Carrying on the astonishingly combustible genetic legacy of Jean-Luc was a monumental task for the writers of “Picard,” and season three showrunner Terry Matalas said as much in an interview with TV Insider.
Casting the part of Jack Crusher took “months and months of scouring the universe,” Matalas shared, going on to state that “Ed [Speleers] was really our only choice,” given his combination of Picard/Crusher charisma and “his own kind of roguish charm. We wanted to find somebody who could carry on the legacy of both those characters but be something of their own, a new kind of hero, and have a charm, have a bit of danger, have a bit of villain in there too, like an uncertainty.”
Complex, full of potential, and with expectations set to eleven, Speleers has big shoes to fill if he wants to live up to the Picard family legacy. The last time that we got a younger Picard, it came in the form of Tom Hardy as “Star Trek: Nemesis'” villainous clone-slash-nature versus nurture talking point Shinzon, to mixed critical reception. Will Jack outpace his predecessors and warrant the spinoff series that you just know the network is thirsty for? Keep watching the “Star Trek: Picard” final season, streaming on Paramount+ every Thursday, to find out.
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