Star Trek: Picard Showrunner Explains Why a Classic Character Was Killed
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Season 1, Episode 7 of Star Trek: Picard, "Nepenthe," now streaming on CBS All Access.
The seventh episode of Star Trek: Picard was tinged with nostalgia, as Picard (Patrick Stewart) reunited with his old friends William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis). Unfortunately, another returning character suffered a grisly fate, as former Borg Hugh (Jonathan Del Arco) was killed by the Romulan Narissa Rizzo.
Picard showrunner Michael Chabon, who co-wrote the episode, recently spoke about Hugh's death in an interview.
Click the button below to start this article in quick view. Start now"It felt very sad to write it," Chabon confessed. "I wouldn't say this was always the plan for the character, but when we started fleshing out and shaping Hugh's arc, it felt like the best — most emotionally honest — way to go."
Chabon also said that Hugh was never intended to be part of the original series pitch for Picard, but once the idea of including ex-Borg came up in discussions, he couldn't turn it down: "...once we sort of committed to a big part of our season being about the lives of former Borg — Ex Bs, as we call them — and exploring how their lives are traumatized [from that experience], how they have or have not dealt with that trauma, and how they remain these objects of fear and hatred even though they were victimized by the Borg, to put Hugh in the center of that lead to what felt like a dramatic way to service the character's end."
Star Trek: Picard stars Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera and Harry Treadaway. A new episode arrives each Thursday on CBS All Access.
(via THR)
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