New TNG Cast

[Snowdrop82]

One of the things I wondered is if there will ever come a point in time where the TNG cast, the original ones are unable to continue their roles in the series, if they will have to have new cast members play the characters like for the TOS ones in the Kelvin Timeline, if such a concept of a second Timeline with TNG, with new cast members playing the characters will ever come about?

 

[carcinoGeneticist]

I wouldn't expect them to make another timeline for TNG, but you never know. If they were to do it it would almost definitely be like what they did for the Kelvin timeline where they'd recast the characters. Again, though, I can't really imagine they'd choose to do that.

 

[Qonundrum]

Tobey Maguire as Picard? Depends on what a Kelvin-Picard might be like.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Assuming it's still Kelvinverse and not a new Stargazerverse, the event which created the reality has already happened.

Depending on whether the timelines diverge significantly or "heal", what would be the story's defining moment? Vulcan's absence, assuming New Vulcan has not caught up to where they once were in terms of influence, might be a factor.

Does reunification happen earlier with an aged Quinto Spock as the driving force?

 

[Snowdrop82]

Assuming it's still Kelvinverse and not a new Stargazerverse, the event which created the reality has already happened.

Depending on whether the timelines diverge significantly or "heal", what would be the story's defining moment? Vulcan's absence, assuming New Vulcan has not caught up to where they once were in terms of influence, might be a factor.

Does reunification happen earlier with an aged Quinto Spock as the driving force?

Could still be the Kelvinverse version of the Enterprise D.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Yeah, I was just asking, is it going to be a crisis causing the assembly of the crew (as Nero's attacks on the the Kelvin and Vulcan were) and personal tragedy driving the main characters this time (as Kirk's loss of his father and Spock's of his mother did)?

 

[Mojochi]

I always thought Vincent Cassel would make a good reboot Picard

 

[Snowdrop82]

Yeah, I was just asking, is it going to be a crisis causing the assembly of the crew (as Nero's attacks on the the Kelvin and Vulcan were) and personal tragedy driving the main characters this time (as Kirk's loss of his father and Spock's of his mother did)?

I wonder how the Federation would have evolved without Vulcan by the time of the Enterprise D?

 

[BillJ]

I would've rather they started to stagger in new characters on the Enterprise for a TNG season eight and nine vs. the movies we ended up getting.

 

[Snowdrop82]

I would've rather they started to stagger in new characters on the Enterprise for a TNG season eight and nine vs. the movies we ended up getting.

What do you mean by Stagger?

 

[BillJ]

What do you mean by Stagger?

Bring part of the original cast back, bring in new characters, begin phasing out the rest of the original cast, bring in more new characters. To the point that the Enterprise is the only original character remaining.

 

[Snowdrop82]

Bring part of the original cast back, bring in new characters, begin phasing out the rest of the original cast, bring in more new characters. To the point that the Enterprise is the only original character remaining.

That may have been a way to do it. I am fine with how the Enterprise D was destroyed and how we had the E, but for the F I would have potentially wanted an all new cast.

 

[BillJ]

I am fine with how the Enterprise D was destroyed and how we had the E...

I wasn't. Young BillJ had ideas dancing in his head of an Enterprise that lasted for a century and all the history and adventures one could build around it.

The Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual is a really great book. Far more creative than pretty much any episode of the series.

 

[Snowdrop82]

I wasn't. Young BillJ had ideas dancing in his head of an Enterprise that lasted for a century and all the history and adventures one could build around it.

The Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual is a really great book. Far more creative than pretty much any episode of the series.

I do like the Dreadnought design for the Enterprise D, however. Perhaps the D could have lasted that long.

 

[FredH]

I wasn't. Young BillJ had ideas dancing in his head of an Enterprise that lasted for a century and all the history and adventures one could build around it.

I’d certainly enjoy watching such a thing.

 

[Gaith]

Having grown up with TNG and not TOS, I may be biased, but my gut answer is the TOS characters were always archetypal enough to be recast, whereas the TNG characters became so blended with their actors, that recasting them would feel just plain wrong to a much greater extent. And also, that TNG fans would always be actively turned off by recasting in a ways TOS fans weren't, so even if the studio tried, a TNG reboot just plain wouldn't work.

So, that's my best answer, but I acknowledge I could be wrong.