Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas explains on The 7th Rule why his favorite shot in the season 3 finale is also a great Troi moment.
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Summary
- Terry Matalas, the showrunner for Star Trek: Picard, reveals his favorite moment from season 3, which involves Deanna Troi piloting the USS Enterprise-D to rescue her husband and friends from an exploding Borg Cube.
- Matalas directed the finale and had a specific visual moment in mind, where the Enterprise swoops in above Picard and Jack. He visualized it for months and even drew it on the writer’s room board.
- The emotional aspect Matalas loves about the moment is how Deanna Troi finds them due to her psychic connection with her husband, adding a payoff to early story elements in Next Gen. The moment received cheers when screened in an IMAX theater.
Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas reveals his favorite moment from season 3, and it’s a scene that centers on Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis). Troi joined the action late in Picard season 3, but her Betazoid abilities were crucial in unlocking the truth about Jack Crusher’s (Ed Speleers) Borg origins. Deanna heroically rose to the occasion in Picard season 3’s finale, “The Last Generation,” and Troi piloted the USS Enterprise-D to rescue Jack, Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), and her husband, Captain Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) from an exploding Borg Cube.
Appearing on The 7th Rule podcast for a fascinating retrospective of Star Trek: Picard season 3, Terry Matalas was asked by hosts Cirroc Lofton and Ryan T. Husk about his favorite moment in the season. Check out Matalas’ response, and watch The 7th Rule clip at the 31:28 time stamp, below:
I directed the finale… There’s a moment in the conclusion where the Enterprise is in the Borg Cube, they can’t locate their friends on the Cube that’s about to explode, and it looks like it’s going to be a goodbye. Jack has just been freed from the Collective with his father… And it was a moment I visualized, which was that the Enterprise would come swooping in above Picard and Jack looking up at the Enterprise. It was an image I wanted for months and months. I even drew it on the dry erase board in the writer’s room. I was like, “Here’s a visual effects shot we will never be able to accomplish, but I want to do it.” Because it feels like a big movie shot.
Emotionally, what I like the most about it is Deanna Troi is able to find them because of her emotional and psychic connection to her husband, who at that moment is feeling so much about what they’ve been through and the loss of their son that she can’t help but know exactly where they are because of this psychic connection, which is kind of a payoff for some early stuff in Next Gen… Anyway, I’m really proud of that moment, that shot, that music, that feeling… And when we screened it in the IMAX theater, the cheers were everything that I had hoped it would be. And so, yeah, I’m pretty proud of that.
Source: The 7th Rule
