CBS tried that with Discovery.
“Jean-Luc Picard is back”: will new Picard show eclipse Discovery?
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The main appeal for their Picard show really is, well, Picard.
I guess if they had the chance, they would probably much more prefer to create other new series in the DIS-timeframe, where they could re-use a lots of props and sets, and easily have cross-over events. Their return to the 24th century is probably simply only owed to the circumstances of Picard living there.
I guess if they had the chance, they would probably much more prefer to create other new series in the DIS-timeframe, where they could re-use a lots of props and sets, and easily have cross-over events. Their return to the 24th century is probably simply only owed to the circumstances of Picard living there.
You're probably right. You could have Patrick Stewart as Picard reciting Yiddish limericks, and it would probably still be a homerun with a big enough percentage of the fanbase.
Picard isn't even my favorite character, and I'm still eagerly looking forward to the new show, and will support it unless it turns out to be abysmal...which I can't imagine. Stewart is a great guy and a very good actor.
And it's working so far.
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For me TOS - "The Corbomite Maneuver" is the best episode ever made in the Star Trek franchise as in encapsulates everything I like (including the premise of the series itself) in a neat, engaging 55 minute package. To this day, I LOVE the fact that Kirk's epiphany about a possible way to get out of the situation comes BECAUSE he's having a minor argument with Doctor McCoy over another small issue - (and as to the issue, they both ralize that it was stupid to be worrying about that then, BUT it just shows they're both Human, with Human weaknesses; but they still remain good friends and colleagues and work together, etc.)
I ALSO love that at this point, Spock is not a 'know it all':
and just after Kirk's epiphany:
and after the deadline passes and Balok doesn't fire:
And yes, the briefing room scene is good too. A lot of great character interplay and tension.
I doubt they’ll do anything that ties in that directly.
Maybe. I’m actually a little worried that Stewart may have too much input. After all, he *liked Picard as action hero in the movies and wanted him to be more of a ladies’ man.
Actors may act well, they may know their character better than anyone, but they, like any of us, are subject to the will of the gods. When they’re not, it doesn’t quite ring true.
Good point, but I'd hope/suspect that 16 years later...he's developed a more mature and realistic view of his character.
I think it's safe to say we won't be seeing JeanLuc "McClane" Picard this time around. 
I think it's safe to say we won't be seeing JeanLuc "McClane" Picard this time around.
Thank God for that. If we do see John McClane Picard then, no matter how much several of us might disagree about Discovery, at least we'll have something we can all agree about.
It'll be weird arguing with some people about DSC here, but then for the Picard Series we might possibly be on the same page. Talk about serious whip-lash going from one forum to the other.
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Can we at least have Picard climbing through a Jeffery's tube sarcastically saying "Come down to the coast, get together. Have a few laughs?"
Didn't he already do that in TNG's - "Starship Mine"?Can we at least have Picard climbing through a Jeffery's tube sarcastically saying "Come down to the coast, get together. Have a few laughs?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Mine
I think he said "Of all the bad guys in the world I had to neck pinch, I had to neck pinch the one who looked like Tuvok."
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Don't tell Patrick Sterwart that - he LOBBIED for it.
Fighting for freedom wherever there's trouble over land, sea, and air! G.I. Picard is there!
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