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Picard Show: Plot Hints

PicardSpeedo said:
Forgive me if this had been posted somewhere already (it seems that'd frequently the case) but has anyone taken the time to examine existing plot points to project what the Picard Show is going to be about? From my research, TNG seems to give us some tantalizing hints:

- Picard will be retired and spending his days working on his vineyard when we first meet him
-He'll be slowly going insane due to irumodic syndrome (it was established in more than one timeline that he has this)
- He'll have married and then divorced Beverly Crusher
- The Enterprise-D may or may not have been salvaged or rebuilt as a dreadnought cruiser under the command of Will Riker
- Data is a professor at Cambridge who Picard occasionally visits

What else do we know as canon about Picard's future?
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You need to keep in mind that this was a possible future for Picard shown by Q if future events featured in "All Good Things" were proceeding as Q had expected. Since The Enterprise managed to alter this future (and thus the timeline), some of these events may not be happening, although others might still would have.

I think "Nemesis" holds more clue of what'll happen to the Enterprise crew, as it doesn't involved any time-altering efforts and is part of the Trek canon, whether we like it or not.

I think Data's future in "All Good Things" is less likely to happen now, as he died saving the rest of the crew in "Nemesis" - although of course one can argue that B4 will eventually adapt all his memories and personalities.

IMO it's likely we will see Riker as either a Starfleet Admiral or Captain of the USS Titan rather than Captain of a Dreadnought-class USS Enterprise.

I'm more hopeful that we'll see Picard and Crusher tying the knot at some point after "Nemesis." More than two dozen Trek novels (admittedly non-canons) have depicted it, so I believe it will happen. Whether they'll still married to each other by the time the Picard series begins is an open question though.

Gates McFadden has stated in a recent ComicCon interview that none of the other TNG crews have been asked to join the Picard series, so we may not be seeing Dr Crusher in it either, at least during its early episodes.

I guess we'll find out more as casting and filming of the series begins and potential plots/storylines are being spoiled/leaked incidentally or not. Stay tuned....
 
BillJ said:
I imagine it will be about Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan as retired Starfleet officers who get married and open a coffee shop on Vulcan.
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:guffaw::guffaw::hugegrin::hugegrin::lol::lol:

Alternatively, as retired Starfleet officers who run the Chateau Picard winery, while taking part in covert Starfleet missions from time to time.
 
BillJ said:
I imagine it will be about Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan as retired Starfleet officers who get married and open a coffee shop on Vulcan.
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Unfortunately Ian has already married an evil time lord trying to escape the great time war and they spend their time bitiching with each other and leching on the cute boy across the hallway.
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Somethings must have gone down over that 20 year period. It needs to be something interesting enough to lead to the show existing.
 
PicardSpeedo said:
You're right. There's a fair chance that it'll be some alternate Picard from the pseudo-prime timeline that Discovery exists in. Given that it's a CBS All Access production, I do consider the odds to be very high that it will ignore most established canon about him, as has been done with their current offering, in favor of a 'grittier' take on the character and the universe he exists in.
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No, that's not correct either. It's the same Picard, set in the same universe 20 years post-Nemesis.
 
I’m hoping the show will be about Picard still trapped in the Nexus after all this time, and everything from the end of GEN on was just a figment of Picard’s Nexus fantasy.

Talk about a reboot!
 
Dukhat said:
I’m hoping the show will be about Picard still trapped in the Nexus after all this time, and everything from the end of GEN on was just a figment of Picard’s Nexus fantasy.

Talk about a reboot!
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I'm hoping that we will find out that while they thought they had trapped Moriarty on the holodeck he had in fact allowed them to think that while trapping them on the holodeck. The show will open with the S.C.E coming on board after giving the computer core a reboot.
 
Kibbin said:
I'm hoping that we will find out that while they thought they had trapped Moriarty on the holodeck he had in fact allowed them to think that while trapping them on the holodeck. The show will open with the S.C.E coming on board after giving the computer core a reboot.
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Awesome! What other reboot ideas do people have? ;)
 
King Daniel Beyond said:
I want it to be retired Picard in full-on Space Archaeologist mode, exploring the Dyson Sphere from "Relics". Such an unimaginable structure wasted as a B-plot still hurts 25 years later...

Who built it? Why? When? And what did they leave behind?
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That's...not at all a bad idea. High-concept sci-fi, making better use of a story point from the old series that was criminally underdeveloped, and playing into Picard's interest in archaeology. That's exactly the sort of thing that Picard could have made another career out of...and a "stationary" situation that you could easily build a series around.

That said, I have little expectation that it'll be what they're actually doing.
 
What do you think about this interview with writer MIchael Chabon -- who wrote the new Short Trek episode's "Calypso" on his take of how he would characterized the elderly Picard in the upcoming new series?

I'm not sure whether Chabon is part of the Picard series' writing team, but if what he says reflects their thinking as well, it's a good news for fans who are missing the values resembled in classic Trek series like TOS and TNG that are not fully reflected in new Trek series and films made over the past two decades:

https://www.cnet.com/news/star-trek-discovery-captain-picard-is-the-hero-we-need-says-writer-michael-chabon/#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0j

Calypso features a character watching old movies and finding meaning in these relics of the past. With The Original Series now so many decades old, do you feel like there are certain values in Star Trek that we've forgotten in modern times, and that's why it's still relevant?

....To me, dystopia has lost its bite. A, we're living in it, and B, it's such a complete crushing series of cliches at this point. The tropes have all been worked and reworked so many times. There was a period where a positive, optimistic, techno-future where mankind learns to live in harmony and goes out into the stars just to discover and not to conquer, that was an overworked trope. But that is no longer the case. A positive vision of the future articulated through principles of tolerance and egalitarianism and optimism and the quest for scientific knowledge, to me that's feels fresh nowadays.

So Captain Picard is the hero we need right now?
Chabon: Yes, Captain Picard is the hero we need right now. He exemplifies in some ways even more then James Kirk -- and I'm not gonna get into the Kirk vs Picard argument because I love Captain Kirk, he was my first captain -- but Picard is even more of an exemplar of everything that is best about Star Trek's vision for the future.
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Picard with a bunch of millennials for crew and turning them into the Starfleet he knew back in his days.
 
Reyman said:
Picard with a bunch of millennials for crew and turning them into the Starfleet he knew back in his days.
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Sounds like a nice Trek series to me :):). Finally, a series that reintroduces the values of tolerance toward new cultures and civilizations, and puts more emphasis on discovery and exploration rather than war.

Sometime ST is known for a long time but seems to lost its way lately. Hopefully the Picard series along with "The Orville" will be able to bring them back :):).
 
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King Daniel Beyond said:
I want it to be retired Picard in full-on Space Archaeologist mode, exploring the Dyson Sphere from "Relics". Such an unimaginable structure wasted as a B-plot still hurts 25 years later...

Who built it? Why? When? And what did they leave behind?
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That sounds more interesting in theory than it would be as a series I think. "Who? Why? When? What?" are questions that can be asked about anything and exploring the surface of the dyson sphere wouldn't be different from exploring a planet. Sure the dyson sphere is a bazillion times larger but the characters won't be able to explore more in the limited time we spend with them.
We'd get the same sci-fi plots just set inside a sphere because at the end of the day the dyson sphere is just a really huge place where stuff happens and for storytelling purposes that's the same thing as the galaxy.
 
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