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If you want Star Trek Legacy, ask for it: Hopeful showrunner and cast

We got Strange New Worlds up and running... and it's time to do it all again.

Star Trek Picard spin-off called Star Trek Legacy is what hopeful showrunner Terry Matalas and its cast and crew want to make, and they need our help to do it.

Matalas, who’s running Picard Season 3took to Twitter to retweet a post by Trek Movie that said “subscribing [to Paramount+] isn’t enough you need to watch Star Trek Picard. And maybe rewatch…”

In case you’re wondering, Star Trek Legacy is what I’d call a spin-off show from Star Trek Picard,” Matalas added. “A 25th Century show that explores the Last Generation and the Next…”

Long-time crewmember Michael Okuda also took to Twitter to say, “I have no insight as to the studio’s future plans for possible spinoffs, but all such decisions hinge on the number of subscribers who stream a show, and how many times they watch it.”

LeVar Burton, who plays Geordi LaForge, is also backing the spin-off and the potential inclusion of LaForge’s daughters Alandra and Sidney.

“What the writers have done is they have really set it up well,” Burton told Whoopi Goldberg on The View. “You have got the next generation of The Next Generation. The La Forge sisters, one’s an engineer, the other’s a pilot. We’ve got Jack Crusher, Seven of Nine. It makes a whole lot of sense.”

Jonathan Frakes (William T. Riker) has also chimed in, saying he sees value in a spin-off show with Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine in command. In it, Frakes would still play a crucial role from time to time.

“I could be like Charlie in Charlie’s Angels, the admiral they check in with,” Frakes told Emmy Magazine.

Ryan herself has taken to Twitter with what could be the most important bit of this campaign: a petition designed to show fan interest in a new-spin off.

“We Want A Star Trek Legacy show Spinoff of Picard Season 3 with the wonderful characters that have been created and we would like Terry Matalas to be the Showrunner for this show wish would continue the current events of Star Trek Picard Season 3,” reads the description of the petition.

A similar petition was launched in 2019 and called for a Captain Pike spin-off from Star Trek Discovery. It received 30,000 signatures and ultimately proved successful: we now have Star Trek Strange New Worlds to show for it.


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