CaptainWacky
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It's a shame you stopped watching, that was the episode with all the nudity in the second half.
Star Trek: Picard
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Your Jean Luc is running out with these puns.
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Until CBS/Viacom/Paramount unfuck their licensing shit, no Star Trek series from here forward will be in the "Prime timeline" regardless of what the assclowns tell us.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
POSSIBLE SPOILER
The Question
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Is there a Johnnnnn-Luck... Pickerd here?
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
I bet she dumped Bashir a long time ago.
The Question
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Her symbiote wriggled down into her hoo-haw and ate him.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
She was as disappointed by his Game of Thrones character as the rest of us.
The Question
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Also possibly by his Deep Space Nine character.
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
RADICALLY ALTERED RADICALLY ALTERED
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'Star Trek' Boss: Picard Leads "Radically Altered" Life in CBS All Access Series
January 08, 2019 2:00pm PT by Aaron Couch, Lesley Goldberg
Alex Kurtzman tells The Hollywood Reporter that Patrick Stewart's fan-favorite captain has a new life following the dissolution of the Romulan Empire.
What is the next chapter in the life of Jean-Luc Picard?
That's the question Star Trek diehards have been asking since August, when Patrick Stewart officially boarded an untitled CBS All Access series that will see him play Picard for the first time since 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis. Little is known about the plot of series, which has been described as an exploration of the next chapter of Picard's life. Fans have speculated that it will find him serving as an ambassador, just as Leonard Nimoy's Spock did in the later years of his life.
Now, Trek captain Alex Kurtzman is pulling back the curtain on the series revealing that a cataclysmic event depicted in J.J. Abrams' 2009 Star Trek movie impacted Picard in a big way. In that film, written by Kurtzman and former producing partner Roberto Orci, it was revealed that Nimoy's Spock failed to save the Romulan homeworld Romulus from a supernova several years after the events of Nemesis.
Now, Kurtzman — as part of a Creative Space interview with The Hollywood Reporter (posting Wednesday) — is ready to reveal one massive clue about the premise of his CBS All Access Picard series, due in late 2019: "Picard's life was radically altered by the dissolution of the Romulan Empire," Kurtzman tells THR.
The Picard series will be the first onscreen Trek story set in the aftermath of that event, which would have altered the balance of power in the galaxy. The destruction of Romulus would also have extra resonance for Picard, who has a long and complicated relationship with the Romulans, the alien race that split from Vulcan society thousands of years ago and founded a separate civilization. The Romulans went on to control a portion of the galaxy, and the empire was in opposition to the Federation for all of Picard's career.
One of his goals as captain of the Enterprise was seeking a peace between the Romulan Empire and the Federation. Picard teamed with Spock during the events of the Next Generation two-part story "Unification," in which they learned that Romulans claiming to seek a peaceful reunification with the Vulcans were actually planning a secret takeover. And in the events of Nemesis, Picard faced off with a clone of himself (Tom Hardy) created by the Romulans.
Kurtzman says Stewart agreed to return only if he could defy what people are used to seeing with Trek. "He threw down an amazing gauntlet and said, 'If we do this, I want it to be so different, I want it to be both what people remember but also not what they're expecting at all, otherwise why do it?' " Kurtzman recalls of their initial discussions for what would become the highly anticipated CBS All Access series.
That was part of a long journey to woo Stewart back to the role that began more than a year ago.
Fans have a long-running debate about who the greatest Trek captain is. Although Kurtzman wrote two films centering on Captain Kirk (2009's Star Trek and 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness), he'd always considered Picard the greatest. So when he made a wish list of things he could do to build out All Access' Trek universe, bringing Stewart back as Picard was high on his list.
The only problem: Stewart was rumored to be uninterested in revisiting Picard, whom he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987-94 and in four feature films. Kurtzman wasn't sure the response he'd get when he called Stewart's agent and asked for a meeting.
"To our amazement and delight, the agent called back and said he was curious to know what we had in mind," Kurtzman says.
Kurtzman, along with then-Star Trek: Discovery producer Akiva Goldsman and writer Kirsten Beyer met with the Stewart to pitch their vision.
"What we tried to convey in that meeting was how desperately we loved him and the character and how much we wanted to see what happened to Picard," says Kurtzman.
Stewart asked them to prepare a three-page document outlining their ideas. By this point, novelist and screenwriter Michael Chabon had joined the team to pitch a Picard-centric show, and they soon realized they could not fit their ideas into just three pages.
"It turned into a 34-page document — with no way to shorten it," says Kurtzman. "We were going on all in and he was going to read it or not read it, love it or hate it. It was our best attempt at trying to get him to say yes."
Fortunately, Stewart liked what he read. Kurtzman got the call that Stewart would be in Los Angeles during Oscars weekend and wanted to meet.
"He walked into the room and he had a huge smile on his face and said, 'This is wonderful,' " recalls Kurtzman of that March 2018 meeting. What he understood at that point … was that he was with people who desperately wanted to collaborate with him; that we weren't trying to exploit him. He knew if he was going to go back to Picard, it needed to be for the greatest reason ever."
The Picard series is just one in Kurtzman's Trek empire. It will join the flagship series Star Trek Discovery, as well as Lower Decks, the upcoming half-hour animated comedy from Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty), and the shortform entry Short Treks. Other shows in development include a second kids-focused animated series (that may live outside of CBS All Access), a Discovery spinoff starring Michelle Yeoh and younger-skewing Starfleet Academy from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (The O.C.).
For Trek fans, part of the draw of the upcoming Picard show is not only seeing Stewart back, but the possibility that members of his old crew might stop by for a cameo. Is that on the table?
"Anything could happen," Kurzman says.
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'Star Trek' Boss: Picard Leads "Radically Altered" Life in CBS All Access Series
January 08, 2019 2:00pm PT by Aaron Couch, Lesley Goldberg
Alex Kurtzman tells The Hollywood Reporter that Patrick Stewart's fan-favorite captain has a new life following the dissolution of the Romulan Empire.
What is the next chapter in the life of Jean-Luc Picard?
That's the question Star Trek diehards have been asking since August, when Patrick Stewart officially boarded an untitled CBS All Access series that will see him play Picard for the first time since 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis. Little is known about the plot of series, which has been described as an exploration of the next chapter of Picard's life. Fans have speculated that it will find him serving as an ambassador, just as Leonard Nimoy's Spock did in the later years of his life.
Now, Trek captain Alex Kurtzman is pulling back the curtain on the series revealing that a cataclysmic event depicted in J.J. Abrams' 2009 Star Trek movie impacted Picard in a big way. In that film, written by Kurtzman and former producing partner Roberto Orci, it was revealed that Nimoy's Spock failed to save the Romulan homeworld Romulus from a supernova several years after the events of Nemesis.
Now, Kurtzman — as part of a Creative Space interview with The Hollywood Reporter (posting Wednesday) — is ready to reveal one massive clue about the premise of his CBS All Access Picard series, due in late 2019: "Picard's life was radically altered by the dissolution of the Romulan Empire," Kurtzman tells THR.
The Picard series will be the first onscreen Trek story set in the aftermath of that event, which would have altered the balance of power in the galaxy. The destruction of Romulus would also have extra resonance for Picard, who has a long and complicated relationship with the Romulans, the alien race that split from Vulcan society thousands of years ago and founded a separate civilization. The Romulans went on to control a portion of the galaxy, and the empire was in opposition to the Federation for all of Picard's career.
One of his goals as captain of the Enterprise was seeking a peace between the Romulan Empire and the Federation. Picard teamed with Spock during the events of the Next Generation two-part story "Unification," in which they learned that Romulans claiming to seek a peaceful reunification with the Vulcans were actually planning a secret takeover. And in the events of Nemesis, Picard faced off with a clone of himself (Tom Hardy) created by the Romulans.
Kurtzman says Stewart agreed to return only if he could defy what people are used to seeing with Trek. "He threw down an amazing gauntlet and said, 'If we do this, I want it to be so different, I want it to be both what people remember but also not what they're expecting at all, otherwise why do it?' " Kurtzman recalls of their initial discussions for what would become the highly anticipated CBS All Access series.
That was part of a long journey to woo Stewart back to the role that began more than a year ago.
Fans have a long-running debate about who the greatest Trek captain is. Although Kurtzman wrote two films centering on Captain Kirk (2009's Star Trek and 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness), he'd always considered Picard the greatest. So when he made a wish list of things he could do to build out All Access' Trek universe, bringing Stewart back as Picard was high on his list.
The only problem: Stewart was rumored to be uninterested in revisiting Picard, whom he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987-94 and in four feature films. Kurtzman wasn't sure the response he'd get when he called Stewart's agent and asked for a meeting.
"To our amazement and delight, the agent called back and said he was curious to know what we had in mind," Kurtzman says.
Kurtzman, along with then-Star Trek: Discovery producer Akiva Goldsman and writer Kirsten Beyer met with the Stewart to pitch their vision.
"What we tried to convey in that meeting was how desperately we loved him and the character and how much we wanted to see what happened to Picard," says Kurtzman.
Stewart asked them to prepare a three-page document outlining their ideas. By this point, novelist and screenwriter Michael Chabon had joined the team to pitch a Picard-centric show, and they soon realized they could not fit their ideas into just three pages.
"It turned into a 34-page document — with no way to shorten it," says Kurtzman. "We were going on all in and he was going to read it or not read it, love it or hate it. It was our best attempt at trying to get him to say yes."
Fortunately, Stewart liked what he read. Kurtzman got the call that Stewart would be in Los Angeles during Oscars weekend and wanted to meet.
"He walked into the room and he had a huge smile on his face and said, 'This is wonderful,' " recalls Kurtzman of that March 2018 meeting. What he understood at that point … was that he was with people who desperately wanted to collaborate with him; that we weren't trying to exploit him. He knew if he was going to go back to Picard, it needed to be for the greatest reason ever."
The Picard series is just one in Kurtzman's Trek empire. It will join the flagship series Star Trek Discovery, as well as Lower Decks, the upcoming half-hour animated comedy from Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty), and the shortform entry Short Treks. Other shows in development include a second kids-focused animated series (that may live outside of CBS All Access), a Discovery spinoff starring Michelle Yeoh and younger-skewing Starfleet Academy from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (The O.C.).
For Trek fans, part of the draw of the upcoming Picard show is not only seeing Stewart back, but the possibility that members of his old crew might stop by for a cameo. Is that on the table?
"Anything could happen," Kurzman says.
The Question
Eternal
Sticking with the JJverse crap, I see. Well, there's a winner.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
I'm glad they're following up on the destruction of Romulus as it would have been a pretty big deal to everyone.
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
WILL WE CRY TOO EH?
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‘Star Trek’ Showrunner: “I Almost Cried” During Patrick Stewart’s New Picard Script Reading
by Geoff Boucher
March 24, 2019 4:02pm
The Paleyfest panel for Star Trek: Discovery was in its final minutes when showrunner Alex Kurtzman offered a vague yet tantalizing tidbit about the still-untitled Picard series that will soon bring Patrick Stewart back to the Starfleet universe in his iconic Star Trek: The Next Generation role.
Accompanied by eight cast members from the Discovery as well as fellow executive producer Heather Kadin, Kurtzman shared plenty about that flagship series on CBS All-Access (viewers can expect plenty more about Saru and his new fearlessness, for instance, and don’t presume that the first-ever Trek-depicted gay relationship is as over as it looks) but a ripple of excitement ran through the audience of the Dolby Theatre when Kurtzman was asked a final question: What can you tell the crowd about the Picard show?
Kurtzman, the active architect for the Star Trek television voyages, answered with carefully measured words. The show is cloaked in secrecy but will feature Next Generation character, Captain Jean-Luc Picard but after he left that lofty Starfleet rank (according to Stewart’s Next Generation compatriot, Jonathan Frakes).
“Here’s what I will tell you,” Kurtzman said to a pin-drop venue. “I had an amazing experience yesterday. I sat at Patrick’s kitchen table and I heard him read the first episode and I almost cried. It was quite something. He’s at an amazing place in his life. He’s so excited. It’s going to be a very different show from Discovery. The only way this universe, I think, works correctly is if each show is really different and speaks to a different part of Star Trek.”
On Discovery, Kurtzman and his team have put a high value on cinematic-level scale and urgent story propulsion but the new vehicle for Stewart may not cover as much space nor travel at the same warp speeds.
“This is going to be a very thoughtful, psychological portrait in a lot of ways,” Kurtzman said. “We all know what Picard means to the world and why he, like so many legendary characters on Star Trek, has endured and what he’s represented. He in some ways has to go through a gauntlet to find that again. Things have changed for him and changed him in some ways, and yet he is so deeply and fundamentally still Picard. We’re thrilled at what we’re going to deliver. I know Patrick is really excited. The cast is coming together beautifully. And I will give you nothing else.”
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There's Discovery stuff in the article after that.
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‘Star Trek’ Showrunner: “I Almost Cried” During Patrick Stewart’s New Picard Script Reading
by Geoff Boucher
March 24, 2019 4:02pm
The Paleyfest panel for Star Trek: Discovery was in its final minutes when showrunner Alex Kurtzman offered a vague yet tantalizing tidbit about the still-untitled Picard series that will soon bring Patrick Stewart back to the Starfleet universe in his iconic Star Trek: The Next Generation role.
Accompanied by eight cast members from the Discovery as well as fellow executive producer Heather Kadin, Kurtzman shared plenty about that flagship series on CBS All-Access (viewers can expect plenty more about Saru and his new fearlessness, for instance, and don’t presume that the first-ever Trek-depicted gay relationship is as over as it looks) but a ripple of excitement ran through the audience of the Dolby Theatre when Kurtzman was asked a final question: What can you tell the crowd about the Picard show?
Kurtzman, the active architect for the Star Trek television voyages, answered with carefully measured words. The show is cloaked in secrecy but will feature Next Generation character, Captain Jean-Luc Picard but after he left that lofty Starfleet rank (according to Stewart’s Next Generation compatriot, Jonathan Frakes).
“Here’s what I will tell you,” Kurtzman said to a pin-drop venue. “I had an amazing experience yesterday. I sat at Patrick’s kitchen table and I heard him read the first episode and I almost cried. It was quite something. He’s at an amazing place in his life. He’s so excited. It’s going to be a very different show from Discovery. The only way this universe, I think, works correctly is if each show is really different and speaks to a different part of Star Trek.”
On Discovery, Kurtzman and his team have put a high value on cinematic-level scale and urgent story propulsion but the new vehicle for Stewart may not cover as much space nor travel at the same warp speeds.
“This is going to be a very thoughtful, psychological portrait in a lot of ways,” Kurtzman said. “We all know what Picard means to the world and why he, like so many legendary characters on Star Trek, has endured and what he’s represented. He in some ways has to go through a gauntlet to find that again. Things have changed for him and changed him in some ways, and yet he is so deeply and fundamentally still Picard. We’re thrilled at what we’re going to deliver. I know Patrick is really excited. The cast is coming together beautifully. And I will give you nothing else.”
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There's Discovery stuff in the article after that.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
I hope he has a Crusher holodeck sex program.
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CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Jack. 
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Fuddlemiff
Is this real life?
Oh ok, so it won’t be on Netflix here.