Given the success of Strange New Worlds another prequel may actually be upon the horizon.
Spoilers Variety about the future of Star Trek
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Who knows? Being that we're about to see Rachel Garrett in the upcoming film, fans might fall in love with her, like they did with Pike, and demand a series focused on her.
You can't really say it won't happen when that exact thing happened in the last few years.
Hell, assuming the fans actually like her, I'd say it's just as likely to happen as Legacy. It might even be more likely as there may be assets left over from Section 31.
I think it would be more likely that they would use the S31 assets for a young Picard on the Stargazer show, since the general audience is more knowledgeable about that character than Rachel Garrett. But that’s just my logical thinking coming into play, which CBS/Paramount almost never follows
I think it's entirely dependent on how well received Kacey Rohl is as Garrett. I've never seen her in anything, but people who have say she's a great actress.I think it would be more likely that they would use the S31 assets for a young Picard on the Stargazer show, since the general audience is more knowledgeable about that character than Rachel Garrett. But that’s just my logical thinking coming into play, which CBS/Paramount almost never follows
Plus, for all we know her screen time could be that of a glorified cameo.
But, if she does play a bigger role in the story, and people fall in love with her as they did Anson Mount, I could easily see something come from it before we get yet another story on Jean-Luc Picard.
We've seen a lot of the future beyond the 90s Trek era now - the 25th through the 32nd - and it's not all that and a bag of chips. Endless repetition of all the Trek tech and tropes, with nothing changed but the details. The transporter effect goes faster and is triggered by the uniform badge. You know, like a TNG communicator. Oh, brave new world!
So, prequels are just fine. All Trek eras are the same, whether they polarize the hull plating or raise the shields.
So, prequels are just fine. All Trek eras are the same, whether they polarize the hull plating or raise the shields.
And the 22nd (of ENT) and the 23rd century (of DSC/SNW) aren't all that different either. And I'm sure the setting of the Section 31 movie won't be any different despite a time period not seen before.
Exactly.
The point being that "the future" holds no more promise of novelty or innovation than the past. It's down to the quality of stories, thinking, design and so forth.
They decide that in 3516 the Cardassians are in the Federation and Vulcans are warriors? Sorry, that's not worth ten new viewers. It's rearranging deck chairs.
"Future time" has always been arbitrary. It was used in 1987 as a "necessary" (doing a lot of heavy lifting) plot device to conceptually account for 20 years of rapid real-world technological advancement. But since then, Star Trek has had so many redesigns and retcons and whatchamajiggit shuffling-abouts that it all could just as easily fall under the huge umbrella of artistic license. It's all gotten to the point of where the goofy numbers the lead says at the beginning of the episode are all kind of meaningless from a production standpoint.
So any remaining purpose for which specific future time is currently happening has to do with the faux 'history' of the current plot. But that has become such a convoluted ball of who the fuck cares? that it's just background noise to most and a deterrent for potential viewership with others.
So any remaining purpose for which specific future time is currently happening has to do with the faux 'history' of the current plot. But that has become such a convoluted ball of who the fuck cares? that it's just background noise to most and a deterrent for potential viewership with others.
Well in that case, hopefully Prodigy stays on air with more than two seasons onwards. There's of course, lots of intrigue about potentially future shows in this stead. Shows about the lost era, as in about the Romulan war, Enterprise B & C journeys are seemingly about to arise too.
Ghostbusters/Star Trek crossover?
Up until now, I was concerned about Apollo's capacity to run a film studio.
With Sony in the picture, there's less of an incentive for Apollo to break Paramount Global apart and sell the company piecemeal (Apollo may now become more of a midwife and less of a wrecking ball).
Sony would gain access to Paramount's franchises (Star Trek, Top Gun, NCIS, Mission: Impossible, Beverly Hills Cop, etc.). Right now, Sony's brand library is primarily composed of Ghostbusters, Bewitched, Bad Boys, and I Dream of Jeannie.
Sony has been producing the Spider-Man films as of late, but eventually those rights are going to revert back to Disney/Marvel.
Sony would also gain access to Paramount's distribution network (CBS, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, P+).
Rupert Murdoch had to become a U.S. citizen prior to launching the Fox Network back in the 1980's.
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Ditto Star Trek Legacy. The present is Discovery season 4.
Nope.
No.
I think it would be more likely that they would use the S31 assets for a young Picard on the Stargazer show, since the general audience is more knowledgeable about that character than Rachel Garrett. But that’s just my logical thinking coming into play, which CBS/Paramount almost never follows
Rachel is pretty much a blank slate.
Picard, OTOH, has thirty-five years of lore behind him ("NOOOOOO! HE'D NEVER DO THAT! SEASON FIVE OF THE NEXT GENERATION SAID AS MUCH!"
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Apollo has been active in the media space since at least 2019 when they took over Cox Broadcasting. They also tried to take over Tegna, but somehow crossed the line of being potentially so anti-competitive that one was blocked.Up until now, I was concerned about Apollo's capacity to run a film studio.
With Sony in the picture, there's less of an incentive for Apollo to break Paramount Global apart and sell the company piecemeal (Apollo may now become more of a midwife and less of a wrecking ball).
Sony is still a Japanese company, so wouldn't be able to own CBS broadcast stations. Apollo might take majority stakes in those. Something similar happened when Univision merged with Televisia (the main Mexican media company).
Well, no. We know that she dies in 2344. And Picard didn't.
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But that's about it. She can live a lot of life before 2344.
Do we really need more Picard? He's easily one of, if not the most, fleshed out characters in the entire franchise.
To me, it's not so much Picard. It's Patrick Stewart. We absolutely do not need more of him, just like we do not need more of William Shatner playing Kirk. But other actors playing those characters, in earlier time periods, would be just fine, if not better. We have almost no knowledge of his time as captain of the Stargazer during the Lost Era. And since one era in Star Trek is really no different from any other era, I'd rather watch a show about young Picard on the Stargazer than a show about 7 of 9 on the Enterprise-G.
Agreed on all counts. Patrick Stewart is awesome, BUT reality is he's getting older and not up to the task anymore. Picard closed out the TNG saga the way that All Good Things should have -- in fact, it literally did by panning out on the crew playing poker! Let's not make a Generations-level mistake again, please.
