Summary
Star Trek: Picardshowrunner Terry Matalas says that season 3’s proposed spinoff,Star Trek: Legacy,could still be great if it gets made later. Matalas has two huge new opportunities as showrunner of Marvel Studios’Visionand screenwriter of 20th Century’sEnemy Minereboot. While Paramount+ has opted not to makeStar Trek: Legacy, the desire among Matalas' creative team,Star Trek: Picard’s actors, and the audience forLegacyremains strong, andthePicardspinoff could still be made someday, although it would very likely be after Matalas has completed his new slate of projects.
Star Trek: Picardseason 3’s Ed Speleers, who played Jack Crusher, and Terry Matalas appeared onThe D-Con Chamberpodcast and spoke to hosts Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer about their continuing hopes to makeStar Trek: Legacy.Matalas revealed that he has written scenes between Speleers' Jack Crusher and Jeri Ryan’s Captain Seven of Nine, and Terry discussed whyStar Trek: Legacywould still be great even if it picked up later in the USS Enterprise-G’s story. Read Matalas' quote and watchThe D-Con Chambervideo below:
The whole world doesn’t know how often we talked or texted about it… I mean, I even wrote scenes and stuff… I wrote a scene with [Jack] and Captain Seven at a bar that was great, and you were the Bones to her Kirk… It was fun…
What’s great about it is, if it ever happens, you may come in late, and it would be really interesting to see what happened to all of them, like way down the line… To have a more formed relationship between you and Jeri. So, I would say never say never.
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“Maybe someday”
Star Trek: Picardseason 3 was so popular, and its ending that set up aStar Trek: Legacyspinoff was so enticing, thatmany viewers remain puzzled about why Paramount+ didn’t seize the opportunity. Instead, after endingStar Trek: DiscoveryandStar Trek: Lower Decks, withStar Trek: Prodigysaved by Netflix, thenextStar Trekseriesfrom Paramount+ isStar Trek: Starfleet Academy.Terry Matalas offered an explanation onThe D-Con Chamber:
It takes so long to get anything made nowadays, and certainly, [Starfleet] Academy was in the works way before… Even before Picard season 3… I do know that these [shows] cost a lot of money, and [it] can’t just be like, ‘You get a Star Trek, and you get a Star Trek.’ Even though we would kill to do it. That’s why I say maybe someday.
Star Trek on Paramount+ has scaled down to justStar Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and the streaming movieStar Trek: Section 31, on deck for the next two years. However, other unannouncedStar Trekprojects are in development. But, as Terry Matalas said,it takes years to develop and produce aStar Trekseries.Star Trek: Legacymay indeed happen someday if fans are patient, because the desire from Terry Matalas, Ed Speleers, andStar Trek: Picard’s team remains as strong as the audiences'.
