New Trek show...

[KevinM1]

About fucking time!

There has been to much retro shit in the Trekverse over the past decades.

First it was Enterprise, then the Jar Jar Abrams “Trek” reboots, and then Discovery, which I still haven’t seen.

But it has just been announced that they are going to be making a new Trek series, based two decades after the end of TNG and once again starring Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard!

Let’s hope it lives up to it’s potential!

I remember a Tonight Show episode with Patrick Stewart where he openly admired that it was "just about the money" as to why he played the role of Jean-Luc Picard.  It was such a letdown to hear him say that; Jay Leno, of course, took it all in stride.

I don't know how famous Stewart was across the pond before TNG, but in the states he was just a dude who had small parts in that crappy Dune movie and that trippy Excalibur movie. TNG offered him a way to increase his fame and bank account with very little risk (he could always simply go back to theater and small movie roles). That the role became iconic is a testament to both the writers of that era, and his performances (especially season 3 forward), but I neither doubt nor begrudge him for taking the role because he wanted to get paid for his craft.