No TNG crew - tough sell!
But we'll see
shareWon't miss most of 'em....
? Not a TNG fan? I like the whole crew.
shareNo Wesley Crusher? Hell no!
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MovieChat Forums > Star Trek: Picard (2020) Discussion > No TNG crew - tough sell!
Oh I'm sure some of them will turn up... now and then.
I'm just looking forward to some post-Nemesis Star Trek, and if the Romulus really was destroyed by the Hobus Star supernova. :0
I hope some of them will make an appearance at least.
shareEeeew imagine bringing the whole crew back and squeezing their crusty lumpy old bodies into tight spandex.
I'd like to see Data return as he's kool and the gang and won't have aged. Just cgi his face.
I see that sexuality is still a mystical part of life to you. Then I suggest you watch or rewatch TNG first. It's great educational material.
shareData is dead, yo.
But yeah, peeps would have loved to see TNG continuation - not this half-arsed series. Then again, the word is, CBS does not hold the copyrights to the original/tng series - which is why their series HAVE to be different in order to avoid a lawsuit. Why CBS did not purchase the said rights in order to do this proper, I have no idea.
In any case, given the new SJW trend, if the old TNG crew did return, it would be led by a woman (Picard would be senile - like in Logan), and half of them would come out as gay - so perhaps leaving the TNG crew alone might be a good thing.
How does CBS not own the shows? I thought they owned the entire franchise of Star Trek. I just assumed a complete TNG followup would be very expensive (those actors could command a pretty good salary - it would add up extremely high with seven of them) and also impractical (they're all in their 60s now and I doubt they all want to get into the daily grind of a series again).
shareCBS owns some of the rights and Paramount owns some. If the new Picard series wanted to reference Admiral Janeway for example, I think they'd have to work something out with Paramount and they don't always seem to play well together.
Star Trek was created decades ago by Gene Roddenberry, and now we have these useless corporate money people doggedly defending "their rights" over his creation. If I invented an actual working warp drive I'd only have exclusive rights to market the technology for 17 years under US patent law. Copyright needs to be massively reformed imo. The Trek franchise should've entered the public domain years ago.
Yes, some of the original TNG actors might be down with the idea of reprising their series roles but certainly not all of them. These days seasons have dropped to about half their former length of 20 to 24 episodes. The shooting schedule is still grueling though. And the action sequences ... well let's just say that would be a lot of Advil!
No Wesley Crusher, No Dice!
sharePatrick Stewart crushes the rest of them. I like the show plenty, but his continued work post-TNG affirms that he is the Captain of that particular crew.
shareStill - it's like seeing Jordan play without the Chicago bulls team. They complete each other - but going solo, they all kind of suck.
shareNot Stewart ! I'd love to see him in a play or a teleplay. The rest are just guest stars it would be fun to see again. I guess LeVar Burton has had some note post TNG.
shareTrue - Stewart was the only one who landed a few big leading roles (mainly professor x). I haven't seen LeVar do much, but Brent Spiner did get a few decent supporting roles in big films. Everyone else... not so much.
Then again, even Stewart said a number of times that Spiner was the best skilled actor on the crew.
Still, Stewart is old - and after he hyped Logan as being the best x-men film and I thought it was one of the worst - I'm not sure I trust his judgement in picking future projects. Furthermore - TNG was good because of the chemistry between the crew - Cap. Picard wasn't that decent of a character to lead a show on his own - especially without a spaceship. I have a suspicion this will be like Logan - Cap. Picard demented in an extremely boring series.
From what I understand he ends up commanding a ship full of ex-starfleet people and a few criminal types. We've seen him fit into that kind of environment before. It'll be interesting to see what he does when he isn't bound by the chain of command or the Prime Directive. Instead of "Make it so" his new signature line will be "Screw it!". 😎
shareI agree that he's old, but so are the rest of the TNG gang. I'm not saying I'm all in on this project -- hardly. But in his prime PS was a Shakesperian and I have a lot of admiration for that. A slightly younger Derek Jacobi, or Kenneth Branaugh w/o hair.
shareI'm not watching that crap.
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