...Kirsten Beyer being Trek alumni also didn't stop her from writing absolute crap for Discovery...
Looking at the writing credits, she is credited with the Pahvo episode, which was a good character piece for Saru. Not great, and and little underwhelming after the hype it was getting beforehand from the cast and crew, but not crap. Did she have other credits I am missing?
Nah, the Golden age of Star Trek was when Shatner and Stewart shared the cover of Time magazine together. That's as big as Trek ever got. This is certainly a wonderful new era of Trek goodness to be sure, but not quite a "golden age" in comparison.
So, "Sliver Age" it is then.
I was going to make that same point. Although I imagine the TNG characters would show up in some compacity, this seems like it's a Picard show, and not a TNG revival.
They have to bring back some 24th century cast. If nothing else, Stewart is so close to them, and if this is really going to be a personal story about Picard how can they not involve his "family" from the Ent-D and -E?
Well maybe there can just be no Klingons at all. Ron D Moore isn't involved, is he? We don't need to have all Klingons all the time. It's my admittedly minority opinion that the introduction of Klingons in S4 of DS9 was a bad move, especially when season 3 was setting up the Romulans for a more prominent role. I think we can thank the influence of RDM for that, and for the tedious introduction of Worf.
Don't hurt me.
As far as I understand it, the studio suits were the ones to push for the introduction of the Klingons, and I don't think they pushed the Romulans out, but rather pushed the development of the Dominion War back. Also, don't blame Moore for the Klingons - he was labeled "the Klingon guy" because he had wrote a few early episodes on TNG about them, and thus he became the in-house expert. I don't think he was pushing for the Klingons to be more/always involved.
Read fade in by Michael piller.
Stewart and Spiner let ego get in the way of story.
I think that is a little exaggerated. From what I remember, Pillar and Berman and the others in charge of crafting Insurrection were always keeping in mind what Stewart would like, but not that Stewart was driving things. I specifically remember Piller talking about how he thought Stewart might negatively react to something that Piller had thought of for he movie that might put Picard in a negative light, but that Stewart was mellow and cool with it.
I just don't see that happening. This show seems to be a vehicle for Patrick Stewart. It's a Picard story, not a "let's catch up with the old crew or other crews" story. As for more 24th century shows....we'll see. These things are expensive and I don't really see them making an investment in something they'd have to create from whole cloth. It makes more sense for them to spin-off in the current DSC era in order to reuse a lot of stuff...
I think it is much more likely (since they are already getting their money's worth out of the Discovery sets by reusing them as a variety of ships and locations), that this Picard show will be a jumping off point for more 25th century Trek. Put a lot of money into this big splashy Picard/24th century revival, and then spin that into other 25th century properties - ameliorating the costs.
I really don't want it to involve the Borg, but let's be honest here, it will involve the Borg. DIS people already said that they'd like to redesign the Borg, but considering it is mostly the same people, they might have been referring this project. And at least it would make more sense here. Anyway, if that happens, it would be cool to have Picard work with Seven.'Professor Annika Hansen, Federation's foremost Borg expert.'
I hadn't heard about the "DIS people" (i.e., the makeup and alien guys) wanting to redo the Borg...I don't really like the Idea of having them appear in Discovery. That just further messes with the timeline that Voyager already broke with the story of the Hansons. (ENT and "Regeneration" was a good way of doing it, suspenseful, and fitting to the outcome from First Contact). That said, I would be interested in seeing what they could do with the costumes, make-up, and effects for the Borg in the 25th century (though I wouldn't want to whole show to involve the Borg, just one small story line maybe).
If I become emperor of Trek, this series will see a Jem'Hadar incursion against DS9, and Ambassador Picard, Captain Worf, and Captain Kira will go through the wormhole to seek out the Dominion for an explanation, picking up Sisko and Odo on the way
I would watch this.
The only way this works is they return to the TNG aesthetic ...no one wants to see Picard dumped in to the middle to JJ Trek looking-lens flaring sets and decoration. People are longing for the "old look" which still holds up. Its one of the reasons THE ORVILLE has done so well.
I could see the designs going to a very sharp edge silver and chrome look instead of Voyager's (and other shows like the Expanse) blue ascetic for the future (see VOY's "Relativity")
Have you seen Undiscovered Country? The premise was good. The execution was severely lacking.
I think Undiscovered Country is great and almost perfect on most levels.
The more I think about this, the more I dislike this news and the more I realize that Hollywood is slowly becoming incapable of originality.
I can't really imagine what it would be like to hear about a new Picard/25th century Trek show and think for even a second that it was in any way bad news or lacking in originality. That just blows my mind.
