Should Picard be the last major show to take place in that time period?

Same here. It's the previous century that I'd prefer to move on from, personally.

 

If they actually move in to the future and tell stories regarding people in that future with new technology, consequences and character changes then I'm all in.

However, I don't think we will ever move past darker storytelling when all the top episode lists are things like "City on the Edge of Forever" "Best of Both Worlds" and "Scorpion." Those are not happy stories.

 

It's amazing how very little I care about anything to do with time periods or timelines.

Give me cool Star Trek stories and characters. Everything else is wanky mineutia.

"I want my time period!" Man, we should listen to ourselves sometimes.

And frankly, for all the 24th century fans (which I count myself among, as DS9 is my close second favorite) who are so myopic about this topic....I'm sorry, but you got 22 seasons across 4 different series and 4 major motion pictures. When the franchise goes to other centuries or timelines it's a nice change from where the massive bulk of the franchise lived for so long.

 

The century matters less than how it's presented. If the 24th Century had always been portrayed as it is in Picard, I never would've been tired of it. Even DS9 is still defined by how it contrasts itself to Textbook TNG. Picard doesn't do that. It's its own thing with the 24th Century looking like a real, living universe. It's closer to a 2399 that I can actually picture, if we accept the conceit of humanoid aliens.

 

It would be nice to have that moment of self-reflection.

 

Bring on the 25th century! Which, could actually happen in the second season of Picard.

 

I hope they continue into the 25th century, no prequels please

 

*cough cough Discovery season 3 makes EVERYTHING a prequel cough cough*

 

We need at least one more.

Something that could pick up the threads from DS9 and Voyager, show where the other characters have gone and the sociopolitical development of the Federation and the Klingon Empire etc.

It would be possible to do something similar in Picard, but it would take it all the way into epic fanservice, where it's a bit more personal than that.

 

Bless you, I think that you are getting ill.
I didn't thought about Discovery, maybe because I am not a fan of that show

 

I put yes but then realized I don't really care. The time period means nothing to me. Yes, I grew up with the 24th century (even if I prefer the 23rd) but just give me entertaining stories. The tech, characters and all of that doesn't really matter to me.

 

Why? Many of the TNG, DS9 and Voy actors are still alive, might as well use them for cameos and such. Even TOS to TNG was 'only' 75 years.

 

I fully expect Pic to be the final series set in the TNG era. I always felt they should jump ahead a thousand years to avoid canon and now they’ve done that. There’s plenty of centuries between for future series.

 

Avoid what canon? 25th century is wide open.

 

Yes, I'm not a fan of the crazy advanced tech they had at the beginning of TNG, let alone what they had by the end of Voyager. To be honest I'm for a reboot/alt-universe show, as long as it has decent writers.

 

Although I consider myself a TOS guy, the stories of the 24th century spanned my childhood.

I watched from the TNG premiere, when I was in the first grade, pretty much all the way through Nemesis, a week before my 21st birthday.

I loved that world. So, yeah, I'd like to see it continue.

 

They're not introducing a new storytelling era a thousand years later by sending Discovery's crew to that time - they're quarantining the series there to alleviate all the continuity headaches it caused.

 

I'm 100% sure Strange New Worlds and Section 31 will continue Discovery's glorious interpretation of Trek continuity in the 23rd century

 

Discovery didn't even continue Discovery's interpretation of Trek continuity in the 23rd century.

 

I'd really like a show set in the late 25th century that features a collapsed Federation and an attempt to rebuild it.

But I have the feeling the next season of Disc might do something like that? So that might be off the table.

Yet I'd still really like a show set in the mid/late 25th century, just to see how everything has developed. They don't have to go crazy with the technology, but maybe at a point where they'd be able to launch long-term expeditions into one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies?