TNG: Rebooted

[2takesfrakes]

https://www.trektoday.com/content/2018/06/stewart-returning-to-trek/

If Rumours are to be believed, TNG is finally receiving its reboot. If this is true, then I'm actually kind of surprised. I really did not expect it to happen, though fans had been suggesting it since ST'09 was first confirmed as being in production. I don't have any strong feelings towards it. I've already gotten the original TNG, which I find supremely satisfying. I just wish it had been spared, that's all. Very well. So be it. As long as the original TNG remains available and as it was, then I don't have a complaint coming, do I? Jonathan Frakes has said, often, that whenever Riker's offered to him, he'll always play the part. This scares out of me The Living Daylights, in light of what's happening. So, what the hell is this all going to mean in the end, I haven't a clue. Will this series measure up to the epic saga and stellar rolecall of the original? Will it dare to reinvent what we've taken for granted about TNG, for all of these many decades? I guess "stay tuned" is the only answer for any of that. What do you think's going to happen with it?

 

[Jayson1]

I assume we are not getting a reboot like the Kelvin Universe where everyone is recast. I think we will be getting a prime universe show where Picard simply leads a new cast of characters. KInd of like when "Heroes" came back but hopefully with better creative results here with Trek. I actually wonder if we might actually be getting two Picard shows. This modern version of TNG and who knows maybe Stewart playing a young Picard as captain of the Stargazer. I also mentioned in another thread about making Picard head of Starfleet Academy which is another idea they are thinking about but what if they instead did a cartoon about a young Picard when he was a cadet. Back when he was more wild and a loose canon?

Jason

 

[tharpdevenport]

Only three posts down:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/tng-returns.294632/

 

[2takesfrakes]

 

[Dukhat]

Just my opinion, but I think they should focus on making DSC a better show instead of creating a reboot of TNG. Especially since it will probably look exactly like DSC anyway.

But I'm guessing the reboot of TNG is just a rumor with no merit.

 

[2takesfrakes]

That's right! "They" may just be trying to test the waters, to see if Trekkies are eager to see another reboot. Please, CBS ... just leave STAR TREK: The Next Generation alone. OK? Now, why can't you do that? Just ... let it lie there.

 

[Admiral Bear]

If any of these recent multiple new Trek show reports are accurate, and that CBS are willing to throw money it simply doesn't have at the franchise, it pretty much acts as a tacit admission from CBS that STD stank even worse than the cesspit of mediocrity that it was. The new mantra seems to be "we'll keep making rubbish and putting "Star Trek" on it until we come up with something that people will actually pay to watch.

Yeah, good luck with that.

 

[2takesfrakes]

STAR TREK: Discovery is still trying to figure itself out, just as the rest of the franchise had to, that's all. Yes, there are some aspects of STD that don't thrill me, but it's not as horrific as its naysayers would have others believe. I do feel that it's too self-aware a show, too self-important. But the potential that's there is like water behind a dam, that dam being uncertainty as to its identity. I'm confident that Season 2 will find STD on surer footing and it will begin to lighten up and they'll start having more fun with it. These ideas that CBS are throwing around is no different, really, than what's been going on for years, now, like with Michael Dorn's crusade to get Worf his own show. And this is just the stuff that becomes public. STAR TREK is not a dead property and it never was.

Rick Berman kept STAR TREK going for decades and he deserves all due credit for that. But decades is a long time and sometimes in life, we hold onto things too long, maybe. And its time to let someone else have it who can do it justice and have as much fun with it as Rick did, in this case. And that ended up being JJ Abrams and his people. Now, it looks like STD's just the beginning with CBS exploring its options in earnest. To which I say, it's about time. But don't bring back TNG and the other sequels. Try a miniseries, or two, throw a cartoon in there, a reality show about Trekkies, specials on the impact STAR TREK has had on technology ... it's all pretty cool, when you think about it.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Alternate theory. CBS sees the success of Orville and are thinking "Huh, we didn't think people were nostalgic for that", and they want in.

 

[2takesfrakes]

"Orville" ... always with the Orville.

 

[2of1million]

I assume we are not getting a reboot like the Kelvin Universe where everyone is recast. I think we will be getting a prime universe show where Picard simply leads a new cast of characters. KInd of like when "Heroes" came back but hopefully with better creative results here with Trek. I actually wonder if we might actually be getting two Picard shows. This modern version of TNG and who knows maybe Stewart playing a young Picard as captain of the Stargazer. I also mentioned in another thread about making Picard head of Starfleet Academy which is another idea they are thinking about but what if they instead did a cartoon about a young Picard when he was a cadet. Back when he was more wild and a loose canon?

Jason

Picard will probably be an Admiral or something and make guest appearances now and then. Can't see Patrick Stewart doing a series full time again.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

Can't see Patrick Stewart doing a series full time again.

Blunt Talk?

 

[2takesfrakes]

Were I Sir Patrick Stewart, I would take the deal with CBS, because it can't hurt him. But as a fan, for me, personally ... I'd rather see no deals being made at all. I don't want to see any TNG Reunions or TNG: The Continuations, anything like that. If they MUST bring back TNG, go with a total reboot. Recast everyone, don't bring anybody back for it. Someone had mentioned, or suggested, as a sort of wishful thinking kind of a thing, that there might be a Young Jean-Luc Picard Years miniseries, which I found myself liking the idea of. Maybe have old Jean-Luc fold into the story, somehow. Perhaps he's telling the story of his life, for his memoirs, or he's in his own version of TAS' Yesteryear, or something like that, having to guide events of himself as a youth. But I prefer STAR TREK simply moving on, to living off the past as though this franchise has nothing else left to say.

 

[2of1million]

Were I Sir Patrick Stewart, I would take the deal with CBS, because it can't hurt him. But as a fan, for me, personally ... I'd rather see no deals being made at all. I don't want to see any TNG Reunions or TNG: The Continuations, anything like that. If they MUST bring back TNG, go with a total reboot. Recast everyone, don't bring anybody back for it. Someone had mentioned, or suggested, as a sort of wishful thinking kind of a thing, that there might be a Young Jean-Luc Picard Years miniseries, which I found myself liking the idea of. Maybe have old Jean-Luc fold into the story, somehow. Perhaps he's telling the story of his life, for his memoirs, or he's in his own version of TAS' Yesteryear, or something like that, having to guide events of himself as a youth. But I prefer STAR TREK simply moving on, to living off the past as though this franchise has nothing else left to say.

A total reboot would be fine by me, but for the love of everything, let Tasha Yar live!

 

[2takesfrakes]

Denise Crosby sure as hell learned her lesson, didn't she? Quits the show thinking her sex appeal would carry her to A-List Stardom and nuts to TNG. Well ... look who came crawling back in the visage of Sela? But Denise did have a point, though, Yar had been reduced to a glorified extra, before the end. Getting rid of Gates McFadden? An even BIGGER mistake, though Gates didn't want to leave the show. And if a rebooted TNG never brings back Pulaski, I won't even notice, believe me. Bev is the best CMO in the entire franchise. And if Troi's mother never makes it on the show, again ... I won't notice.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I would have no interest in any kind of ‘recast and start over’ series. I would only be interested in ‘Mostly new cast in TNG style’ kind of show.

 

[Greg Cox]

If any of these recent multiple new Trek show reports are accurate, and that CBS are willing to throw money it simply doesn't have at the franchise, it pretty much acts as a tacit admission from CBS that STD stank even worse than the cesspit of mediocrity that it was. The new mantra seems to be "we'll keep making rubbish and putting "Star Trek" on it until we come up with something that people will actually pay to watch.

Yeah, good luck with that.

By that reasoning, one could also assume that folks once thought:

"Boy, these STAR TREK movies with Shatner and Nimoy aren't working. We need a whole NEW GENERATION."

"Boy, that TNG show sucks big time. We'd better try something else, maybe call it DEEP SPACE NINE."

Success begets spin-offs, not failure. If CBS wants more Trek, the saner interpretation is that DISCO is working for them.

 

[Butters]

What’s the point of a TNG reboot?

I wasn’t keen on the the Kelvin stuff. Recast Sarek, Pike, Spock et al for recurring roles in Discovery or whatever.

Recast Picard for prequel adventures, again, fine, but a reboot is something else. Not a fan of reboots.

 

[Greg Cox]

I suspect that TNG will be rebooted someday. All you need is for one diehard TNG fan to become a Big Name director or movie star or studio executive and a TNG reboot will get green-lighted.

"So, New Big Thing, your last movie made more than $500 trillion and won seventeen Academy Awards. What's next for you?"

"Well, my dream project has always been to reboot TNG, which was my favorite show growing up . . .. "

 

[TrickyDickie]

"So, New Big Thing, your last movie made more than $500 trillion and won seventeen Academy Awards. What's next for you?"

"Well, my dream project has always been to reboot TNG, which was my favorite show growing up . . .. "

This is the type of thing that Tom Cruise dreams about at night. Just replace TNG with Scientology.