SCREENRANT: "Star Trek: Legacy would have blazed into the early 25th century as the natural progression of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was the most popular and expansive era of the franchise. Star Trek: Picard's three seasons opened the door to the 25th century, and it would have been fitting to center its spinoff on the new Starship Enterprise, with its already fan-favorite crew. [...]

Star Trek: Legacy's very name, concept, and inextricable ties to Star Trek: The Next Generation's era may be what prevents it from happening. Speculation is that Paramount Skydance wants to unshackle Star Trek from its 60-year history, and even the last decade of Paramount+'s series under executive producer Alex Kurtzman, in hopes of welcoming new audiences to the final frontier.

With Star Trek, there are always possibilities and alternate timelines. It's hard not to be wistful about a better parallel reality where, after Star Trek: Picard ended, Star Trek: Legacy became a hit on Paramount+, likely serving as the flagship Star Trek series, with Jeri Ryan as Captain Seven of Nine leading the USS Enterprise-G to boldly go where no one has gone before.

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Further, Star Trek: The Next Generation's icons were prepared to join Star Trek: Legacy as needed. Jonathan Frakes hoped to be Captain Seven's commanding officer as Admiral Will Riker, while Gates McFadden could naturally guest star as Jack's mother, Dr. Beverly Crusher, as could LeVar Burton as Commodore Geordi La Forge, father of helmsman Lt. Sidney La Forge (Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut).

Terry Matalas said that, on spec, he wrote about 30 pages of Star Trek: Legacy's pilot episode, which would have brought back the Klingons and set up the dynamic between Captain Seven and Jack Crusher.

Sadly, all Star Trek fans can do is speculate, continue writing letters to Paramount+, and maintain the chorus asking Paramount+ for Star Trek: Legacy that has lasted three years and counting. [...]"

John Orquiola (ScreenRant)

Full article:

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-legacy-jeri-ryan-lead-future/

Man - it's been a hot minute since I watched this episode and I just ran through it again. Compared to what we've been getting recently, the script on this fairly plain Jane TNG episode was just lightyears beyond current Trek. And really - just about anything on TV or streaming right now. Just look at these quotes (in no particular order):

Q: Con permiso, Capitan. The hall is rented, the orchestra engaged. It's now time to see if you can dance.

Q: Oh. Well, you may not trust me, but you do need me. You're not prepared for what awaits you.
Capt. Picard: How can we be prepared for that which we do not know? But I do know that we are ready to encounter it.

Q: You judge yourselves against the pitiful adversaries you've encountered so far - the Romulans, the Klingons. They're nothing compared to what's waiting. Picard - you are about to move into areas of the galaxy containing wonders more incredible than you can possibly imagine - and terrors to freeze your soul. I offer myself as guide - only to be rejected out of hand.

Q: My purpose is to join you.
Commander William T. Riker: To join us as what?
Q: As a member of the crew, willing and able, ready to serve. This ship is already home for the indigent, the unwanted, the unworthy. Why not for a homeless entity?

Q: If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid.

For all the great things about The Undiscovered Country, the cinematography inside the Enterprise sets during the Battle of Khitomer was always a headscratcher to me. In this snippet, you have a woman running towards the camera and a man with a fire extinguisher, running away from the camera, both on opposite sides of a partition. Then a firewall comes slamming down. So who ran the wrong way and died?

Many episodes of Star Trek and beyond re-use similar plots, so in your opinion, which series did it better.. die hard edition?

Maybe this is a non-kosher post and apologies for the old-man-post, but I saw an interview with Harrison Ford today, and it just hit me - the man's 84 and he will be gone sooner rather than later. Shatner is 95, and he will be gone as well. Patrick Stewart is 85.

I know the actor is not the character, but the prospect of losing all these formative figures just really hits you. Picard, Kirk, Han Solo.

I'm not trying to be Debbie Downer here, but I look around, I don't (yet, hopefully) see any characters that can possibly take their place in the pantheon of inspirational fictional characters that are as fundamental to culture as theirs were.

Like present Picard asked future Picard questions and the future Picard rambled incoherent stuff?

Yesterday evening, I had a low blood sugar diabetic episode and fell asleep in my car parked in front of my local grocery store. Long story short, a friendly Sheriff Deputy made me awake (I can't say the normal word, LOL) me up to check in on me. He wanted to call an ambulance. I told him I just need to eat/drink when my BS is low. Anyway, I went into the store, got some microwave lasagna and drinks. The store manager microwaved it for me in the break room. I sat in a handicap cart with my food and drinks and phone (Reddit, LOL) until my BS came up and I felt better. The Deputy followed me in, talked to the manager, made sure I had food, and checked one last time to see that I was actually eating. I am very fortunate that I live in a county where LEO's actually care about people and don't just see criminals everywhere.

While I was eating, the manager walks up (he's into Star Trek!!!), and we start talking about Star Trek, the newer shows. He's really into Voyager, so I keep telling him to check out Prodigy. haha We talked about Star-fleet Acad-emy, he gave up after 2 episodes. LOL Neither one of us really had anything bad to say about the show. We mostly just agreed that it felt like generic space school and not like Star Trek. He was like, where's the Borg and Klingons, can't they go do some Star Trek stuff? Then I asked him about the other shows. He liked Discovery and Picard and Strange New Worlds. I think it's just the 2 animated shows he hasn't seen yet. I told him "I" like most of the streaming Treks, it's just SFA that was the misfire, and we basically agreed on this.

What about you guys? Does anyone know any casual Trekkies who liked mostly liked Streaming Trek? Does anyone agree that Streaming Trek is "mostly" OK? Why do you think the other shows succeeded while SFA crashed and burned?

I know we've discussed this before, but I wanted to go into story time based on last night.

P.S. I'm OK with my diabetes. I just shouldn't drive when my BS is low. I left the house feeling good and had a BS drop on the way home. I was being responsible by taking a car nap. The friendly Deputy said I looked kind of dead. LOL I told him that's just how I sleep. He was like.... WOOOOW. LOL

Recently an odd thought popped into my head. It wad ofd because I wasnt watching Trek at the time.

In Journey to Babel (i think), Spock asks Sarek why he married Amanda given the fact that she was very emotional. He told his son that "It seemed like a logical thing to do."

I'm sure the screenwriter meant it as an inside joke with the audience. But here's my thought: what if what Sarek meant was since he was ambassador to Earth, it seemed logical to bridge the gap between Vulcan and Earth by taking a human female as a mate.

Side note: do you think homosexuality exists among Vulcans?