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[WarpFactorZ]

Re: Countdown: To expect a new Star Trek series to have to adhere to a 10+ year old non-canon comic that almost nobody read and was itself contradicted by the movie it was meant to be a prequel to is just silly.

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[StewMc]

Re: Countdown: To expect a new Star Trek series to have to adhere to a 10+ year old non-canon comic that almost nobody read and was itself contradicted by the movie it was meant to be a prequel to is just silly.

There seems to be some misconception though that the comic is (or was) canon. I seem to remember Roberto Orci almost being forced to say it was canon in some interview, which he later backtracked on, so it may stem from that.

Even Roddenberry’s TMP novelisation isn’t canon so not sure why anyone thought this comic would be any different.

 

[Tuskin38]

https://www.newsweek.com/star-trek-...el-dorn-patrick-stewart-not-happening-1459013

CBS says Dorn isn’t in Picard

 

[ITDUDE]

https://www.newsweek.com/star-trek-...el-dorn-patrick-stewart-not-happening-1459013

CBS says Dorn isn’t in Picard

I didn't really believe it, but now that they went out of the way to squash the rumor that he isn't on Picard, I definitely do think he is coming. Big corporations don't usually go out of the way to squash every single rumor unless they happen to be unto something
Qapla'!

 

[Yistaan]

Re: Countdown: To expect a new Star Trek series to have to adhere to a 10+ year old non-canon comic that almost nobody read and was itself contradicted by the movie it was meant to be a prequel to is just silly.

Just make Countdown: Special Edition, replace "Ambassador Picard" with "Admiral Picard" and replace resurrected Data with returned Sisko (hey, Sisko and Spock were old friends all along, who knew?) and all's good.

 

[Tuskin38]

Just make Countdown: Special Edition, replace "Ambassador Picard" with "Admiral Picard" and replace resurrected Data with returned Sisko (hey, Sisko and Spock were old friends all along, who knew?) and all's good.

They're doing a new comic called Countdown that's a prequel to the series. So yeah.

 

[Yistaan]

They're doing a new comic called Countdown that's a prequel to the series. So yeah.

Picard: "I don't want this game to end."

They'll pull a 'These are the Voyages' and say that Countdown was an entire holographic fantasy programmed by a desperate Picard who misses Data.

 

[Danlav05]

Just make Countdown: Special Edition, replace "Ambassador Picard" with "Admiral Picard" and replace resurrected Data with returned Sisko (hey, Sisko and Spock were old friends all along, who knew?) and all's good.

Nah, use Kirk and set it in the Shatnerverse!

 

[Yistaan]

Nah, use Kirk and set it in the Shatnerverse!

Shatner can just have a passing cameo in Picard.

Riker: James Kirk?
Kirk: Hi!
Picard: Why are you just noticing him now? Remember how Kirk had a tiny tardigrade in his pocket the whole time that was connected to the mycelial network, and how we went into the mycelial network to retrieve him? He's been here hanging out for decades!
Riker: Right, I remember now.

The fanbase will burst into chaos.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

There seems to be some misconception though that the comic is (or was) canon. I seem to remember Roberto Orci almost being forced to say it was canon in some interview, which he later backtracked on, so it may stem from that...

Some people confuse "Star Trek borrowing information from a source to put on film" as meaning that the sourced that was borrowed from suddenly becomes canon. But the source isn't canon, just the portions borrowed to become part of TV or film.

 

[F. King Daniel]

They've already taken inspiration from Countdown in the uniforms and floating hologram screens. I wouldn't put it past them to imply something like it happened, even if the details match about as well as Disco and TOS.