“Jean-Luc Picard is back”: will new Picard show eclipse Discovery?

[F. King Daniel]

I thought it was crazy and confusing that Han Solo: A Star Wars Story featured Darth Maul because he was brought back in an animated show I'd never seen.

Just imagine if The Picard Show expected us to have an understanding of the Destiny novels, or what Janeway went through since "Endgame"

 

[thribs]

Destiny is easy. Just say they defeated the Borg. You don’t need more than that.

 

[thribs]

So this show will be set only 5 years before the events in Endgame. While an alternative timeline, Voyager’s earlier arrival shouldn’t change the uniforms, look etc.

 

[jaime]

Yeah, they'll probably get the ships, uniforms and other visual stuff.

I'm sure STO will find a way to work in the story in some convoluted way.

STO has already used temporal shenanigans to shunt the player universe sideways once (the whole temporal core, sphere builder shenanigans) and can easily do so again without any damage to its story. It’s realistic to accept that it’s probably there could be tie ups just like in Defiance.
There is also the fact that STO changes it’s own continuity regularly anyway...characters replaced with canon actors and characters, characters written out (Rikers nephew) and so on.
The interesting question is whether CBS/Cryptic and S&S might all converge their continuities. But S&S are paralysed atm, the relaunches all on hiatus.

 

[F. King Daniel]

So this show will be set only 5 years before the events in Endgame. While an alternative timeline, Voyager’s earlier arrival shouldn’t change the uniforms, look etc.

If they use the fugly "All Good Things"/"Endgame" onesies when they've completely reimagined the Klingons and even the classic Enterprise and their unis, I will be extremely surprised.

 

[BillJ]

If they use the fugly "All Good Things"/"Endgame" onesies when they've completely reimagined the Klingons and even the classic Enterprise and their unis, I will be extremely surprised.

This. Those things were awful.

 

[thribs]

I agree they weren’t the best. Rather they went with the STO Odyssey uniforms.

 

[fireproof78]

I thought it was crazy and confusing that Han Solo: A Star Wars Story featured Darth Maul because he was brought back in an animated show I'd never seen.

Just imagine if The Picard Show expected us to have an understanding of the Destiny novels, or what Janeway went through since "Endgame"

I didn't have to understand Rebels to appreciate Solo.

 

[Greg Cox]

Yup. I may enjoy the novels but I never expect a TV show to adhere to it.

A wise policy, regardless of the franchise.

 

[BillJ]

A wise policy, regardless of the franchise.

You're telling me "Strangers from the Sky" isn't canon?!

*tosses book into nearest trash can*

 

[Jinn]

You're telling me "Strangers from the Sky" isn't canon?!

*tosses book into nearest trash can*

Wait, I thought you got it for your kindle? Unless...

 

[pst]

i'm pretty late to this conversation so berate me if someone else has already brought this up.

but maybe "captain picard: retiree" will dovetail with discovery? are we building to a defenders style-avengers style team up series here?

 

[Awesome Possum]

i'm pretty late to this conversation so berate me if someone else has already brought this up.

but maybe "captain picard: retiree" will dovetail with discovery? are we building to a defenders style-avengers style team up series here?

I've speculated that there could be some crossover material eventually. Especially if CBS decides to just stream Trek year round with multiple shows. Discovery could make some discovery that later affects another crew in the future. So they don't meet, but there is a common story thread told through all the shows.

 

[JRoss]

I think that the new show will definitely eclipse STD. It has the nostalgia factor for the people who don't like what's on now, and Stewart is a "name" actor, unlike anyone on STD.

I'll be cool with it, but I really hope that it's more of a TV-14 show than STD. It just wouldn't tonally fit with TNG, and if they want to keep the TNG nostalgia demographic, I think they'll have to do that. Maybe tone it to a grim/drama level of DS9, but not any more than that.

I'm assuming that it's going to be "Admiral Picard", with him as a driving character, but not necessarily anyone who will have to be in every scene. Much as I hate to be doom and gloom, Sir Patrick is 78. I can't foresee him doing more than a couple seasons if it's a full-time gig that requires as much effort as TNG. If he's behind a desk most of the time, maybe a a flag officer on the new ship, like how Ross had the Bellerophon. Picard has his fleet comand room and uses the new ship as a mobile base, but thee's also a captain who runs the ship.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I think that the new show will definitely eclipse STD. It has the nostalgia factor for the people who don't like what's on now, and Stewart is a "name" actor, unlike anyone on STD.

You don't think Michelle Yeoh is a name actor? Or Issacs who was in the Potter film. And Martin-Green who was in Walking Dead?

 

[CorporalClegg]

Globally speaking, Stewart isn't even in the same league as Yeoh.

 

[Tenacity]

Globally speaking, Stewart isn't even in the same league as Yeoh.

Among Star Trek fans, Yeoh isn't in the same league as Stewart.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Among Star Trek fans, Yeoh isn't in the same league as Stewart.

"Star Trek fans". Kind of proves the point.

 

[Noname Given]

Among Star Trek fans, Yeoh isn't in the same league as Stewart.

Star Trek fan since 1969 - and I'd watch anything with Michelle Yeoh over anything with Patrick Stewart in it any day.

 

[JRoss]

You don't think Michelle Yeoh is a name actor? Or Issacs who was in the Potter film. And Martin-Green who was in Walking Dead?

By a country mile, dude, Stewart's the most famous in the Anglosphere, and that's where Trek is targeted.

SMG, while a good actor (see "Rhonda" in The New Girl), doesn't have the same star power as the other members of TWD. And, nah, Michelle Yeoh hasn't been relevant here since like 2002. Isaacs is a rising star, but no, ask Joe Schmo on the street who Jason Isaacs is, and they'll have no idea.