I’m worried they might actually appear. My interest in the show is inversely proportional to the number of TNG era cast in it.
It's Star Trek: Picard, not TNG:The Reunion. I'd be happy to see any cameos, but we should expect to see absolutely every major TNG cast member return. It's only 10 episodes ffs.
That's my feelings as well. If this were a full series, then maybe. But it's a short run limited series. That's a lot to cram in.
We've probably only seen footage from first 2-3 episodes. The producers/writers have said this won't be a TNG reunion show, so the other actors are most likely going to be used sparingly, they're guest stars, not regulars.
Going into the weekend, I was pretty much expecting to see Spiner. I even said it months ago that I just didn't see them getting far into this project without squeezing Data in somehow. But you know, going into the weekend there was one person I was expecting to be the big 'surprise' reveal: Whoopi. That said, seeing Jeri invoked a genuine startle response. And I actually clapped and cheered aloud. So I'll take it.
I'm really excited about this trailer and after watching the Picard Comicon panel.I'm so glad Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis are reprising their TNG roles.Also Jeri Ryan and Jonathan Del Arco are coming back too. I'm so glad Data was in that trailer.3 season of TNG era Star Trek is great news.
Not long enough, in my opinion, to shove in TNG crew members, Seven of Nine, Hugh and the Borg AND whatever the actual story is supposed to be about. Sorry, perhaps the DSC forum has jaded me, but I am highly skeptical at the ability of the writers to juggle so many elements. And I am shocked, shocked, by the level of confidence in this team to pull in so many story elements and nostalgia pieces. Forgive me, but where is this confidence for DSC? It's fatiguing to be inundated with these elements of nostalgia.
I’m a lifelong TOS fan, and despite my first kneejerk reaction, I ended up loving the Discoprise. It is a respectful update of the classic 1964 Jefferies design, and if TOS were starting out as a brand new show in 2019 this is what it would have looked like from the start.
Sure. And if it is cancelled after the first season, then there obviously won't be more TNG character appearing. But if they get the three years they want then they can easily feature then all at some point without it feeling like a TNG reunion.
I don't think they're shoving anyone into anything. They said writing the story where those characters and elements make sense. None of the TNG characters are main characters, they're guest stars.
Well it's really hard to judge something fully until the it actually airs. Which is why I don't do it.
There's a limit on how far artistic reinterpretation & suspension of disbelief can & should take you They did a decent job of reinterpreting the Enterprise bridge in Discovery to the point whete you can almost believe that the original could have looked like that - but what break it is those extra half stations Uhura didn't have a 2nd chair next to her, never a secondary com officer operating part of the panel The ship is too big no matter how well they tried to paper over the cracks Overlarge ships are a characteristic we've seen in everything since ST:2009 If it's the same continuity the basics shpuld be the same - the ships shpuld be the same size - there is no good reason for making them bigger in universe other than this purported conspiracy that things have to be 15%-26% different (depending who you believe on that figure) My bet with Picard is that they'll skirt that line as tightly as they can. If Data appears in flashback with Nemesis style uniforms it won't be an exact copy of that uniform it'll again be subtly different. I might be wrong - we'll see, but I bet I'm not Things might shift if the CBS/Viacom re-merger happens swiftly. I think they would like to reintegrate these series into the main classical continuity going forward. By skirting the line as much as they can with Picard & having the time (& potentially dimension) jump in Discovery there is a window in which they could potentially do that.