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Ok. What is the chance of a Picard spinoff?

Discovery travelled into the future from a point of time in the 23rd century before any other changes. Unless we go with the idea that the timeline is continuing to evolve and time travel to the future takes into account all changes to a timeline in the years in-between, they would go into a future that's the future of the timeline that existed from the point they left.

I get where you ate going with this, but wouldn't that require that when looking back, no time travel took place in the intervening 900 years? And we know that isn't the case because there was a whole temporal war in the interim.
 
Not to mention Kovich referred to the Kelvin timeline as an alternate timeline.
Also because it's whatever Paramount says it is.

In the end, Picard just wasn't any good. Hopefully there will be no follow-ons.
 
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Oh, God. I just watched it. He's trying very hard not to say something.

Or, let me put it another way.

Kruge: "He's hiding something."
Maltz: "How can you tell that?"
Kruge: "I trust my instincts."

He doesn't need to say anything. I can tell by the look on his face and the way he stumbled through that answer. Something's going on, nothing's finalized (and is thus technically not in development), and he can't talk about shit. So, he has to deflect and throw up a smokescreen. The body language and the way he muddled through that answer gave everything away.

EDITED TO ADD: If there was definitely nothing going on, his body language would've been very different, VERY different, and he would've said something along the lines of, "It would be nice if we had a continuation, we'd love to do it, we wish we could do it, no word on it, show your support by letting ____ know." He'd give a straight, concise answer and would look properly composed instead of sounding like he just hit a deer on the road in the middle of nowhere at midnight.


Fancy footwork there, bro ...

https://trekmovie.com/2024/01/15/st...-matalas-has-thoughts-on-what-if-we-did-more/

Terry Matalas:

“No, there truly isn’t [anything to leak]. You know it’s interesting because the end of the show, that last scene – although it is a setup for spin-off – it wasn’t designed to be a setup of spin-off… The right ending for the Next Generation is passing the torch to the next Next Generation. And without doing that, it wouldn’t feel right.
 
Kovach said Yor is from an alternate timeline created by a Romulan mining ship.

I don't know which I believe less.
How much you're stretching for an explanation OR if you actually believe that explanation.

The writer's intent was the obvious "same timeline" one. Not the preposterously convoluted intent you're going for.

Trust me, they didn't go into the 32nd Century Kelvin Timeline.

Whether or not Yor originated from the Kelvin timeline or it was just the previous timeline he was in before coming over to the Prime Universe is immaterial to the fact that Kovich specifically referred to the Kelvin timeline as an alternate timeline, thereby proving that Disco is not currently set there as you previously asserted.

You’re all too certain. Considering we are in an era where writers retconned the years the Eugenics Wars occur by time sliding.

Who’s to say Kovich is right? When writers went out of their way to suggest Spock is wrong?
 
It's pretty interesting coming from him, since he's the one who planted Legacy in people's heads.

It was refreshing to hear from Chestnut in the article.

Up until now, it's primarily been the old fogies who've been weighing in.

Terry Matalas said:
"The end of the show, that last scene – although it is a setup for spin-off – it wasn’t designed to be a setup of spin-off"

Can he get any more mealy-mouthed? :rolleyes:

It not only set up a spin-off, it had a post-credits teaser with Jack and Q! :mad: :scream:
 
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Can he get any more mealy-mouthed? :rolleyes:

It not only set up a spin-off, it had a post-credits teaser with Jack and Q! :mad: :scream:
If Terry ever falls on hard times as a writer, he could have a bright future ahead of him as a politician. It sounds like he has all the makings.
 
If Terry ever falls on hard times as a writer, he could have a bright future ahead of him as a politician. It sounds like he has all the makings.
He jumped from being a story editor on NIKITA (which 12M fans should really check out by the way... by the end of that show's first season it effectively stops being a "CW show") to the co-creator / co-executive producer on 12M. He definitely knows how to advance in the very political entertainment industry.
 
He jumped from being a story editor on NIKITA (which 12M fans should really check out by the way... by the end of that show's first season it effectively stops being a "CW show") to the co-creator / co-executive producer on 12M. He definitely knows how to advance in the very political entertainment industry.
As long as he runs as a Democrat, he's got my vote. ;)
 
There's speculation ... And then there's cheering it on.

Comcast has been making noises about selling NBCUniversal.

Fine by me. I'm fully cheering on a Zaslav WBD takeover of Star Trek.

:cool:

Even if Legacy
Tom Cruise will work for whoever will sign his paycheck. That's how Hollywood works.

He's not beholden to any one company (He did the 2017 Mummy reboot for Universal).

For him to go from having the deal he had with Paramount, he was their most lucrative star, to WBD as his new default is adding more fuel to the fire.

At the very least, we are going to see some overtures made towards this merger/acquisition quite soon. According to the trades, they'll be in a position to do this in a matter of months.
 
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/comedy-central-daily-show-host-no-choice-correspondents-1235879076/

Warner is in cost-cutting mode (they've just cancelled Conan O'Brien and Samantha Bee).

Why would they buy Paramount (and assume the company's $15 billion debt on top of Warner's own $40 billion debt)?


At the very least, we are going to see some overtures made towards this merger/acquisition quite soon. According to the trades, they'll be in a position to do this in a matter of months.

Paramount may not be in any mood to wait (especially if there are companies with deeper pockets than Warner's showing interest).


NBC has gone through several mergers over the years (I remember when General Electric bought them back in the 80's. David Letterman raked them over the coals about it -- when they weren't making refrigerators, toaster ovens, and dishwashers, they were building nuclear weapons! :eek: )
 
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NBC has gone through several mergers over the years (I remember when General Electric bought them back in the 80's. David Letterman raked them over the coals about it -- when they weren't making refrigerators, toaster ovens, and dishwashers, they were building nuclear weapons! :eek: )
From 1995 until the first CBS Viacom/Paramount merger, CBS was owned by Westinghouse, which included nuclear reactors in its portfolio. Gotta love the US media tied to the military industrial complex...
 
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