Gates McFadden says the final moments of Star Trek: Picard season three were deliberately left “unclear”.
Gates McFadden says the final moments of Star Trek: Picard season three were deliberately left ‘unclear’
The actress, 76, first appeared as Dr Beverly Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987, and has now discussed the series finale during Creation’s Trek to New Jersey convention after fans speculated about whether her character Beverly Crusher had rekindled a romance with Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart on the show.
Gates said: “You know that Patrick originally wanted it to be going back, he actually wanted his wife’s voice to be calling him into the house, his real wife’s voice.
“But I think the fandom really did want us, for the most part, to get back together.
“So I think we sort of, ‘We’re like this about it, right?’ It’s more like, ‘No, we weren’t like, back together… but obviously I was going to be in his life because we had a son.
“I think it doesn’t really matter. I think what matters is what you guys think, and it could be any number of ways.”
She added she believed the ambiguity was intentional.
Gates said: “I think it was meant to be left unclear.”
Speaking at the same event, the actress praised how her character was developed in the final season. She said Beverly’s storyline showed her as a more fully realised character than in earlier appearances in the franchise.
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