Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Season 3, Episode 3 – "Seventeen Seconds"The long-awaited Star Trek: Picard season 3 heart-to-heart between Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) is one of Star Trek's greatest scenes. Picard season 3's premiere established the surprising fact that Beverly broke contact with Picard and the rest of her friends from the USS Enterprise-D and E for over 20 years. Picard and Captain Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) staged a mission to rescue Beverly, only to learn Dr. Crusher has an adult son named Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers) – and Jean-Luc Picard himself is Jack's father.
Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 2, "Disengage," culminated in a powerful scene where Jean-Luc and Beverly came face-to-face for the first time in over two decades. In a masterful display of acting from Gates McFadden and Patrick Stewart that needed no dialogue, Crusher confirmed to Picard that Jack is his son, which Jean-Luc refused to accept until that very moment. But with this revelation must come answers, which Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 3, "Seventeen Seconds," wasted no time in delivering. Crucially, "Seventeen Seconds" is directed by Jonathan Frakes and, with their trusted friend behind the camera, Stewart and McFadden were emboldened to make Picard and Beverly's first conversation in over two decades one for the ages.
