Star Trek: First Contact star Alice Krige returned as the voice of the Borg Queen.
It’s a story that hits close to home for Picard.
Jane Edwina Seymour served as her body double on set.
Just as Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard became Locutus, so too does his son, Ed Speleers' Jack Crusher, in ‘Star Trek: Picard’.CBS; Paramount+
“We asked ourselves, ‘What’s the very worst thing Picard could go through?’
Thematically that became about parents and their children and what we pass on.
The story of legacy.”
‘Star Trek’ alum Alice Krige returns to voice the Borg Queen in the ‘Picard’ series finale, while Jane Edwina Seymour served as her body double.Paramount+
“We had a great on-camera… ‘relationship’ isn’t quite the right word, but vulnerability.
I think that counted for a lot in bringing fresh emotions, fresh turbulence into these scenes.”
Nothing about it was digitally enhanced, he adds.
At first, the look of the set wasn’t working.
It didn’t give off the right Borg cube vibes.
(We all know how heated fans can get whenStar Warsspills intoStar Trekand vice versa.)
“We had gone down some paths that weren’t working,” he admits.
Thank the Borg gods for camera tests.
It had to be her."
“It’s this other H.R.
Giger-esque demon,” he describes.
“It was an arduous process,” Matalas says.
She was a trooper."
“We had very few scenes and encounters,” he recalls.
“It was a little disappointing.
We shot seasons 2 and 3 back to back, literally.
In other words, there wasn’t much time for reminiscing.
“I had to be very cautious about abusing my stamina.
Everything had to be saved for the days that I was filming,” he continues.
Matalas at least remembers when Krige saw the final rendering of the new Borg Queen.
“It’s such a different take that she enjoyed jumping into it.”
TheStar Trek: Picardseries finale is available to stream on Paramount+.
