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Entire TNG cast set to return, joining Picard Season 3
fleetcaptain5
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Besides Frakes, Sirtis, Spiner and Stewart - LeVar Burton, McFadden and Dorn are also said to be in Picard's third season.
Note that the video linked to in the Twitter thread's next post is currently hidden.
No idea how reliable all this is, but the Twitter account is from a NY Times journalist so I guess there is some truth to it.
Note that the video linked to in the Twitter thread's next post is currently hidden.
No idea how reliable all this is, but the Twitter account is from a NY Times journalist so I guess there is some truth to it.
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Yea. The band is getting back together for one last roadtrip through the stars.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
How is it spoilers? We already knew that Picard was going to be 3 seasons. This reveals nothing except that we're getting a full cast reunion in Season 3. No story elements from Season 2.
Technically any detail about an unreleased show/movie/etc is a spoiler. And being technical, that would include every single trailer ever released for a movie/TV show.
That said, there is a "common sense" difference between:
A: what is being publicly advertised as part of the promotion of a show, and
B: some person who has already seen something telling specific details to someone who hasn't
This cast announcement is being publicly advertised to promote the next season. It is intentionally not being withheld as any kind of surprise that could be spoiled.
Whether that is a good decision or not is debatable, but that does not change the fact that this is public promotion/advertisement for the show, not any kind of "spoiler" details.
If you don't like it, that's fine. But the only way to avoid public promotion/advertisement like this is to avoid the internet completely.
So good luck with that!
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
If we didn't already know S3 was the last season I might agree, but that being the case it feels to me like more of a "let's get the band back together for one last adventure" thing. And TBH, that sounds great to me.
If we're really lucky it would wind up being a backdoor pilot for a new Worf show or something, the same way Disco S2 led to us getting SNW.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Don't give them ideas!
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> If we didn't already know S3 was the last season I might agree, but that being the case it feels to me like more of a "let's get the band back together for one last adventure" thing. And TBH, that sounds great to me.
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> If we're really lucky it would wind up being a backdoor pilot for a new Worf show or something, the same way Disco S2 led to us getting SNW.
Bring on Star Trek: Captain Worf! it’s only overdue by a decade. It really might be the Star Trek renaissance after all. I think it is time to get rid of my Kurtzman effigy.
It's funny, they specifically wanted to avoid a TNG reunion for Picard, but the first season that went that way felt pointless and irrelevant. The second season with some returning characters and a ton of callbacks and eastereggs is much more entertaining and heartfelt. Season 3 might just be what PIC should have been all along - I just hooe they don't kill off all of them or more weird nothings like Picard's pointless dearh and resurrection android body...
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The working title of S3 was probably "ok fine, let's just do the TNG reunion that most people want"
That's my concern too. I'm actually ok with Picard dying; I think his character has had a full long life and been pretty fleshed out. But what I don't want is them killing off Worf. Dorn has bene advocating for a Worf series for a long time, and now that CBS is going hog-wild with Trek shows I hope they give him one. I hope whatever story they tell in Picard S3 doesn't ruin that possibility.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
I'm fine with that and totally expect it to happen. However, the impact will be severly influenced by that nonsensical thing they pulled in S1 which, I am sorry that I can't let it go, lead absolutely nowhere. What were they trying to accomplish? Picard already had an 'android heart' which would have been sufficient for every analogy the show wanted us to see and in S2, when Q tells us of evil Picard's deeds, the line "this fight was the reason you (Picard) needed a synth body in this universe" was super clunky. It would have been the reason for his heart, I am fairly certain about that.
If they kill off Worf I'd riot. Rejecting Dorn's pitch for a show for so long was criminal. They owe us that show
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Data was already dead, they didn't like Icheb's actor and Picard... well, he is very old, it could just be they wanted to do something with his mortality and him sensing his nearing end.
I don't think any of the other actors would join if they're just going to be there to have their characters be killed off. Certainly not Michael indeed.
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The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Really? It "never ceases to amaze" you how people (not just Trek fans, but fans in general) like seeing their favorite characters get back together again? You are easily amazed
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
This may shock you (or perhaps "never cease to amaze" you), but there are actually dozens (if not hundreds) of books that have been written over the decades telling the on-going adventures of the TNG crew post-shows/movies. Why? Hey, people love the characters and want to see their stories go on forever. Again, if this "never ceases to amaze" you, then you are truly easily amazed
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Last time we saw Worf fulfill any responsibilities to the Empire, it was 2375. And even then he was probably still active as a Starfleet officer too. In Insurrection, we hear Riker say something about the Dominion negotiations, so the War had ended. From dialogue spoken by Picard, we know he's still stationed at DS9.
Other lines also suggest he's still on Starfleet duty there. ('PICARD: I don't know how they do it on Deep Space 9, but on the Enterprise, we still report for duty on time.')
And he still wore his uniform even in 2379 during Nemesis too.
Picard takes place more than 20 years after those movies anyway. Even if Worf had fulfilled some sort of diplomatic function shortly after those movies, there's plenty of time in between for events to have happened that caused him to return to Starfleet.
Geordi still has to design the Jellyfish. Which is capable of using Red Matter, which has caused significant political tension. Like other technologies had. Having a captain with an engineering background in such an environment is an interesting setting for a story that could be very different from TNG.
> Last time we saw Worf fulfill any responsibilities to the Empire, it was 2375. And even then he was probably still active as a Starfleet officer too. In Insurrection, we hear Riker say something about the Dominion negotiations, so the War had ended. From dialogue spoken by Picard, we know he's still stationed at DS9.
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> Other lines also suggest he's still on Starfleet duty there. ('PICARD: I don't know how they do it on Deep Space 9, but on the Enterprise, we still report for duty on time.')
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> And he still wore his uniform even in 2379 during Nemesis too.
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> Picard takes place more than 20 years after those movies anyway. Even if Worf had fulfilled some sort of diplomatic function shortly after those movies, there's plenty of time in between for events to have happened that caused him to return to Starfleet.
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> Geordi still has to design the Jellyfish. Which is capable of using Red Matter, which has caused significant political tension. Like other technologies had. Having a captain with an engineering background in such an environment is an interesting setting for a story that could be very different from TNG.
Wasn’t the jellyfish made to save Romulus. That already happened before Picard, right?