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Kurtzman intentionally killed Legacy?

This myth that Terry Matalas somehow, against all odds, managed to craft Picard season 3 with his own bare hands, all while fighting off the evil of Alex Kurtzman, is truly a cancer on this fandom.

Alex Kurtzman as head of the Star Trek Franchise, would have had final say on all elements of production, from ship designs to budget. The notion that Matalas somehow rebelled and did things behind Kurtzman's back and 'upstaged' is complete nonsense.

Other Picard season 3 myths (often spread by Robert Meyer Burnett):

Picard season 3 had a "minimal/scaled-down/shoestring budget".

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Terry Matalas fired the Picard season 2 writers and brought in his own team of writers.

Christopher Monfette
S02x02 S02x03 S02x10
S03x02 S03x06

Kiley Rossetter
S02x03
S03x09

Jane Maggs
S02x04 S02x06 S02x07
S03x03 S03x07

Cindy Appel
S02x05 S02x06 S02x08
S03x03 S03x05

Matt Okumura
S02x09
S03x08

Chris Derrick
S02x09
S03x05

In reality there was a huge overlap of S2 and S3 writers.
The only writers that did not come back were Kirsten Beyer and Akiva Goldsman.
 
The biggest surprise for me in there is that season 2 - which has the overall charm of being filmed in a garbage dump, based on a script they found in there - was somehow more expensive and bigger scaled than season 1!? What the hell. How?

I mean, yeah, Corona. But Jesus, I thought season 2 sucked so much ass because they didn't have a budget & needed to improvise.
You're telling me now this was all a deliberate choice?!? And that they willfully chose to forgo any season 1-like scifi action for that stupid fucking boring car chase scene?

Well Fuck Matalas.
 
The biggest surprise for me in there is that season 2 - which has the overall charm of being filmed in a garbage dump, based on a script they found in there - was somehow more expensive and bigger scaled than season 1!? What the hell. How?

I mean, yeah, Corona. But Jesus, I thought season 2 sucked so much ass because they didn't have a budget & needed to improvise.
You're telling me now this was all a deliberate choice?!? And that they willfully chose to forgo any season 1-like scifi action for that stupid fucking boring car chase scene?

Well Fuck Matalas.
Covid precautions and delays were incredibly expensive. Plus, some sets used for season 3 were actually built for season 2. The Stargazer/Ttan in particular. I'm sure that cost a few bucks.
 
There's always a need for a villain. Kurtzman is Berman's true heir.

Sadly, these kind of fannish conspiracy theories are not unique to STAR TREK.

"The Powers That Be are deliberately ruining My Favorite Thing for petty, personal reasons" is an enduring staple of the internet, regardless of the franchise or medium. (The comic-book version is usually: "The evil editors are deliberately trying to get my favorite character's comic canceled for . . . . reasons.")

It almost always translates to:

"I don't like what the the current creative team are doing, and I can't wrap my head around the idea they sincerely like what they're doing, so clearly there must be some sinister ulterior motive behind it."
 
The biggest surprise for me in there is that season 2 - which has the overall charm of being filmed in a garbage dump, based on a script they found in there - was somehow more expensive and bigger scaled than season 1!? What the hell. How?
In addition to the aforementioned COVID protocols, delays, and set construction, there is the fact that a majority of S2 consists of location shooting, which costs significantly more than shooting in a studio does.
 
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Them's fightin' words, sonny.
To be fair, pretty much every Galaxy class we ever encountered wound up getting blown up eventually, including the D. And while the Galaxy class Syracuse may not have blown up, her saucer section seems to have been rendered inoperable at some point. The Enterprise D/Syracuse hybrid maybe the only Galaxy class still operable by 2501, only 35 years after the class launched!
 
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