Warning: The Following Article Contains SPOILER for Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Premiere – “Next Generation”Todd Stashwick explains why he’s new Star Trek: Picard Season 3 character Captain Liam Shaw clashes with Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Captain William T. Riker (Jonathan Frakes). Shaw is the captain of the USS Titan-A and is not at all friendly when Riker and Jean-Luc arrive on board. Shaw’s hostile interaction with former USS Enterprise commanders is a startling moment. PicardSeason 3 premiere.
in an exclusive interview with Screen RentTodd Stashwick explains why Captain Shaw clashed with Admiral Picard and Captain Riker. Star Trek: Picard Season 3 premiere. Stashwick acknowledged how different Shaw’s behavior was from fans’ expectations. Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Starfleet Officers tend to get along despite their differences. Read the excerpt below:
Starfleet gets along well when Starfleet acts like Starfleet, but Riker and Picard don’t act like Starfleet. They have a peppery history of breaking the rules. And Shaw is a very, very rule-based captain… And people of higher rank than me… When people like Picard and Riker break those rules, it’s going to cause conflict.
Why Captain Shaw Is Right (And Wrong) About Riker and Picard in Season 3
As Todd Stashwick points out, Admiral Picard and Captain Riker were insincere to Captain Shaw. Will and Jean-Luc have not been on Titan for a while. “check,” as they claim. Former Enterprise colleagues Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden). Picard and Riker were trying to put a veil over Shaw’s eyes and at the same time gambled under the nose of their friend Titan’s First Officer Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), until he confronted them.
In Captain Shaw’s defense, his instincts about Picard and Riker were proven correct. Until Shaw realized that Titan had strayed off course into the Ryton system thanks to Seven’s help with his old friend Picard, Shaw sensed that something was terribly wrong with their presence on Titan, but didn’t know what they were up to. And by then it was too late to stop Shaw, Picard and Riker from stealing one of Titan’s shuttles.
Shaw was truly incredibly rude to Picard and Riker at dinner, belittling them and mocking them for their past exploits and current status in Starfleet. But as Stashwick said, Riker and Picard have a history of bending the rules when it suits them, and that’s not the case for Titan’s Captain, who is strict with Starfleet regulations. Actually, it was Jean-Luc and Will who were at fault. Star Trek: Picard The premiere of season 3 saw Dr. Beverly Crusher. But it looks like Captain Shaw’s problems with Picard and Riker are just beginning. Star Trek: Picard Season 3
Star Trek: Picard Season 3 airs Thursdays on Paramount+.