Patrick Stewart to Return as 'Jean-Luc Picard' for New "STAR TREK" Series

I have a feeling he's going to just have a cameo for whatever new show this will end up being.

I haven't been able to watch Discovery, and I guess I won't be see seeing TNG2 either.


I guess "cable" Television is now dead?
Nothing but Internet Streaming from now on?

I hope other consumers here make enough money to subscribe to every fucking company now with its own streaming services... 100s of internet channels all charging their own subscriber's fees... It's BS!


I guess it's only the ST Movies for me from now on... At least for a while... Until about 10 years from now when movie theaters start going out of business, when all the major movies, like the Star Trek movies, are only be available from streaming companies like CBS All-Access too...

I've been thinking about this all day. The way I look at it, CBS All Access has to stick with STD because its their "flagship" show and they're not getting sign-ups for anything else, BUT the fan base is heavily polarized by the show and Trekkies have NOT embraced the new characters the way people love Spock, Data, Picard, the Emergency Medical Hologram, Seven of Nine, etc. The "solution" at CBS is to thus use "popular" Star Trek to try and "sell" the public on STD. I'm 90% sure that Picard will be retconned to be a huge admirer of "the great 23rd Starfleet officer Michael Burnham" (he'll suddenly love her 10X more than Dixon Hill), and they probably do an crossover episode with Sonequa Martin-Green as "Special Guest Star" where Picard interacts with a holographic recreation of Burnham "early in her career aboard the U.S.S. Discovery" and the whole conversation is a not-so-subtle advertisement to get the audience to tune into STD to learn about the "events" Picard is referencing. STD fanboys will gloat about it and say stuff like "If Discovery isn't canon, then how come CAPTAIN PICARD admires Michael Burnham? You can't get any more "true" Star Trek than PICARD himself!" blah blah blah. STD will do the same and get "classic" characters people love, like Spock and Christopher Pike, to "headline" the show for the second season and convince gullible viewers to tune in to see these "iconic" characters. Of course, with Kurtzman at the helm, its pretty much guranteed that "Spock", "Pike" and "Picard" will NOT be faithful to the original versions we've known for decades, even if they are played the same actor.

I'm not a huge Picard fan but could be interesting

Where is Ira Steven Behr, or  Ronald  D. Moore or even Rick Berman: I would trust these guys over Alex Kurtzman or the current Star Trek Writers.

You have absolutely exactly mirrored my own thoughts.

Here's a post I made in another forum a couple of days ago.

"I was overjoyed at the thought of a new Picard show, as many are.

However.

Now I think about it... I can't really believe that this is going to be what I initially thought it would. That is to say, I don't think this is actually going to be a Prime universe sequel to TNG.

If I had to bet, I would say that what they're going to do is use Stewart / Picard to try and bring credibility to the Discovery universe. So for instance, I think we will likely see Picard talking to the Discovery Klingorcs as if they are Klingons. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if they try and get Michael Dorn into Klingorc makeup and call the result Worf.

And you can bet there is going to be that scene, where Picard says something like "Ah yes, there are some great vessels in Starfleet history... the Enterprise is only one. There is also the Yorktown, the Franklin, the Discovery..." Or makes some fawning comment about how Michael Burnham was the greatest officer in all of history and a personal role model of his.

Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong. But at this point I have absolutely no faith that the people making these shows can produce a good Star Trek series. Or even that they want to.

Time will tell, I guess."

And...

PICARD : "You know, I read all her starship logs as a child. It's what inspired me to want to be part of Starfleet in the first place. Just the thought that I could be part of the institution she was part of... I felt like if I became the best officer I possibly could, it would be almost like I was winning her approval. And if you cadets do the best job you possibly can, she may smile down from heaven upon you, too."