Star Trek: Picard breakout actor Todd Stashwick would play Liam Shaw again, but only if Picard‘s proposed spinoff, Star Trek: Legacy, is done properly. Stashwick’s Captain Liam Shaw, the commander of the USS Titan-A, was killed by the Borg in Star Trek: Picard season 3’s penultimate episode.

Todd Stashwick and Star Trek: Picard season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas teased that Liam Shaw would somehow return if Star Trek: Legacy gets made. After two years of hints, Todd and Terry revealed at STLV: Trek to Vegas in August that Shaw’s comeback would be as an Emergency Engineering Hologram, or a “Shawlogram,” Stashwick quipped.

TrekMovie asked Todd Stashwick 5 questions about the actor’s new gigs hosting Halloween Double-Take for Shout! TV and his upcoming Dungeons & Dragons charity night with Star Trek actors in November. Regarding coming back as Shaw in Star Trek: Legacy, Stashwick says, “I’m there” if the project is filled with “all of the people that the Legacy show would have.” Read Todd’s quote below:

“I love workin’. I love the character of Shaw. I love the Star Trek universe, and I love all the people that… If someone chooses to greenlight this project, and fills it with all the people that the Legacy show would have: Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Ed Speleers, Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, Mica Burton, I would love to work with those people. If that means appearing as a hologram, and it contributes to my health and pension, I’m there.”

Star Trek fans would agree wholeheartedly with Todd Stashwick that Star Trek: Legacy can’t be anything less than what was promised at the end of Star Trek: Picard season 3. This includes Terry Matalas as Legacy‘s creative visionary, as well as the actors playing the crew of the USS Enterprise-G on screen. Watch TrekMovie’s full interview with Todd below:

At STLV: Trek to Vegas, Terry Matalas also revealed that he has written about 30 pages of Star Trek: Legacy‘s pilot, which would see Jeri Ryan as Captain Seven of Nine and Ed Speleers as Ensign Jack Crusher reunited. Matalas also hinted Klingons would play a role in Star Trek: Legacy.

After Star Trek: Picard season 3’s acclaim from critics and audiences, Terry Matalas joined Marvel Studios to executive produce Vision Quest, the return of Paul Bettany as the heroic synthezoid, Vision. Todd Stashwick is also playing Paladin in Vision Quest.

Meanwhile, hope remains alive that Paramount Skydance’s new management, which is prioritizing new Star Trek movies and TV shows, will reconsider green lighting Star Trek: Legacy, either as a TV series or a theatrical feature film.

Yet Star Trek fans would concur with Todd Stashwick that any continuation of the USS Enterprise-G saga that Star Trek: Picard season 3’s finale set up has to include all of the crucial elements and people, in front of and behind the camera, for Star Trek: Legacy to work.

Release Date

2020 – 2023

Network

CBS All Access, Paramount+

Showrunner

Michael Chabon

Directors

Jonathan Frakes, Hanelle M. Culpepper, Akiva Goldsman, Joe Menendez, Lea Thompson, Michael Weaver, Terry Matalas, Deborah Kampmeier, Dan Liu

Writers

Matt Okumura, Kiley Rossetter, Christopher B. Derrick