Patrick Stewart in new Star Trek show

[GreyLord]

I'm pretty psyched on this, enough to buy whatever service is streaming it when it comes out. I DO hope that they show some of the Next Gen cast in the future, if only for cameos to show how they turned out (and hopefully with good futures...such as Riker as an Admiral and other such things).

But, I'd only really want them to focus on Cameos and do a majority on a New Cast with a New life that Picard is now leading. The question is what type of thing will it be that they explore?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

It took me far too long to get what this was teasing...

I clearly was too subtle, or not many here watched Logan.

Honestly, a Lore’s revenge story would be cool. But not going to ever happen as Bret Spiner has aged hard, and can’t pull off the ageless android anymore. Not without a heavy dose of still super expensive de-aging CGI.

Just recast the role. Say Data/B4 picked a new face.

We’ve had (at least) four TV episodes and one movie dealing with Picard’s relationship with the Borg. That horse has been flogged. We don’t bee an entire series (or season) dealing with them.
Honestly, I’d be happy if the just say the Borg were dealt a crippling blow at the end of Voyager and collapsed as a power. They’ve been done.

If they say he is in a different place now, I don't see how revisiting old wounds could be the focus of the story.

 

[Mallus]

As of right now I'm torn between what I want out of the new show. While I'm at least semi-serious about wanting a retiree rom-com starring Jean-Luc and Vash, that's not going to happen. More realistically, do I want...

a) More of the same? Basically The Orville with 100% more Patrick Stewart and 100% less Seth McFarlane (but exactly the same amount of surprise celebrity cameos/guest stars). High quality Star Trek comfort food that tries to capture the essence of TNG.

Or...

b) Something more ambitious? What a recent io9 article described as "Last Jedi-ing the Hell out of Captain Picard". I keep thinking of Stewart's acting chops, the penchant for Picard to blow off steam cosplaying Shakespeare on the holodeck, and this leads me to envision the new series using King Lear as a touchstone. A Lear-ed up Picard, played by a 78 year-old Stewart could be downright majestic.

This is probably influenced by the bravura performance of King Lear starring Frank Langella I saw at BAM a few years back. Wrestling with mortality and regret gave two of the best Star Trek stories, ie The Wrath of Khan an Inner Light. Could be time for another go.