Alison Pill has recently revealed that she will not return to Star Trek: Picard season 3. The film centers on Patrick Stewart's iconic Captain Picard years after the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The series has revisited many classic characters such as Data (Bret Spiner), Q (John de Lancie), Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg), as well as the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching).
Season 2 started briskly when Retired Admiral Picard was summoned to the USS Stargazer by the request of a deep space anomaly created by the Borg Queen. Joined by his former rag-tag crew from season 1, Raffi (Michelle Hurd), Elnor (Evan Evagora), Rios (Santiago Cabrera), and Dr. Agnes Jurati (Pill), Picard was sucked through space and time by the extra-dimensional trickster Q. During their adventures, Jurati used the Borg Queen to traverse back through time to stop Q, but inadvertently became joined with the Borg Queen.
Per MovieWeb, Pill has revealed that she will not be a part of the cast in Star Trek: Picard season 3. Although the actor has appeared in every episode of seasons 1 and 2 as Dr. Jurati, Pill will not appear in season 3. Read what the Picard star had to say below.
"I know that season three will be the end. I wasn't a part of season three, so I don't have much to say about it in terms of spoilers. I will get to watch along with everybody else."
Picard season 3 was shot back-to-back with season 2, with some season 3 scenes completed during season 2's production. This allowed the series to continue into the third and final season of the show smoothly. The tighter schedule also lets the cast know the status of their characters far in advance of season 3's production. With Jurati transformed by the Borg Queen in the penultimate episode of the season, Pill's character arc appears to be near its completion.
Leading up to the final episode of the season, the Borg Queen took over Jurati's body and mind. Stuck in 2024, the Borg Queen was determined to stop Renée Picard's (Penelope Mitchell) vital Europa space mission and begin her assimilation of the galaxy years earlier, thus threatening Picard's known future. However, as the season neared its end, Jurati proved that she could hold her own against the intelligent Borg Queen, managing to outsmart the cyborg to delay her plans and eventually convince her to build a new, better Borg Collective that would give people a choice. With this massive change to the Borg, Jurati no longer has a purpose with Picard and his crew, but a bigger one as the new Borg Queen. As Picard season 2 wraps up on May 5 in an episode aptly titled "Farewell," Pill will for now say goodbye to the Star Trek universe, but as the franchise has proven with this series, there is always room for a return.
Source: MovieWeb