Star Trek: Pick Your Card. A retired Starfleet officer sets out to uncover the seedy underbelly of the Alpha Quadrant Series of "Science" the Gathering.
Picard plays the host of "In Search of...", making it a meta-tribute to Nimoy, an in-universe examination of popular culture AND we can finally learn the secret of the Caramilk bar.
In all honesty, based off of the ending of All Good Things where Picard asks Q what he was trying to tell him and Q responds you'll find out. I'd hope it would be a sequel to that episode exploring whatever that was to mean. I do often wonder in that scene if Q was speaking of Humanity or just Picard.
I'd like to see him as a special envoy ambassador to new worlds hostile or not with Beverly his wife. He's got special carte blanche broader powers than a Captain and classified alien information that only he knows, plus I'd like to see him bring Data back on line slowly. Wesley in there with a major career change or a dramatic death, take your pick, but that's it. The rest of the cast be totally new. Alien archeology should also play a huge part in it as well like finding Q's origins or discovering more advanced Humans that treat us like their children. Big technological ships, more robots, more aliens, etc..
I don't see him as a captain, nor a Admiral. Maybe a Ambassador. Could be like the Buried Age where he's a civilian and he's on a archaeological dig. Give the show a Indiana Jones vibe but with sci-fi and not fantasy elements.
sir patrick already said that he will not be captain again there are only 3 possible options for me 1)archaeologist traveling to different ruins throughout the galaxy 2) Admiral 3) director of the Star Fleet Academy
My vote for the show's theme would be AC/DC's "Back in Black." It would be awesome theme for a show with Picard returning as the action hero from the TNG movies. But with cool sunglasses this time. Kor
Picard is retired and exploring the galaxy following up on archeological interests. He happens upon a world with a primitive civilisation of humans tens of thousands of years old and no clue as to how this off-shoot of humanity originated. Fascinated, he lands his shuttle on the main continent, cloaks it and heads off undercover to explore. He heads north and moves through the land innocuously, observing a world being ravaged by war and violence. He finally happens upon a great wall of ice - a wall he knows could not have arose naturally. As he begins to investigate this mysterious monolithic structure a great, terrifying roar echoes across the land. Picard looks up and - to his horror - blue tendrils of energy are ripping thru the structure and causing it's collapse. He runs as fast as he can from the calamity and happens upon two others who escaped the destruction - a one-eyed man and the other with a fiery red beard. The two men catch their breath and observe Picard with curiosity. There is something very ... different ... about this man. As The Long Night descends ... *THE PICARD WHO WAS PROMISED has come. *High Valyrian is a very flexible language.
He’s the only real character in the show and all the scenes take place in the holodeck that Picard is running for research purposes or something.
The series opens with 100-year-old Picard putting on dark sunglasses and blaring AC/DC on his radio while he speeds across the landscape on his dune buggy as Starfleet attempts to hail him.
Picard gets stranded on 21st century Earth and has to learn to live in the backwards, primitive culture that he's always despised. A sitcom.
All of those sound boring for modern audiences. Picard and Q should be traveling the cosmos together. Get in Vash for a very special sweeps week episode.
^^ And that is why I should read threads' more immediate responses before summarily posting my response instead of the other way around. Posting just after the internet-winning entry is impossible to outdo. (maybe Q will send him there, LOL)