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Sir Patrick Stewart will reprise the role of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in a brand new "Star Trek" series on CBS All Access, Variety has learned.

The exact plot details are being kept mostly under wraps, though the series is said to tell the story of the next chapter of Picard's life. That indicates that it will take place after the events of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" rather than being a prequel or reboot.

The untitled series hails from Alex Kurtzman, James Duff, Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, and Kirsten Beyer. Kurtzman, Duff, Goldsman, and Chabon will also serve as executive producers on the series along with Stewart, Trevor Roth, Heather Kadin, and Rod Roddenberry. CBS Television Studios will produce. The new series does not currently have a premiere date.

"I will always be very proud to have been a part of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation,' but when we wrapped that final movie in the spring of 2002, I truly felt my time with 'Star Trek' had run its natural course," Stewart said. "It is, therefore, an unexpected but delightful surprise to find myself excited and invigorated to be returning to Jean-Luc Picard and to explore new dimensions within him. Seeking out new life for him, when I thought that life was over."
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It appears that CBS plans to resume the Star Trek: The Next Generation era with a new series starring Sir Patrick Stewart, resuming his role as Jean-Luc Picard. This, to me, was completely out of left field. Everyone thought TNG was ultimately dead after the disaster that was Star Trek: Nemesis, but in the wake of Discovery and the backlash surrounding that, I've heard calls to pick up after where TNG left off.

It appears they have been answered, and with the man who Made It So leading the way. But I do have concerns. Trust in CBS' ability to handle Trek has fallen into doubt, and Stewart grows older with each passing day. Still, if this works out, it could be beautiful, and something desperately needed for the franchise and its future. However, it can go either way, and I'm not too certain if this will work out.
 
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I do hope it's not just him doing the same things he did in TNG.

It would be interesting to see the trek universe from a different angle.

Leila Hann said:
The pencil-pushing adventures of Admiral Picard?

Sign me up.
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Hey, someone's got to stop Janeway from taking the Federation over from within.
 
Wonder if Michael Dorn can talk them into doing Captain Worf as part of this? Use Ent-E as Picard's flagship?
 
Shanejayell said:
Wonder if Michael Dorn can talk them into doing Captain Worf as part of this? Use Ent-E as Picard's flagship?
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Hoping they're following the Road to 2409, and the only semi-canon sources for the era. (Seems to be what is happening, given that official models for the -F are coming out). In that case, Worf went over to the K-E and is the general trying to keep the peace treaty between the two together as another shapeshifter threat disrupts the peace.
 
I'm not really a fan of ST Online with it's heavy war focus. Plus it doesn't really fit ST TNG as well...
 
Copied from the dis thread.

On a vaguely related note, it will be interesting to see what they do with the new show focusing on Picards later life. Given they share the same continuity, one wonders how they will link to Discovery-the Kingdom asthetic etc, is like to cause the heads to explode amongst the purists.

More interestingly however is how they cover the prime verse events surrounding the destruction of Romulus.
 
STD has already fucked up Trek badly enough, please Patrick Stewart, you are the last best hope of Star Trek right now.
 
The big question: how many Enterprises are they going to have gone through in the interval between Nemesis and the present? Its bound to be at least one so they can redesign freely, but will it be F or a higher letter?

Also, how big a timeskip? With Patrick Stewart's perpetual agelessness it could legit be anywhere from a day to twenty years.
 
Zap Rowsdower said:
The big question: how many Enterprises are they going to have gone through in the interval between Nemesis and the present? Its bound to be at least one so they can redesign freely, but will it be F or a higher letter?

Also, how big a timeskip? With Patrick Stewart's perpetual agelessness it could legit be anywhere from a day to twenty years.
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Twenty years after Nemesis according to reddit.
 
20 years after Nemesis-the only events we defiantly have pinned down in Canon are the destruction of Romulus, which must surely form a central part of the background to the show?
 
Well this is a pleasant surprise in what has otherwise been a shitty week. More Trek with my favourite part of it, Sir Patrick Stewart. I am 110% on board.
 
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