Where is a new set of actors for TNG? If a new TNG series/movie was made, who could the actors be for that?
Actors who have played Picard:
TNG has aged well and despite some dated elements it is still within the comfort zone of modern audiences. TNG created the baseline for how following Trek shows for decades would look and operate which gives it a connection to all of those shows for people to grab onto. TOS is both older and of a significantly different wavelength. I personally love it, but a lot of people bounce off of it. That is why there is more openness to rebooting it. Also, the JJ Abrams movies have broken the seal, as it were, on the idea of recasting TOS characters, making it less of a major step. This is why people at large talk about it.
SNW also slowly and softly incorporated the building blocks for a TOS reboot spread out of time, rather than just dumping the idea out all at once. This assembly was made more palatable by fitting the process inside of a pretty good Trek show.
In terms of canon, it is much easier to introduce a TOS reboot than a TNG reboot. A lot of things in TOS have had to be explained away in convoluted ways or mostly ignored by the rest of the franchise. TOS is more ripe to be retuned with details that fit better into what Trek has become. TNG has a much tighter connection to the rest of the shows.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think either TOS or TNG should be remade. A new Trek show should always expand or move Trek forward in some way. I am tired of reboots, reimaginings, and rehashes.
We need Star Trek: The Nextest Generation where it’s all just horny salamanders making salamander babies that slip into the water real quick when anyone shines a palm light on them.
They should also be drunk from a mutated form of water molecule.
I prefer Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation.
You also can’t recast Picard. He’s a Shakespearean stage actor, with a voice so authoritative it became The Heartbeat of America, and a presence so powerful that the Queen of England knighted him. Who in their right mind would want to try to follow that?
I completely agree with your last point. Why are we so stuck on the same ~150 years? (not counting Enterprise) Go to year 2600, start exploring things like AI singularities, the construction of megastructures like Dyson Spheres, artificial wormhole networks, or other more advanced sci-fi that was only scratched at in previous series.
Maybe have the series revolve around the first ship able to reach a neighboring galaxy and the new discoveries that await there. Isolated by extreme distance and forced to be self-sufficient, but not lost or unprepared like Voyager.
Or what if a competing coalition of species has started rapidly spreading from a different quadrant? Not one that’s evil, but maybe one that just has a looser stance on things like The Prime Directive and Genetic Enhancement. What happens when member species of the Federation start getting lured away with promises of new technology and advancements?
What does Vulcan, or Romulus, look like when over half their population has decided to upload their consciousnesses into digital immortality? What does a free and democratic Ferenginar look like? How’s the Gamma quadrant holding up with the power vacuum caused by disappearance of the Founders and the collapse of the Dominion?
Space is big, time is infinite, there’s countless stories to be told somewhere outside of 2250-2400. New Trek should be looking forward, to new stories and new adventures; not backwards and trying to shoehorn in yet another prequel/remake without completely fucking up the canon.
These are great ideas. I want the stories! Star Trek creators, give me these stories!!!
The obvious answer for who to play Picard in the TNG remake is James MacAvoy.
Anyone foolish enough to try to play Picard will be met only with disappointment.
James Macavoy is 45. Patrick Stewart was 47 when TNG first aired. So Macavoy hasn’t got much time to get himself ready to play the most important role of his lifetime!
There are
moreequal number of actors that have played Captain Pike than Captain Kirk:
EDIT: I forgot there is a 4th Kirk actor. In the first Kelvin film Star Trek (2009), there is a young kirk actor. So 4 for Kirk and 4 for Pike.
TOS had 2 actors? I remember there was a later episode but I assumed it was the same actor? Guess I assumed wrong
Guess I assumed wrong
I guessed wrong too, which was a surprise to me when I looked this up:
“New filming took place for the framing story for “The Cage”. Since actor Jeffrey Hunter was unavailable to reprise his role as Captain Pike, a look-alike actor, Sean Kenney, played the injured captain in the new scenes, although Hunter was represented in flashback footage and credited accordingly (along with the other original “Cage” cast).” source
The TOS reboot movies were a mistake
They are action movies with star trek names scattered about.
Beyond was good, and Urban as Bones was perfect casting that will never be duplicated.
By technobabblecality, there is also a case for claiming Tom Hardy playing Picard
I’m wondering how many people who are so bitchy about the Kelvin movies grew up loving TOS in first run as kids. I did, and for me the new movies are like a birthday present. I can totally believe Pine and the rest of the cast are younger versions of the characters. It’s like watching old home movies of close friends from before I knew them. Yes the tone of the newer movies is different - that’s because younger audiences like faster paced movies. So what? The story is being retold now, not in the 1960s. If I can embrace the changes at age 70, I don’t know what everybody else’s problem is.
maybe in another 20 years after nu-trek fails and they want to recapture millennials with nu-nu-trek.
Does Orville count as a non canonical near remake?
No.
Just continue the timeline with fresh characters. ENT -> DIS -> SNW -> TOS -> TNG -> DS9 -> VOY -> Lower Decks -> PIC -> ???
I’d love a live action Lower Decks
Thr strange new worlds/lower decks crossover was done so well too!
Am/was kinda hoping for the 7/9 spinoff from picard
If they had set the upcoming Starfleet Academy series before TNG we could’ve seen a new actor play young Picard and others.
Tom Hardy also played Picard. So, there are three actors that played Picard
Is a clone the same as the original? Different lives and experiences make different people.
True, however there’s this photo
of Tom as Picard, so he did at least pose as Picard.
David Birkin did a pretty good job as young Picard.
Maybe Paramount Global should negotiate with the TNG cast (including Patrick Stewart) for rights to their likeness and voice (kinda like they did with James Earl Jones) before any more of them die.
