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Worf in "Picard"

Hopefully at Newyork comicon we'll get more news about the Picard series and the cameos by the TNG cast will finally be revealed.
 
I'm hoping for glimpses of Will and Deanna from NYCC as well as maybe more Starfleet stuff (including Picard's flashback scene, in uniform?) and possibly a release date?

(I don't ask for much, do I? :p)
 
All that's been confirmed is that we'll see him on a Cube (this comes from the Actor), so yeah half of that is speculation on my part.
Oh, OK cool, I must have missed the bit about him being on a cube.
As with any new version of modern Trek, it gets exactly one episode to impress me. If that episode includes Worf, the Character Who Ate the Star Trek Franchise (and thank goodness they never shoehorned him into Voyager), I will not be impressed, and will not watch any further.

Wasn't the series finale good enough for TNG? It was a decent sendoff for the TNG characters. The movies were lamentably awful, and I can't see this as being anything worth my time (and I say this as a Seven of Nine fan).
Even First Contact? I know a lot of people don't like Insurrection (which I love), and Nemesis (which I don't), but most people seem to like FC. It's not only one of my favorite Trek movie, but one of my favorite movie overall.
And if they follow through on this premise, that's awesome! But, what I'm reading is the constant desire to insert all of the TNG crew in some way, shape, matter or form. Yes, I understand that these people are an important part of Picard's past. That doesn't mean everyone needs to show up, in my view.
I'm hoping by the time the show is over we'll have gotten at least one appearance by each of the TNG main characters, but I'm really hoping they space them out with only one or two characters appearing in one or two episodes a season.
 
Nothing in the initial teaser or the trailer they released later makes me think, "This is like TNG!"

It won't be like TNG. It'll be like Picard.

I have a feeling they will update his makeup -- just like they updated Kor, Koloth, and Kang for DS9 "Blood Oath".

The general look between TNG-era Klingons and Discovery Season 2 Klingons is not so different that they couldn't update Worf and have him still look like Worf. The makeup change would be far less than the change made to Kor, Koloth, and Kang in DS9 versus their TOS look.

Here is Worf (from First Contact, I think) compared to Discovery Season 2 L'Rell:

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Other than the neck, I think Worf's look in First Contact would still work on Discovery Season 2. With regards to the neck... let's just say I won't complain if they don't "update" that. ;)
 
Nothing in the initial teaser or the trailer they released later makes me think, "This is like TNG!"

It won't be like TNG. It'll be like Picard.
Well, the teaser definitely left me thinking "This isn't at all what I expected." So, hopefully, you are quite right.
 
Even First Contact? I know a lot of people don't like Insurrection (which I love), and Nemesis (which I don't), but most people seem to like FC. It's not only one of my favorite Trek movie, but one of my favorite movie overall.
Even First Contact. It was the least awful of the TNG movies, but that's not saying a lot. Zephram Cochrane was never presented in either the TOS episode or in any of the TrekLit novels that used him as a loudmouthed drunken buffoon who gave the impression that he could barely add 2 and 2, never mind invent a ship capable of warp drive.

What they should have done was optioned the novel Federation, by the Reeves-Stevens writing team, as it would have been a superior substitute for both Generations and First Contact.
 
I'm hoping by the time the show is over we'll have gotten at least one appearance by each of the TNG main characters, but I'm really hoping they space them out with only one or two characters appearing in one or two episodes a season.

Out of the 7 main characters there's just Worf, LaForge and Crusher to confirm a return (the latter would be a good one given the title character - didn't she and Picard get close? Where did she go?) I'd like to see LaForge as Captain of the Challenger then you could have a Galaxy Class vessel, the icon of TNG. And Worf is iconic, plus I'd love to see the debate as to his facial design! There were two other TNG regular actors, Wesley, does anyone want him back? And did Sela survive the destruction of Romulus? Maybe she had a daughter who looks just like Tasha too!

Oh and we must see Guinan again. Whoopi is a legend.

Before all this happened I never imagined Sir Pat would return but I did imagine a ship with crew members from NextGen, DS9 and Voyager. Robert Picardo has said he has been contacted regarding an appearance in Season 2, I hope more poeple from the other shows get an opportunity to appear - O'Brien has connections to Picard; Quark could be on a planet somewhere trying to strike a deal; Picard and Janeway (Rtd) could compare notes on wether they preferred Captaincy or the Admiralty.
 
It would be very weird for a story that involves Data (somehow) not to include his best friend.

Unless Picard has to break the news of Geordi's death to a ressurected Data or somesuch.
 
Even First Contact. It was the least awful of the TNG movies, but that's not saying a lot. Zephram Cochrane was never presented in either the TOS episode or in any of the TrekLit novels that used him as a loudmouthed drunken buffoon who gave the impression that he could barely add 2 and 2, never mind invent a ship capable of warp drive.
FC and ENT established that he went from disillusioned drunk money guy to rhetorical nonsense speaking guy after FC. TOS shows him much later in life, so the only contradiction is his young appearance, but that could have been a gift from the companion.
 
Yes, he even says he was an old man and the companion restored his youth.

He's also kinda crazy. He tells Kirk "I was 87 years old and I wanted to die in space so I took off" His disappearance is touched upon in Enterprise.
 
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Zephram Cochrane looked awful in First Contact, for someone who's supposed to be 33. There's no two ways about it. Even people who I wish I didn't know who have done the hardest drugs don't look like that. But I like the movie enough that I overlook it.
 
Zephram Cochrane looked awful in First Contact, for someone who's supposed to be 33. There's no two ways about it. Even people who I wish I didn't know who have done the hardest drugs don't look like that. But I like the movie enough that I overlook it.
I just figured he very much lied about his age (it's obvious he's older than the in-universe, TNG history records indicate) and with it being after a nuclear war, his birth records were probably lost and he made chit up.

I've had a couple of friends through the years who were super intelligent but were lousy drunks.
 
I'm 40 (granted I look like I'm in my 20s). No he can't.

45-49, maaaaaaybe....

Yeah. I'm 40 too. Aside from my beard having gone almost entirely white and my hairline creeping back a tiny bit, I don't look any different than I did when I was 28. No wrinkles to speak of yet aside from some on my forehead - which I had back then too.
 
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