It wasn’t till Patrick Stewart noticed the ultimate scene edited collectively and positioned within the context of the collection at giant that he understood. Not solely did he perceive, however Stewart grew to become very emotional. His spouse, it appears, acquired a variety of hugs. Many years after the very fact, Stewart got here to see his “Subsequent Era” co-stars as one thing like a household. He defined:
“[The] use of the phrase household is actually very correct. That’s what we grew to become. In the event you add Whoopi Goldberg, who joined us within the second season, and John de Lancie, who got here in as Q. We grew to become so shut, and that is grown over time. Final night time, I watched episode 9 of season three, and this morning, I watched the ultimate episode. There had been a bit battle about the way it ought to finish, and the script we held after we began taking pictures had an ending I used to be thrilled by — I assumed it was completely excellent — I am unable to let you know what it was — after which after we have been taking pictures, an issue occurred.”
Sadly, Stewart was doubtless held to secrecy concerning the unique ending, so he was not capable of supply up any further particulars about what occurred or why he preferred it a lot. Nor does he point out what the taking pictures concern was, be it a technical drawback or only a last-minute story change that got here down from the producers. What Stewart did reveal is that it could have been a scene for simply Picard and not one of the different characters. Seeing because the present was known as “Star Trek: Picard,” maybe isolating the character for one final second would have been acceptable.