Gates McFadden says the ultimate moments of Star Trek: Picard season three had been intentionally left “unclear”.
The actress, 76, first appeared as Dr Beverly Crusher in Star Trek: The Subsequent Era in 1987, and has now mentioned the sequence finale throughout Creation’s Trek to New Jersey conference after followers speculated about whether or not her character Beverly Crusher had rekindled a romance with Jean-Luc Picard, performed by Patrick Stewart on the present.
Gates mentioned: “You realize that Patrick initially needed it to be going again, he really needed his spouse’s voice to be calling him into the home, his actual spouse’s voice.
“However I feel the fandom actually did need us, for probably the most half, to get again collectively.
“So I feel we kind of, ‘We’re like this about it, proper?’ It’s extra like, ‘No, we weren’t like, again collectively… however clearly I used to be going to be in his life as a result of we had a son.
“I feel it doesn’t actually matter. I feel what issues is what you guys suppose, and it could possibly be any variety of methods.”
She added she believed the anomaly was intentional.
Gates mentioned: “I feel it was meant to be left unclear.”
Talking on the identical occasion, the actress praised how her character was developed within the remaining season. She mentioned Beverly’s storyline confirmed her as a extra absolutely realised character than in earlier appearances within the franchise.
The Paramount+ drama led by Patrick concluded in 2023 with Picard reconciling along with his son Jack Crusher, performed by Ed Speleers, who he has with Beverly.
Its closing scene reunited the three characters, prompting debate amongst followers over whether or not it hinted at a renewed relationship between Beverly and Picard.
For the reason that conclusion of Star Trek: Picard, followers have continued to push for a brand new spin-off titled Star Trek: Legacy.
Terry Matalas, the showrunner of Picard, has acknowledged the marketing campaign and has mentioned he wish to see the challenge occur.
He’s at present engaged on Marvel’s upcoming sequence Imaginative and prescient Quest, however has repeatedly acknowledged he can be desperate to return to the Star Trek universe with Legacy sooner or later sooner or later.
