Patrick Stewart Reflects on 'Star Trek' at 60: Why He Wants More Spinoffs
a month ago by ValueSubtracted to c/startrek
The initial plan for Picard was not to have most of the Next Generation cast appear. You even told them that during a gathering.
Fun Fact. In the ready room interview Brent Spiner retells, in Stewart’s voice, what they were told over dinner:
yes there’s a new show and no you’re not in it
I love you, Patrick Stewart, and Captain Picard will ALWAYS hold a special and magical place in my heart, and I will always show you your due respect.
...but YOU are the one who put a dune buggy chase into Nemesis. Please stop thinking about the future direction of the franchise.
Pretty sad they didn't figure out awesome future dune buggy with a really stylish name. It was only mentioned 3 times
I want more lower Decks, but like... After a few years have passed. The main cast are still on the same ship (even if not the cerritos, but seeing them at slightly higher ranks with Ransom in command would be interesting) but I also think the show ended in a good place.
I REALLY want to see some TV-MA style section 31 show. Especially if we aren't sure if the main cast are actually the bad guys or not. Anti-hero style, but like.... Actual anti-hero, not "good guy but they swear" type.
Also I'm sure they could make a medical drama, although I doubt I'd watch it... Heck, set it on the USS Pasteur with an older Dr crusher in charge.
Ooh a more action-oriented show following a crew during the dominion war would be awesome.
And set up a 24/7 livestream following the crew of the Lower Decks in a Borg ship. I'm sure it would be riveting
I really liked the idea of Starfleet Academy. The show we got has problems, but it still mostly works.
I think a medical drama show would have issues because one main issue of medical dramas is "lack of", be it lack of people, lack of supplies, etc. But in Star Trek world you wouldn't have a lack of anything. Although if you make it animated with really weird medical problems and/or set it somewhere like a warzone, maybe it could work.
A Voyager-like scenario would work. A new part of space, not explored, new diseases, actually limited resources (unlike Voyager).
I'm pretty sure one of the creators/writer of voyager was really disappointed that it never actually fulfilled the premise at all, so he went and made the Battlestar Galactica reboot in 2003 as essentially what Voyager should've been if the premise was taken seriously.
Galactica '03 is one of those shows I'd say is as perfect as can be.
I get all giddy every time I see them use inertia instead of "ww2 dogfighting but in space".
The one episode where they shoot the absolute fuck out of the clone ship by doing a flyby and rotating 90 degrees to coast past the sides.... chef's kiss
I actually haven't watched PIC or ST:A and I don't think I will. The tones of the first episodes just don't vibe with me, but I'm glad others enjoy them. I absolutely love SNW and LD. DISC is okay as an alternate universe starfleet, although I have my issues with certain things (like ship size... Oof)
I already want a more action-oriented dominion war era show, so I could get behind a concurrent medical drama on the front lines, crossover episode once or twice and all that.
I disagree that the main driving force of a medical show is lack of resources, as Grail said, HOUSE, MD is a good example of. Also I have seen a bit of early Grey's anatomy and I didn't notice lack of resources. But also as gedfromgont said, a Voyager type show where they're cut off from starfleet would totally work to keep their resources limited. Make it a medical ship or station, and you're set! Give them that "year of hell" feeling from Voyager.
If you do ever watch Picard, go ahead and skip seasons 1 and 2.
@samus12345 @EggInDisguise I've had Picard on my short list, but keep hearing bad things about it. Is season 3 worth it on its own?
As for the resource limited show, I think I'm still burned out from that premise from Battlestar Galactica, never mind Voyager. Politics and drama within crews is great, but longer arching drama outside of a single ship (or fleet) makes for a good series.
Lol that was my comment about Col. Carter.
I would absolutely love to see researchers with military and exploration experience getting their hands dirty with new tech.
There was something special about col. Carter reverse engineering some alien tech using just an oscilloscope and pentium computer with a CRT monitor in a bunker that I think might not be possible to recreate in trek. I'd love to see them try.
Fuck it. Let's take this in a strange direction.
Give me Star Trek HGN. It's a live show featuring a guy in full Ferengi make up hawking actual items you can buy, each either an actual piece of Trek merchandise or some oddity or curio that can be passed off as some interstellar artifact.
I want more lower Decks, but like... After a few years have passed. The main cast are still on the same ship (even if not the cerritos, but seeing them at slightly higher ranks with Ransom in command would be interesting)
I dunno, I feel like the charm of Lower Decks was that it was about low rank schmucks.
What if it was primarily from the perspective of the new Lower Deckers? (The prior characters, now senior officers, being more rarely appearing.)
Maybe? It could possibly work, but seems like it would feel derivative.
Hear me out: an anthology style series about the lesser talked about sides of the Federation and other groups.
A research team spending a year on an asteroid studying strange readings. A look at the Star Fleet weapons research lab where they are developing new lasers. An episode that follows a Ferengi pawn ship as he travels from place to place trying to upsell his wares. A Star Fleet inspector who checks in on stations that haven't had an official inspection in decades. A power struggle at the Klingon company that makes Raktajino. A Romulan crew that stops a galactic level threat that no one else ever hears about due to their secretive nature. The monotony inside Relay Outpost 247-B as it's skeleton crew receives and transmits messages from starships at the edge of uncharted space.
I know a lot of the charm of Star Trek is following a familiar cast of characters, but it doesn't HAVE to be that way. I think an anthology would be really interesting and could show sides of the universe that serialized show would avoid or struggle with.
I do a full season of The Shining in space
You might like Event Horizon or Sunshine
Star Trek: Legacy with Captain Seven 🙂🖖
I was thinking more "Middle Decks!" but essentially yes. Same vibes. Probably slightly less real alcohol than the usual LD gathering.
Bridge Crew
As much fun as that might be, I think I'd rather see them climb the ladder and be mid-level officers. They still have to deal with senior officers but they also have a lot more responsibilities.
picard was amazing, i want legacies
but i don't want paramount or skydance involved
Odd headline, since the quoted interview bits don't actually say anything to do with wanting more spin-offs. But it shouldn't be that surprising. Who doesn't want to earn more money?
If there are spin-offs, it should be something new, rather than being tied to the past. Trek suffers a bit from nostalgia, and being over-reliant on it is one of the franchise's biggest weaknesses.
There's really good show material just looking at and dealing with the Federation's bias towards organic humanoids, for example. We see it pop up repeatedly across multiple shows, where Starfleet/the Federation are perfectly happy allowing/doing things for non-humanoid/non-organic species that they would never have allowed if they weren't.
Repurposing the EMH MK. I units for dilithium mining, compelling Maddox to use the information he learned about Data to create an explicitly lobotomised version to use as a workforce, or ordering Picard to deploy a memetic virus designed to kill all the Borg, for example. The Federation would never have done that to its humans, and the closest match would be more like something the Dominion would do. But since none of them are organic humanoids, all is okay.
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