Reviewing Star Trek Picard Season 3, with Showrunner, TERRY MATALAS | T7R2

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[@chucka.3520]

We Want a Jake Sisko Podcast in Star Trek Legacy. Great interview of Terry Matalas, Ryan and Cirroc. Thank you Terry Matalas for Picard Season 3.

[@esumiwa5583]

100% Jake Sisko Pod Cast would be amazing!

[@Greg_Kenzo]

Terry Matalas dropping some hints as to what's next, amazing interview and live chat! Thanks everyone

[@playthehighnote1122]

Time stamp?

[@Timepiece80]

This guy is the best thing that has happened to Star Trek since Nicholas Meyer. He clearly saved the franchise with season 3.

[@mattboardman8837]

JAKE SISKO PICARD S3 PODCAST FTW!!! Please!!

[@scottfw1193]

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[@TheRealSnowCat]

Wonderfully thoughtful questions from Cirroc and Ryan, and amazing insights and stories from Terry! Thanks for another fantastic episode of T7R!

[@michaelgiles4309]

Terry managed to take the bond between two characters that love each other and use it to save the entire crew. Riker's goodbye to Deanna being reason to sense his LOVE through all the noise in the World was magical, very grounding to me and then her reaction, to fight for who she loved, man we got to see Deanna do what many of us knew she could always do and that's be badass with a ship.

[@3fatlobsters]

Love this interview!! Thanks for a great conversation!

[@eveengland8167]

This was a great interview with Terry! Love the rapport between you all! I’m parking Picard s3 for when I’ve finished our TNG review as I’m sure I’ll get so much more out of it once I’m better acquainted with the characters. I’d be all over a civilian Star Trek series and definitely more Jake! This is what Star Wars had done so well and there are so many great stories to tell! Give Terry more money to make new shows!!! Thanks Terry!

[@GeoffreySorensen]

I love watching every interview Terry Matalas has done about Star Trek, and watching him with you guys was really fun. Thank you for bringing this to us!

[@montanawardog]

A fantastic interview with Terry Matalas!! Cirroc and Ryan got him flowing and all the juicy BTS and tidbits came rolling in. #ChatPack was in fine fettle and I long for the Jake Sisko True Star Fleet Podcast coming soon to a feed near you!! Truly epic conversation and with Cirroc giving out those flowers and Ryan giving out those egregious puns!! LOL I love these guys and what they are doing for us.

[@mattboardman8837]

Just finished my 2nd watch through of the interview. What a great interview, guys! So many interesting insights to the creativity that went into making this season as magical as it was. It just goes to show that when you bring the right people who have a love and passion for the subject matter, you end up with a fantastic story and something that just hits all the right notes. Thank you, Cirroc and Ryan for another great episode of The 7th Rule! Thank you, Terry, for taking the time to talk with them and share some of your experiences of making Season 3!

[@annmarie6985]

I’ve watched this 3x so far! Just wonderful!!!!!

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[@WrestlingWithGaming]

I'm only about 20 minutes in so far but this is amazing. Ryan and Cirroc are even better than their usual great series, and that's saying a lot! I've watched so many interviews with Terry at this point and you can still see how excited he gets talking about this show and Star Trek in general. And despite his many interviews about Picard he still has nuggets of new information each time. The Jake side plot would've been amazing and the Jake podcast/audio drama is another fantastic idea. I hope we get to see a Jake story sooner than later. Cirroc is a criminally underrated actor who could easily carry a show or other production as the lead. Ok time to unpause and enjoy the rest. Thanks to everyone on the show and behind the scenes for this.

[@rachelnesser9223]

Oh wow, that was fantastic! BIG Thank You to Cirroc, Ryan and Terry! Really loved this interview and celebration of Picard Season 3 (and of the series as a whole). And of course now I definitely want Star Trek Legacy to happen, as well as the Jake Sisko podcast. Make it so!😀👏🏻🖖🏻💝🙏🏻

[@emstorm1725]

Wow, great to see this interview! A load of awesome information. Thank you Ryan, Cirroc, and Terry : )

[@DangerousDac]

Jesus Terry is half the man he was when he was promoting Picard at the time, he's looking good!

[@chrisgavin3330]

Stellar show guys!👏👏👏👏👏 See u on st&c

[@Donovan778]

Amazing show! Mr Matalas knocked it out of the parc with the incredible Season3!

[@blancarosario7377]

I enjoyed this interview very much. Thanks 😊

[@GoodOldGamer]

Awesome interview. I just wish you would've asked him about his thoughts on turning the Titan A into the next Enterprise.

[@Trekfanwanda]

Watching it on replay! Fantastic interview and lots of great Jake Sisko ideas floated!🖖🏽

[@DangerousDac]

21:10: I'd say the fans wanted the set and window dressing to be correct before we got to the story, and putting them on A starship that looks and feels familiar (it didn't even have to be the literal D) is part of getting that mise en scene right in a manner most of the modern Trek shows have not.

[@johnsieverssr8288]

Great show... Thanks ,Cirroc and Ryan .

[@lone_puppy3539]

We've had the Picard series, now it's time for the Jake or the Sisko series. The journalist angle could be the start. 😉

[@harvey1965]

Star Trek: Sisko ...... it's deserved, it's needed and it's way past time!!!!

[@rain73ful]

Picard, Season 3, I can watch over and over again. It was so well done!

[@dasparadoxon]

what is that device behind terry ? :) :) :) also this idea to make that jake sisko podcast or the idea of seeking the civilian side perception of star trek that is a REALLY REALLY good idea.

[@awilliams1701]

I think it's a ghostbusters proton pack

[@ZeroB4NG]

45 minutes of them playing Poker on camera? ...dude that NEEDS to be uncut on the 4K BluRay.

[@chacaf22]

First of all Thanks you Terry for Everything And you Boys too And... We need that Jake's Sisko Podcast

[@michaelnemo7629]

Finally someone behind the scenes that respects Star Trek.

Amazing episode Ryan and Cirroc. And thank you Terry

[@carolwatkins8541]

Outstanding. Thank you. ❤️🖖

[@Jimhwilliams]

Is Terry seating in a Titan chair??

[@annmarie6985]

Amazing!!!

[@Sweet_2D_Volcano]

A Jake Sisko, Investigative Reporter space noir show would be amazing.

[@Rorschach.]

What. A. Guy. ❤👊

[@awilliams1701]

In generations the visor was responsible for the loss of the enterprise. As a security risk he replaced it with his new eyes that debuted on first contact

[@stonebaxter]

100%. That's how I always took it as well.

[@morockapdx7174]

I have to say if , Terry, and his team, Had a long series to create, the spread of nostalgia would probably be perfect. While, in Season 3 of Picard, they didn't know if they would have another shot. So, you get a greater concentration of it. So, I am looking forward to more from Terry, and company, if they get their shot.

[@GrantCelley]

This episode was great. One thing I love is all of the deaths. I know people hated Ro, but she said what needed to be said and knew that her death wouldn't be the end. I absolutely love the idea that Lore dies but not really and a part of him is in Data. Like honestly Lore's death(deactivation) in TNG was lack luster and I feel the character was sent off, amazing. Also I don't know how but I would love to hear about Nog and how he tried to save the day and went out as a bada**(Nog was the biggest bada** Starfleet has). We can't show him but still send him off.(Btw lets make him get a funeral that gets so many donations that he is considered one of the richest Ferengi(so he gets into Ferengi hevan), died in battle(so he gets into Stovacore), with a strong Pah so he can go with the profits).

[@miggitymikeb]

I’d watch a Jake Investigative reporter show for sure

[@shawnie94]

S3 Picard was excellent. However, how did it center on Changelings and NO ONE from DS9 except Worf appeared😡

[@StuartQuinn]

One day, someone will have to ask him about Season 2. Why was it *so* bad? Considering the wonderful work he's done on S3 and the terrific success of Akiva on Strange New Worlds. What happened?

[@DLZ2000]

The first half was fine, if a bit derivative, with a stellar scene between Picard and Crusher, Geordi's goodbye speech to Data (which is the only thing I found missing from season one), and Project Proteus (which is exactly the kind of consequence DS9 would have shown), but went off the rails once they started to resurrect Data. He already had a poetic death in season one "a butterfly that lives forever is really not a butterfly at all." But even worse was reducing the Changelings (portrayed in DS9 with nuance) and the Borg (portrayed with nuance in TNG, and both previous seasons of PIC) to cartoons to be blown up. It literally had Data say "I hate them" which is a line akin to Kirk's "Let them die," but without someone like Spock calling him out for it. Every single Trek series has ended with peace through communication (perhaps with the exception of VOY), and even the series-long arcs like the Xindi arc and DSC, PIC, and PRO's previous seasons ended that way. So, to have an ending that endorses genocide is about as anti-Trek as it gets, regardless of whether or not it's on familiar ships and has familiar LCARS interfaces and familiar characters. Nostalgia is not a substitute for Trek's themes. The ONLY time I truly don't like Trek is when its politics are bad. And PIC season three had bad politics on multiple fronts: * Glorifying the abuse of crews by someone who never got help with his PTSD. * Thinking two instances of using Seven's preferred name undoes a full year of deliberate deadnaming. * Downplaying the Raffi/Seven relationship to placate bigots. * Calling Jurati's peaceful overture to the Confederation Borg "weird." * Calling Nepenthe a place for "prairie hipsters," in a clear dig at Michael Chabon. * Completely flipping on Data's wise words "a butterfly that lives forever is really not a butterfly at all." * Turning Moriarty into a doorstop, after they'd made progress on sentient artificial life civil rights. * Exhuming Kirk's body without consent. * Having Boomers save Gen Z from themselves.

[@jasonadams2079]

I really want to disagree with you but tbh you've given me a lot to think about...

[@trekkiejunk]

It was interesting to see Picard season 3. For the first time in many years, Trek wasn't completely filled with over-the-top nonsense, and teenage melodrama, with everyone constantly whining, crying, and saying, "That shit's cool, yo." (Or whatever stupid modern phrases they use in Kurtzman Trek.) It wasn't perfect. But at least it was finally more mature. I felt like i was actually watching adults, and not 12 year olds in adult bodies.

[@awilliams1701]

I only had 2 complaints for the season. first I was disappointed you didn't bring back Annie Wershing for the borg queen. She's my favorite of the three. And now we'll never get another chance to see her as the queen ever again. Second I was disapointed you didn't have Janeway do the promotion for Seven. That's it.

[@stonebaxter]

Borg Queen, he wanted the original. And I think Wershing was sick, wasn't she? As for Janeway, on the Shuttle Podcast, he insinuated he tried to get Janeway, but the Power That Be blocked it for some reason (probably actor cost)

[@awilliams1701]

@@stonebaxter it was 100% cost for janeway. Yes Wershing had cancer. But she had cancer during season 2. She didn't tell anyone. She hid it well. No one knew until the day she died. Not even her co-stars. As for the original.........it was only her voice. She never showed her face and the end queen was a completely new person. So I still think Wershing would have been the better choice. Besides she's the best of the 3 IMO.

[@harvey1965]

Loved Picard Season 3 .... except there weren't any significant Deep Space Nine cameos! WE NEED SOME DS9 LOVE IN 'STAR TREK LEGACY'.

[@awilliams1701]

I never did think Amanda Plumber was a good villain. I never took her seriously.

[@name-vi6fs]

The only good ST in decades. Hopefully, he gets a chance to do it again.

[@MaxFleye]

Thankfully season 2 was so bad, we got the amazing season 3 ❤❤

[@TheArchangel314]

Sorry, guys, but I'd only trust the whole of Trek to you, Matalas. I'm sure at least half of the other guys mean well, but apart from Prodigy, which seems promising, the rest is not worth watching. I stopped DISC years ago, I'm not interested in Trek that can't measure up to any TNG or DS9 or VOY. You--my friend made each episode rival and even surpass timeless classics like 'Darmok', 'Inner Light', "Schizoid Man'-need I go on? I really hope you come back again and again and repopulate it--I think only you, the new incarnation of Ronald D Moore, can do it, and save it wholly!

[@FallenHellscape]

The problem with Matalas’ statement that he doesn’t know how extreme right wingers can enjoy Star Trek is in his probable predicate that anything slightly right of leftism is extreme right wing. Granted, I don’t see any extreme leftism in Picard season 3. I’m very thankful that he took a more classically liberal approach. It’s not extreme right wing to believe in national sovereignty, or to oppose illegal immigration. It’s not extreme right wing to NOT be obsessed with color and gender. It’s not extreme right wing to be opposed to communism and socialism. It’s not extreme right wing to believe in free speech. In fact, traditional democrats from even 15 years ago were more aligned with today’s conservatives than they are with today’s democrats. I will say, as a conservative, I find elements of modern Trek (Discovery, Picard S1 & S2) to be obnoxiously Leftist. Not Liberal. Actually, this Leftism stands in opposition to the values of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT. From the viewpoint of the Leftist Trek creators I’m talking about, Picard Season 3 is itself probably Alt-Right.

[@lowket]

'Picard' was a series with a very wrong start from the beginning. Not great, not good, not even decent or fair. It was bad. Period. Season 2 was alike. With season 3 it was a nice sentimental send-off, but still not great or good. It was the best however the series could become. It was also all fanservice, with plotholes the size of our galaxy, and the final 'surprise' got the fans divided again: The Titan-A suddenly rebranded as the Enterprise-G. As a TNG fan it was fun to see the old cast back together again, albeit in a strange story arc. The main villain was dragged along and suddenly killed off with no impact on the story. Likewise the dragging supporting cast of captain Shaw, who really should deserve a series on his own!! A prequel series starting from the point of the handing over of the Titan-A from the Rikers, up to the point of Picard season 3's beginning. The series could be a sort of 'Hell's Kitchen' in space, where Shaw drills and examens the final year cadets before they graduate. But i'm veering off. 'Picard' had one decent season and it was the final season. Storywise it went all over the place, castwise it was a nice sendoff. Let's leave it at that. Strange New Worlds is setting so much things straight, canonwise, doing it's own thing, episodical stories, a small arc with the Gorn, some fun in the mix, deepening backstories for well beloved characters. Give them the spotlight they deserve; SNW is the TNG of this generation. To be honest: TNG only got great from season 4 on. SNW has 2 out of 2 seasons being great!!

[@ronaldlanders519]

Killing off Liam Shaw was an exceptionally foolish move. He and his XO. Seven of Nine, being left out of meetings concerning the status of their crew and ship was moronic. And there were enough plot holes to drive the Titanic through. It was a good final season, but it was hardly the best season of Star Trek ever. In my opinion, seasons 4-7 of Deep Space Nine was Trek at its best. Should Legacy ever come to past, rectify the Shaw and please do not populate with fan service faves. Allow characters like Mura, Sidney and Alana LaForge, Dr. Ohk, Jack Crusher and Shaw, Shaw, Shaw to flourish. No retreads, please!

[@PCat2385]

Big fan of how Matalas gave me as a fan Trek something I enjoyed for first time in almost 20 years My complaint is how he says he doesn’t know how someone on the political right can be a fan. I mean right as my dad does and he was a fan day one 1966. It becomes tiresome constantly being mocked. I hold no I’ll will against whatever his or your politics are. But I guess I won’t be welcome as a fan 😢

[@Nobodyreallyatall]

If Matalas loves Star Trek, why is Picard so stupid? It is a lousy show! It has fan service, but it is bad dumb TV.