Warning: This article contains spoilers fromStar Trek: Picardseason 3, episode 2.
Complicating the situation is Captain Vadic (Amanda Plummer), a mysterious figure who’s after Jack.
William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) wakes Crusher and walks her to the bridge.
Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard in ‘Star Trek: Picard’ season 3.Trae Patton/Paramount+
She and Picard lock eyes, and in this emotional, silent moment, everything comes into focus.
“He is my son,” Picard tells Captain Liam Shaw (Todd Stashwick).
Showing that to a new generation, that just seems obvious.
Ed Speleers as Jack Crusher, son of Beverly Crusher and Jean-Luc Picard, on ‘Star Trek: Picard.'.Trae Patton/Paramount+
That should be the story."
Matalas also confirms the reveal of Picard and Crusher’s son involved many conversations with McFadden.
“It always felt like ‘will they, won’t they?’
Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher in ‘Star Trek: Picard’ season 3.Trae Patton/Paramount+
It feels like, ‘Whydidn’tthey for decades?'”
“It felt like it should have gone there in a feature film.
And now we get to see the fallout of that and a kind of coming together.”
Star Trek: Picardseason 3 episodes arrive weekly every Thursday on Paramount+.
