Warning: This article contains spoilers fromStar Trek: Picardseason 3, episode 5.
“There was nothing I wanted to do more than bring Ro Laren back,” Matalas tells EW.
“It felt like such a hanging chad fromNext Generation.
Michelle Forbes returns to ‘Star Trek’ as Ro Laren in ‘Picard’ season 3.Paramount+
That episode to me is very special.
It’s the idea of doing a paranoia thriller.”
She was first stationed on the U.S.S.
Ro Laren (Michelle Forbes) as seen in ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’.Everett Collection
A lot has seemingly happened to Ro off screen since that time.
To use Picard’s own words, “How the hell is Ro Laren back in Starfleet?!”
It turns out she was once again rehabilitated and brought up through Starfleet Intelligence.
Closure comes just in time.
