Star Trek: Picard.

There's going to be a scene where they all get together, get drunk as hell, and give other shit. Riker and Raffi are going to trade Number One stories.

Then Raffi will want to know if Worf is over and under, or side by side. Riker will encourage Worf to show Raffi, he'll refuse. Every one will start chanting "Take them off! Take them off!".

Worf will give in, drop trousers and Raffi will know which one it is.

A bunch of the episodes will be clip shows.

hopefully not the one ed629 is talking about

I didn't dislike this season as much as many seem to - mainly because the Picard/Q scenes cover a lot of faults - but in retrospect, if they'd just done season one as a stand alone mini-series, it would have been fine.

Thinking about it, I kind of want a Rios and Theresa story.

Guinan says she dies fairly old, and he only predeceases her by a few years. Given the actors' ages, that gives them roughly 30 years (not seeing 80 year old Rios [he's presently 44) getting into a bar fight-maybe as a bystander, but...), almost entirely within WW3/EW/CWv2 era.

I don't.

now I'm gonna think about it...

Characters...
We've got them, the kid, Renee, ex FBI guy, 21stC Guinan.
Hell, we can even toss in Wesley and a supervisor, maybe that Vulcan from Carbon Creek?

Setting is potentially interesting enough without relying on aliens of the week but still bringing in alien tech... EW augments are proto borg hybrids or something...

Oh, god.

You're beyond hope, my friend.

Lower Decks. Can't see DSC involving Wes.

That wasn’t Wesley Crusher, that was Will Wheaton.

once you figure out that Firefly and BR25 s2 are contemporaneous and therefore potentially connected, there's no turning back...

What the heck is BR25?

Wait a minute... is @Spaceturkey talking about Firefly and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century?

If so, two things:

1. What the fuck does this have to do with Star Trek Picard?

2. Firefly and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century are not contemporaneous. Season two of Buck Rogers takes place in 2493, while Firefly takes place in 2517... that's almost a 25-year difference.

Or does BR25 mean something else that's relevant to this thread?

I thought that was the original plan.

Frankly after this season, they should've left it that way since nothing from that season seemed to connect with this one.

Stranger things have happened, but I hope he does show up on DISC, because the epic meltdown will make the outrage over Boimler's censored dick look like a lovers' quarrel in compaison

Put him on Discovery, he’d fit righ in with the drama Queen. They can cry it all out together.

Jeez. It only took 25 minutes for @Shirogayne to be proven right.

*35

It really did seem like they were setting up a possible Assignment: Earth series in the finale. A few years ago I'd have said it was just a funny in-joke, but considering we finally have a more cerebral Pike-led TOS series airing, who knows what's possible?

You must have a flimsy definition of outrage.

I am so down for this with WW taking Robert Lansing's gig

It's may have been asked up thread, but is it possible that there could be something to Q's line of "See you out there"?

Full disclosure: I haven't watched the 2nd season, but I did see the clip of Wil Wheaton.

And, man, Wesley seems like kind of a douche. He came across as a used-car salesman, or a game show host. Just...completely inauthentic.

He did seem much more Wil Wheaton, and much less Wesley Crusher. He seemed kinda like the version of himself he played on The Big Bang Theory.

Given fandom hated Wesley to the point that "Kill The Boy!" was a popular chant at cons in 1988...is that really a downside?

After the way Berman fucked over his career, it's a wonder he would even want to be anywhere near this franchise at all, TBH.

Well, can you blame them? Large parts of early TNG had Wesley (and I'll just point out that it was Roddenberry's middle name) being the hero of the episode. When I was a kid, growing up in the 70s, I fucking hated when a TV show or movie would jam a kid into a situation, making them a hero, when the adults would obviously be the ones to know shit and have the solution. It was a goddamned trope like you wouldn't believe back then. I'm not talking a story where the focus is on the kids 99% of the time, so you can understand why the kids would be the ones to figure out things that the adults couldn't. I'm talking stories where the focus 99% of the time was on the adults, then, when everybody's screaming, "So this is it, we're about to die." some kid comes along and figures out that if they did something screamingly obvious from the beginning of the episode/movie, everybody would be saved.

Okay, I'll bite: How's he making money outside of royalties and his ties to Trek? I can't really see somebody like Martin Scorcese making a serious movie and screaming, "Get me Wil Wheaton, or this project's dead!" If dude can't trade on his connections to Trek, I don't think he's got a career. YMMV.

As one example, Wheaton had a film that he wanted to do but Rick Berman being the shit rat that he is said that his one entire scene was so critical that they absolutely needed him there for the whole week. When this episode aired, the entire scene had been cut. Given the other petty asshole moves he was known for, it definitely seems like a fuck you move.

It's fucked up that Berman pulled this exact crap on Terry Ferrell and possibly Garrett Wang*, but at least she was a grown ass adult with better capacity to handle that kind of dick move. Wheaton was a kid, and he had his own acclaim from "Stand By Me" that came out the year before TNG.

*I'll give Berman the benefit of the doubt as Wang was reported to be a dick that came in late all the time and made no friends among the EP circles. But only this once and I feel dirty for writing this.

You know what I know about "Stand By Me"? It's that it's based on a Stephen King story, and that, at least according to Family Guy, the fat kid from it is married to Rebecca Romijn. In looking at the cast, the ones who are well-known celebs have either a lot of serious roles, or managed to have rather famously fucked up lives. Best Wil gets is being some kind of Aspie if you ignore TNG.

He's done a lot of voice work for animated stuff. He seemed to be using that kind of overly enunciating/expressive acting with his Picard cameo, which made it feel so cringe-y to me.

The fat kid even has a Trek connection: he voices Ransom on Lower Decks.