Prolific actor John de Lancie—at the moment voicing Granamyr on Netflix’s Masters of the Universe: Revolution—will all the time be Q to Star Trek followers, 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 would imply for the long run.
Although Q died in the season two finale, de Lancie informed TrekMovie’s All Entry Star Trek podcast that Picard showrunner Terry Matalas had already labored out a plan to convey the character again. Good factor, since—as de Lancie identified—followers would possibly 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 consider what’s going to occur is that they’re going to be watching and switch to the person who they’re watching with and say, ‘However wait a minute, how is that potential? He’s immortal,’”… And I used to be pondering the identical factor,” he stated.
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 little bit speech. I made a little bit speech. And Terry got here as much as me at that time and stated, ‘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 stated 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 subsequent present,’” he stated. Nonetheless, he added, “I don’t assume at this level it’s going to occur. There was a enjoyable time frame that it appeared 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 nearly as good and as well-received. That they had already selected one other present. They have been already shifting in one other path. However it was actually a extremely valiant and well-appreciated finale to The Subsequent Era.”
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