Kurtzman intentionally killed Legacy?

[Tosk]

I doubt Matalas anticipated the fans wanting a spinoff (he said that he never intended for "The Last Generation" to be the setup for a spinoff). The fans smacked him in the face with it.

Uhuh. He only gave three characters a backdoor pilot sendoff, gave PIC a post-credits stinger, named his wanted spin-off and gave a brief rundown of his vision for it.

He was blindsided by some people asking for the show that he had already envisioned!

 

[Danja]

Uhuh. He only gave three characters a backdoor pilot sendoff, gave PIC a post-credits stinger, named his wanted spin-off and gave a brief rundown of his vision for it.

He was blindsided by some people asking for the show that he had already envisioned!

He's being coy:

‘Star Trek: Picard’ Spin-Off Still Not In Development, But Terry Matalas Has Thoughts On “What If We Did More?”

At Trek Talks 3 there was a lively discussion about the hoped for 'Star Trek: Legacy' spin-off to 'Picard.'

trekmovie.com

"It’s interesting because the end of the show, that last scene – although it is a setup for spin-off – it wasn’t designed to be a setup of spin-off."

 

[Tosk]

Are you saying that interview supports that the idea of a spin-off took him by surprise?
Because that's not what I'm seeing.

In my view, both his actions and words scream that he wants to do one and has thought a lot about how he wants to do it.

 

[Danja]

Are you saying that interview supports that the idea of a spin-off took him by surprise?
Because that's not what I'm seeing.

In my view, both his actions and words scream that he wants to do one and has thought a lot about how he wants to do it.

If he does, he's being coy about it.

 

[Phily B]

This is so silly. Kurtzman is just doing what his bosses want him to do, we're lucky to have got Picard S3 at all. There are clearly people at the top just looking at trends and following them hopelessly instead of doing what Trek should do. SNW is basically throwing a bone to fans of the show.

 

[Tosk]

If he does, he's being coy about it.

I don't see how him saying he would love to do it, naming it, and having a strong idea of what it would be is coy, but okay.

 

[Danja]

I don't see how him saying he would love to do it, naming it, and having a strong idea of what it would be is coy, but okay.

He said he never intended it to be the setup for a spinoff.

 

[Danlav05]

This is so silly. Kurtzman is just doing what his bosses want him to do, we're lucky to have got Picard S3 at all. There are clearly people at the top just looking at trends and following them hopelessly instead of doing what Trek should do. SNW is basically throwing a bone to fans of the show.

Maybe that’s it - there is already a ‘mission of the week’ show set on a starship called the Enterprise, they don’t think they need another one? Plus TOS is more popular anyway

And after Disco 2 fans lobbied for it (though I guess Akiva Goldsman was already working on it)

Plus Legacy, as much as I’d love it, was never in the pipeline in the first place . It was a few comments by Terry and fans effectively’created’ it on social media

 

[Danja]

Maybe that’s it - there is already a ‘mission of the week’ show set on a starship called the Enterprise, they don’t think they need another one? Plus TOS is more popular anyway

We have no shortage of TOS material (Section 31, SNW, The Kelvin films).

There's no need to pave over cow paths.

 

[BillJ]

We have no shortage of TOS material (Section 31, SNW, The Kelvin films).

We also have no shortage of TNG/24th century-related material. Sounds like we're getting more with the Newsome show.

 

[Nerys Myk]

We have no shortage of TOS material (Section 31, SNW, The Kelvin films).

There's no need to pave over cow paths.

Sec31 is done in one. Kelvin is DOA.

 

[BillJ]

Sec31 is done in one.

After that trailer, I'm pretty sure many people won't be clamoring for more after it drops.

 

[fireproof78]

Kelvin is DOA.

More's the pity.

 

[HotRod]

We have no shortage of TOS material (Section 31, SNW, The Kelvin films).

There's no need to pave over cow paths.

Section 31 is likely be closer to the TNG era than it is to the TOS era.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Section 31 is likely be closer to the TNG era than it is to the TOS era.

The lost turtleneck era.

 

[BillJ]

The lost turtleneck era.

The Great Turtleneck Shortage!

 

[Nerys Myk]

The Great Turtleneck Shortage!

I know I have that replicator pattern in here somewhere!

 

[Nerys Myk]

The MA guys are gonna go crazy having to squeeze yet another uniform into the timeline.

 

[Mudd]

Its sounding more and more like Kurtzman felt threatened that Terry Matalas upstaged him and made sure Legacy didn't happen.

No, it doesn't sound like that at all.

That's projecting a motive onto business decisions taken by a group of people who you know nothing about.

"Fan enthusiasm" of the kind represented by online petitions is not the deciding factor in such decisions. Studios and production companies decide where to put resources based on quite a few variables. Other than one more variety of nostalgia bait at a time when Paramount+ has already checked the trufans box with SNW and has to be more careful with their money than in the past, Legacy had no strong reason to exist.

But "threatened?" Feh.

 

[The Wormhole]

If Matalas wanted Legacy to be a thing, he shouldn't have renamed the Titan "Enterprise". It was a stupid thing in-universe and it created issues production wise by potentially having two shows with that ship name, not to mention removing flexibility about casting or creating new characters. It even seems to have been a fairly last-minute decision to use that name.

The ship was originally intended to be renamed USS Picard, the idea being they could continue to use the Star Trek Picard title for a future season without needing Patrick Stewart aboard. The decision to instead make it the Enterprise G came at the very literal last minute.