Definite New Series/Limited Series with Patrick Stewart Returning

I'm suggesting de Lancie could still reprise the role. Him looking older will just be another appearance he adopted, much like his apparent receding hairline throughout the years. And nobody will care, because it's not only de Lancie but that he's paired with Stewart, which amounted to among of the best chemistry between casts in all Trek.

 

Will this be on that channel that I can’t afford?

 

He could even have the in-universe excuse of doing it just to fuck with Picard.

"I added decades to my appearance, and I still look younger than you. Isn't space exploration the passtime of the young, Jean-Luc?"

 

I wonder if they'll take any of the novels into account for this? Unlikely but I hope they state that the Borg are gone. O don't want them showing up anymore. They're boring.

 

CBS all access yes.

 

Yep. Delancie's age is a non-issue. He could easily make an off-handed remark that he's being considerate of Picard's "twilight years" and didn't want him to feel decrepit in his omnipotent, timeless presence.

 

Well,that’s just dandy.

 

it's no better in the UK with it being on Netflix. Only Canada gets it on proper TV.

 

I'm so excited. Stewart comign back to Trek is amazing news, easily the best Trek news we've had in years.

 

No. If it takes place 20 years after the destruction of Romulus, the fallout will have long since been done with. It's fanwank that no one outside of uber-Trekkies care about anyway.

It's almost certainly going to be a personal story focused on Picard. The question is what could it be? PIcard had no significant other that lasted. His brother and nephew are dead. Presumably he's remained friends with some of the Enterprise crew, but I bet dollars to donuts that even if there are a few cameos we won't get a TNG reprise.

Honestly, bringing back John De Lancie as Q would be the best TNG character by far to include. I mean, I would not want to see a long-form redo of Tapestry, but I could see Picard at the sunset of his career (not life, 80 is just comfortably middle aged) looking back over his decisions. Then have Q appear and basically be the devil, tempting him with different scenarios, altering either his personal life or to redo some of his professional mistakes. A younger Picard wouldn't take Q up on this, but an older Picard, full of regrets? He might try to get things "right."

As an aside, wouldn't Picard be well into full-blown Irumodic Syndrome by now?

 

Maybe his forewarning could’ve led to preventative treatment.TBH,I don’t remember whether Irumodic syndrome is treatable or not.....geez,you don’t think I have it,do you?

 

@Dayton Ward posted something interesting about how this will effect the Litverse continuity in another thread.

Between Dayton's comment, @Kirsten Beyer 's spearheading of the Picard project and the Litverse coming back unimpeded in 2019 (This would have been the perfect time for them to reboot the novels like Disney did with their Star Wars tie-ins, and yet...) has me thinking that, rather surprisingly, this may not be an issue for the Litverse continuing forward.

Maybe this is why the new novel contract took so damn long. CBS, Paramount (?) and Simon & Schuster wanted to make sure all their ducks were in a row before the announcements of the past two days (the future of the novels and the development of the Picard series) were all made public.

 

It's hard to know what they are going to do with Picard. Maybe make him Federation President possibly.

 

TV sure, but it's a premium channel, need to pay for the channel package to watch it.

 

Looking forward to watching fan heads explode when everything ends up looking nothing like either the NEM/VOY era or STO...

 

It's supposed to be untreatable. But Beverly identified a brain defect in a scan in the "present" portion of All Good Things... which could have led to Irumodic syndrome. Maybe he got that brain defect taken care of.

 

I was right! Not that I want to brag about it, but it is also what I wished for. Now I‘m feeling like a seven year old the night before Christmas. Although it will be a long night...

 

2019 seems pretty ambitious. I don't think you can launch a sci-fi series - even a short run one - in less than 16 months these days.

2020 is way more likely.

 

I had a feeling it was going to happen and I'm so delighted. Is it a short term series or a proper seasons long one?

If the 24th/25th century was ever to be reintroduced into Star Trek then the best bet is placing the most well known actor/character from that era at the centre of it.

Brilliant news.