The upcoming CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, is reportedly scoring 75 to 80% negative in early test screenings. According to Bounding Into Comics, showrunner Alex Kurtzman has been fired and barred from the set.
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80% negative? Things don’t look too good for Mon Capitaine
Abrams fans like it?
It sucks.
Well, just remember how badly Encounter at Farpoint sucked and try not to jump to early judgement.
And The Great Bird of the Galaxy continues to spin in his grave.
I doubt even Q could save the show.
Damn! I should have expected this, but I didn’t. 
I’m a Trek fan, but this sounds like a poor idea to me. I’ll watch an episode or 2, but I thik it’ll be like watching a train wreck, more morbid curiosity than pleasure.
Disappointing, but not unexpected. Star Trek has been fractured due franchising reasons, and can not be Star Trek, but must be somewhat off by design. They have to intentionally miss what Star Trek is.
I was concerned this new show would be dark & depressing. That seems like the trend for Trek these days.
I want to see Trek like it was done in TNG. A show that focused on adventure and exploration.
I mean, maybe it’s true? But that linked story is some bullshit.
Hell, at the end it asks if the rumor is ‘too good to be true’. That’s not exactly actually trying to report anything. It’s one of those rumor mongering stories you run to get clicks and revenue when there’s nothing else to run.
I know blogs aren’t journalism but still.
*Encounter at Farpoint *was better than about 95% of other things on TV at the time. It only looks shabby compared to what came later.
The Orville is oldschool TNG, positivity and all.
Many Trek alumni have guest starred (or even are regular characters)
Orci’ed?
A reference to this guy, who eventually parted ways with Kurtzman, apparently over creative differences: Roberto Orci | Memory Alpha | Fandom
Thank you.
Did anyone see the trailer? I thought it didn’t bode well for the series. All it did was pan over rows of grapes in a vineyard, then show a wooden box with “Chateau Picard” written on it. Yawn. I’ll still watch every episode, though. :o
I’m not surprised, given Kurtzman’s record.
Trek needs to be run by someone who understands how Terry Pratchett felt about Hollywood.
What’s the point in firing the guy if they aren’t fixing it? If something screens that badly, you do edits.
The main thing the show has to do to be good for me is remain faithful to the Picard character. Sure, it can have him in a different place in life, or fed up with the Federation after the destruction of Romulus. Things have to be different in the Prime timeline after that. It he should feel like the same character, that he really was the idealist we eaw in his youth, and could be every bit as great as he was in the past.
What I have been worried about is that he would be Picard in name only and be too dark and grim, rather than about a man regaining his optimism and an organization rebuilding, while dealing with a huge fallout.
No, it wasn’t. It was really, really poor. There was plenty on TV at the time that was much better. I almost didn’t continue watching TNG because of that episode (and actually gave up for a couple episodes after that stupid one with Tasha fighting for her life with the death claw).
Isn’t Patrick a coproducer or producer on this new show?
No one understands TNG like him. I can’t imagine him signing onto a project that isn’t good. Picard means too much to Patrick. He doesn’t want to be associated with a failure and have that be Picard’s last moment.