A Star Trek: Picard producer has revealed Sir Patrick Stewart didn't want the series to be a Next Generation "reunion show".

The actor will reprise his role as Jean-Luc Picard in the new series, set 20 years after his last appearance in 2002 movie Star Trek: Nemesis.

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Speaking at New York Comic Con over the weekend (October 5), Picard executive producer Heather Kadin revealed what concerns the actor and the show's creators discussed before forging ahead.

These included the need to establish Picard as it's own "emotional story" and to not just be a Next Generation tribute. Good call.

"A big concern was we did not want it to be and especially Patrick did not want it to be a TNG reunion show and I think you can tell from the trailer and what you’ll definitely tell from the series, is that we only brought people back if their story really mattered to the story we were were telling," Kadin said.



"We didn’t want to go, 'Oh, and here’s Riker!' And I don’t think the fans would appreciate that either."

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She added: "It was really important to Patrick, who obviously has a long-standing deep relationship to these people, that also we’re going to go to them and say join a show that’s called Picard, that we give them something significant to do.

"And I think you’ll see that each one of them has a pivotal, emotional story to tell in our 10 episodes."

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Kadin's comments come after Picard revealed its first-look trailer and release date at the annual convention.

Time to get excited, fellow Trekkies.

Star Trek: Picard will air on January 23, 2020 on CBS All Access in the US and will air on Amazon Prime internationally, including the UK.

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