LeVar Burton and ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ Cast Joining Patrick Stewart in ‘Picard’
Two Star Trek shows are about to make first contact on Paramount+. The streamer has just unveiled that a handful of former The Next Generation stars will join Picard for its third and final season, a family reunion of sorts on Patrick Stewart’s beloved U.S.S. Enterprise.
LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, and Brent Spiner will appear alongside Stewart on the upcoming season, nearly 30 years after the final season of The Next Generation aired. Stewart reprises his role as Jean-Luc Picard in the show, which means we’ll see Burton as Geordi La Forge, Frakes as Will Riker, and everyone else reviving their legendary chracters.
The news came as a part of “First Contact Day”—April 5, 2063 is the day humans make first contact with the Vulcans in Star Trek: First Contact—via a cast announcement clip featuring teasers from all the returning cast members. “I think back to the days on the Enterprise, all that danger we rushed into,” Geordi voices over as a nostalgic Picard opens up a case holding his old uniform.