LeVar Burton on STXI and TNG crew-
"At the end of the day I’m pretty certain that a lot of the fan base would like to see the Next Generation cast do one more turn around the galaxy, and I guess the performance of this next movie will have a lot to do with whether that comes to pass. It will make people see whether there’s an appetite for Star Trek again. So I have really mixed emotions. I haven’t quite decided how I feel about this new picture. My life is going to go on and Star Trek will always be an important part of it. Whether we do another movie or not is not in my control and the most important thing to me is that I have lasting friendships and memories from the seven years I spend on the show. And that’s better than the price of Latinum"
http://trekmovie.com/2008/06/23/levar-burton-fans-want-to-see-tng-cast-one-more-time/
Wow...and here I always thought he was one of the more in-touch-with-reality TNG cast members who hadn't overinflated their importance beyond all reason.
Guess I was wrong about that.
Let's review, shall we?
Generations - pretty much sucked. The TOS crew were the best part.
First Contact - decent flick, but nowhere near as good as TWOK or TSFS.
Insurrection - sucked pretty hard and, as an added bonus, illustrated how utterly irrelevant the flagship crew was to the Dominion War effort.
Nemesis - sucked so hard that I still hear it sucking, 6 years after the fact, and firmly believe that if earth ever gets sucked into a black hole, that black hole will have been created via the theatrical release of
Nemesis.
Oh yeah...I just can't WAIT for the next TNG film.
Besides, after
Nemesis, didn't Patrick Stewart try to put as much distance as possible between himself and even the
possibility of another TNG film? If he's out, and Brent Spiner is out...then who does LeVar think is gonna carry this movie? Frankes and Sirtis?
Oh wait...they couldn't even carry the ENT finale without pissing off...well....pretty much every Trek fan in the universe who was actually still watching.