Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for the series finale of Star Trek: Picard.The finale episode ofStar Trek: Picarddelivered an emotional conclusion to a season filled with mystery, yearning, and adventure. In"The Last Generation"we find Jack Crusher (EdSpeleers) fully assimilated inside the massive Borg Cube — the brave and brazen son of Jean-Luc Picard (PatrickStewart) and Beverly Crusher (GatesMcFadden) had rushed inin the previous episodewith every intention ofkilling the Borg Queen (AliceKrige/JaneEdwinaSeymour). However, he fully underestimated the sway of the collective and found himself alone and assimilated.
The last episode sees Picard storm the Borg Cube with Riker (JonathanFrakes) and Worf (MichaelDorn) at his side, but rescuing Jack is something that he must do on his own. When Picard arrives in the heart of the ship, Jack is decked out in Borg armor and all but gone to the world. Though he swore that he would never return to the collective, Picard knows he finally has something worth going back for—his son. It’s a harrowing and emotional sequence as Picard admits that Jack was the part of himself that was always missing pulling him out of the totalitarian uniformity of the Borg and back into the found family of Starfleet.
Star Trek: PicardSeason 3 showrunnerTerry Matalasrecently sat down withCollider’s ownMaggie Lovittto discuss “The Last Generation.” During their conversation, Lovitt asked Matalas about the design of Jack’s Borg costume, which is beautifully reminiscent of Picard’s Locutus armor. The showrunner immediately praised the series' costume designerMichael Crow, who had previously worked on multiple impressive Marvel projects includingAvengers: EndgameandHawkeye. Matalas continued, saying:
“He has all those chops, and I gotta tell you, his Vox costume, I wasn’t even prepared for how amazing it was.”
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Crow didn’t just nail it with Jack’s Borg costume, as Matalas points out, “he had been crushing it all season withthose Starfleet jackets, with the Changelings.” When Crow learned about Matalas' plans for the finale he “had thrown someconcept art for Voxthat was stunning,” but the showrunner never expected that they’d be able to bring the vision to life on a budget. “We had no money to put together something as stunning as that,” he told Collider. However, Crow knocked it out of the park nonetheless. Matalas continued:
“The next thing you know, Ed is walking out with this fully realized feature film-quality, full-on Borg costume that is as good as anything any feature film with a spectacular budget can pull off. And that’s Michael Crow. And that wardrobe department deserves every Emmy there is to have for it. It’s incredible.”
Thefinal two episodes ofStar Trek: Picardwere shown in IMAXin select cities across the U.S., so several lucky fans were able to see Crow’s feature film-quality work on the biggest screen possible.
All 10 episodes ofStar Trek: Picardare now available to stream on Paramount+. Be sure to check out Lovitt’s full conversation with Matalas when it goes live and in the meantime, you can watch ourprevious chat with Speleersdown below.
