Maybe he uses this as part of Picard's backstory. Because all of this would also be in Picard's past in those missing 20 years. Then something else happens to lead him to whatever it is he will be doing on the new show.
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Maybe he uses this as part of Picard's backstory. Because all of this would also be in Picard's past in those missing 20 years. Then something else happens to lead him to whatever it is he will be doing on the new show.
Jason
I got two theories or 2 more I should say on what the show might be about.
1 Picard is Future Guy leading the temporal cold war. KIrk resurrected by the Borg like in his books is recruited by the Borg in order to stop Picard because changing the timeline can effect them. Meanwhile Admiral Janeway is contacted by Seven who can also with her Borg implants sense what is going on tells Janeway she needs to stop Picard. Meanwhile the Prophets tell SIsko he is needed to return in order to also stop Picard. Starfleet doesn't believe any of them so they join forces with a new alien race with a a cool new ship to go and stop Picard. Picard is actually the villian on the show and it is about this epic event from a villians point-of view.
2 Picard has left Federation Space after the destruction of the Enterprise. He is living on this alien planet with cool and really alien looking aliens. He isn't the only human or familiar aliens on the planet. Well a new ruler on the planet wants all these aliens to leave the planet because of racism and Picard has to lead these refuge's to find another home and they have access to a old Federation starship that was sold off years ago. He knows he is to old and with iramatic syndrome to not be in any condition to captain the ship but he still knows he can help and lead in other ways. The new Captain is a fellow human women he is in love with. The show is kind of "Battlestar Galatica" meets the new "Lost in Space" in that is still hopefull and Trek like but also dealing with a social issue of the day.
Jason
1 Picard is Future Guy leading the temporal cold war. KIrk resurrected by the Borg like in his books is recruited by the Borg in order to stop Picard because changing the timeline can effect them. Meanwhile Admiral Janeway is contacted by Seven who can also with her Borg implants sense what is going on tells Janeway she needs to stop Picard. Meanwhile the Prophets tell SIsko he is needed to return in order to also stop Picard. Starfleet doesn't believe any of them so they join forces with a new alien race with a a cool new ship to go and stop Picard. Picard is actually the villian on the show and it is about this epic event from a villians point-of view.
2 Picard has left Federation Space after the destruction of the Enterprise. He is living on this alien planet with cool and really alien looking aliens. He isn't the only human or familiar aliens on the planet. Well a new ruler on the planet wants all these aliens to leave the planet because of racism and Picard has to lead these refuge's to find another home and they have access to a old Federation starship that was sold off years ago. He knows he is to old and with iramatic syndrome to not be in any condition to captain the ship but he still knows he can help and lead in other ways. The new Captain is a fellow human women he is in love with. The show is kind of "Battlestar Galatica" meets the new "Lost in Space" in that is still hopefull and Trek like but also dealing with a social issue of the day.
Jason
We've seen that episode before, it was called "The Chase". We don't need it dragged out for however many episodes this thing will be. I'm far more interested in a low key character piece because if I want "starship adventure part 95484737" I can watch Discovery, Orville or put in one of the five or six hundred hours of already existing Trek.
It's time for new story telling options in Trek that don't involve Starfleet, spaceships or space exploration. That story telling device has been done to bloody death, and on top that we've already got the movie series and Discovery filling those voids. We don't need "But have you seen space exploration.....with OLD Picard?"
It's time for something fresh and new, not just the same old shit with some superficial changes. Star Trek is about the human adventure, not just on some grand galactic scale, but on the smaller, personal scale. We've had plenty of the former, not enough of the latter.
And as much as I enjoy the former, episodes like "The Inner Light", "The Visitor", "Duet" are the real standouts, allowing the primary actors to shine in ways other episodes don't. It's why when I think back on the 500 episodes that were the 24th century, these are the first ones to come to mind.
I can safely say right not that the show will not be that. No offense, but that is as horrible sounding as that "Justice League of Trek" idea that was floated years back.
Not gonna be that either.
Probably just best to wait for details as they emerge.
And where's the fun in that?
I remember some great storylines that cropped up online in the lead up to First Contact
It's one thing to say "I think it'll be about Picard dealing with his mortality", and offering reasons why you think that, quite another to offer detailed paragraphs and fan wank.
Well my first idea was just a joke. My second idea though was serious fan wank. I don't just wank at any Trek idea that comes into my head. I like my fan wank to seem possible.
Jason
The first idea was more fan wank than the second, what with all the previous Trek characters.
Prediction: They're gonna drop a trailer that teases picard, the news media will comment on it, star trek & patrick steward fans will talk, hype will build to an insane level, and then the ratings will be so high that all of sudden we're hearing talk of more TNG spinoffs starring Worf, Young Picard, and the Beverly Crusher family. Kirk and Spock gradually fade in the background while TNG takes over
wow you've just made me realise the TNG reboot that's been in everyones minds the past few years (since 2009 really) is absolutely dead now .. ok it was never a solid thing just ppl imagining whod play who (Hiddleston/Data, Chastain/Crusher etc)..but now..wow it cant happen at least anytime soon
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Which one?
Gene checked out in 1991. After that ( hell before that) Trek stopped being his.
Nope it's not cluttered at all, plenty of room for DISCO.
The problem with what Rian Johnson did to Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi wasn't the premise, it was the execution. Luke going off to learn more about the ancient Jedi is a great idea that was turned into a joke by Johnson. That said, I don't want Picard "missing" necessarily, but I think it's going to be the route they go. Either missing or out of Starfleet for some time.
I share your fears, my friend. Stewart's announcement was tainted by the presence of Kurtzman and knowing that he and the likes of Akiva "Batman And Robin" Goldsman will be involved with the show.
Indeed!
I think you're right and I think this is why CBS is bringing him aboard. Many here speculate it involves stuff like forward-thinking and planning for future series and projects, but I doubt Kurtzman and the other execs are that far ahead. Stewart admitted they don't even have scripts yet. I wouldn't be surprised to see this show announced and then pushed back a year like STD was.
Even better!
Plenty of room for STD in another timeline, not the Primeline.
It's not going to be a rehash of "The Captain's Table" on a joint adventure so it's not gonna happen. Plus imagining a 90-year old Shatner co-stars with a 80-year old Stewart (by the time the series is being shoot it's probably gonna be around 2020/21) is just beyond me, no offense to both actors.
I doubt the new series will be a rehast of BSG, Lost in Space, or Andromeda. And many long-term fans would've been up in arms if Picard is in a relationship with a woman other than Dr Crusher.
And the CBS execs have lavished fawning praise on Michael Chabon as a writer, who, despite the fact he won a Pulitzer for fiction, is currently writing a screenplay for, of all things, M.A.S.K., which is a second-rate Transformers ripoff from the 80s and has crud like John Carter on his resume.
Seems like the guy has serious hack tendencies...which makes him a good match for Kurtzman.
You know someone who would be a good writer for aging starfleet captains? Nick Meyer. He should have been put on this show.
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