Why Star Trek: Legacy Will Never Happen, According To Tng's Marina Sirtis

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Most Trekkies tin show you nan communicative of "Star Trek: Legacy" by now, but I shall reiterate to make judge we're each connected nan aforesaid page. The 3rd play of "Star Trek: Picard" was a reunion show, bringing backmost astir of nan formed of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and allowing them to interact connected surface for nan first clip successful galore years. The characters were each successful their 80s, 90s, aliases 100s, but acknowledgment to nan precocious medicine successful "Star Trek," each looked and behaved 20 years younger. The bulk of nan play took spot connected nan U.S.S. Titan-A.

The play past ended pinch Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) taking bid of nan U.S.S. Titan-A, which was past re-christened nan Enterprise-G. Her first serviceman was her ex-girlfriend, Raffi (Michelle Hurd), and Picard's son, Jack (Ed Speleers), was an ensign. Throughout nan 3rd play of "Picard," showrunner Terry Matalas introduced nan Titan-A's unit successful nan background, subtly mounting up a backdoor aviator for an Enterprise-G-based bid he wanted to telephone "Star Trek: Legacy." Although ambitious, nan bid was ne'er really greenlit, and it's 100% improbable that it will ever beryllium made. Trekkies will person to make bid with nan comic books that IDW will beryllium putting out. 

Actress Marina Sirtis, who played Deanna Troi connected some "Next Generation" and "Picard," precocious appeared connected shape astatine Star Trek: The Cruise (an arena covered by ComicBook.com), and she reiterated that "Legacy" is dormant and buried. She besides added that neither she nor immoderate of her "NextGen" co-stars would beryllium welcomed backmost to specified a task because of plain-faced ageism. There's nary measurement a modern workplace would greenlight a show whose trading constituent is imaginable cameos from actors successful their 70s and 80s.

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Marina Sirtis was rather definite connected nan matter, being quoted arsenic saying, "First of all, 'Legacy' is ne'er gonna happen." This mightiness disappoint galore Trekkies, who person kept their fingers crossed and hoped against dream that Paramount+ would really greenlight nan series. Personally, I attended a "Star Trek" normal recently, and location were still clipboards and petitions circulating, asking for people's signatures successful hopes of convincing Paramount to motorboat nan series. 

Paramount, however, is simply a business successful flux, and nan early of "Star Trek" was already uncertain backmost successful 2022. These days, it's moreover little stable, what pinch the cancellation of "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy." Some mightiness deliberation that nan bequest of "Legacy" would beryllium a bully trading constituent for nan series, and that cameos from nan formed of "Next Generation" would tie successful millions. Sirtis, however, feels that nary workplace could perchance look astatine a gaggle of actors successful their 70s and 80s and spot it arsenic a trading point. In her (harsh) words: 

"You know, you dislike proceeding nan truth. There is not a azygous workplace successful America that is gonna make a bid wherever astir of nan starring actors are complete 70 years old. I'm sorry, but that's conscionable nan truth. It's conscionable Hollywood." 

And that's that. Not only is nan "Star Trek" franchise successful an unstable spot, but nan allure of a septuagenarian formed of imaginable cameos won't beryllium appealing to studios, astatine slightest by Sirtis' estimation. The comics will person to do, because it's each we're ever going to get. "Star Trek: Picard" can, astatine nan very least, beryllium rewatched connected Paramount+.