sonak wrote:

It seems like you think losing Picard is the bigger deal
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So did Paramount.
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with the concern that Frakes couldn't carry a movie series.
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IIRC, so did Frakes, but that didn't stop Sirtis talking up such a show at conventions.
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So do you think the movie series would have done fine without Brent Spiner?(obviously assuming major re-writes of the films, like a different sub-plot for Generations, etc.)
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No, people would have
complained bitterly that Data was absent.
Including me.