A Star Trek legend reveals that Picard Season 3 could have been even better

The author Chris Snelgrove
| Published 3 days ago

Most Star Trek fans agree Picard was pretty uneven in the first two seasons, but managed to mercifully hold its own in season 3. However, one legend from the venerable franchise recently revealed that his planned cameo was completely scrapped, and the cameo would have made the final season even better. The traveler actor Garrett Wan revealed that he will be included Picard Season 3 as a Starfleet captain, but he was cut from the show altogether.

Harry Kim loses again

This was revealed in Garrett Wang's wide-ranging interview with TrekMovie, which covered everything from his fun Lower decks cameo she aborted Picard cameo. He was originally intended to play a similar narrative role to Shelby, the ambitious commander from LPG the two-part “Best of both Worlds” that followed Picard as an admiral. The idea to include The traveler graduate never materialized, but the actor described how close the idea came.

According to Garrett Wanghe actually got confirmation from his manager that he was hired Picard Season 3. However, his planned share has just been cut. As he said, he originally had “a three-episode arc, then it changed to two, then it changed to one.” However, his manager told him that he would need to be in Los Angeles to try on the costume, and that his cameo plans had progressed far enough for his character's name to appear in the scripts.

It was actually Garrett Wang The traveler costar (and Picard regular) Jerry Ryan, who broke the news about how suddenly he was axed from the show. She told him that his character was written into the script, but after several rounds of revisions, Kim's character was nowhere to be seen. This left Wang “depressed for months afterwards”, although he eventually got a second chance to return thanks to his cameo in a hilarious episode. Lower decks.

Picard's loss

Now, why are we so sure Garrett Wan would have done it Picardis an excellent last season even better? First of all, he would have made a much cooler cameo than Admiral Shelby. Fans only spent two episodes with Shelby while we spent seven years with Ensign Kim, and his sudden appearance would have been just as memorable and moving as when Tim Russ reprized his Tuvok character in the last episode.

Moreover, there are few of them Star Trek actors more passionate about the franchise than Garrett Wan, and he would have made the most of it Picard cameo. For context, this actor takes time out of his busy schedule every year to serve as Trek Track Director at Dragon Con, the biggest and best. science fiction and a fantasy convention in the Southeast. This is a man who refuses to just sign a few autographs to ensure thousands of fans have the best time every year, and he would surely have used his cameo to continue delighting fans in his passionate way.

Finally, there is a fair argument to be made that Garrett Wan deserves a Picard cameo, especially after the actor's harrowing tale of punishment The traveler. In the latter show, he claims that he was banned from directing episodes, that he was shamed for gaining weight, and that his character was held up as an ensign because he rubbed some producers' noses the wrong way. A cameo wouldn't magically fix all that, but Kim's writing as the captain might belatedly make up for him being Voyager's mean whipping boy for so long.

Anyway, Garrett Wang did it all. He didn't get his Picard cameo, but he did get a cameo in one of them Lower decks' best episodes. And he and The traveler costar Robert Duncan McNeill keep entertaining fans with your awesome recap of the Delta Flyer podcast that every Star Trek enthusiast owes it to you to check out. As for us, we don't know what the future holds for this franchise yet, but we do know one thing, The most important thing should be seriously noted: the more Vanga in it, the better it will be.

Source: TrekMovie