Is the Picard show the "last chance saloon" for anyone else?

[Nerys Myk]

Incorrect.

It's Picard in his dune buggy, solving mysteries.

 

[CorporalClegg]

The fact that they are including the destruction of Romulus has already put me off this series. It looks like it will be 17 years and counting for another Star Trek series.

Why?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Why?

It happened in a movie he doesn't like.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Ah. I wasn't expecting rationality.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Ah. I wasn't expecting rationality.

First day on the internet?

 

[LJones41]

NO. The Picard series is not a "last chance saloon" for me in regard to the Trek franchise. There has always been plenty of action, along with cerebral topics in ALL of the Trek shows, including "Discovery". I cannot say the same for the Kelvin timeline movies.

I

 

[fireproof78]

Why?

Because irrationality is fun

 

[uniderth]

Why?

Because I don't consider any part of the JJ films to be canon.

And reasons 'n stuff.

 

[mos6507]

It’s the characters that people care about. You can’t just throw the name Star Trek on a program and assume people are going to care.

Not just characters, but characters portrayed in an authentic way, not Jake Skywalkerizing the original actors or hipsterizing the young versions.

 

[Steve Roby]

Because I don't consider any part of the JJ films to be canon.

The whole point of canon is that fans don't get to choose what's canon. We can like stuff or dislike it, but the people making the show get to say what is considered canon, and the destruction of Romulus is canon.

And reasons 'n stuff.

Well, that's different.

 

[STEPhon IT]

I watched RLM short treks review and i have to agree with a lot of their thoughts on the current condition of Trek

While i understand there is a large market for Discovery and even the JJ verse movies, and I am glad so many people find enjoyment from them, both just dont give what I want from Trek. point being what I DON'T want from trek is action, action, action.

Now that's not to say I don't like action as i certainly do, but Trek was always more of a cerebral IP to me.

With this Picard show I am curious to see what they bring, but if it does end up being similar to DSC, then I will hve to join RLM in parting ways with TREK in it's modern iteration, because it's just not for me anymore.

Kurtzman is developing this Picard series, how can you not expect something similar to Disco??? It's not as if Ronald D. Moore is writing and producing it or better yet Executive Producing it??? This is a CBSALLACCESS production under the watchful eye of Alex Kurtzman. I'm beginning to believe this Picard series is going to somehow merge the Trek universes into one, to end the bullshit prime nonsense. Its kinda like Star Trek at it's end becomes something new... and on with 3 more spinoffs shows because CBSALLACCESS can't survive without the Star Trek brand.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Not the "Last Chance Saloon."

 

[BillJ]

Not a fan of Discovery, though I thought "Brother" was a step up from season one, and I don't consider the Picard show a "last chance saloon". I'll always give Trek a chance to impress me. I think it is coded into my DNA.

 

[Kor]

Seeing as how TNG is not my favorite iteration of Trek, no, this show is not the "Last Chance Saloon" for me.

Kor

 

[fireproof78]

Kurtzman is developing this Picard series, how can you not expect something similar to Disco??? It's not as if Ronald D. Moore is writing and producing it or better yet Executive Producing it??? This is a CBSALLACCESS production under the watchful eye of Alex Kurtzman. I'm beginning to believe this Picard series is going to somehow merge the Trek universes into one, to end the bullshit prime nonsense. Its kinda like Star Trek at it's end becomes something new... and on with 3 more spinoffs shows because CBSALLACCESS can't survive without the Star Trek brand.

Even though Kutzman himself stated that the Picard series will be different?

 

[Campe]

Negative.

 

[donners22]

Not at all. I've enjoyed the Trek we've got in the last decade at least as much - and in some cases quite a bit more - than what we got previously.

I'll be disappointed if the Picard show isn't good, but I can't believe it'd be a worse way for him to go out than Insurrection and Nemesis.

I'm not really interested in the Lower Decks or Emperor Georgiou shows based on their concepts, but I'll still give them a go.

 

[eschaton]

Kurtzman is developing this Picard series, how can you not expect something similar to Disco??? It's not as if Ronald D. Moore is writing and producing it or better yet Executive Producing it??? This is a CBSALLACCESS production under the watchful eye of Alex Kurtzman. I'm beginning to believe this Picard series is going to somehow merge the Trek universes into one, to end the bullshit prime nonsense. Its kinda like Star Trek at it's end becomes something new... and on with 3 more spinoffs shows because CBSALLACCESS can't survive without the Star Trek brand.

Kurtzman is an executive producer, but he's explicitly said Discovery is the only series he's the showrunner on. That means that he won't be in charge of the writers room. We don't know who is, but as long as it's not Akiva Goldsman, it will probably be better than Kurtzman.

 

[Stewey]

I feel that this new show is the latest salvo in the splatter-gun approach hoping that an idea will be successful.

Trek died in 2001 after voyager, so I'm more interested in an actual proper revival, a picard series could possibly be that but I am immensely skeptical.

It takes more than a franchise label to make a new show/film authentically Trek.

 

[fireproof78]

It takes more than a franchise label to make a new show/film authentically Trek.

Please define authentic Trek for me. Because that went by the wayside (for me) in TNG.