When requested about what it felt prefer to lastly have lots of materials to work with, Gates McFadden shared with Variety her pleasure about attending to develop her character:
“It was the first time ever for me in ‘Star Trek.’ It felt fabulous. It was terrific. I owe that all to Terry. It was wonderful acting again with Patrick [Stewart]. We’ve always had a good chemistry on screen. I never dreamt it was ever going to happen, because I didn’t assume I was going to go back to do a just a one-off where I’m, you know, opening a knitting shop or something. That I would not have been interested in.”
Imagining Beverly Crusher working in a knitting store is fairly humorous as a result of it is the sort of factor she would by no means do, and it is good that McFadden stood her floor when it got here to returning to her character. She was given far more to do on “Picard,” together with determining {that a} unusual house anomaly was truly a large alien delivery, and serving to her son reconcile the horrifying data that he is doomed to be part of some nice Borg plan. Even after the actor was reassured that Beverly would not be relegated to some small little bit of nonsense, there was nonetheless one factor giving McFadden pause: her considerations about how the fandom may react to her preserving Jack a secret from Picard for therefore a few years.