A Next Gen Reboot?

[Coops]

Before it happened, I didn't think I would be able to accept the original cast being replaced by younger actors. The image of Shatner, for example, in that role was too iconic, too owned by him, too William-Shatner-Is-Kirk!!

Shows what I know. These days I'm as at ease with Chris Pine playing Kirk as I am with Paul Wesley.

With that in mind, and what feels equally unthinkable, could we see future shows in different time periods of Trek featuring Ensign Picard? Cadet Riker? Nurse Crusher?

Thoughts?

 

[Finn]

Baby Wesley saving the day every week.

Sure, why not?

 

[Mage]

It's a tricky one. Part of me says definitely, but I also feel that Kirk and Spock are more household names than Picard and Riker. I think the appeal of the Kelvin movies to the new audience was that they recognized the names and saw that it was pretty good looking and gave it a shot. Say what you will about the Kelvin movies, they brought a new audience to Star Trek.
I'm not sure a movie or show with a young Picard would draw many new viewers.

 

[The Wormhole]

Back around 2010 or so I was certain we'd get a TNG reboot within the next decade. Instead, here we are fourteen years later and we've actually had a TNG revival with rumors of another installment in the pipeline. So, at this point I don't think we are getting a rebooted TNG until the studio is well and truly done with the TNG cast. Which, I hate to say it, but that probably won't be until a few of them are dead.

 

[Coops]

It's a tricky one. Part of me says definitely, but I also feel that Kirk and Spock are more household names than Picard and Riker. I think the appeal of the Kelvin movies to the new audience was that they recognized the names and saw that it was pretty good looking and gave it a shot. Say what you will about the Kelvin movies, they brought a new audience to Star Trek.
I'm not sure a movie or show with a young Picard would draw many new viewers.

I think Picard is a household name it's just the household name that's used it 'Whatsisname, that bald guy'.

 

[Mage]

I think Picard is a household name it's just the household name that's used it 'Whatsisname, that bald guy'.

Hahahaha Perhaps. But I do firmly believe that the non Star Trek tv and movie watchers in the world have heard of Kirk more than Picard.

 

[Coops]

Hahahaha Perhaps. But I do firmly believe that the non Star Trek tv and movie watchers in the world have heard of Kirk more than Picard.

I completely agree with you there. I think that's in part due to Patrick Stewart having a slightly more 'successful' career outside of Trek compared to Shatner, he's been more visible in (slightly) different roles. Shatner is Kirk because for a long time that really was all he was known for. Stewart is still 'that bald guy' but he's 'that bald guy from that film/TV show'

 

[Mage]

I completely agree with you there. I think that's in part due to Patrick Stewart having a slightly more 'successful' career outside of Trek compared to Shatner, he's been more visible in (slightly) different roles. Shatner is Kirk because for a long time that really was all he was known for. Stewart is still 'that bald guy' but he's 'that bald guy from that film/TV show'

Having said all that....
Although I wouldn't be surprised if a revisit to TNG in a reboot form happens, it is also something I don't really need. SNW oddly enough satisfies immensly with its partial return to TOS. But I prefer new settings and characters. SNW is really the exception for me since it is just so bloody good (IMO).

I've often wondered what a Star Trek show set about 50 years after First Contact would be like. Exploring our solar system with limited FTL capability. The rebuilding of Earth after WWIII, the formation of a United Earth. The struggles that come with it.
Discovery has brought us way, way into the future of Star Trek. I would love to explore more if its past.

 

[Lord Garth]

They can't even get movies of the TOS Reboot made. Forget about a TNG Reboot. If they'd kept making the Kelvin Films, we'd have probably been getting a Kelvin TNG Film around now-ish.

They've overbudgeted the Star Trek movies and set them up to be unsustainable. Star Trek was able to last as a mid-budget film franchise, but it couldn't last as a big-budget film franchise. Except mid-budget movies have gone the way of the mullet, putting the Star Trek movies into their current predicament.

Maybe the new Star Trek movie with the director from Black Mirror is their way out of this trap. They'd better get a big-name or up-and-coming actor to carry it.

 

[JamesRye]

I love Star Trek - especially TNG, which was so wonderful when it came out. It seemed so modern and cool. This was the future, one with clean interfaces (flatscreens!), holodecks, Alexa (ships computer) and clean design. Even the phasers were more like tools (until the phaser rifle and later shows reinvented them). Mankind had evolved, and the show was desperate to be forward thinking - woke.

But Star Trek has become its own weird genre. The modern shows don't depict a believable future like the previous ones tried to do (through the lens of the 60's, 80's and 90's). They don't take the science of today and try to create a believable future by talking to futurists.

I'd like a radical reboot, not a new take on the future as depicted in the 90's. New ships, new style - a radical overhaul. Change the bridge. There wont be a helmsman and a navigator, the ship will be automated. The bridge concept art Probert had in the early 90's, which was too radical then should be looked at again.

So much will be automated, so much will be done using AI. It needs a proper futurist.

Otherwise what happens is that you get the situation we are in now. All the new shows look to the past, they are prequels full of callbacks with nothing new to say. The rot started with Enterprise and in my opinion, Trek has never recovered.

So I'd be against any more prequels, reboots and rehashes.

 

[Qonundrum]

Baby Wesley saving the day every week.

Sure, why not?

Then they'll do a prequel to that...

 

[Jayson1]

Not sure if it counts as a reboot but I do think someday we will get a Young Captain Picard aboard the Stargazer series or even movie. Which I assume would mean Jack Crusher being part of the show and at least one appearance of a young Dr Crusher.

 

[Jedman67]

Back around 2010 or so I was certain we'd get a TNG reboot within the next decade. Instead, here we are fourteen years later and we've actually had a TNG revival with rumors of another installment in the pipeline. So, at this point I don't think we are getting a rebooted TNG until the studio is well and truly done with the TNG cast. Which, I hate to say it, but that probably won't be until a few of them are dead.

None of the main cast are dead, AFAIK.

 

[Finn]

Yes.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Next Gen will get the reboot/remake/reimagining treatment someday.

 

[Coops]

Not sure if it counts as a reboot but I do think someday we will get a Young Captain Picard aboard the Stargazer series or even movie. Which I assume would mean Jack Crusher being part of the show and at least one appearance of a young Dr Crusher.

That's sort of what I see happening. I felt there was a decent origin story focused on a young Tasha Yar that would lead up to her joining the 1701-D with all the encounters and experiences you would expect during the build up.

 

[Timewalker]

That's sort of what I see happening. I felt there was a decent origin story focused on a young Tasha Yar that would lead up to her joining the 1701-D with all the encounters and experiences you would expect during the build up.

What was that line Sisko had in DS9? "It's easy to be a saint when you're living in paradise"? (I may be misremembering it a bit).

Tasha must have had to grind her teeth every time she heard Picard pontificate about how "evolved" humankind had become, given the traumatic events of her childhood and young teen years.

I lost all respect for Picard in Season 1, the minute he opened his entitled mouth and berated Crusher for reviving and treating the 20th century people. He considered them as no better than a waste of time, an inconvenience at best, with his "why bother curing them? They were already dead!" speech.

I don't think humans have evolved by the time of TNG. Picard's lack of compassion and even curiosity about the past shows this. He's got three living, breathing people from the past, and he is not only annoyed that they're alive, taking up space on his starship, but he couldn't care less about actually talking to them and learning about the past from their perspective. He can't wait to be rid of them, so some other ship can have the job of "civilizing" them.

This is why I applaud the character of Lily in the First Contact movie. She does a great job of calling Picard on his hypocrisy and BS.

 

[F. King Daniel]

A think a Young Picard prequel where he's on the Stargazer would be fantastic. See him go from the reckless guy who got stabbed through the heart to the Picard we know. Watch him go from being a member of the crew to the captain.

This of course can lead to a TNG reboot.

 

[Coops]

A think a Young Picard prequel where he's on the Stargazer would be fantastic. See him go from the reckless guy who got stabbed through the heart to the Picard we know. Watch him go from being a member of the crew to the captain.

This of course can lead to a TNG reboot.

I think this is probably the way it'll happen even though I feel we all know that story pretty well. But I hope they align it more to the spirit of Strange New Worlds because I think it's a smart premise. We all know who Pike is and most of us are enjoying seeing what went down before TOS. New fans are also enjoying it and may well decide to delve into the history and take a look at The Cage, Balance Of Terror or, god forbid, Spocks Brain. Smart move.

 

[Jayson1]

Another angle is they could do a post Stargazer series. We don't know much about what Picard did in that time period between Stargazer being assumed destroyed and him becoming Captain of the Enterprise. One thing we could see though is him facing that court martial we know happened. Which would I assume mean seeing a younger and recasted version of Philippa Louvoius.

In fact that could make for a good first season. He is on trial. We see him on Stargazer in flashbacks during the court stuff, while he also finds himself getting into trouble because his best friend ,Jack Crusher has run afoul of some criminals on the Moon colony. So he is trying to help him without screwing up his Court Martial and getting into trouble for that.

When the season is over we see him become Captain of a Cargo Ship and Jack Crusher becomes first officer. It is suppose to be something of a punishment but in season 2 he will end up saving a planet from being destroyed despite having a broken down heap of a ship with little resources. Thus the first steps of him becoming a great Captain is started and we see why he will someday get the Enterprise.

Season 3 deals with Jack Crushers death. Crusher is a regular for the season. Also new starship. Whatever mission they were on will be part of the season arc.

Season 4 Something that allows him to use his interest in archaeology.

Season 5 (final season) He is put in command of a starbase. A place we assume he will command for many years until he gets the Enterprise. It sits close to Romulan territory and he meets a Romulan spy and they somehow prevent a war from happening.