Data and Picard learn of the exact circumstances of this tornado, they realize what really happened.
• The planetary crisis occurs at a VERY convenient time, immediately after Amanda makes the choice to not use her powers, though averted if one interprets it as the doing of Q or the Continuum despite his denials.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? : When Picard has had enough of Q's proclaiming The Right of a Superior Species , he delivers a Patrick Stewart Speech about how humans display far greater morality than he has ever seen from the Q. Q is impressed.
• Die or Fly : How Q opts to test Amanda. He triggers a warp core breach and disables all the safety mechanisms (not that they ever work anyway) while Amanda is touring main engineering. When the core explodes, Amanda instinctively uses her powers to contain the explosion and restore everything to normal. Q later notes that had she failed to do so then it would have confirmed that she was not a Q. Picard is understandably not amused.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good : While not evil, Q cannot grasp any Q would want to exist as humans.
• Foreshadowing : Picard recalls Q put humanity on trial in " Encounter At Farpoint ". Q states, "The jury is still out on that." A few years later, the trial continues in the Series Finale , " All Good Things... ". Although, in "Q Who", Q said that they'd been exonerated.
• Forgot About His Powers : Variation- Riker himself received and gave up the powers of the Q back in " Hide and Q ", but neither he, Q or anyone on the crew bothers to bring it up or think about how he could probably offer Amanda some insight into her predicament.
• Green Aesop : Amanda wonders why Tagra IV would go to such great lengths to remove pollution from their air rather than just stop polluting it in the first place. The representative of Tagra IV has a horrible hacking cough and wears an inhaler around his neck.
• Hostile Weather : The Q used a tornado to execute Amanda's parents for refusing to refrain from using their powers. Learning of how her parents died surprised Picard since by the 24th century weather technology would normally dissipate destructive weather phenomena before it could do any damage, and to further emphasize that the tornado was artificial in nature, weather data and eyewitness reports stated it as being small but 3 times as strong as other tornados of its size and that it manifested out of nowhere, destroyed their house and disappeared as quickly as it appeared.
• Human Alien Discovery : Amanda comes aboard the Enterprise as a Starfleet intern to study with Doctor Crusher. During the course of the episode it's revealed that she's actually a Half-Human Hybrid , the product of two members of the Q Continuum conceiving a child while they were living human lives.
• Hypocrite : Picard accuses the Q of this with his talk of morality, pointing out that Q previously put the crew of the Enterprise on trial for the crimes of humanity.
• I Just Want to Be Normal : Amanda would much rather lead a normal human life instead of whatever a Q does.
• I Meant to Do That : After Amanda throws him across the room for creepily observing her face, Q claims he'd been testing her powers. Picard snarks that she had certainly acted like a Q.
• Irony : When Q concludes that Amanda is indeed a Q and not some sort of Q-human hybrid, he gives her the choice of either joining the Continuum, or forswearing all use of her powers and living as a human. She insists she will do the latter, though Q tells her she'll find it hard to resist the temptation. What ends up proving him right, though, is an entirely human quality of Amanda's — her compassion for others, when she realizes she can't let the people on Tagra IV (especially not Riker ) die, and fixes their environmental problem.
• Jerkass Has a Point : How Q justifies to Picard Amanda not actually having a choice in her future. Q even speaks from experience, given his prior punishment by the Continuum. "Do you think it is reasonable for us to allow omnipotent beings to roam free through the universe?"
• Likes Older Men : 18 years old Amanda is very attracted to Riker, who is in his thirties. ( Olivia d'Abo was 23, Jonathan Frakes had just turned 40)
• Living Shadow : The Q continuum take this form when talking to Q.
• Q gets a nice one when he talks about how he normally wouldn't care about Amanda or the crew but...
• And when Q is asking if Amanda has used any Q powers, such as spontaneous combustion of someone you don't like. (looks at Picard)
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction : Amanda's realization after making Riker fall in love with her.
• Not Me This Time : Q claims this when Tagra IV is in danger. It's up in the air whether or not he's actually at fault.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping : Olivia d'Abo generally does a good job of hiding her natural British accent, though there are times where it does seem to slip through.
• One appears in the background in a later shot of her quarters, so she must have given in to a bit of temptation.
• Refusal of the Call : Amanda Rogers first decides she wants to be human rather than a member of the Q Continuum. She later changes her mind when she learns she will be killed if she doesn't become a Q.
• Rhyming Title : One of the few rhyming episode titles within the Star Trek franchise, along with "Q Who."
• The Right of a Superior Species : Q says he has the right to judge Humanity due to "superior morality". That earns him a Patrick Stewart Speech .
• Screw You, Elves! : Picard does this with his Patrick Stewart Speech of the episode in response to Q's talk of The Right of a Superior Species saying that Q have power, but they do not display any form of morality. Q is impressed, and interestingly he doesn't fire back, as though on some level he actually agrees with Picard.
• Shout-Out : Amanda's parents were living in Topeka, Kansas, when they were "killed" by a tornado .
• Shut Up Picard: Picard gives a Patrick Stewart Speech on Amanda's behalf, which Q just finds amusing: Q: Jean-Luc, sometimes I think the only reason I come here is to listen to these wonderful speeches of yours.
• Small Name, Big Ego : Picard makes a case that Q and the rest of the Continuum are this. He doesn't deny their power but points that their claims of morality are hollow based on what he's seen of them.
• Visual Pun : A two-in-one. Q temporarily turns Dr. Crusher into a bitch (a female dog). For bonus points, he turns her into an Irish Setter (Crusher has Irish ancestry).
• Q was last seen with Vash in tow, but no mention was made of her here. "Q-Less" would explain her whereabouts, but that episode wouldn't air for another couple of months. This episode also takes place before that one because O'Brien hasn't yet been transferred.
• Amanda Rogers herself would become this for anyone who saw the Voyager -based Q episodes, all of which dealt with all of the problems tackled in this episode, but no mention of Amanda at all. This topic is eventually addressed in the The Q Continuum trilogy, which affirms that Amanda isn't considered a "true" born Q as she was conceived and born in a purely human manner where Q's son was conceived in the Continuum itself.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human? : Inverted by Q, per usual. He's particularly disgusted that Amanda's parents conceived a child "and in vulgar human fashion became attached to it."
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility : Q reveals that the Q Continuum actually do feel a great amount of responsibility for their powers and won't let an omnipotent being run amok in the universe without any restraint. Even though Q is an obnoxious prankster, he's never been nearly as malevolent as he could be, and he did get stripped of his powers for a while for abusing them.
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“Greetings old friends,” threatens Professor Moriarty (Daniel Davis) in a new look at the upcoming third and final season of Star Trek: Picard that just rocked New York Comic-Con .

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Not only was the return of Davis’ Arthur Conan Doyle created villain revealed and Spiner’s back as Data’s not-so-nice twin Lore amidst the on-stage reunion of the TNG principal players, but that Amanda Plummer will be joining Picard for its last mission was too. The Greene Talent and Red Management repped Tony Award winner and daughter of past Trek villain Christopher Plummer is set to play the final season’s top baddie Vadic – as you can see in the photo above. Captain of the Shrike starship, Vadic clearly has some serious and deadly grievances with Picard and his old companions, if the trailer is a good indication.

Also added to the Picard cast this season Mica Burton and Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut in recurring roles. The real life daughter of Levar Burton, Critical Role alum Mica Burton will play Ensign Alandra La Forge, the youngest offspring of her TNG dad Geordi La Forge. Cruel Summer star Chestnut will portray Ensign Sidney La Forge, eldest daughter of Geordi La Forge and helmsman of the U.S.S. Titan .

Star Trek: Picard is produced by CBS Studios in with Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, Matalas, Sir Patrick, Heather Kadin, Aaron Baiers, Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Doug Aarniokoski and Dylan Massin all serve as executive producers.

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Amanda McBroom ( born 9 August 1947 ; age 76) is the actress who played Captain Phillipa Louvois in the Star Trek: The Next Generation second season episode " The Measure Of A Man ".

She was born in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles as the daughter of actor Marden Andrew McBroom (aka David Bruce ); she married actor George Ball in 1974.

McBroom previously had a recurring role as police officer Sandi Welles on the hit crime television series Hawaii Five-O . In her first episode, 1976's "Loose Ends Get Hit", one of her co-stars was fellow Next Generation guest actor Henry Darrow . She and Darrow would later appear together in an episode of Cover Up in 1984. McBroom also co-starred with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actress Louise Fletcher on the short-lived series The Boys of Twilight .

A 1969 graduate of the University of Texas, McBroom's earliest known TV appearance was a September 1973 episode of Medical Center with William Windom and series regular Barbara Baldavin . The following month, she and Lenore Kasdorf appeared in the second episode of The Magician (American TV series)|The Magician}}. Her later TV credits include: Police Story (1974, with Barry Atwater , Kim Darby , and Phillip Pine ; Gunsmoke (1974, with David Soul ), Starsky and Hutch (1978, again with David Soul), Executive Suite (1976, with Sharon Acker , Richard Cox , Leigh J. McCloskey , Byron Morrow , Madlyn Rhue , Percy Rodriguez , Mitch Ryan , and Madge Sinclair ; Charlie's Angels (1977); Taxi (1977, with Christopher Lloyd ); Hart to Hart (1980); M*A*S*H (1981, with David Ogden Stiers ); Remington Steele (1983); and Magnum, P.I. (1985, with Susan Oliver .

Besides acting, McBroom is also a songwriter. She wrote the title song for The Rose (1979), for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture. [1] She has also written songs for The Land Before Time sequels.

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Picard season 3 is the final adventure The Next Generation cast never got

"That was the goal from the beginning, to send 'em off in one final adventure that was both thrilling and deeply personal," says showrunner Terry Matalas.

Terry Matalas, the newly appointed showrunner for Star Trek: Picard 's third and final season, felt the pressure to stick the landing — not just for the audience, but for himself.

Years ago, his love of The Next Generation fueled the Emerson College graduate to become a PA in the Trek production offices, through which he became friends with Seven of Nine (a.k.a. Jeri Ryan ) while working on Voyager and taxied Jean-Luc Picard himself ( Patrick Stewart ) around in a golf cart to the studio stages. Now, here he is, decades later, and it's his prime directive to give the characters he loved as a kid the send-off they never got.

Matalas sees Picard season 3 as the proper "last story" for the Next Generation era. "I think the original series had a final send-off with Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ," he tells EW of the 1991 movie that brought back the William Shatner -led cast. "This cast," he says, referring to The Next Generation , "never really had that. So that was the goal from the beginning, to send 'em off in one final adventure that was both thrilling and deeply personal."

The mission was to re-assemble the main crew of The Next Generation around Stewart. Gates McFadden . Jonathan Frakes . LeVar Burton . Michael Dorn . Marina Sirtis . Brent Spiner . The whole Enterprise gang. There was no back-up plan.

"It was this or bust, so I had to go hard," Matalas admits. "The good news is I think everybody really wanted to do it. It was something that was in their hearts. The cast certainly wanted to return. They're all lifelong friends. And another chance for them to be reunited on a starship? Who wouldn't say yes to that? The pressure is really finding a story that's worthy of that."

Crushing it

Watching Star Trek with his dad every Sunday from the living room couch, Matalas felt like Captain Picard and his chief medical officer on the Enterprise were among the "will they, won't they" greats of television. "It feels like, 'Why didn't they for decades?'" he asks himself. "It felt like it should have gone there in a feature film. Now that you're here at the end, wouldn't it be great to see, 'Oh, they went there alright.'"

With the return of McFadden as Beverly Crusher, Matalas says "we get to see the fallout of that," as well as "a coming together" in the final season.

"I also think that Beverly really never got her due," he adds. "That was one of the ideas I had from the beginning: The first person you actually saw this season was Beverly Crusher popping in the frame and defending her doctors. She was still a doctor, but she wasn't traditionally the kind of doctor you expected her to be. A lot of time and a lot of discussion with Gates went into that."

Forging a new path

Matalas had conversations with all the legacy Trek actors returning for Picard . He admits there were nerves around telling them where there characters would be after all this time. To get ahead of that, he met with each one individually to lay out his plans. "I was fortunate that, creatively, we were very aligned," he says. "They know their characters better than I do."

He remembers the reaction from Burton, who returns as Geordi La Forge, now with two daughters. Burton's own daughter Mica Burton plays Ensign Alandra La Forge, Geordi's youngest who works alongside him, while actress Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut plays Ensign Sidney LaForge, Geordi's eldest.

"I remember vividly the Zoom conversation I had with LeVar Burton, where I took him through the 10-episode arc I had envisioned for him," Matalas recalls. "I pitched to him this big moment at the end of the season, and by the time I was done, there were tears in his eyes. It dawned on me that I just made Geordi La Forge cry with this story. And then I started to cry."

Worf by way of Kill Bill

Matalas' chat with Dorn went differently. There weren't many tears. Just some references to Kill Bill .

Multiple books and comics have been released since the last movie with the Next Generation cast, which was 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis . They offered clues as to what Worf could have been getting into. "We didn't want to say no to any of those ideas, but we certainly had a vision of where he was now," Matalas notes.

The writer-producer didn't see the fan-favorite Klingon as a starship captain, despite what the stories from those novels and comics might depict. "I see him as a samurai," Matalas notes. "I actually see him with this Klingon sword on his back. I also see him, although this doesn't quite line up with Klingon lore, with a white beard."

According to the showrunner, there was a long pause as Dorn processed this: "He's like, 'Do you mean like Pai Mei from Kill Bill ?' I was like, 'That's a way to go.' And he goes, 'I love it.'"

Butch and Sundance

Another reference Matalas had was the 1969 Western with Robert Redford and Paul Newman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . That was his touchstone for Picard's relationship to his former No. 1, William Riker.

Frakes previously appeared on Picard as Riker, but he takes a more prominent role in season 3. "I thought it was important not to just get them all together in the first moment, but to earn each one of these character stories, to give each one of these characters their moment before they come together," Matalas explains.

"If you were going to do a last Next Generation movie, you would really only have two, maybe three hours to do that," he adds. "That's what's beautiful about a 10-episode sort of 'mini' series. You can explore all of them and see how they're different and pair them up."

"A classic Star Trek villain"

If we're going back to the first Golden Age of Star Trek , Matalas felt he needed "a classic Star Trek villain." That's how he describes Amanda Plummer's Vadic.

Details of this character are locked away in a guarded vault deep in Starfleet command, but we know she captains the Shrike warship and has targeted Picard and his old Enterprise buddies for her own reasons.

How is she more classic? "She's a bit more theatrical by intention," Matalas says. "She's a bit more like her father, Christopher Plummer, in Star Trek VI and that was by design." Plummer's Oscar-winning dad played General Chang in The Undiscovered Country . "We wanted someone who would chew the scenery a bit more, someone who was fun to watch," Matalas continues. "Having said that, when you get to know her story, you will find sympathy. Vadic has her reasons for all of this, I say cryptically. When you do [find out], it will make a lot of sense."

From Enterprise to Picard

Among the new faces is a familiar one from the Trek canon.

Actor Todd Stashwick once played a Romulan posing as a Vulcan in a 2004 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise . Stashwick is now back as the very human Liam Shaw, captain of the USS Titan, the flashy ship fans will see in season 3 of Picard . He's a former engineer with a long history within Starfleet. His first officer is Seven of Nine, who was placed in an accelerated Starfleet program after the events of season 2.

Stashwick had worked with Matalas on another sci-fi series, 12 Monkeys . Many writers who worked on that show followed Matalas to Picard . "When we were creating the character, the first thing I said was, 'Captain Stashwick comes in,'" Matalas recalls. "We just kept saying, 'Captain Stashwick! Captain Stashwick!' There was never anyone else in our mind for that role."

What lies beyond the stars?

Matalas is planning season 3 as the last outing for Picard , and the powers that be have already announced these last 10 episodes as the final season. However, executive producer Alex Kurtzman spoke up at the Television Critics Association press tour panel to suggest that maybe the door isn't so closed after all.

"When we started the series, Patrick and we all talked about really wanting it to just be three years, feeling like we could really tell a complete story with the season you're now seeing as our endpoint," Kurtzman, one of the architects of the new Trek -verse, had told reporters at the event in January. "That being said, anything is possible. If a show blows the doors off the place, as we're certainly hoping it will, and we're very, very proud of season 3, who knows?"

Matalas says the future of Picard depends on how viewers react to the "final" (with aggressive air quotes) season. "It's up to the television gods. And by that I mean Paramount+ and Alex Kurtzman," he says. "There's certainly a desire by me and many of the actors to continue some of these stories. I think the way this season ends, there's a tremendous opportunity. So I'd be lying to say that I don't have a thousand and one ideas ready to go. But you know the nature of television is mercurial. So we'll see."

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NYCC 2022 | Amanda Plummer, Mica Burton, and Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut Join Final Season of Star Trek: Picard

New teaser for the highly-anticipated final voyage also unveiled!

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Paramount+ today debuted a new teaser for the third and final season of its hit original series Star Trek: Picard at today’s Star Trek universe panel at New York Comic Con. The final season premieres on Thursday, February 16, 2023, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., with new episodes of the 10-episode-long season available to stream weekly on Thursdays.

It was also revealed that Tony Award winner Amanda Plummer ( The Fisher King , Pulp Fiction ) joined the cast in a recurring role as Vadic , the mysterious alien captain of the Shrike , a warship that has set its sights on Jean-Luc Picard and his old crewmates from his days on the Enterprise .

Mica Burton ( Critical Role , Vampire: The Masquerade: L.A. by Night ) and Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut ( Cruel Summer ) also joined in recurring roles. Ensign Sidney La Forge is played by Sharpe Chestnut and is the eldest daughter of Geordi La Forge and helmsman of the U.S.S. Titan . Ensign Alandra La Forge is played by Mica Burton, Geordi La Forge's youngest daughter who works alongside her father.

In addition, fans learned during today’s New York Comic Con panel that Brent Spiner reprises his character Lore in this final season, and they will also see the return of Daniel Davis as Professor Moriarty from Star Trek: The Next Generation .

Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Picard - Season 3

This year’s Star Trek: Picard panel at New York Comic Con featured series star Patrick Stewart and cast members LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis and Brent Spiner, as well as executive producers Alex Kurztman, Terry Matalas and Rod Roddenberry. Josh Horowitz, MTV host and host of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, served as the panel moderator.

Star Trek: Picard features Sir Patrick Stewart reprising his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard, which he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation , and follows this iconic character into the next chapter of his life. LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan and Michelle Hurd star alongside Stewart in the third and final season of the hit Paramount+ original series.

The series is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. For season three, Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, Terry Matalas, Patrick Stewart, Heather Kadin, Aaron Baiers, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Doug Aarniokoski and Dylan Massin serve as executive producers. Terry Matalas serves as showrunner for Season 3.

The final voyage begins on February 16, 2023! Stream Seasons 1 and 2 of Star Trek: Picard now.

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In addition to streaming on Paramount+ , Star Trek: Picard also streams on Prime Video outside of the U.S. and Canada, and in Canada can be seen on Bell Media's CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave. Star Trek: Picard is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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Captain Phillipa Louvois : It sits there looking at me; and I don't know what it is. This case has dealt with metaphysics - with questions best left to saints and philosophers. I am neither competent nor qualified to answer those. But I've got to make a ruling, to try to speak to the future. Is Data a machine? Yes. Is he the property of Starfleet? No. We have all been dancing around the basic issue: does Data have a soul? I don't know that he has. I don't know that I have. But I have got to give him the freedom to explore that question himself. It is the ruling of this court that Lieutenant Commander Data has the freedom to choose.

Capt. Picard : Phillipa Louvois. And back in uniform. It's been ten years, but seeing you again like this makes it seem like fifty. If we weren't around all these people, do you know what I would like to do?

Captain Phillipa Louvois : Bust a chair across my teeth.

Capt. Picard : After that.

Captain Phillipa Louvois : Oh, ain't love wonderful?

Captain Phillipa Louvois : [to Picard]  You know, I never thought I would say this - but it's good to see you again. It brings a sense of order and stability to my universe to know that you're still a pompous ass... And a damned sexy man.

Captain Phillipa Louvois : Overt sentimentality is not one of Captain Picard's failings. Trust me, I know.

Capt. Picard : I need your help.

Captain Phillipa Louvois : An historic moment.

Captain Phillipa Louvois : I'm glad you felt you could... well, come to me.

Capt. Picard : The word 'trust' just isn't in your vocabulary, is it? Good try, nine out of ten for effort!

Commander Bruce Maddox : [of Data]  He is remarkable.

Captain Phillipa Louvois : You didn't call him 'it'.

Captain Phillipa Louvois : I can use serving officers as legal counsel. You, as the senior officer, would defend.

Capt. Picard : Very good.

Captain Phillipa Louvois : And the unenviable task of prosecuting this case would fall on you, Commander, as the next most senior officer of the defendant's ship.

Commander William T. Riker : I can't. I won't. Data's my comrade. We have served together. I not only respect him, I consider him my friend.

Captain Phillipa Louvois : When people of good conscience have an honest dispute, we must still sometimes resort to this kind of adversarial system.

Commander William T. Riker : You just want me to prove that Data is a mere machine. I can't do that, because I don't believe it. I happen to know better, so I am neither qualified nor willing. You're going to have to find someone else.

Captain Phillipa Louvois : Then I will rule summarily based on my findings. Data is a toaster. Have him report immediately to Commander Maddox for experimental refit.

[Riker has reluctantly agreed to function as prosecutor] 

Captain Phillipa Louvois : And I expect you to do your duty in that courtroom. If I find for one minute that you are not doing your best, I will end this then and there!

Capt. Picard : You don't have to remind us of our duty. You just... just remember yours.

Captain Phillipa Louvois : I have never forgotten it - not then, and certainly not now.

Capt. Picard : Captain's Log, Supplemental: Commander Bruce Maddox, having been thwarted by Data's abrupt resignation, is now seeking a legal remedy for his woes. Captain Louvois has requested my presence at those discussions.

Commander Bruce Maddox : [the tone of his voice is heightened with disgust and anger]  Your response is emotional and irrational.

Capt. Picard : [Seething with anger and hostility]  Irrational?

Commander Bruce Maddox : You are endowing Data with human characteristics because it looks human, but it is not. If if it were a box on wheels, I would not be facing this opposition.

Captain Phillipa Louvois : [Immediately amused by Maddox's analogy of Data]  Overt sentimentality is not one of Captain Picard's failings. Trust me, I know.

Capt. Picard : [Looks at Captain Louvois with a gaze of disappointment and disapproval and then turns his eyes back to Maddox]  I will tell you again. Data is a valued member of my crew. He's an outstanding Bridge Officer.

Commander Bruce Maddox : [speaks to Picard with a slight ease]  If I am permitted to make this experiment, the horizons for human achievement become boundless.

[Walks to Captain Louvois] 

Commander Bruce Maddox : Consider, every ship in Starfleet with a Data on board. Utilizing its extraordinary capabilities, acting as our hands and eyes in dangerous situations.

Captain Phillipa Louvois : Look, you're preaching to the choir here. Why don't you get to the point?

Commander Bruce Maddox : Data must not be permitted to resign.

Capt. Picard : [a fuming Picard walks over to Maddox and close to Louvois]  Data is a Starfleet Officer. He still has certain rights.

Commander Bruce Maddox : Rights, rights! I'm sick to death of hearing about rights! What about my right not to have my work subverted by blind ignorance?

Captain Phillipa Louvois : We have rule of law in this Federation. You cannot seize people and experiment with them to prove your pet theories.

Capt. Picard : [Relieved that she said that]  Thank you.

Commander Bruce Maddox : [Anger now directed at Louvois]  Now you're doing it. Data is an extraordinary piece of engineering but it is a machine.

[Sees Louvois sighing with disgust] 

Commander Bruce Maddox : If you permit it to resign it will destroy years of work in robotics. Starfleet does not have to allow the resignation.

Capt. Picard : [Has just lost all patience with Maddox]  Commander, who do you think you're working for? Starfleet is not an organization that ignores its own regulations when they become inconvenient. Whether you like it or not Data does have rights.

Commander Bruce Maddox : [speaks calmly]  Let me put it another way. Would you permit the computer of the Enterprise to refuse a refit?

Captain Phillipa Louvois : [Walks toward her desk, mulling over his logical statement]  That's an interesting point. But the Enterprise computer is property. Is Data?

Commander Bruce Maddox : Of course.

Captain Phillipa Louvois : [sighing]  There may be law to support this position.

Capt. Picard : [Walks to Louvois, keeping his eyes locked on hers]  Then find it. A ruling with such broad-ranging implications must be supported. Phillipa... I hope you will use the same zeal that you did in the Stargazer court-martial.

[a silent Captain Phillipa Louvois' eyes are locked with Picard's] 

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