THE GENESIS OF LIAM SHAW, Captain of the USS Titan-A, goes back almost a decade, to when Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas cast Todd Stashwick on Syfy series 12 Monkeys. “We immediately got on like we’ve known each other our whole lives,” the actor recalls.
It was August 2021 when Matalas contacted his friend and said, “So we’ve got a role for you in season three of Picard that we’re writing.” Stashwick says his immediate response was, “Well, great, I can’t wait to see who’s going to play it…” joking that things never pan out when people say they’re writing a role for you. “But Terry being a man of his word, about a month later, I got all the paperwork and was showing up for my fitting.”
He laughs when he recalls that fateful day. “I walked in and on the wall, they had all of the concept art and they had Photoshopped my big noggin on to my captain’s
