'Picard' Showrunner Michael Chabon Reveals Why He Killed a Classic 'Star Trek' Character

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'It felt very sad to write it.' StarTrekPicard showrunner Michael Chabon reveals why he killed a classic character

's latest episode, "Nepenthe," co-written by showrunner Michael Chabon. He scripted the scene where the former Borg — that Picard once helped liberate from the collective almost 30 years ago — died a less-than-heroic death at the hands of the villainous Narissa and one of her throwing knives. fan, is well aware of how important the character of Hugh is to both audiences and the franchise.

"The storyline for the season, as it first emerged, didn't originally include the character of Hugh," Chabon revealed. The original story outline also did not include another former Borg,." But featuring those two characters proved essential to Chabon and his writers. That end is preceded by the implication that Hugh is primed to lead another Borg uprising or revolution on the Artifact, much like he did in part in theseason seven premiere, "Descent, Part II." Bookending his life that way, while not originally intentional, was something Chabon was aware of when scripting the scene -- "to give the character a certain trajectory," as he put it.

One of those changes — a significant one — comes late in the episode when Troi sternly calls out Picard for showing a lack of mindfulness and sensitivity during a delicate interaction with the character of Soji , who is struggling with the recent revelation that her life has largely been a lie. That she isn't human; she's an android — a superior form of "synthetic" at a time when synths are banned by the Federation.

 

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'it felt very sad to write'...'but these days we don't know how to tell a story without shock, gore, obscene language.' 5 shows preceding discovery and picard showed how to tell an believable and interesting story without such basic 'shock and awe' writing.

He was in THREE TNG episodes. I wouldn’t call him a classic character. Neither is he beloved.

Hugh a “classic character”? In what world? Most people didn’t remember that he even existed until the trailers for this series.

No, it’s no one in this picture.

Because people die? Next.

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