Same here. It's the previous century that I'd prefer to move on from, personally.
Should Picard be the last major show to take place in that time period?
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Same here. It's the previous century that I'd prefer to move on from, personally.
If they actually move in to the future and tell stories regarding people in that future with new technology, consequences and character changes then I'm all in.
However, I don't think we will ever move past darker storytelling when all the top episode lists are things like "City on the Edge of Forever" "Best of Both Worlds" and "Scorpion." Those are not happy stories.
However, I don't think we will ever move past darker storytelling when all the top episode lists are things like "City on the Edge of Forever" "Best of Both Worlds" and "Scorpion." Those are not happy stories.
It's amazing how very little I care about anything to do with time periods or timelines.
Give me cool Star Trek stories and characters. Everything else is wanky mineutia.
"I want my time period!" Man, we should listen to ourselves sometimes.
And frankly, for all the 24th century fans (which I count myself among, as DS9 is my close second favorite) who are so myopic about this topic....I'm sorry, but you got 22 seasons across 4 different series and 4 major motion pictures. When the franchise goes to other centuries or timelines it's a nice change from where the massive bulk of the franchise lived for so long.
Give me cool Star Trek stories and characters. Everything else is wanky mineutia.
"I want my time period!" Man, we should listen to ourselves sometimes.
And frankly, for all the 24th century fans (which I count myself among, as DS9 is my close second favorite) who are so myopic about this topic....I'm sorry, but you got 22 seasons across 4 different series and 4 major motion pictures. When the franchise goes to other centuries or timelines it's a nice change from where the massive bulk of the franchise lived for so long.
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The century matters less than how it's presented. If the 24th Century had always been portrayed as it is in Picard, I never would've been tired of it. Even DS9 is still defined by how it contrasts itself to Textbook TNG. Picard doesn't do that. It's its own thing with the 24th Century looking like a real, living universe. It's closer to a 2399 that I can actually picture, if we accept the conceit of humanoid aliens.
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It would be nice to have that moment of self-reflection."I want my time period!" Man, we should listen to ourselves sometimes.
Bring on the 25th century! Which, could actually happen in the second season of Picard.
I hope they continue into the 25th century, no prequels please
*cough cough Discovery season 3 makes EVERYTHING a prequel cough cough*
We need at least one more.
Something that could pick up the threads from DS9 and Voyager, show where the other characters have gone and the sociopolitical development of the Federation and the Klingon Empire etc.
It would be possible to do something similar in Picard, but it would take it all the way into epic fanservice, where it's a bit more personal than that.
Something that could pick up the threads from DS9 and Voyager, show where the other characters have gone and the sociopolitical development of the Federation and the Klingon Empire etc.
It would be possible to do something similar in Picard, but it would take it all the way into epic fanservice, where it's a bit more personal than that.
Bless you, I think that you are getting ill.
I didn't thought about Discovery, maybe because I am not a fan of that show
Avoid what canon? 25th century is wide open.
Although I consider myself a TOS guy, the stories of the 24th century spanned my childhood.
I watched from the TNG premiere, when I was in the first grade, pretty much all the way through Nemesis, a week before my 21st birthday.
I loved that world. So, yeah, I'd like to see it continue.
I watched from the TNG premiere, when I was in the first grade, pretty much all the way through Nemesis, a week before my 21st birthday.
I loved that world. So, yeah, I'd like to see it continue.
I'm 100% sure Strange New Worlds and Section 31 will continue Discovery's glorious interpretation of Trek continuity in the 23rd centuryThey're not introducing a new storytelling era a thousand years later by sending Discovery's crew to that time - they're quarantining the series there to alleviate all the continuity headaches it caused.
I'd really like a show set in the late 25th century that features a collapsed Federation and an attempt to rebuild it.
But I have the feeling the next season of Disc might do something like that? So that might be off the table.
Yet I'd still really like a show set in the mid/late 25th century, just to see how everything has developed. They don't have to go crazy with the technology, but maybe at a point where they'd be able to launch long-term expeditions into one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies?
But I have the feeling the next season of Disc might do something like that? So that might be off the table.
Yet I'd still really like a show set in the mid/late 25th century, just to see how everything has developed. They don't have to go crazy with the technology, but maybe at a point where they'd be able to launch long-term expeditions into one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies?
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