'Star Trek: Picard' Season 3 Showrunner Explains Adding Angst to Riker and Troi's Relationship

'Star Trek: Picard' showrunner TerryMatalas explains why they added angst to Riker and Troi's relationship.

[Editor's Note: This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Picard, Season 3, Episode 2, "Disengage."]Star Trek: Picard has returned at warp nine with Season 3 delivering a new adventure for the beloved heroes from The Next Generation. Following last week's premiere episode, "Disengage" sees Jean-Luc Picard come face to face with his own legacy in a way he never expected.

Following this week's episode, "Disengage," Collider's own Maggie Lovitt sat down with Season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas to unpack the episode and explore all of the juicy drama that has befallen the former crew of the Enterprise-D.

Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Will Make Us Fall in Love With Riker and Troi All Over Again Once the Season 3 writers knew that they wanted to explore the friction between Picard and Riker through sons gained and lost, they began to examine how that would play into Riker's relationship with Deanna. When we caught up with these two in Season 1, they were still fresh off of the loss of their son; "That is the hardest thing any human could go through. It was losing a child...

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