No more TREK for Picard, Stewart says

As a fan of Next Generation-era Star Trek, I had mixed feelings about the recent Trek reboot. There were things I did like about it, but I watched it knowing that its success probably meant I'd never see any of the characters from Trek's Rick Berman era again.

No more Picard, or Sisco, or Janeway. No more Q. No more Data. (I know, he's supposed to have died in Nemesis. But come on, you know they would've found some way to bring him back.) No more Borg. (Sigh... No more Seven of Nine!) No more cameos from Barkley, or Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram. No more stopovers at Quark's bar.

From here on in, Trek was going to be set in this weird new reality where there's no freaking Vulcan and Spock and Uhura are lovers and Kirk isn't William Shatner and Scotty is Sean of the Dead. All of that "This ain't your father's Star Trek" stuff didn't sit too well with me; I liked my father's Star Trek.

Now Patrick Stewart has officially scooped the last shovelful of dirt onto the grave of the Next Generation, telling SCI FI Wire that he doesn't expect to ever play Jean Luc Picard again.

Stewart thought that this summer's reboot of Star Trek was "terrific," but didn't see any possibilities for Jean-Luc Picard in the franchise, leaving open only that he would agree to do a cameo in a sequel. Stewart mentioned a proposed final Next Generation film, but after the disappointing box office for Star Trek: Nemesis, it never materialized.

"I feel that I have left behind a legacy as Picard," he said. "In my head and heart, I've moved on."