Star Trek: Picard season three cleaned up at the Astras, and if that doesn’t scream to everyone that we need a Star Trek: Legacy show, I don’t know what will.

For those of you playing at home, the Astras are the Hollywood Critics Association awards. HCA Awards, if you will. They merged with some other things along the way. Terry Matalas won best writing in a streaming drama series, and Jeri Ryan won too, which is amazing to me. She’s done so good, and she’s amazing at what she does.

I’m a huge Star Trek proponent, and this is a big Star Trek channel. I have uniforms. We do backdrops, the whole nine yards. We review Star Trek: Lower Decks on a regular basis. So it’s a big deal for me to see awards like these recognizing what I consider the genre stuff, and I’m really excited about it.

Give Them the Show

You don’t give a show to Jeri Ryan and Terry Matalas right now? Start the hashtag. Star Trek Legacy. It literally needs to become a thing right now.

Everybody I know, in the various circles I travel, we’re all waiting. Star Trek Legacy has been trending on various platforms numerous times since Picard ended last year. They need to start recognizing that, and genuinely do their best to push and promote what the fans want from the show.

Look at where things stand. Discovery is ending this year. Pretty soon Strange New Worlds is going to be the only thing holding the torch for Star Trek for a minute. And everybody wants a Star Trek Legacy show.

What a Legacy Show Actually Is

Nobody’s asking for more Picard for its own sake, and we went back and forth on this one at the table.

One read is that we won’t get much of the old guard at all. It’ll literally be the three we saw left on the bridge, and they’re not going to go too far back.

The other read is that the show is a good opportunity to do exactly that. Revisit some characters. Show us the odds and ends that haven’t been talked about much. What’s Deep Space Nine doing? What’s happening out there?

You wouldn’t anthologize it. You’d keep Seven of Nine and the crew of the Enterprise as the main focus. But this season we’re dealing with something having to do with DS9 characters, and that season we’re dealing with something having to do with Voyager characters, and you keep going in as organic a way as possible. I think that’s a cool approach.

Star Trek still has many stories to tell. It’s the same thing we say about everything else in our fandom.

And thank you to the Know-It-All in the chat who pointed out, while we were live, that TrekCulture posted today that Legacy is getting legs, as part of an interview with Matalas. That’s awesome. I’m checking that out as soon as the show’s over.

Shatner, Paramount+, and the Missing Captain

The other day somebody tweeted a question: are we ever going to get to see Captain Kirk again? William Shatner responded. He posted a picture and said, more or less, that if you want your answer, take a look at the promotional material on Paramount+. There’s obviously no sign of Kirk.

Part of what fans are dealing with here is that William Shatner has a very problematic history with the fandom. So much so that back in the day Saturday Night Live did a bit about it. He tried to walk some things back. But he’s also got years of history of being a complete boor when it comes to dealing with people. Cast, crew, the whole nine yards. Being a prima donna. Being the guy who wants to be first on screen.

And I get it. I absolutely get it. At the end of the day it’s about making sure the fans understand where he’s coming from, and he’s never really done that. He’s never connected well on that level.

Who’s Your Captain

All that being said, the man’s Captain Kirk.

There are people who want to do revisionist history and tell you Spock is more important, or Uhura is more important. First off, everybody was important. I loved every character in the original series. But that was never the debate. Nobody spent years arguing Spock or Data. It was always who’s your captain, Picard or Kirk. Literally, for years, that was the debate.

Now look at the graphic. You have all these other captains. Why is Archer up there? No offense, but I did not like Enterprise. Scott Bakula played Captain Archer on Star Trek: Enterprise, and the show has its merits. Upon rewatches I’ve learned to appreciate a lot of it. But he’s there. Everybody’s there. And then you have two legacy characters on it, Spock and Uhura.

I get all the reasons. But dude, why would you leave the original captain off of it? William Shatner, problematic, the whole nine yards. Throw his picture up just once. That’s it. That’s not asking for much.

That’s my feeling, anyway.

I’d love to know your thoughts on the whole William Shatner thing, and on the Star Trek Legacy news that’s coming through. The conversation lives in the comments on the video above.