Star Trek: The Next Generation alum Jonathan Frakes has become an integral part of the Star Trek: Discovery directing roster over the past two years — helming three episodes of the series to date — and today he’s confirmed that he’ll be running at least four more hours of upcoming Trek in the future, including the still-untitled Jean-Luc Picard series.

In a new interview with TrekMovie.com, the former Enterprise first officer clarified some statements from earlier this year, where Frakes had intimated his involvement with the upcoming Picard show, now clarifying he’ll be taking on the third and fourth hour of the ten-episode season.

I’ve been booked for they call the “second block,” which is episodes 3 and 4…. There are going to be ten episodes, with five blocks… [Hanelle Culpepper] is about to start shooting, and then I start prepping after she starts shooting for a couple of days.

As Frakes mentions here, he’ll be following Hanelle Culpepper, the previously-announced director of hours one and two of the series, when he joins production in southern California later this month.

The production seems to be following a rather interesting shooting process for the first year, as the director indicated that the ten-episode first season will be shot in five two-episode ‘blocks,’ which may indicate that there may only be five directors working during the first year. Frakes notes that he believe’s it’s due to “amortization” — that is, for a cost savings in the production by spreading each set of episode’s costs across two hours.

In addition to the Picard series, Frakes also confirmed that he’s already back on the schedule for Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, which is in pre-production now; according to the TrekMovie.com interview he’ll be helming Episode 303, as well as a later entry in the season yet unspecified.

For more on Frakes’ thoughts on the upcoming Picard series, as well as his thoughts on the progression of Star Trek: Discovery, you can read the full interview here.