Should Picard's name be mentioned in Star Trek XI?

[Superman]

The closest thing I want would be something like this.

Bones: Alright, Jim, we've got some time. Instead of chess, how about a game of poker?

Spock: Fascinating. I have read of the game, but have never had the opportunity.

Kirk: well, Spock, it's easy. Once you have your cards, you just have to pick a card, any card.

\S/

 

[137th Gebirg]

Zachary Smith said:

UWC Defiance said:

Zachary Smith said:
Pic-who?

Picard. You know, the guy who saved everyone after Kirk fell off a bridge and died.

Oh, the bald guy who just wasn't clever enough to simply exit the Nexus two weeks earlier than he chose to do so and thereby save the space observatory and its crew from Romulan attack, spare the crash of the Ent-D, safely and harmlessly arrest the villan for trafficking in a controlled substance, prevent his beloved nephew from dying in a fire while at the same time rescuing a legendary figure of history from a sort of living purgatory?

THAT Picard?

Yep, that's the one!

Seriously - leave it to a reference to Chateau Picard champagne or something - for the christening of the new Enterprise. Beyond that...feh...

 

[RookieBatman]

Cary L. Brown said:
If a character BELONGS there (say, if we're talking pre-TOS and we need to see Kirk's best friend, we should see him as the character already established as such)...

I assume you're referring to Gary Mitchell, and not Spock. As for the rest of the post, I agree with your statements wholeheartedly from an artistic standpoint, but then, I also don't mind fanboy references, from a fanboy standpoint. (How's that for playing both sides?)

 

[Cat Scratch Fever]

With the film supposedly respecting the canon, it wouldn't be a bad thing to have a Picard cameo during the old Spock segment. Maybe have it in the early 25th century where Picard has stepped down as captain of the Enterprise. When Spock talks about Kirk's first best destiny as a starship captain, Picard mentions how Kirk told him not to retire or let himself be taken away from his bridge in anyway. However, would Patrick Stewart do it?

 

[Baldus885]

Aragorn said:
Maybe they can just have a character named Chakotay-Luc "Trip" Tiberius Sisko III to get all five shows mentioned.

And at UWC Defiance and Zachary Smith, too.

In answer to the OP, no, this is the kind of references the movie can do without.

 

[Woulfe]

It'd be like saying that the hull of the Enterprise is made of Roddenberryium, it's not needed really.

- W -
* What would Roodenberryium be like anyway ? *

 

[RookieBatman]

Woulfe said:
* What would Roodenberryium be like anyway ? *

I don't know, but it wouldn't be as strong as rodinium, because, by golly, rodinium is the strongest substance in the known universe, and if Abrams doesn't know that, this movie is gonna flop!

 

[Just_Bob]

Temis the Vorta said:
No Picard mention. Too fanboyish.

I agree. There's no need to mention Picard in Trek XI.

 

[Professor Zoom]

I think my eyes would roll so far in the back of my head at the mention of Picard, Sisko, Janeway or Archer not only would I die, but as my head explodes the fragments would take out most of the theater.

So, let's not make me become a mass murderer just so we can have some fanwankery and make the Star Trek universe all the smaller.

 

[xerxes99]

Picard, or any other character not in the movie for a real reason should not be mentioned, and no one should have a walk-on for the sake of showing them.

It always comes across to me that the federation is terribly inbred. There are only a few blood lines of importance, people are way to often related, and only a handful of people do anything of significance. It is a big galaxy- certainly there has to be other who actually contribute in some way.

 

[number6]

Professor Zoom said:
not only would I die, but as my head explodes the fragments would take out most of the theater.

Now that's actually worth seeing.. I hope Abrams throws in a reference or two to Porthos or this film will totally suck.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Professor Zoom said:
I think my eyes would roll so far in the back of my head at the mention of Picard, Sisko, Janeway or Archer not only would I die, but as my head explodes the fragments would take out most of the theater.

This is what camera phones and YouTube were made for!

As it turns out, Evil Picard from the Mirror Universe is the big villian in "Star Trek XI." He's been sent to this Universe to save Kirk from dying at Veridian, in the hope that Kirk's ego will continue to expand to the point of physically crushing the Federation.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Here's how Picard's name can be mentioned:

Kirk and Spock land on Vulcan, a notoriously hot desert planet.

Kirk: This hot dry air is making my nose clog up. I've got lots of bogies up there. How do I get them out?

Spock: Pick them. Pick hard!


(Tumbleweed)


I'll get my coat ...

 

[seigezunt]

Sure, he can, only if Spock starts telling Kirk about all the great wusses he's met.

 

[Professor Zoom]

UWC Defiance said:

Professor Zoom said:
I think my eyes would roll so far in the back of my head at the mention of Picard, Sisko, Janeway or Archer not only would I die, but as my head explodes the fragments would take out most of the theater.

This is what camera phones and YouTube were made for!

As it turns out, Evil Picard from the Mirror Universe is the big villian in "Star Trek XI." He's been sent to this Universe to save Kirk from dying at Veridian, in the hope that Kirk's ego will continue to expand to the point of physically crushing the Federation.

GAH! *Explosion*

I'll make sure my wife brings her cellphone the night we see the movie. If anything comes from it, I'll be sure to put in my will that she must post on youtube ASAP.

 

[shatastrophic]

I'm a huge Kirk fan, but we don't need to bash Picard because he doesn't know how to fight, he's french. But I would hope there would be no references to anyone else. Besides if there were going to be, the only member from the cast that might sign on would probably be Frakes, he loves Riker cameos.

 

[Jon1701]

UWC Defiance said:

Professor Zoom said:
I think my eyes would roll so far in the back of my head at the mention of Picard, Sisko, Janeway or Archer not only would I die, but as my head explodes the fragments would take out most of the theater.

This is what camera phones and YouTube were made for!

As it turns out, Evil Picard from the Mirror Universe is the big villian in "Star Trek XI." He's been sent to this Universe to save Kirk from dying at Veridian, in the hope that Kirk's ego will continue to expand to the point of physically crushing the Federation.

Is he in a 29th Century timeship?

 

[Jon1701]

ON TOPIC

As others have remarked above - this making the universe smaller shit (ie mentioning Picard), is what messed up the Star Wars prequels.

Darth Vader created C3P0?

Fuck. Off.