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 Star Trek: Picard has already been renewed for a second season and as
fans enjoy Season One (episode one was amazing) Patrick Stewart revealed that he
at first had no interest in returning to the character. But he told Vulture he
said yes only when he was promised the show would be more like Logan than an
X-Men movie: “To be honest, I didn’t want to come back. I had determined long
ago that my time with Jean-Luc and Star Trek was over.” Producers Alex Kurtzman
and Akiva Goldsman then set up a meeting and talked out the show with Stewart
who left the meeting less reluctant: “In less than two days, I had over 30 pages
of copy, which I studied very carefully. One of the points I had made in the
meeting was that the only possible way I could consider returning to that life
would be if, for example – and this was only an example-we did something like
Logan, the final X-Men movie I made with Hugh Jackman; then you would have my
attention. The producers were very enthusiastic about creating a world that was
very different from the one that we got used to. I met with them again and we
talked and talked and I told them about my uncertainties and doubts and little
by little I found that they were all being addressed and being addressed in such
an interesting way that I was intrigued. This was not going to be Star Trek: The
Next Generation, Part Two. That’s why I said yes.” And if the producers have
their way then we may get a show that could focus on Captain Christopher Pike
(Anson Mount), Spock (Ethan Peck) and Number One (Rebecca Romjin). There were
already two Star Trek live-action series in development one of which would focus
on Section 31.
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