Why the Picard series will be Star Trek's funeral.

[Overmind One]

The new Star Trek series featuring Jean Luc Picard is basically going to be a funeral for real Star Trek from CBS/Paramount. It will close the loop forced into the canon by JJ Abrams where Romulus is destroyed and the Kelvin timeline is created. It will have the aesthetic of Discovery, and be set in 2399 after this event supposedly took place. So, this will be both post-Nemesis/Voyager and post Romulus's destruction.

https://trekmovie.com/2018/09/10/ye...card-show-established-storyline-teased-by-ep/

Why does that make this the funeral for Star Trek as we know it? Because everything starting in the Picard show will be new canon. That means that the awful tone and message of NuTrek and it's vapid explosions and superficial storylines and mindless action will wear the Star Trek name from now on. That is basically the death of Star Trek.

Once they have Patrick Stewart's signature on a contract, he will not be in a position to resist anything they ask him to do in the show.

 

[Overmind One]

I really want the new Picard series to be good, but how can it be with Kurtzman at the helm, and a requirement that it be 25% different than existing CBS Star Trek? If they try it by eliminating Geordi, Data, Worf, Beverly, Guinan, Riker and Deanna, it will sink. If they put him in some ridiculous outfits, and have magic technology like Kurtzman is prone to throw in there, how will it work? What if he tries to do his version of Q? What would his Borg look like? And since he is in the future just past Voyager's return, what about Janeway and especially Seven of Nine? What was the aftermath of the Dominion War? Kurtzman can't get his head around all of that, and he will either ignore it or find something he likes to toss into scenes.

 

[Tripler]

I will have to rely on your incite should you decide to watch that crap . I for one will never watch anything these morons make ...

 

[Joelist]

The other big issue is no one on the creative team is an actual genre writer (in this case SF). They are all more the kind of writers who do episodes for shows on the CW, and it shows. Doctor Who is having a similar issue where the writers mostly have stuff like Eastenders on their resume and no science fiction.