Star Trek: The Next Generation
Summary
One of the"greatest accomplishments"ofStar Trek : The Next Generationwas Ensign Ro Laren ( Michelle Forbes ) , consort to showrunner Michael Piller . TNGseason 5 , episode 3 , " Ensign Ro " , insert Ro as a Bajoran survivor of the Cardassian occupation , ascribe to the USS Enterprise - D to help weed out a Bajoran terrorist cell . Ro ’s hesitation to collaborate with Starfleet authority became a selling detail of the character sinceEnsign Ro shook things up among the Enterprise - D ’s crewwithout being a verbatim opposer . Although she was directly mentor by Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) , Ro stuck to her ideals and joined the Maquis .
Star Trek : The Next GenerationShowrunner Michael Piller explains the behind - the - scene stock ofEnsign Ro LareninThe Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 age , by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross , with eminent praise for histrion Michelle Forbes . Piller specifically points out thatStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 5 ’s novel character was destine to"create some conflict,“and the differences between Starfleet ’s rarified ideal and Ro Laren ’s lived reality meantRo could allow narration tension as a self - proclaim foreigner . take his quote below :
There was no plan at all for Deep Space Nine when Ensign Ro was develop . What was in the back of our minds was the indigence for a character , and we recall we needed another fair sex on the show . When we spill about what kind of woman we would want , we cogitate it would be courteous to have someone who had a little backstory and somebody we could apply to produce some struggle . So Rick and I go on the concept of Ro , and it was a show I was very quenched with .
It ’s one of the fifth season ’s capital attainment — and not just by Rick [ Berman ] and I , but by the playacting of Michelle [ Forbes ] , who is just a terrific performing artist — to create a new eccentric on a series where you do n’t just fuddle in new masses , because this hearing is really particular about who they ’re going to make part of the family .
Commander Ro Laren seemingly pop off in Star Trek : Picard time of year 3 , but production graphic designer Dave Blass teases a chance Ro may yet experience .
Ro Laren Returned in Star Trek: Picard Season 3
30 Years After Turning Down DS9, Michelle Forbes Returned to Star Trek
In one of the greatest surprise ofStar Trek : Picardseason 3,Michelle Forbes return as Commander Ro Laren , now an PI of Starfleet Intelligence . Forbes had antecedently twist down the role ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s First Officer , which was primitively intended to be Ro before the fibre was reconfigured into Major Kira Nerys ( Nana Visitor ) , who divvy up some element of Ro ’s backstory as a Bajoran freedom fighter . Instead of transferring to DS9,Ro desert to the Maquis inTNG ’s next-to-last episode , " Preemptive Strike " , in a move that Picard at long last feel responsible for , since Picard had taken a personal interest in Ro ’s Starfleet career .
Ro ’s betrayal went unaddressed untilStar Trek : Picardseason 3 , episode 5 , " Imposters " , when Commander Ro ’s role in Starfleet Intelligence take her to the Titan to investigate theChangeling percolation of Starfleet . Thereunion between Jean - Luc Picard and Ro Laren was emotionally charged and tense with mutual distrustfulness , as Picard oppugn how Ro could be a Starfleet commander after defecting , and Ro suspected Admiral Picard of being a Changeling . The pain drag up by the past divvy up between Picard and Ro confirm their identities , while also recalling Ro Laren’sStar Trek : The Next Generationintroduction as Rick Berman and Michael Piller ’s conflicted , nuanced national flag .
Star Trek : The Next Generationis available to stream on Paramount+ .
Source : The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Years : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The Complete , Uncensored , and wildcat unwritten History of Star Trekby Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross
