Prolific actor John de Lancie—at present voicing Granamyr on Netflix’s Masters of the Universe: Revolution—will always be Q to Star Trek fans, who welcomed the delightfully antagonistic character’s return on Star Trek: Picard. In a brand new interview, he gave some perception into the Picard finale’s post-credits scene, and what he initially hoped it’d imply for the longer term.
Although Q died in the season two finale, de Lancie instructed TrekMovie’s All Access Star Trek podcast that Picard showrunner Terry Matalas had already labored out a plan to deliver the character again. Good factor, since—as de Lancie identified—followers may surprise how Q might truly die within the first place: “We’re speaking about an viewers that’s exceedingly on level in regards to the present [laughs] … I imagine what’s going to occur is that they’re going to be watching and switch to the individual that they’re watching with and say, ‘However wait a minute, how is that doable? He’s immortal,’”… And I used to be pondering the identical factor,” he mentioned.
After filming the final episode of Picard season two, “Farewell,” de Lancie recalled, “There have been 30 or 40 folks there. Individuals who had come to observe this final scene between Patrick [Stewart] and I. Patrick made a bit speech. I made a bit speech. And Terry got here as much as me at that time and mentioned, ‘You’re coming again, and I discovered how you can do it.’”
When the time certainly got here to play Q once more—for the post-credits scene that runs after Picard’s season three finale, additionally the collection finale—De Lancie mentioned he initially interpreted it as being a possible starting for one thing new within the Star Trek world. “In studying it I went, ‘Oh nicely, there it’s! … There’s the jump-off for the following present,’” he mentioned. Nonetheless, he added, “I don’t assume at this level it is going to occur. There was a enjoyable time period that it regarded prefer it might occur. However then there was the writers’ strike, which took lots of people’s attentions away. I don’t assume that they anticipated that season three was going to be pretty much as good and as well-received. That they had already selected one other present. They had been already transferring in one other path. Nevertheless it was definitely a very valiant and well-appreciated finale to The Subsequent Era.”
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