13 Star Trek Pitches Out There (And Where They're At)

9. "ONE MORE PICARD" MOVIE

Patrick Stewart Jean-Luc Picard
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Last but not least, what about … a Picard movie? Did you miss this? We only know about it from a few wistful interview snippets Sir Patrick offered during the publicity push for the Picard series finale in fall 2023. And this from the guy who protested returning to the role of Jean-Luc, and then finally did so while insisting it not just be a TNG cast reunion … and then to wrap that up in a 180 and wistfully wishing for “one more” grand adventure? 

His change of heart, according to Sir Patrick, actually springboards from two moments from that finale season: once when Picard realizes he is fully “stumped" for a solution, and another, when he is “truly fearful” — both unsettling new feelings to the admiral. “Those two pointers alone, I think, make him an interesting study for one more movie,” Sir Pat offered back in January 2024 when this buzz peaked. He told more than one interviewer that most of the Next Gen cast boys were “all game,” he’d hoped Frakes could direct — and even told a podcast host of a script "being written” in late 2023. Most likely it was a script written on spec, or crafted without up-front money as a passion project. But as... a TV movie? Theatrical film? 

Moot questions now, perhaps, as the trail has grown cold these past two years: No more mentions, no more teases —  on top of our already uncertain Trek platform.

And the same ticking clock that drove Picard’s final seasons to film back-to-back… is still ticking.

Status:  FADING, if ever serious. Maybe a future novelization?

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Back when nerds and geeks were just called "hobbyists," Larry's ninth-grade science teacher ended a bewildering conversations with him about Halkans by finally saying, "Oh Larry — don't tell me you don't know Star Trek!"— along with a commandment to go home and begins watching the daily after-school rerun. The rest is history — well, future history, anyway. Larry had always been a NASA kid and a history fan (not so much sci-fi), so Star Trek fit right in: for the phenomenon that was worldbuilding before the term was invented, Larry felt passion-called to take up "backgrounding" and gap-filling before the term "retcon" was invented. Star Trek is fun and inspiring, but it doesn't pay the bills —at least in those days— but after college and work in theatre and print news, Larry somehow managed to combine both fields with his non-fiction Trek fandom and created the monster that today is Dr. Trek. His self-published, pre-Internet star charts and TNG Concordance were precursors to the official Stellar Cartography map set and the bestseller TNG Companion, after a move to Hollywood /SoCal in the 1990s boom years. Add in a stint as managing editor of official ST Communicator magazine, the first editor and later content producer of the original startrek.com, and the franchise consultant for everything from the Star Trek World Tour to the storied Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas. When Star Trek went wandering in the wilderness for the first time in 18 years amid the "Paramount divorce" of 2005-06, so did Larry — until, finally, the entrepreneur web world eventually found a path and a way to stay afloat. Since then, Larry's "Trekland" has come to mean more media projects and podcast/streaming alongside the old standbys like convention guest speaking and even text writing. Sure, there's The Trek Files for Roddenberry, his own Trekland Tuesdays Live, and Dr. Trek;s Second Opinion reaction shows — but that passion for spotlighting and archiving the creatives of Trek across all arenas and eras still drives him to pioneer experiences like the monthly backstage Portal 47 features, and the Trekland Treks day tours of Trek location sights. And now ... in-depth Dr. Trek turns for TrekCulture, too!