I’m a rather new Trekkie, started it first time a year and a half ago. I’ve fallen in love with it BUT I certainly have not seen every single project in the Star Trek universe. Basically I’ve seen TNG 3 times over now as well as the TNG films. So forgive me if I’m missing something, but I would love love love a Picard origin story perhaps as a film. Maybe they could start with his time in Starfleet academy and his first few big mission on the USS Stargazer.
Has this ever been discussed or thought about by producers in Hollywood? Is there a market for it? Is there Star Trek fatigue? Who would play young Picard? I was thinking maybe Nicholas Hoult or George MacKay from that movie 1917. I watched that movie recently and thought, “huh, he’d be an excellent Picard.”
They could even expand on some one off characters from TNG that Picard knew from his past. Maybe a younger version CPT. Donald Varley of the doomed USS Yamamoto. Perhaps they were old friends from the Academy? I don’t know I’m just spitballing. What’s your thoughts?