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Picard Show: Plot Hints

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Didn't Shatner have a one-man show? Not sure if Stewart would want to follow in Shatner's footsteps once again. ;):wtf:

Armus said:
I have an idea. Picard returns to Vagra 2 with a psychiatrist to help Armus deal with his anger issues. After long talks Armus begins to let go of his hate. Picard thinks he's ready to rejoin civilization and end his long exile. In the end Armus decides to move to Risa and use his abilities to become a living mud bath for the Risians to enjoy.
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As long as the psychiatrist isn't Troi. We know how that ended the last time.
 
Roundabout said:
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Didn't Shatner have a one-man show? Not sure if Stewart would want to follow in Shatner's footsteps once again. ;):wtf:
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Stewart does (or has in the past, not sure offhand if he still does) a one-man play of A Christmas Carol, and put out a recorded version of it in the '90s. I saw him do it in New York many years back.
 
Reyman said:
Picard with a bunch of millennials for crew and turning them into the Starfleet he knew back in his days.
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Do you mean 20-37/8 year olds or people born between 1980-and 1998 who time traveled to the late 24th century? I cannot process your joke without knowing which angle you are going for.
 
dinzy said:
Do you mean 20-37/8 year olds or people born between 1980-and 1998 who time traveled to the late 24th century? I cannot process your joke without knowing which angle you are going for.
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Q sends Picard back in time to 2018 with a ship, but no crew. Picard has to enlist a bunch of millennials and then set off into space. This is Humanities last test.
 
Seven of Five said:
I really hope they call it The Picard Show. :techman:

EDIT: Although with a name like that, it sounds more like a chat show. Or maybe even a one-man show with Patrick Stewart playing all the roles?
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Well, he is a man of many talents, so I can see it happening.

Just look at the following clips featuring Sir Patrick in completely different roles:

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I have yet to see it, but the Short Treks minisode "Calypso", by The Picard Show writer Michael Chabon has this to say about the Federation's future...
By 3257 there is no more Federation, and human colonies are fighting decades-long wars with each other.
:eek:

Could The Picard Show be...
The fall of the Federation??
 
King Daniel Beyond said:
I have yet to see it, but the Short Treks minisode "Calypso", by The Picard Show writer Michael Chabon has this to say about the Federation's future...
By 3257 there is no more Federation, and human colonies are fighting decades-long wars with each other.
:eek:

Could The Picard Show be...
The fall of the Federation??
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I hope not :confused::confused:. I think the Federation might be facing another existential threat from a Borg-like race (not necessarily the Borg), but in the end, Picard will once again save the day.
 
King Daniel Beyond said:
I have yet to see it, but the Short Treks minisode "Calypso", by The Picard Show writer Michael Chabon has this to say about the Federation's future...
By 3257 there is no more Federation, and human colonies are fighting decades-long wars with each other.
:eek:

Could The Picard Show be...
The fall of the Federation??
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That's an interesting idea, however my opinion is it won't happen in the Picard show but in a possible future Star Trek show that is set a few hundred years after the 24th century.
 
The Habs Fan said:
That's an interesting idea, however my opinion is it won't happen in the Picard show but in a possible future Star Trek show that is set a few hundred years after the 24th century.
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So they'll resurrect Brian Singer's plot for a Star Trek: Federation series??

https://trekmovie.com/2011/04/16/ex...ts-from-star-trek-federation-series-proposal/
Here are some key changes in the Star Trek universe six centuries after Picard.

  • Earth’s Humans have become "fat and happy" but this has led to complacency where humans are "giving up exploration for incremental colonization and focusing more on the rightness of their own cultural view over all others"
  • Many younger members of the UFP have left, eschewing this "human-centric" Federation
  • Vulcans have been disengaging from the Federation and have reunified with the Romulans, spending most of the last 3 centuries focused on creating a new "joined society" overseen by two "quasi-religious clerics who rule according to logic and what is best for their unified peoples, combining Romulan Machiavellian politics with Vulcan logic.
  • Bajorans have withdrawn from the Federation to become insular in order to focus on their religion and communing with the Prophets. Bajor is now "like a planet sized Tibet", handing over all temporal concerns to the Ferengi
  • The Klingons have undergone a "massive reformation" moving away from their Viking-like brawling to become a "civilization of warrior mystics" akin to the Tang Dynasty), now flying "sleek" and "serene" ships and while they maintain diplomacy with the Federation they have returned to expanding the Empire via conquest
  • The Cardassians have transformed into a "society of artists and philosophers" who now "walk the path" and are now dedicated to a philosophy with "the view of the galaxy as a place created solely to test the faithful."
  • The Ferengi are no longer a "joke" but have become "quite powerful". Equality for females (including a female Nagus) is "the only concession they have made to progress" and with "the Greater Federation’s cashless society as a restriction, the Ferengi Alliance is now able to shine in its full capitalist glory." The Ferengi are also making big bucks marketing the Bajoran religion around the galaxy, including pilgrimages to the Bajoran Wormhole.
  • Starfleet has been reduced to a "mere peace-keeping force" protecting fringe worlds from aliens and from fighting each other, with starships are old and spread out too thin
Entering into this troubled Federation is a new "powerful" and "ruthless" enemy called "The Scourge" who confronted the Federation ship USS Sojourner at what became a key pivot point. The ship along with two colonies are lost and the sole survivor will become a key player in the future of the Federation.
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It would have to happen at some point. Civilizations rise and fall. A fall doesn't means it's completely gone but that it's greatly reduced to what it used to be. Any number of things and events (both natural and not-natural) could reduce the size of the Federation and do it insanely quickly as well. It's not a matter of if it happening but when because it always happens.
 
King Daniel Beyond said:
I have yet to see it, but the Short Treks minisode "Calypso", by The Picard Show writer Michael Chabon has this to say about the Federation's future...
By 3257 there is no more Federation, and human colonies are fighting decades-long wars with each other.
:eek:

Could The Picard Show be...
The fall of the Federation??
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I always thought a game of thrones style power struggle between the Picard, Janeway and Sisko could be interesting.

Thanks to some kind of new space travel the majority of the Galaxy is now part the Federation, so we get Picard and the alpha/beta quadrant v Sisko and the gamma quadrant resources v Janeway and the delta quadrant resouces.

It would need to be very untrek to work though, so maybe a mirror universe full of blood and death.
 
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Reyman said:
I always thought a game of thrones style power struggle between the Picard, Janeway and Sisko could be interesting.

Thanks to some kind of new space travel the majority of the Galaxy is now part the Federation, so we get Picard and the alpha/beta quadrant v Sisko and the gamma quadrant resources v Janeway and the delta quadrant resouces.

It would need to be very untrek to work though, so maybe a mirror universe full of blood and death.
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You may want to suggest this as a treatment script to Quentin Tarrantino. I heard he's hiring writers for his upcoming 'reimagined' Trek movie ;):hugegrin:;):hugegrin:
 
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Seven of Five said:
I really hope they call it The Picard Show. :techman:

EDIT: Although with a name like that, it sounds more like a chat show. Or maybe even a one-man show with Patrick Stewart playing all the roles?
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Personally, I'm hoping the series is called "Jean-Luc".

BillJ said:
I imagine it will be about Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan as retired Starfleet officers who get married and open a coffee shop on Vulcan.
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Make it Bajor instead of Vulcan and I'm in!
 
PicardSpeedo said:
Didn't they definitively diagnose him with iruomodic syndrome in the timeline that hadn't been tampered with, though?
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No. Explicitly not...

CRUSHER: Jean-Luc, I scanned you for evidence of Irumodic Syndrome, as you suggested. There wasn't any. But I did find a small structural defect in the parietal lobe.
PICARD: A defect that you hadn't noticed before?
CRUSHER: It's the kind of defect that would only show up on a level four neurographic scan. It could cause you to be susceptible to several kinds of neurological disorders, including Irumodic Syndrome. Now, it's possible for you to live with this defect for the rest of your life without developing a problem. Or even if you do, many people continue to live normal lives for a long time after the onset of Irumodic Syndrome.
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PICARD: But you said yourself that this is only a possibility.
CRUSHER: But you've been to the future. You know it's going to happen.
PICARD: I prefer to look on the future as something which is not written in stone. A lot of things can happen in twenty-five years.
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DATA: Since the anomaly did not occur, there have already been changes in the way this timeline is unfolding. The future we experience will undoubtedly be different from the one the Captain encountered.​

And there was no "timeline that hadn't been tampered with" depicted. The whole scenario was a construct of the Q Continuum...

PICARD: You had a hand in helping me get out of this.
Q: I was the one that got you into it. A directive from the Continuum. The part about the helping hand, though, was my idea.
PICARD: I sincerely hope that this is the last time that I find myself here.
Q: You just don't get it, do you, Jean-Luc? The trial never ends. We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief moment, you did.
PICARD: When I realized the paradox.
Q: Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you had never considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.​

Picard could develop the syndrome due to the defect, or not. A possibility, nothing more. And for all we know, a remedy for either the syndrome or the defect itself (or both) could be developed by that time in "reality," in any case.

-MMoM:D
 
Another interview w/Picard show writer Michael Chabon, in which he states the following regarding Picard's characteristics in the new series:

https://sea.ign.com/michael-chabon...o-writer-michael-chabon-on-trek-time-jumps-a

“We brought in Sir Patrick himself, and he has the kind of master grasp of the character,” he said. “He has been really influential in both helping us understand the character, and also pushing us and challenging us. And I think more than anything -- and I don’t think it’s revealing anything for me to say this -- he’s really pushing us to try to do something new and different with the character. And that’s why he wants to play it, so that he can play something that honors the character, that’s true to the character. And like I said, he’s a very fierce protector of the character, but at the same time, he wants to see Jean-Luc Picard having experiences, having adventures, and be put in situations we haven’t seen before.”
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What do you think he meant by this? Does this mean we'll get more action-packed Picard from the movies (see below) than the diplomatic & philosophical (perhaps more aloof) Picard from TNG ?

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I really want it to be the fall of Picard, as his iromodic syndrome destroys him. Messing with our perspective like Hannibal when Will was being drugged.

And then of course something does come up and like "All Good Things" it's one last adventure....
 
As fit as Patrick Stewart is for his age, we can't look past the fact that he is 78. It will be difficult for him to play a more action-packed Picard without the generous use of stunt doubles.

I'm very hopeful about this series as some of my favourite TNG episodes were ones where Picard was more than just a Starfleet captain.

Think Redemption where he wass the Arbiter of Succession for the Klingons and Chain of Command or any other episode where he goes on covert missions.
 
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