if you're one of the Star Trek fans who just finished watching Picard season 3 and thought
wait what that's it I want more Star Trek in the 25th Century then we have some good news for you
while nothing has been greenlit and there are no announcements as of now for more Star Trek
in the Picard timeline we're going to just come out and say it that's right take it from the guys
who watched all of Picard season 3 almost four months before the show came out I mean there we
were on the Paramount lot sifting through Jonathan Frank's trash with only binoculars and sensitive
sound equipment when we happen to see the whole season through an open window into someone's
office could have happened to anyone back to the point our intense observation skills combined
with several key incidents as well as what we are hearing from normal channels makes us believe that
Star Trek in the 25th Century or Star Trek Legacy is definitely happening and we are going to share
all of the signs that we believe prove it what do we know a lot so you don't want to miss this
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so then will it be you've probably heard the name Star Trek Legacy bouncing around
the internet since March 22nd it's trended on Twitter and Tick Tock multiple times the name
Star Trek Legacy was coined by Star Trek Picard season 3 showrunner Terry matalis
when he was asked what he would name a show continuing the current story if he was asked
to do it in a tweet he called it a spin-off show from Star Trek Picard a 25th Century show that
explores the last generation and the next this hit Twitter about eight hours before episode 6
was released by Paramount plus and of course that episode titled the Bounty showcased a federation
Fleet museum with Star Trek ships that spanned all 50 plus years of the franchise no Trek fan
would have ever expected to see all those ships on the same screen together ever following that
episode would be the first time Star Trek Legacy trended on Twitter and it's where we find our
first piece of evidence that Star Trek Legacy will happen after the matalis tweet and the
following fan react action CBS wasted no time buying the domain name startreklegacy.com we
know because we checked following matalis tweet the name had been for sale by a private owner
for five thousand dollars the very next day CBS Studios Inc published the domain name and moved
it to the paramount.com name servers why would the studio do this if they had no plans to make
Star Trek Legacy and let's be clear up until this point there were absolutely no plans for
metals to do any Star Trek shows following Picard and that isn't a huge surprise considering Picard
was always supposed to go only three seasons but even following the purchase of the domain
name sources said all was Quiet on the Western Front despite a fantastic Premiere and five
solid weeks of shows that had fans Whispering this might be the best season of Star Trek in
20 plus years insiders were reporting that Star Trek Legacy in any name was colder than Siberia
so you're telling me there's a chance but we believe this was likely the point that the studio
was beginning to realize Legacy would have to be dealt with and as it turns out there was a pretty
good reason why they were quiet about Star Trek after Picard it got in the way of their plans but
you know what they say best laid plans only three weeks before Legacy was born Star Trek discovery's
cancellation had been announced fans of that show were not happy about it and Picard season
3 success may have been a little salt in the wound the studio would not want to hide more Trek in the
25th Century right after canceling Trek in the 32nd Century I mean they had plans all along to
continue Trek following Discovery but they weren't ready to release that news yet and why wouldn't
you wait for say first Contact Day in only a few short weeks to announce a discovery spin-off duh
it's a Star Trek Legacy it was becoming a problem some crazy YouTubers started a change.org petition
and every new site covering entertainment was trying to plot out what a Picard spin-off show
would look like and the only thing fans seem to have on their minds is that Picard season 3 should
never end Terry matalis Mania was starting to set in with fans who felt like he had the pulse of
what Star Trek should be moving forward to say the studio didn't see this coming is an understatement
fans didn't know where Alex kurtzman found this guy but he was perfect for Star Trek the problem
was how do you hype the next Star Trek show you've been planning for more than a year when the chance
for Star Trek Legacy keep getting louder well the answer is you don't wait until no one can hear you
hey so only a week after matalis announced his theoretical Legacy show Paramount drops the news
on a Starfleet Academy show never before had March 30th been so eventful for Star Trek why
didn't the studio wait six more days to announce Academy on First Contact day when fans are most
primed for news because they needed to change the news cycle sooner than expected Discovery
fans were grumbling and Picard fans were getting louder the announcement of Academy immediately
appeases Discovery fans and would quiet the chance for Star Trek Legacy or so they believed and let's
be clear it's not that they don't want a Star Trek Legacy show it's that it's not part of the
plans they've been developing for a long time no one saw matalis coming in and making waves
like this with the third season of Picard but instead of quieting calls for a new matala show
The Academy announcement was like a speed bump for the monster truck sized fan excitement for
Star Trek Legacy yeah hell yeah then on April 14th Picard season news dropped that no one saw
coming and it would be a game changer but before we tell you about that game-changing news please
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the news that no one saw coming on April 14th was Nielsen's top 10 rated original programming shows
and Star Trek Picard was number nine this was a Star Trek first for Nelson and only the second
time for Paramount plus who had the Yellowstone spin-off 1923 cracked the top 10 as well and
what makes this even more impressive is that most of the other shows above Picard were on
streamers like Netflix and Disney plus who have significantly more subscribers than Paramount
and what made this interesting is the numbers were taken around the fourth episode of the series and
the show's popularity only grew more from there we believe it's at this moment Paramount Executives
began to realize they weren't going to be able to ignore Star Trek in the 25th Century what's
going on I don't know if that damn thing's getting bigger and it's also about this time that what we
were hearing from inside sources became more about what we weren't hearing the constant chatter about
there being nothing to report stopped altogether in no way does this mean the studio was prepared
to Green Light Star Trek Legacy but it's more like likely things went from not going to happen to
hold up we need to talk about this wait what did you just say the one thing that we can say for
sure is that this is the most the human Collective has hyped up Star Trek in decades and Paramount
wasn't about to let rampant fan excitement go away without getting some mileage from it Whispers of
the Picard season 3 finale being played on IMAX had been around for weeks but news on
it officially broke April 10th live fan screenings would take place at 10 participating IMAX theaters
in major cities around the country in for a penny in for a pound Paramount also dropped
the announcement of a Star Trek section 31 movie The Day Before the IMAX event takes place kudos to
Paramount public relations for dominating the news cycle while some people saw this as distracting
from a Star Trek Legacy show we think it was just an opportunity to ride the wave and capitalize on
the excitement but the real proof that Star Trek Legacy will happen is what happened during the
IMAX event kurtzman while being interviewed by Fox La was asked about the fan outcry for Star Trek
Legacy his response was anything is possible we've heard the fans loud and clear there's obviously
more story to tell so we'll see many people have been focusing on the fact that he seems perturbed
during the interview reading that he doesn't like Star Trek Legacy but we don't see it that way at
all look at his words loud and clear there's obviously more story to tell these are not the
words you use when you're trying to avoid doing something here's the problem how does he squeeze
in a Star Trek Legacy Show when he already has a Full Slate of shows to do we have to remember that
in February Paramount announced that its streaming would reach a peak in 2023 which means they expect
to stream less shows in 2024 they have to cut back in order to turn a profit now that doesn't
mean they have to cut back Star Trek but when you consider that the franchise is already putting
out 50 weeks of new content each year it doesn't leave a lot of room for another show well Picard
is ending so that leaves a show opening right it doesn't because the plan wasn't to Place Picard
with another series it was to replace it with a series of movies and miniseries strange new worlds
lower decks Prodigy and Starfleet Academy would account for 40 weeks with the movies and special
miniseries making up the other 10 weeks of content the movies and special miniseries would actually
save the studio money so this leaves no room for an entirely new series so kurtzman's response
during the interview was more likely frustration at not being able to squeeze another sardine into
the already full can kurtzmann has no problem changing direction when fans clearly voice what
they want when captain pike stole the show during Discovery season 2 fans began calling loudly for
a captain Pike's spin-off series a change.org petition was started by fans and when it reached
nearly thirty thousand signatures kurtzman came out and said the fans have been heard
loud and clear sound familiar guess what the Star treklegacychange.org petition is as of this video
still don't think Star Trek Legacy is coming then how about this follow following the iMac
screening in Los Angeles kurtzman metallis and our other Star Trek Legends took the stage for
a q a the moderator Begins by asking kurtzman about metallis and what they had planned going
into season three kurtzman said that Terry was the perfect person to do it on so many levels because
I think he understands at the deepest level as a fan as an audience member as someone who
just knows track like the back of his hand exactly what you want to feel and how you want to feel it
when you bring everybody back in short kurtzman said he felt that they were in great hands with
him this is lavish praise that we have never heard before from Alex especially about Terry
we attended the premiere and the only thing he had to say at that time was Terry did a good
job and frankly it didn't feel like he meant it maybe he was having a bad day maybe he didn't
think Picard season 3 would blow up the way it did but the way he spoke about him for episode
1 and episode 10 were night and day and matalis deserve to hear every word of it the bottom line
is you don't refer to him as someone who is the perfect person to make Trek who knows Trek like
the back of his hand and knows exactly how to make the audience feel and not give that guy more Star
Trek and you certainly don't say it publicly to the whole world and then put him on the Last
Train to Clarksville and if all of that doesn't convince you that some form of Star Trek Legacy
is coming we'll give you one more example at the end of the IMAX q a the moderator makes a bold
statement he says I have a feeling especially Captain seven for gonna see how robot where it
starts with the cup with these people and at that moment metallis interrupts him and says there is
one more person he wants to mention and if you're paying close attention it sounds as if matalis is
stopping him from saying whatever he is about to say next people who were at the event said
it sounded like the moderator was about to make an announcement and he was cut off was he about
to spill the beans on Star Trek Legacy what did he mean by this isn't over and I have a feeling we'll
be seeing a lot more of Captain seven and these people on the stage we don't know for certain what
was about to be said but the one thing we can say is that something feels like it is cooking behind
the scenes and all of our pop cast Spidey senses are telling us that in some shape or form Star
Trek Legacy is going to happen an outstanding showrunner Terry matalis is going to be a part
of it what could this mean honestly chances of it being a full-on show with 10 episode seasons is
probably unlikely Paramount has painted itself into a corner but what that does leave us with
is movies and a limited run series could matalis continue telling his story over the course of a
couple of movies or a limited series absolutely and based on the success of that material could
it end up replacing one of the other shows at the end of their run absolutely in our opinion
it's not a matter of if but when but what do you think does the evidence point to a new Star Trek
Legacy with Terry matalis or was this all we'll see of the next next Generation would you like
to see Q testing Jack as he once did Picard as the Enterprise heads out on a new five-year Mission or
is it time to put the story to rest let's talk about it in the comments below and if you're
excited about the idea of more Star Trek in the 25th Century created by showrunner Terry matalis
head over to change.org and sign the petition add your name to the list of nearly thirty thousand
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