Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Reunites The Entire Next Generation Cast
Paramount+ reveals that Star Trek: Picard season 3 will reunite the entire Star Trek: The Next Generation cast for the show's final season. The Patrick Stewart-led series serves as a sequel to the beloved '90s show and explores its titular Starfleet Admiral now retired and still grappling with the death of Brent Spiner's Data in Star Trek: Nemesis and the destruction of the planet Romulus in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. Picard sees the character pulled into a new adventure to help defend a new race of synthetic beings, including the apparent daughters of Data, Dahj and Soji.
Alongside Stewart, the cast for Star Trek: Picard includes Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Harry Treadaway, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Jeri Ryan, Orla Brady and Brent Spiner. Developed by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer and Alex Kurtzman, the series has received rave reviews from critics and audiences alike for further developing its titular character and for Stewart's performance. With it also receiving solid viewership on Paramount+, previously branded as CBS All Access, Star Trek: Picard has earned a season 3 renewal, though with it set to conclude the show, the creatives look to be going all out for the final adventure.
Ahead of the season 2 finale, Paramount+ has unveiled a special Star Trek: Picard season 3 cast announcement. The video reveals that the final chapter of the show will reunite the entire Star Trek: The Next Generation cast and offers a glimpse at the return of Jonathan Frakes' Captain William T. Riker. Check out the exciting announcement below:
In its first two seasons, Star Trek: Picard has seen a number of familiar Next Generation faces reprise their roles for either guest or recurring roles. With season 1 exploring the titular hero's grief over the character, Brent Spiner returned as Data for four episodes of the show while others have included Jonathan Frakes' Riker, Marina Sirtis' Deanna Troi, Whoopi Goldberg's Guinan, Jonathan Del Arco's Hugh, John de Lancie's Q and Annie Wersching's The Borg Queen. The latter two characters served as antagonists for Picard and his crew in season 2 as they found themselves trapped in an alternate reality by Q and had to find a way to travel back to Los Angeles 2024 to save themselves and the future.
With one episode remaining in season 2, it's difficult to predict what's to come from the returning Next Generation characters, especially given the cliffhanger status of its penultimate episode. However, their confirmed returns for Star Trek: Picard season 3 is sure to build excitement even further for fans of the long-running franchise and potentially deliver proper closure for some characters or reintroduce them to keep them going in Alex Kurtzman's various other titles. In the meantime, audiences can look forward to the Star Trek: Picard season 2 finale airing on April 7.
Source: Paramount+