Star Trek’s Writers Made Picard A Career First For Gates McFadden


When asked about what it felt like to finally have a lot of material to work with, Gates McFadden shared with Variety her excitement about getting to grow her character:

“It was the first time ever for me in ‘Star Trek.’ It felt fabulous. It was terrific. I owe that all to Terry. It was wonderful acting again with Patrick [Stewart]. We’ve always had a good chemistry on screen. I never dreamt it was ever going to happen, because I didn’t assume I was going to go back to do a just a one-off where I’m, you know, opening a knitting shop or something. That I would not have been interested in.”

Imagining Beverly Crusher working in a knitting shop is pretty funny because it’s the kind of thing she would never do, and it’s good that McFadden stood her ground when it came to returning to her character. She was given much more to do on “Picard,” including figuring out that a strange space anomaly was actually a giant alien birth, and helping her son reconcile the horrifying knowledge that he’s doomed to be a part of some great Borg plan. Even after the actor was reassured that Beverly wouldn’t be relegated to some small bit of nonsense, there was still one thing giving McFadden pause: her concerns about how the fandom might react to her keeping Jack a secret from Picard for so many years.  



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