Summary
- Star Trek: Legacy spinoff could still happen in the future, and there are positives to doing the Picard spinoff later.
- Showrunner Terry Matalas has already written scenes for Jack Crusher and Captain Seven of Nine.
- The possibility of Star Trek: Legacy resurfacing later in the USS Enterprise-G's story keeps hope alive for fans and the creative team.
Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas says that season 3's proposed spinoff, Star Trek: Legacy, could still be great if it gets made later. Matalas has two huge new opportunities as showrunner of Marvel Studios' Vision and screenwriter of 20th Century's Enemy Mine reboot. While Paramount+ has opted not to make Star Trek: Legacy, the desire among Matalas' creative team, Star Trek: Picard's actors, and the audience for Legacy remains strong, and the Picard spinoff could still be made someday, although it would very likely be after Matalas has completed his new slate of projects.
Star Trek: Picard season 3's Ed Speleers, who played Jack Crusher, and Terry Matalas appeared on The D-Con Chamber podcast and spoke to hosts Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer about their continuing hopes to make Star Trek: Legacy. Matalas revealed that he has written scenes between Speleers' Jack Crusher and Jeri Ryan's Captain Seven of Nine, and Terry discussed why Star Trek: Legacy would still be great even if it picked up later in the USS Enterprise-G's story. Read Matalas' quote and watch The D-Con Chamber video below:
The whole world doesn’t know how often we talked or texted about it… I mean, I even wrote scenes and stuff… I wrote a scene with [Jack] and Captain Seven at a bar that was great, and you were the Bones to her Kirk… It was fun…
What’s great about it is, if it ever happens, you can come in late, and it would be really interesting to see what happened to all of them, like way down the line… To have a more formed relationship between you and Jeri. So, I would say never say never.
Terry Matalas Explains Why Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Is Being Made Instead Of Legacy
"Maybe someday"
Star Trek: Picard season 3 was so popular, and its ending that set up a Star Trek: Legacy spinoff was so enticing, that many viewers remain puzzled about why Paramount+ didn't seize the opportunity. Instead, after ending Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Lower Decks, with Star Trek: Prodigy saved by Netflix, the next Star Trek series from Paramount+ is Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Terry Matalas offered an explanation on The D-Con Chamber:
It takes so long to get anything made nowadays, and certainly, [Starfleet] Academy was in the works way before… Even before Picard season 3… I do know that these [shows] cost a lot of money, and [it] can’t just be like, ‘You get a Star Trek, and you get a Star Trek.’ Even though we would kill to do it. That’s why I say maybe someday.
Star Trek on Paramount+ has scaled down to just Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and the streaming movie Star Trek: Section 31, on deck for the next two years. However, other unannounced Star Trek projects are in development. But, as Terry Matalas said, it takes years to develop and produce a Star Trek series.Star Trek: Legacy may indeed happen someday if fans are patient, because the desire from Terry Matalas, Ed Speleers, and Star Trek: Picard's team remains as strong as the audiences'.
