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During a recent panel aboard the Star Trek Cruise ship (via Screen Rant), Marina Sirtis stated Star Trek: Legacy is “never going to happen.”

Marina Sirtis: First of all, Legacy is never gonna happen.

Jonathan Frakes: Come on, Marina!

Marina Sirtis: You know, you hate hearing the truth. There is not a single studio in America that is gonna make a series where most of the leading actors are over 70 years old. I’m sorry, but that’s just the truth. It’s just Hollywood.

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[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 3 points 21 hours ago

I’m perhaps at the extreme of negativity about the Legacy premise, but what Matalas seemed to be pitching was almost an anthology of legacy characters being visited by the Titanprise with the bridge full of offspring.

So, yes, Sirtis would not be wrong to think the focus of the pitch was the older cast with the younger characters and the visiting Titanprise as more or less the framing.

I have a theory that someone in senior management of the streamer under the old ownership had a strong belief that ‘children of legacy characters’ were a necessary bridge between old and new audiences. There seems to have been no awareness at all of his antithetical nepotism would be to the meritocratic principles of Starfleet.

We have La’an Noonien-Singh for no particular reason in SNW - she’s not even the bridge officer with augmented abilities.

Also, the more I hear about the pitch for Unity the more it sounds like a family saga with all the great things Archer’s offspring are up to as young adults (since the creators were told that they could have them at the Academy as they’d originally pitched).

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 21 hours ago

almost an anthology of legacy characters being visited by the Titanprise with the bridge full of offspring.

Oof, that would be real uninteresting, to me.

[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 2 points 21 hours ago

I believe that there was mention of some Legacy locations and species to visit too.

Sigh…

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 21 hours ago

That, I'm not so opposed to. No sense in visiting that time period if you're not going to check in on the status quo of the neighbours!

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