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Robert Picardo reflects on The Doctor ’s growth from Star Trek : Voyager to Prodigy to 900 days into the future with Starfleet Academy .
lamentably , as most homo are only bound to live within 100 year in an medium lifespan , we have scientific discipline fable and phantasy to picture what life beyond that span can be like . One of those franchises that is on a regular basis explored isStar Trek . Just as generations were able-bodied to enjoy the smattering of timesThe Original Seriescase cut across over intoThe Next multiplication , the Paramount+ era spread out doors to go on the tarradiddle of the syndicate era casts , especiallyVoyager , asRobert Picardois with his return to the franchise inProdigy , and nowStarfleet Academy . The actor who bring the holographical Dr. on the UPN serial spoke atTrek Talks(viaTrekMovie.com , which benefits the Hollywood Food Coalition about the legacy he ’s built as the character , being protective of that legacy , and build on that in the coming serial publication .
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Star Robert Picardo on Reprising His Role for the Paramount+ Series
Picardo played The Doctor for all seven seasons onVoyagerand also conjoin fellow alumsKate MulgrewandRobert Beltranto vocalize his animated counterpart onProdigyon time of year two , which sees him follow his former police captain , now fleet full admiral of the Federation . The approaching series fromGaia Violowill see him fully grown as a holographic being and teaching at the Academy .
The actor broke down his journey . " … he bug out with nothing . The Doctor had an extraordinary arc over the seven years , and brick by brick , build a character that was quite man - the likes of from something that had no personality or dissemble at the start . … This much has been said in the press about the show , ' Starfleet Academy ' is set in the far aloof future in the thirty-second century . Starfleet , which basically lessen aside in this future tragedy call ' the Burn , ' has been reconstitute , and this is the first entering class at Starfleet Academy in more than a hundred years . And my character is teaching there . And I think that frankly , at least according to our producer , who we both know well , Alex Kurtzman , he said that that pick up the medico teach cadets on ' Prodigy , ' his accurate words , that it made everlasting sense , that he would be learn cadets in Starfleet Academy in the future . So I really do cerebrate that my stint on Prodigy facilitate open up that .. [ door ] . "
As far as how Picardo had to change his approach toStarfleet Academy,“That was another thing I thought about deeply . How is he different ? What does it stand for to be a 900 - year - old , unceasingly activated artificial intelligence ? What is 900 years of digital memory ? Digital memory board is not like human retention . If we have a memory from five , six , eight age sure-enough , and attend back decades of that memory board , it ’s not like having a memory of something that happen a year ago or yesterday . Its digital memory is completely clear , which mean that a darling workfellow , like Captain Janeway , for The Doctor , you are as present in his memory , 900 days on , as when he was working with you in the twenty-fourth century . "
you could check out the rest of the article for more , including his poignant look at how the Doctor sees past relationships and his phylogenesis . Starfleet Academy , which also starsHolly Hunter , Kerrice Brooks , Bella Shepard , George Hawkins , Karim Diané , Zoë Steiner , Tig Notaro , andSandro Rosta , premiere in 2025 - 2026 .
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