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Picard film in development

Solo: A Star Wars Story (Fans refused to tolerate recasting Harrison Ford -- never mind the fact that the man is 81)
Although that movie also recast Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, and fans have generally responded positively to him. So much so that he's getting his own Disney+ series or movie, depending which rumor is circulating this week.
 
I'm struggling to see the formula that Kurtzman Trek suffers from. Not even are all shows pretty distinct, but SEASONS are completely different within the same show. I couldn't nail down Discovery's formula from season to season let alone as a whole show. Especially when compared to Prodigy or... well any of the shows.
I think Discovery suffered from every season being structured as a season-long arc where the survival of everything was at stake.

I think the more episodic way that Strange New Worlds treats things would have benefitted Discovery.
 
Though I do prefer SNW's approach to a season, there is also room for season long story arcs. The problem with how Disco and Picard handled them is that not every seasonal arc needs to be about the galactic apocalypse.
 
I spoke poorly. What I meant was that Kurtzman Trek suffers from feeling the need to use formers shows like TOS and TNG as crutches rather than doing something truly original. In that regard, Prodigy was the most original show in that, while using VOY as a crutch, still managed to tell an original and interesting story with interesting and original characters. YMMV.

I can see that. Discovery, oddly the one that seems to be the least favourite of the fans, seems to be the one that had the smallest connection (I'd say less than a crutch) through Burnham being raised by Sarek, but other than that, has definitely moved past it.

The others really can't as it's baked into the DNA of their respective shows, but agreed, it's definitely there.
 
I've felt like Picard season 1 and Discovery are like the "Becker Speech" from Bojack Horseman, where you can see all of the elements of how something should be great, and you keep hoping that it'll come together, but for whatever reason it never really does.

Picard season 1 has a really great idea at its core (i.e., What happens when a character who has believed in the Federation's values and devoted his life to them feels alienated from that Federation because those values have changed?), but it just never feels like they were able to square the circle on it because of how the season goes about dealing with everything around it.

I can that PIC seemed rather meandering. And, in the end, there's a lot of things that seemed like they were going to be a thing (or a bigger thing) but never really amounted to something (like Elnor) That being said I stopped watching pretty quickly and mostly know about the later stuff from friends who are into Trek or from here.
With me, though, it's more that a lot about the show just rubs me the wrong way. I don't like it. This isn't my preferred kind of Star Trek. This isn't my preferred feeling and flavour for a show.

Agreed, for sure.

I think part of the challenge is is that in the past people expect to like all of Trek. That's an impossible situation to support going forward, especially the more shows are produced.

But wasn't that already a impossibility for many towards the end of the Berman Era at least? I mean...ENT...large parts of Voyager, and wasn't DS9 pretty controversial at the time? What I will agree is that Berman Trek largely seems to be the same product (sometimes to a fault), just varying in quality. New Trek is more varied.
 
I think SNW would be better to be compared to TOS, not because of the era, but because it does Silly. TOS had silly episodes too. The Berman era shows could be less silly than both.

Agreed overall, but they still managed it. Robin Hood adventure, a Klingon in a western, most Ferengi episodes of DS9, Bride of Chaotica... they were there, just seemed farther spread out.
 
I would watch one of those episodes and think, "Shouldn't they be WORKING?"

Do you work non-stop every single day of the week without a break?
I'm sorry if so. But the fact you had time to watch an episode of Star Trek implies at LEAST a 45 minute break at some point in your week.
 
Didn't he order the Titan's new name to be changed from Picard to Enterprise ?

Ships aren't normally named for living officers.

Do you work non-stop every single day of the week without a break?

It's something akin to watching the cast of Law & Order play racquetball for an entire episode (once, twice ... three times or more every season :shifty:).

How many "holodeck gone haywire" episodes has Trek had over the years? It's a distraction. It's lazy writing. It's not why people tune in every week. It ignores the entire premise of the show.
 
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Ships aren't normally named for living officers.

Starfleet is a fictional organization whose decisions are made at the whim of the writers of the show. If the writers want to name a ship after Picard, they would do so.
 
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