TNG Returns!

[WarpFactorZ]

That is putting words in my mouth. Like I said, we have no details of how the aging pragram works.

One thing we do know: it doesn't work when the head is disconnected from the body (else I shudder to think what they would have found in that cave in Time's Arrow!).

If the Riker character hadn't been framed as a man of action initially then it would be a different story...maybe. I just think as he looks now there's no way for him to be Riker the swashbuckler type with the twinkle in his eye.

Riker the 35-year-old was a swashbuckling man of action. Riker the 65-year-old is likely a desk jockey admiral who spent at least a decade becoming used to sitting in a chair on the Titan, where he learned it's probably wiser not to blindly leap where angels fear to tread.

And besides, as someone pointed out upthread: the modern audience wants to see diversity on screen. They want to see average people like them who look like them, dealing with all of life's problems like them. They don't want perfection.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Mmh, sorry to get a bit technical, but I don't think we can talk of an aging "subroutine" or program. There's a difference between software and hardware here.
Sure, Data's dreams are managed and processed by programs - because they're basically brain activities. They're part of his software interface, like our consciousness and dreams are part of our biological brain interface.
Aging is a completely different thing. That would involve specific hardware mechanics Data doesn't seem to possess, based on what we know from the series. He would be able to grow grey locks of hair, he would be able to change his bioplast face for one that looks older ; but he'd still be unable to 'age' as we biological lifeforms intend it. A routine (software) won't be able to change the fact that his body (hardware) doesn't age.

Maybe when his mother died he analyzed her aging program and applied it to his own.

 

[Leviathan]

If the return more Futurama than Indiana Jones then OK....they'll need to tread carefully.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I'm surprised so many people see no problem with casting an adventure show with a cast ranging in age from 63-77.

 

[Twilight Phoenix]

Maybe when his mother died he analyzed her aging program and applied it to his own.

But I'm pretty sure Juliana didn't have an aging "program" either, she was constructed with different hardware structures. So that would mean Data would have to transfer his conscience and neural pathways to another body with hardware similar to his gynoid mother's.
@Mojochi @Marynator Any thought on that topic ?

 

[Mojochi]

As accommodating as I might be to the nostalgia of seeing some of the old gang back on board, whether this is even remotely likely at all or not... one thing is clearly imperative. They must absolutely consider everything all of us think about it

 

[Mudd]

Recast Data. Find a good young woman actor to portray her.

 

[Phoenix219]

I wouldn't mind if they retconned all four TNG films out of existence. Generations single-handedly destroyed every closure TUC placed on the old crew, and the remaining films kept the TNG crew going too long past their "sell-by" date (though most of the characters were completely different than had been established by the series, anyway). Picard is not, and never was, John McLane. Data ain't no action her either.

Have this new "series" be a one-off miniseries, not a continuing one. Make it a real, honest-to-goodness TNG reunion adventure, set 25-30 years post-"All Good Things", that recaptures the tone of "Family" (one of my favorite episodes). Everyone has gone their separate ways -- some remain as career Starfleet officers, some left the service and are pursuing civilian life, some are gone. Some event brings them together for one last adventure.

Lastly, as someone said above, make this a sign-off for TNG along the lines of TUC (and this time, DON'T make the mistake of bringing them back afterward!).

Well, if all of the TNG movies (including Kirk's death) all happened inside the Matr...Nexus..... they just need to spring Picard and start with a clean slate. It could happen within the first 10 minutes.

 

[Relayer1]

Data ?

First appearance when Picard visits him is either captured from TNG and inserted like they did in the DS9 Tribbles episode, OR de-aged Spiner.

When next seen, rejoining his old comrades, he has aged.

'What happened Data ?'

'I considered this more appropriate. I have increased control of my surface detailing thesedays'.

 

[Twilight Phoenix]

You know what else could be interesting ? Movies about the past of TNG characters, like they did with TOS. Of course that'd mean complete recast, but it'd be fantastic to have a movie about Picard when he was in charge of the Star Gazer. And one about Data's past. And maybe one about what happened to Wes after he joined the voyager.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I wouldn't be that interested in origin stories, at least if those origins are the purpose of the project. Flashbacks, sure. But I am ten times less interested in a prequel than a sequel, it's time for Trek to move forward again.

 

[Roundabout]

I'm surprised so many people see no problem with casting an adventure show with a cast ranging in age from 63-77.

I am not crazy about seeing Star Trek: The Geriatric Generation.

As Kirk once noted in TWOK, "Galloping about the cosmos is a game for the young".

I would prefer to see a next next generation cast and crew, not the original TNG crew plodding around.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I am not crazy about seeing Star Trek: The Geriatric Generation.

As Kirk once noted in TWOK, "Galloping about the cosmos is a game for the young".

I would prefer to see a next next generation cast and crew, not the original TNG crew plodding around.

Exactly, I want them to go with a new/mostly new cast and if they want to have TNG/DS9/Voy recurring characters or guest appearances, that'd be great too. I say mostly new because I think having people like Nog or Icheb in the cast would be fantastic. Maybe Icheb and his wife Naomi?

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

Yeah, who is saying it's just a bunch if old people?
Patrick Stewart's Picard could very well be the only (or one of) TNG character, and the rest of the cast could be anything else. It could be as simple as something like the Stargate cast, with Picard as the general but not even the lead of the show.

All this talk of Data and there's zero reason to believe his name was even mentioned in the (rumoured) pitch.

 

[Jayson1]

That's what I was thinking. Picard is most likely going to be the only returning character if not maybe just one other for him to have a contemporary. Everyone else will make guest spots at best. The rest of the cast will be new and young I suspect. I could see a recast Data though so I am not sure if I would put that under a new or old character because it would be a little of both.

Jason

 

[F. King Daniel]

[Enterprise-D crew reunion 2299, in the grimdark Ten Forward of the Enterprise-E which has been completely reimagined. A Discovery-style Klingon walks in. His head bald, his skin jet-black. Contact lenses give his pupils a strange, alien shape]

DiscoWorf: Greetings, Admiral Picard.

Picard: Who the hell are you?? My Worf had hair! Your ridges are different! You're an imposter!

Beverly: (*sigh*) his Irumodic Syndrome is flaring up again...

 

[Khan 2.0]

What would the Enterprise look like? What would Worf look like? Would they acknowledge the events of the Countdown (to the 2009 reboot) comic as it was co-written by Alex Kurtzman?

could they acknowledge movie events in a series though? isn't there some rule to that now? (or maybe it wouldn't apply to comics?)

 

[Nyotarules]

We understand it's an actor playing a part. We can pretend we don't notice.

Like we did with the Klingons

I'm surprised so many people see no problem with casting an adventure show with a cast ranging in age from 63-77.

In the 24th century, aging will be treated like baldness

 

[tharpdevenport]

Like I said in a previous post, there can be a mystery that draws them together; it doesn't necessarily have to be an action flick. There have been plenty of TV movies and TV series will older leads that worked just fine.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I am not crazy about seeing Star Trek: The Geriatric Generation.

As Kirk once noted in TWOK, "Galloping about the cosmos is a game for the young".

I would prefer to see a next next generation cast and crew, not the original TNG crew plodding around.

Star Wreck V: The Undiscovered Nursing Home (it was an actual spoof novel).