I will pay cash money if they forego the usual going boldly and give me Stewart as a retired Picard, finally married to an uber-successful Donna Murphy, and dealing with disruptive Ferengi neighbors.
I expect to be disappointed in their actual choices. --Dave Sikula On Saturday, August 4, 2018 at 2:15:40 PM UTC-7, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > > I want a different set of showrunners who are not affiliated with > Discovery. But, yeah, I’m also interested. > > The series of five Trek novels dealing with the assassination of the > Federation president and its aftermath were, I thought, some of the best > Trek ever written. And the evolution of the character of Picard was > brilliantly laid out within those books (as well as some hysterical > exchanges between Picard and DS9’s Garek). I know none of the novels are > canonical, but whomever puts the new series together would be well advised > to take a cue from them. > > Unfortunately, after Discovery I have to severely ratchet down my > expectations. I suspect the new series episodes will be focused on epic > space battles, CGI aliens, and no attention to storytelling beyond “Red > alert... fire phasers...!” > > But please, CBS, if you’re reading this: No Wesley f*cking Crusher! > > On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 2:04 PM Adam Bowie <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> A bit more here including a statement from Stewart: >> https://tvline.com/2018/08/04/star-trek-patrick-stewart-returning-jean-luc-picard-series-order-cbs-all-access/ >> >> I confess my interest is piqued. >> >> On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 9:54 PM Kevin M. <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Details to follow. Stewart announced it at an event today... says it >>> chronicles the next chapter of Picard’s life and career. >>> -- >>> Kevin M. (RPCV) >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
