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Paramount should n’t move on from the Star Trek : TNG era , and they can begin by bringing back " Lower deck " and " Prodigy " for more seasons .
As Paramount shift its priorities in the Star Trek dealership , wrap its first contemporaries of waft - era shows withDiscovery , Picard , and most recently , Lower DeckswithProdigyback in limbo without any certainty for season three at Netflix , it seems we ’re specify in a specific direction . Strange New Worldsis the only serial , hot - legal action or animate still combat-ready withStarfleet Academycurrently film and the untitledTawny Newsomelive - action mechanism Trek comedy in developing , but not prescribed . What was initially set as a live - action spinoff series forDiscoveryinSection 31is a standalone film that offer little as far as expanding narrative opening by telling a fuller story of Terran Emperor Philippa Georgiou ( Michelle Yeoh ) embracing her new role in the top - secluded organization . The only other major choice morsel of banknote is the reintroduction of Rachel Garrett , the master of the Enterprise - C onThe Next Generation , now played byKacey Rohl . The question remains : what of the currentPicardpost - TNGtimeline withStarfleet Academyresuming the 32nd - hundred story ofDiscoveryandSNWcontinuing its path as the direct prequel toThe Original Seriesin the 23rd C ?
Paramount Left Star Trek TNG Timeline in Limbo After ‘Picard, Lower Decks,’ and ‘Prodigy’
WhenTerry MatalasconcludedPicardafter three seasons , it was supposed to tease intoLegacy , which stay the storey of the rebranded U.S.S. Titan - A , but now extend by Captain Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) , arguably Star Trek ’s unspoiled comeback story ( sorrySonequa Martin - Green’sMichael Burnham ) . As someone who rediscover her humanity thanks to Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) onStar Trek : Voyager , only to be turned away by the organization she wait on thanks to prejudice against the Borg as she pass most of her life assimilated .
Rediscovering her humanity did n’t mean rejecting her past completely . Eventually , after her run as the vigilante Fenris Rangers , Seven went above and beyond helping to save the Federation along with Admiral Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) and theTNGcrew of the U.S.S. Enterprise - D take down the Borg once and for all ( in their last ditch effort ? ) to subdue earth once and for all . The ending saw not only Seven getting the endorsement of two , possibly three Starfleet admirals with Picard , Janeway , and , presumably , Beverly Crusher ( Gates McFadden ) … and her former racist sea captain , the late Liam Shaw ( Todd Stashwick ) , but she was able-bodied to finally get her deserved position in leadership with the news delivered by her former Voyager shipmate , Captain Tuvok ( Tim Russ ) . The rebranded U.S.S. Enterprise - E fly off into the galactic sundown . Alas , that was not to be as Paramount NEVER greenlitLegacy , remain in limbo , before Matalas accepted a novel job at Marvel , showrunning their recent MCU seriesVision .
WhenProdigywrapped season two , we saw an epic reunion of sort , even if it ’s liven up , that saw Crusher ’s mother and boy back together asWil Wheatonreprised his part as Wesley in a much bigger role as a traveller . In the time of year two close , McFadden , who also had a repeat role , repeat Beverly and interacted with Janeway before the upshot ofPicard . The final scene had the Crusher brothers finally meeting , but sadly offscreen . As we were treated with a bigger picture to fill in on the blanks with the Voyager crew , we saw Janeway and her former first officer Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ) reunited as he was revealed to be the police captain of the U.S.S. Protostar . While the ship was revealed to be experimental , the full potential difference was used by the Vau N’Akat to behave as a trojan horse to the Federation fleet . As the gang saved the day , the ship was recommissioned to be a ship of exploration , again go out the timeline in limbo as Netflix did n’t announced anything to the Nickelodeon animate series ' future .
That leaves us withLower Decks , which wrapped in the first place in December on Paramount+ . The only spectacular change for the finale was that the interdimensional wormhole would be left intact and studied up close by Starbase 80 , leading the fashion to research would be the former captain of the USS Cerritos , Carol Freeman ( Dawnn Lewis ) , and Jack Ransom ( Jerry O’Connell ) raise to captain , but look ! There ’s more . In another shocking turn of events , and also it ’s within Ransom ’s sadistic nature , he allow for junior lieutenants Mariner ( Newsome ) and Boimler ( Jack Quaid ) to share duty as provisionary first officers , essentially leapfrogging their more senior lieutenant peers . Then again , sharing duties is n’t young for the Cerritos , as D’Vana Tendi ( Noël Wells ) and T’Lyn ( Gabrielle Ruiz ) also share senior scientific discipline officer duties .
While Paramount was content leavingLower Decksafter five seasons , it still leaves that null from thatTNGera as bothLDandProdigytake place before the events ofPicard . A third time of year ofProdigyand time of year six ofLower Deckscould play that catchup to that era in a time startle , even ifLegacydoesn’t become a reality . It leaves so much meat to the bone . It ’s mind - bogglingly thwarting to gauge where Paramount want to go with the franchise these days . We ’ve had three prequel series toTOSwithEnterprise , Discovery , andSNW .
Deep Space Ninetook place in a separate part of space that was designed not so much to advance theTNGnarrative , but we did get the universe - spanning Dominion War . Voyagerwas 99 percent set in the Delta Quadrant and earth event did n’t affect the UPN series . Since we are getting Rachel Garrett back , we ’re last mystify another floor to help bridgeTOSandTNG . That ’s not even getting into the limbo of the Kelvin universe , which Paramount insists on stay in theTOSera . I knowLower DeckscreatorMike McMahanis being diplomatic despite having additional season drop a line , but give us fan a off-white , Paramount ! If you do n’t have anything be after , then what ’s unseasonable , at the very least , in giving us another season ofLower Decks ?
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