10 Dream Star Trek Moments That Could Still Happen

8. Legacy Greenlit

There is nothing so new as not to be iterative. Quantum mechanics aside, you can't innovate from the vacuum. After nearly 60 years of incremental variation, Star Trek is now its own inheritance. To move forward is to look back. In that sense, all Star Trek must be Star Trek: Legacy to be Star Trek at all. That said, only one Star Trek: Legacy can be the series we're looking for.

A lack of Legacy is not for a lack of continued interest either. The dream's alive! Sure, the initial buzz that followed the conclusion of Star Trek: Picard's final season has been tempered by a certain degree of realism. The actors required to make the show remain largely on board, and with an air of optimism.

As late as October last year, LeVar Burton told TV Line that,

The sentiment, then and now, at least for us, the cast, and the audience, two years on, seems to be just as interested in the idea of Legacy as when Picard was just airing.

It would all need Captain Seven of Nine of the Enterprise-G, of course. On her part, Jeri Ryan continues to say, "never say never," having even turned down a pitch for a Seven of Nine spin-off because it wasn't the Legacy show fans wanted, and that she wanted to do.