Patrick Stewart needs to realize there isn’t a Star Trek story left to tell with him and his crew
Star Trek: Picard brought back the crew of the Next Generation for the first time in 20 years. Picard’s final season was a wonderful sendoff to a show and a cast that inspired the hearts and minds of people for decades.
It did everything it was supposed to do; give the cast a proper sendoff, gave Jean-Luc Picard the biggest win of his career, and extended the Picard bloodline. It finalized the Picard story. It finalized the story of the crew of the Enterprise-D. It did everything it was supposed to do.
Yet, Patrick Stewart, the man behind Picard, wants more. And for what reason? The show did everything it was supposed to do. It gave everyone closure and an end. Yet, Stewart wants to do more stories.
Even more adventures with Picard and company, but why?
Speaking to IndieWire, alongside LeVar Burton, Stewart once again pitched the idea of a Star Trek: Picard movie, saying;
I think we could do a movie, a ‘Picard’-based movie. Now not necessarily at all about Picard but about all of us. And to take many of those wonderful elements, particularly from Season 3 of ‘Picard’ and take out of that what I think could be an extraordinary movie. I keep telling people and mentioning it, and so far there’s been no eager response, but it might well happen. And that would be I think a very appropriate way to say, ‘And goodbye folks.’
Star Trek needs to move on from the past eventually, and that includes Patrick Stewart
Star Trek has got to move forward with its stories. Everything they’ve been doing recently, even dating back to Star Trek: Discovery’s premiere season, is tied to the past. Michael Burnham is Spock’s sister, Prodigy and Lower Decks takes place right after Voyager ended and contains oodles of cameos from more popular shows, Strange New Worlds is a prequel, and Picard a sequel.
There isn’t anyone trying to push past what’s been established and explore 50 or 100 years past Voyager’s return in a series free from so much history. The Next Generation was set as far in the future as it was to allow it to stand on its own. It was its own thing for so very much of its run.
Yet, now we’re just getting nostalgia-fueled properties left, right, and center. We really don’t need any more movies or shows centered around nostalgia.
Star Wars failed to do that. The Flash failed to do that, and if Star Trek isn’t careful, it’ll lose more shows to it. Doing another Picard story is repetitive and boring. For years we’re told that Star Trek is many things, but repetitious and boring aren’t among those things.
We’ve seen all we need to see of Picard.
