New series with old recurring characters, could it work?
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Would this only work with the original actors who portrayed the roles 30 years ago or could it still work with a re-casting like PICARD did to Icheb.
By now I'd see her as Admiral Shelby, Director of Starfleet Tactical, gunning for the C'n'C position.
From what we saw of Jellico, he made no questionable decisions--unpopular ones, possibly--so I'm not sure what he would've done to risk his entire career.
She was a Comms Officer so I could see her transferring to Ops, I can see her personality issues holding her back from getting too far up the chain of command.
Like her sister, I can see her dying a pointless death on Turkana IV.
It's a new Trek series, so Michelle Forbes always has to be offered a chance to be in it. I don't think she'd see the Maquis as a mistake, she'd had a life where everything has always been against her and finding people she could put her trust and faith in would be a huge thing for her.
I'd love to see more from the best admiral in Trek. She'd definitely be in command of the whole of Starfleet.
Aliens. Lots of aliens!
Nope!
Taurik and Vorik, the Vulcan wonder twins. Selar. Mordock and/or Mendon. Sito Jaxa finally resurrected from the dead. Sam Lavelle and Alyssa Ogawa again, get the "Lower Decks" gang back together. George Primmin. Sela. Katherine Pulaski. Sariel Rager.
Depends on the character and how good the make up department is with deaging some features on old faces.
Original would be better if that's possible.
I look forward to the threads whining about them recasting Chief Argyle instead of bringing Biff Yeager back.
Although it would be kind of cool to see some older characters and what they're up to, Hollywood is already remaking/rebirthing/rebooting so many TV and films and the same with music, so many covers.
Something new set in the TNG/DS9/VOY timeline and universe would be good, but with new characters and possibly not on a Starship EVERY episode. That's what made DS9 so good to us; it wasn't entirely about a Starship with the same crew, but an excellent (big) range of main and support characters and more added every season to keep things interesting, something you can't do with a 'set' crew.
Something new set in the TNG/DS9/VOY timeline and universe would be good, but with new characters and possibly not on a Starship EVERY episode. That's what made DS9 so good to us; it wasn't entirely about a Starship with the same crew, but an excellent (big) range of main and support characters and more added every season to keep things interesting, something you can't do with a 'set' crew.
Old regular characters in supporting roles would be cool ie Captain Worf of the Enterprise in Lower Decks or some other Picard sister show.
I think guest characters as regulars (or concepts or character substitutes) only makes sense as a spinoff contemporary to the original show ie DS9: O'Brien, Kira (Bajor/Ro), Dax (Trills), Worf or Voyager: Tom Paris (Nick Locarno), Chakotay (Dorvan V indians), the Maquis.
Shelby and Jellico would have been great in a live action New Frontier series. Nechayev could have continued on DS9 with T'Rul. Gul Evek could have turned up on Voyager. A Maquis series with Ro, Tom Riker, Eddington, Calvin Hudson and Kalita, which then metamorphs into a Starfleet Dirty Dozen series where the remaining Maquis join forces with Captain Maxwell. A behind enemy lines series with a bunch of folks from different races stuck in the Gamma Quadrant after the minefield went up. Not realistic but just fun to think about.
I think guest characters as regulars (or concepts or character substitutes) only makes sense as a spinoff contemporary to the original show ie DS9: O'Brien, Kira (Bajor/Ro), Dax (Trills), Worf or Voyager: Tom Paris (Nick Locarno), Chakotay (Dorvan V indians), the Maquis.
Shelby and Jellico would have been great in a live action New Frontier series. Nechayev could have continued on DS9 with T'Rul. Gul Evek could have turned up on Voyager. A Maquis series with Ro, Tom Riker, Eddington, Calvin Hudson and Kalita, which then metamorphs into a Starfleet Dirty Dozen series where the remaining Maquis join forces with Captain Maxwell. A behind enemy lines series with a bunch of folks from different races stuck in the Gamma Quadrant after the minefield went up. Not realistic but just fun to think about.
Wasn't Picard still captain at this point? According to both the Picard back story material and the litverse?
Probably. I haven't seen Picard or read the novels or know exactly when Lower Decks is set but I may have read that in some tie-in book to Picard that Worf became Captain when Picard went to deal with the Romulan crisis and I was guessing it might have been around when Lower Decks is set. Regardless, I'm sure the idea of Captain Worf was floating around for ages. I know that in the mid 2000s when thinking up shows set in the early 25th century I really wanted to see Worf commanding Enterprise-E as a recurring character, so it's more stemming from that idea than anything recent.
That happened later: Lower Decks is in 2380, just 1 year after Nemesis.
Could a show based around some old recurring character(s) work? Yes, sure, IF the actor(s) is strong enough to carry a show, which is no guarantee since that's not what they were cast for way back when.
Could a show based entirely around old recurring characters work? I really don't think so. Even leaving aside the fact that not enough of them were main character material to build a cast and those that were would be hard to fit together organically (or impossible to get the actor back at all), the whole aspect of using all old characters and no new to fill out a main cast would be a huge turn-off for both general audiences and most fans, imo. It would come across more as an exercise in fan speculation than a professional production.
Would any of this be strongly hypeable/financially attractive? Uncertain, but probably not. People in 2020 would probably be more enthused to hear about an all-new cast for a series than to hear about the triumphant return of a character who appeared in five episodes twenty five years ago.
Could a show based entirely around old recurring characters work? I really don't think so. Even leaving aside the fact that not enough of them were main character material to build a cast and those that were would be hard to fit together organically (or impossible to get the actor back at all), the whole aspect of using all old characters and no new to fill out a main cast would be a huge turn-off for both general audiences and most fans, imo. It would come across more as an exercise in fan speculation than a professional production.
Would any of this be strongly hypeable/financially attractive? Uncertain, but probably not. People in 2020 would probably be more enthused to hear about an all-new cast for a series than to hear about the triumphant return of a character who appeared in five episodes twenty five years ago.
I guess I'm a nostalgy personality, if done right seeing known characters again could be interesting. 'Picard' is doind that but from my perspective it's not done right, they're just killing off known characters.
I guess I'm a nostalgy personality, it could be fun to see old characters again, if done right.
On the other hand, 'Picard' is doing that right now and in my opinion that show is not doing it right.
Have you read the New Frontier or SCE books?
I stopped reading NF because I found the notion of Robin's immortal mother too be too weird.
Regarding reuse of characters, certainly some could be revisited. Worf's turn on DS9 was amazing, as was O'Brien's. Certainly, Picard took both the title character and 7 in some new directions. But you need to have a reason and a vision. Some characters (Harry Kim, Travis Mayweather), they never knew what to do with them in the first place. If you bring back an old character, it's all the more important that you have a goal in mind.
Regarding reuse of characters, certainly some could be revisited. Worf's turn on DS9 was amazing, as was O'Brien's. Certainly, Picard took both the title character and 7 in some new directions. But you need to have a reason and a vision. Some characters (Harry Kim, Travis Mayweather), they never knew what to do with them in the first place. If you bring back an old character, it's all the more important that you have a goal in mind.
With the important change at the end of last season, perhaps Picard himself will become a radically different, more interesting, character?
I don't think it's necessary to introduce completely different Picard, the one he have is good. Interesting too.
Not a fan of Flint, I take it?
I think they might be talking about the TOS guy called Flint who was everybody in history at some point.
