Definite New Series/Limited Series with Patrick Stewart Returning

[Jayson1]

What if the new Picard show is set on Earth?

This would be different. Not only that but what if it was on earth but only Starfleet played a small role on it. Picard might have some non-Starfleet life. Running his Vineyards is one angle but what if he is working as mayor of his home village or living on a underwater city or maybe he is a teacher at Harvard or something. Trek has never showed us a extended look at life on Earth and even smaller looks at life of earth citizens who don't wear a uniform.

Jason

 

[eschaton]

What if the new Picard show is set on Earth?

This would be different. Not only that but what if it was on earth but only Starfleet played a small role on it. Picard might have some non-Starfleet life. Running his Vineyards is one angle but what if he is working as mayor of his home village or living on a underwater city or maybe he is a teacher at Harvard or something. Trek has never showed us a extended look at life on Earth and even smaller looks at life of earth citizens who don't wear a uniform.

Jason

Die-hard Trek fans love it, causal fans complain endlessly.

 

[USS Excelsior]

Perhaps we’ll see an Ambassador Picard hosted by the Enterprise E with Captain Worf to get to see both of them.

If not Worf commanding the Enterprise then Major Hayes instead having inherited the Captain’s chair.

 

[Yistaan]

I have a weird absence of any feeling regarding TAS. It's so insubstantial/barely there I can't love it or hate it. I mean, the good episodes aren't that good, and the bad episodes aren't anywhere near as bad as TOS Season 3. It's just sort of...there.

Yeah, some of the worst episodes of Voyager probably were on par. I just thought considering it was the first spinoff when people were asking for more Trek, TAS would have had less backlash than VOY, ENT, etc because the latter were produced when more Trek material was taken for granted.

Pretty sure Gene Roddenberry was, since he declared it officially "non-canon" later . ..

Yeah, he must not have liked it. Ironically before Discovery it was the only "canon" source for Robert April, Roddenberry's original captain.

 

[Yistaan]

Pretty sure Gene Roddenberry was, since he declared it officially "non-canon" later . ..

Don't mean to double post (I don't know how to edit posts here it seems), but just wanted to say I'm a fan of your Eugenics Wars books which I got on Kindle!

 

[Greg Cox]

Don't mean to double post (I don't know how to edit posts here it seems), but just wanted to say I'm a fan of your Eugenics Wars books which I got on Kindle!

Thanks!

 

[dahj]

Will there be flashbacks to a younger version of Picard...

Yes, there has to be a scene where he meets his starfleet hero, Admiral Tilly, played by Helen Mirren.

 

[F. King Daniel]

What if the new Picard show is set on Earth?

This would be different. Not only that but what if it was on earth but only Starfleet played a small role on it. Picard might have some non-Starfleet life. Running his Vineyards is one angle but what if he is working as mayor of his home village or living on a underwater city or maybe he is a teacher at Harvard or something. Trek has never showed us a extended look at life on Earth and even smaller looks at life of earth citizens who don't wear a uniform.

Jason

Perhaps he runs a small tea shop in France and struggles to keep his employees because nobody gets paid in the 24th century

 

[cooleddie74]

Yes, there has to be a scene where he meets his starfleet hero, Admiral Tilly, played by Helen Mirren.

Blythe Danner or I'm boycotting. Blythe would be a totally convincing elderly Sylvia Tilly.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

http://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=5b0c7d2e-7356-489c-adbc-f65eca8aba13

We may have a title already.

 

[Andru]

Very interesting. But might also be related to a Khan miniseries, methinks.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Very interesting. But might also be related to a Khan miniseries, methinks.

Yeah. The name reliant doesn't really ring any bells for Picard's character, but the fact that it played a huge role in twok and Nick Meyer is supposedly developing something related to that seems like too much of a coincidence not to be related.

 

[Andru]

When Sir Stewart says to expect a different Picard, I truly hope he doesn't mean he will play an alternate Picard from some Kelvinverse-like reality... Or a Mirror universe Picard, TNG hasn't been there yet!

 

[Tuskin38]

When Sir Stewart says to expect a different Picard, I truly hope he doesn't mean he will play an alternate Picard from some Kelvinverse-like reality... Or a Mirror universe Picard, TNG hasn't been there yet!

Well he said it takes place 20 years after Nemesis.

 

[Crazyewok]

I highly doubt they'd get Patrick Stewart to return. He'll look at the money offered and laugh.

If he were to return it'd probably cost them so much that the show would end up having little money for anything else.

Enjoy eating those words?

 

[Greg Cox]

Well he said it takes place 20 years after Nemesis.

Exactly. Stewart is just saying that Picard isn't going to be the same man he was twenty years ago, because people can change over time.

 

[fireproof78]

Exactly. Stewart is just saying that Picard isn't going to be the same man he was twenty years ago, because people can change over time.

I got 20 Federation dollars that says this will not be acceptable to all audience members.

 

[Tuskin38]

I got 20 Federation dollars that says this will not be acceptable to all audience members.

I think I see what you did there.

 

[fireproof78]

I think I see what you did there.

And, in other news, a writer over at IO9 shares similar idea that the time gap allows Picard to go through his own crisis of faith in the Federation, or responding to the Dominion War. He makes a comparison to Luke in TLJ. The article is here but this quote stood out:

A new show has a chance to bring that moral debate to the forefront again—give us a Picard that, so deeply shaken, perhaps did falter for a while, only to have to go through finding himself again, whether it’s through introspection or seeing hope in a new generation of Starfleet heroes after him, as Luke did with Rey. There could be nothing more affirming of Trek’s long-held ideals than seeing their greatest champion stray from the path, be horrified by that, and inevitably return to it. And wouldn’t that be a much more interesting journey to experience than Captain Picard doing the same old thing he was doing decades ago, with nothing changing but the impossibly rare wrinkle on Patrick Stewart’s astonishingly timeless visage?

And the comment section is right on time crying over the possibility.

 

[UnknownSample]

Fans seem to fixate too much on the hardware, like the ship, and the cast... what I care about is a show with the intelligence and depth that Picard's character demands, and until I see Discovery and get won over, I'll always think of the people in charge as the ones who helmed the Hercules TV show and made those awful space adventure Trek movies. So the details are unimportant. Good writing is IT. And good writing takes us in unexpected directions, not where we think we want to go. So I have no specific requests of them, except THIS... Don't thumb your noses at canon and continuity. Don't throw trendy new sci fi conventions at us instead of Trek, and expect us to forget and stop caring about the previous shows. My fear is that this is where things are going. We'll see some sort of Picard, but not the one we know, but someone's reimaging of him, in stories that conflict with Trek's past, because who cares it's just TV.