Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Finale – "The Last Generation"Patrick Stewart reveals that Star Trek: Picard season 3 originally had a different ending, which he now believes would have been a mistake. Written and directed by Terry Matalas, Star Trek: Picard season 3's ending, which was also the series finale, gave Star Trek: The Next Generation an emotional and uplifting conclusion that also set up the 'next next generation' in a possible spinoff, Star Trek: Legacy.
Variety interviewed Patrick Stewart about the end of Star Trek: Picard, who discussed a different idea on the table that could have ended Jean-Luc Picard's story with a "huge question mark." However, having seen the final episode of Picard, Stewart realizes the alternate ending would have been "a mistake." Read his quote below:
We’d had one idea for ending “Picard,” which I think now would have been a mistake. But it would have ended the show with a huge question mark. I liked that in terms of how it could have sent our viewers minds racing and questioning and puzzling about what was this question mark exactly and what did it mean? We didn’t do it.
When pressed to elaborate, Stewart replied:
I can’t talk about it. I said I wouldn’t talk about it, because it was a complicated situation. I went with what the producers wanted. I was not comfortable with it, but watching the final episode the other night, I realized that what they had persuaded me we should do was absolutely the best thing that could have happened.
