Star Trek: Picard had some great cameos in its third season.
But if showrunner Terry Matalas had his way, a few more Voyager characters would have appeared.
But the final season ofPicardalmost brought back evenmoreVoyagercharacters to the 25th century.
The latter would have appeared as part of aStar Trekversion of Avengers: Endgame that Matalas envisioned.
But all of that is very expensive.
We were already way too ambitious.
As most viewers know, Captain Harry Kim would be quite the upgrade from the characters usual standing.
Across all seven seasons ofVoyager, Harry remained an Ensign, despite serving with distinction on the ship.
Matalas planned to have Naomi follow Seven as an adult as well.
In Matalas description, the Seven/Naomi story sounds like the inverse of Ichebs fate in the first season ofPicard.
Icheb was the most notable of the Borg children that Seven helped rescue and reform in later seasons ofVoyager.
Icheb returned briefly in the first season ofPicard, where he was famously vivisected alive on screen.
Naomis story would have helped further distract from that first season mistake, but it never worked out.
[I]f you had 13 episodes, you were doing this for sure, he admitted.
But if you had 10, youre like, I need to get to LeVar.
Its time to get there.
Its hard to disagree with Matalas logic, but there is still one reunion that really disappoints.
Initially, Matalas planned on using a different character in that scene, the one most important to Seven.
Beyond that emotional logic, there was a practical reason for going with Tuvok instead.
And we couldnt afford Kate [Mulgrew] even if we wanted to.
So it all worked out as it was supposed to.
Indeed it did.Picards third season gave fans wonderful cameos beyond the main crew.
