Patrick Stewart says he almost said no to 'Star Trek: Picard'

Patrick Stewart is finally stepping back into his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard, but the actor says he very nearly turned down the chance to “boldly go” once more. Stewart and his Star Trek: Picard castmates stopped by EW's video studio at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, where the once and future Picard said he first met with the show's development team (executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Akiva Goldsman and Discovery writer Kirsten Beyer) “on the advance understanding that [he] was going to pass.” “I said, 'I want to meet with you because your offer was so lovely that I need to have time to explain to you why I'm going to say no,'” Stewart recalled. “And I did, and then they talked, a lot.”