Okay. What’s that?
Kurtzman intentionally killed Legacy?
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Okay. What’s that?
He shines a light on another aspect of Jean-Luc's background.
I think something can be done with him. I see him going through a journey similar to the one Seven of Nine went through on Voyage (As sophisticated as he is, there are a million things that he doesn't know).
Middle aged twenty year olds?
Does he though?
I’m not sure how adding texture to a character who has led two series and four movies as anything new.
Jack certainly came out of the woodwork.
And that's a good thing????
Yeah, and it was dumb.
My weak spot for Season 3 aside, the Jack Crusher reveal was something i'd never have written or filmed.
I liked the actor, but not the character. Honestly, after 198 episodes, four movies, countless books, novels and other materials, not sure there is much left to glean from the Picard character. Felt the same way about Spock when people would say this about Michael Burnham. I'd rather they'd bring new characters to the fold without canon baggage.
Hell, I remember one of the first ideas for Nemesis was to have Shinzon be Picard's son, which John Logan immediately discarded as he felt it made no sense to establish Picard has an adult son who was never mentioned previously at this point. Which means the Blessed Lord Terry (hallowed be they name) used an idea John Logan rejected as stupid. Let that sink in.
In the same way that David Marcus already did that with James Kirk.
We don't need repeats with diminishing returns.
It was a different time.
Back then, Picard was still seen as this paragon of virtue. The idea that he would have a secret love child was seen as heresy.
But what would having Jack Crusher, the son of the former Captain of the Enterprise and chief of Starfleet Medical, actually add to a hypothetical Star Trek: Legacy? Basing a series on the progeny of well-known characters doesn’t seem to me to be interesting for me as it comes to the actual character the show is being based on. At any time, he can just call mom or dad or any of their friends/family/former shipmates as they visit the Best of compilation album of planets and races, It doesn’t seem to me to be all that interesting of a premise.
New characters whose entire circle is almost entirely old, well-known characters with few holes in their backstories don't seem as new - there's a tendency to make them take after their family members or be the exact antithesis of them, neither of which are as interesting.
His relationship with JL seems to be somewhat strained (Daddy suddenly pops out of nowhere after twenty-five years).
Yeah, that’s not what I got in their last scene together aboard the shuttle. It seems they worked it out.
I can think of few show premises more boring that the relatives of a different crew going back to visit planets their parents already visited. Nostalgic bullshit at its worst and most creatively-bankrupt.
These hypotheticals of "oh, what about adding X attribute (that the franchise already dealt with) to the Gary Stu character" won't make Matalas' concept of the premise any less boring.
It's a cliche. And they did it in TNG (Bloodlines)
That wasn't the reason Logan discarded the idea.
