Star Trek: Picard season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas dropped huge reveals about Star Trek: Legacy. The proposed continuation of Star Trek: Picard season 3 remains wishful thinking, as Paramount+ did not capitalize on fans' demand for the spinoff. Yet two years later, Star Trek: Legacy remains at the top of Star Trek fans' wish list.
TrekMovie was on hand at STLV: Trek to Vegas for a panel featuring Terry Matalas and Todd Stashwick. When asked about how Michelle Hurd said Matalas wrote a 30-page outline for Star Trek: Legacy in an earlier panel, Terry replied, "Not an outline… Michelle said that? Boy.” Matalas then explained that he had written 30 pages about "the first 20 minutes" of Star Trek: Legacy. Read Terry's quote below:
Terry Matalas: “There was a moment in which I was pretty inspired, in which I just sort of spit out 30 pages over a couple of weeks, not for anybody necessarily to see, just in case one day it happened. I knew what the first 20 minutes of it was.”
“I can’t really talk, because it’s not a thing, so it’s hard to talk about. But it did have to do with the Klingon Empire.”
Answering another fan question, Terry Matalas addressed Star Trek: Picard season 3's lingering mystery about what Captain Seven of Nine's (Jeri Ryan) warp catchphrase is. Read Matalas' response below:
Terry Matalas: “You know, never say never, so I hope one day you find out. But we had a long-term plan for that. I know what it is, and I know how we would do it. You wouldn’t find out in the pilot, let’s just say.”
What Terry Matalas’ Reveals About Star Trek: Legacy Mean
Another remarkable reveal by Terry Matalas at STLV was announcing that Todd Stashwick would return as Liam Shaw in Star Trek: Legacy, but resurrected as the USS Enterprise-G's Emergency Engineering Hologram. Stashwick joked that they call it the "Shawlogram."
Fans have waited over two years for answers to questions like Shaw's return and Captain Seven of Nine's warp catchphrase. Hopes for Star Trek: Legacy won't be extinguished, especially now that Terry Matalas has confirmed the answers are just a green light from Paramount away.
Our Take On Terry Matalas’ Star Trek: Legacy Reveals
Just like in his acclaimed Star Trek: Picard season 3, Terry Matalas has thought mightily about what would be next for the USS Enterprise-G and its crew in Star Trek: Legacy. From the return of the Klingons to the hoped-for answers to Q's (John de Lancie) interest in Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers), Matalas' revelations should keep the fire for Star Trek: Legacy burning.Star Trek: Legacy is not in development, which Terry Matalas stressed to the audience at STLV. Yet this may change under Paramount Global's new owners, Skydance Media. Matalas' passion for Star Trek remains, and perhaps the circumstances may still align to make Star Trek: Legacy a reality, no matter how many years pass since the end of Star Trek: Picard season 3.
