LeVar Burton and Daughter Mica on Joining Forces for 'Star Trek: Picard' Season 3 (Exclusive)

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It's a family affair for LeVar Burton and his daughter, Mica Burton, on .The real-life father and daughter share the screen for the first time on the latest episode of the Paramount+ series, «The Bounty,» with LeVar reprising his beloved character, Geordi La Forge, and Mica portraying one of Geordi's two daughters, Ensign Alandra La Forge. (Geordi's other daughter, Ensign Sidney La Forge, mans the controls of the USS Titan and is played by Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut.) The idea for LeVar to don the iconic uniform alongside Mica was an idea borne out of a conversation he had with showrunner Terry Matalas about returning to the franchise, the alum revealed in an interview with ET on Wednesday. «Never would I have ever thought of going to them and saying, 'Hey, what about my kids being in ?'» the 66-year-old actor admitted. «And I would've said no,» Mica, an actress and gamer in her own right, confessed.So how did it all come together?

ET spoke with the father-daughter pair about their onscreen debut together, the surreal reality of reuniting with the crew and that intriguing cliffhanger at the end of the latest episode.When Terry approached me about reprising the role of Geordi La Forge and he asked me if I had any desires, any wishes in terms of where he would be when we find him, I said, «The only thing I really need is for him to be a family man and have a healthy relationship with his family.» I never liked that Geordi, as the chief engineer, as the nerd, was discomforted by the presence of women.