Terry Matalas Teases ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3 Villain, Confirms TNG Cast Will Be Together

Also true. Many kept saying this could’ve just been a 2 part episode. Once you take out all the filler and focus on the meat of the story there is just not a lot there.

It’s disappointing for many reasons because, per usual, fans expectations went way beyond what we got. Others were saying they expected this to be a 10 episode version of All Good Things or even a Year of Hell. I mean when you are looking for something like those, then you are immensely disappointed lol.

And for me, I just thought we were going to get a very twisty time travel story because that’s exactly what Matalas did on 12 Monkeys. Every season got more nuts than the last. They were jumping back between the future and past all the time. They were jumping to a different year nearly every episode; sometimes multiple years in one episode. Characters were living in different timelines. We saw future versions of characters interacting with their past selves, etc. And you just didn’t know what was coming next. Every time they thought they completed their mission, it only took them down another rabbit hole. It was just FUN!

That’s what I thought we were getting. A really layered time travel story. Star Trek has never had anything more than a movie or a 2 part time travel story before, so one that went on an entire season they could do SO MUCH with that. Instead, they hopped to 2024 and just basically ran around looking for people. It was so pedestrian. And even that would’ve been fine if there was at least more going on, but there wasn’t. So much of it was nonsensical and even the big mystery just felt like a shrug. All of this was so Picard’s great Aunt can discover a new organism on Europa and spent two lines explaining how that will supposedly save the future.

This season just sucked!

I remember Idris Elba and he played Krall in Beyond, didn’t he? I remember he was a Starfleet Captain but I don’t remember his human name. Don’t think that I was trying to slight anybody but we have not had a really good villain in a Trek film since First Contact and the introduction of the Borg Queen. I like the JJ films but the villains don’t really stand out in them.

I thought Nero,who was supposed to have all this drama and pathos to him, just felt flat. They didn’t really explore him at all and that was probably because JJ also had to tell Captain Kirk’s story, Spock’s story, Uhura’s story, Captain Pike’s story, the destruction of Vulcan etc etc. all in that 2009 Star Trek reboot movie. Then Benedict Cumberbatch is Khan in Into Darkness and I didn’t like that at all. I thought Benedict did as a good of a job that he could with what he had.

And Idris Elba? I love Idris Elba but Beyond is just a terrible movie to me. It tried too hard to be like an episode of TOS and they should’ve been more focused on making Beyond feel like a Star Trek movie. It’s so bad that there’s not even a novelization for it.

And there are novelizations for ALL of the Star Trek films, except Beyond. It’s just my opinion, though. There are a lot of Trekkies that love Beyond, just because it does feel nostalgic. I am not one and I have been a Trekkie since 1991.

All the villains since Insurrection just feel hokey to me. It’s only the movie villains that feel this way to me because I love Gul Dukat and Weyoun on DS9, Silik on ENT, and Captain Ransom on VOY. I still watch the movies but the villains just feel weak to me, post-First Contact. All that could change with this new villain in Picard season 3, though.

We’ll see 🤞🙂. That’s the point I was trying to make. Live long and prosper, The River Temarc 🖖.

Now, now, take it easy 🙂. I’m glad 🙂 you liked Beyond, kmart. Like I said, it just didn’t feel like an anniversary movie should to me. Now, First Contact was a hell of an anniversary movie and so was The Voyage Home.

But Beyond just didn’t do it for me. The only thing I liked about Beyond was Jaylah. My biggest problem with Beyond is the Enterprise getting destroyed again. Why do you need to destroy the Enterprise?

Can’t you move the plot along without destroying the Enterprise? But my beef with Beyond is my beef 🙂, not anybody else’s. I actually love all of the TOS movies myself and that’s because Captain Kirk is my favorite Captain. Generations, I can take it or leave it.

To me, that’s a very dark movie and I don’t care for how Captain Kirk died. First Contact, Insurrection, Nemesis, the 2009 reboot, I all love. Into Darkness, I can take it or leave it. I own all 12 Star Trek movies but Beyond I’m unsure if I will ever own it.

As for the novelization, Alan Dean Foster did the first two novelizations for JJ’s films, maybe you can find him on Twitter and ask him why he didn’t do a Beyond adaptation? Simon and Schuster did do 2 trilogies for the 50th anniversary (one for TOS and one for TNG.) and IDW did a 5 issue comic event called Manifest Destiny that was set in the Kelvin Universe. So they had some stuff specifically for the 50th anniversary. I have quite a few single novels in my collection right now for TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT that all have the Starfleet Delta on the back of them and say Star Trek 50th Anniversary.

Beyond is the only thing they didn’t cover. It just looks odd, is all. I mean there’s 12 novelizations for all 12 films. So what happened to number 13?

What is Simon and Schuster superstitious 🙂? Are they waiting to publish Beyond until the 14th Star Trek film comes out and then they can print two for one 😄? It’s just strange and doesn’t make sense to me. But they did celebrate the 50th anniversary.

What they didn’t celebrate was Enterprise’s 20th anniversary and why they didn’t, I have no clue. That’s a shame to me. That’s more of a shame to me than Beyond’s novelization not being published. Live long and prosper, kmart🖖.

Good questions, kmart, but I have no answers for you, just speculation. Any time a book or a comic book or action figures are made for Star Trek, the company making the stuff needs to get a license from Paramount (ViacomCBS). If they don’t get the license, then they cannot make the product that they want to make. I assume that Titan must have a license from Paramount because these are the guys who print the Star Trek: Explorer magazine.

But maybe Titan’s license only covers stuff like non-fiction Star Trek books to be printed overseas because, in America, Simon and Schuster handles the rest. As for Titan releasing their stuff in America, it’s non-fiction Star Trek, not the novels, so that’s probably why they can sell it here. Titan’s not really stepping on anybody’s toes, you know. I do know that Titan published a Star Trek trilogy back in 2016-2017 called Prometheus.

I’m assuming that when Titan did this trilogy that they had Simon & Schuster’s permission because that trilogy was touted as being connected to Star Trek’s 50th anniversary celebration and it was written by two German guys. That’s why I think Titan’s license is really just for overseas stuff. But that stuff is getting over here and that may just be a case of one hand not knowing what the other is doing. Either that or Titan is laughing in the face of Simon & Schuster 😄.

As for Beyond, there is a non-fiction book out there for it published by Titan but there’s no fiction novelization for it. Titan doesn’t do the novelizations, that’s always been Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster. But they didn’t do one for Beyond. It could’ve been a corporate call because, at the time Beyond came out in 2016, Paramount(ViacomCBS) still owned Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster.

So you’d think that they’d want to promote their movie but apparently not. It just doesn’t make sense to me, especially since it was the 50th anniversary too. As for Alan Dean Foster, yes, I do know about him and his wife and him asking Disney for his royalties. I mean do you blame him?

There’s no union for writers. They’re basically considered independent contractors so they have to take care of themselves and him and his wife are both up there in age so they probably need the money for medical bills. So if Alan Dean Foster is hurting for money, then once again that brings up the question: why didn’t he do a novelization for Beyond then? Now there’s two reasons as to why he might not’ve written Beyond.

The first is that he wrote a Kelvin Timeline novel way back in 2009, 2010 and Pocket Books/ Simon and Schuster shelved that book for 10 years. They just released it back in 2019 or 2020. I don’t have it yet so I can’t tell you when it was released exactly. Or because he’s Alan Dean Foster, he might’ve felt that Beyond was sub-par to his standards.

It’s probably more the first reason than the second but we’ll probably never know for sure. But I am pretty sure that he didn’t appreciate Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster shelving his Star Trek novel for no good reason. Hopefully, some of what I have said has been helpful to you, kmart. Sorry 😐 I can’t give you an exact answer to your question. Live long and prosper, kmart 🖖.

Hopefully he got millions. He deserves it

I’m glad for that Mr.Foster reached an accomodation with Disney, I had not heard about that. Thanks 👍 for telling me 🙂. That book that he published about his career would probably be a very interesting read. I would love to know what he contributed to the first Alien movie, which I’m assuming he must’ve contributed something because he did write the novelization for it and the sequel Aliens.

I’m not sure if he did Alien 3, though. I had that book when I was a teenager,nearly 30 years ago now, but I can’t remember if he wrote it or not. As for Duck Dodgers being before Star Wars, I did not know Star Wars had a cartoon short before it. I wasn’t born until ’79 so I didn’t get to experience the wonder of seeing Star Wars on the big screen when it first came out.

I did see the Special Edition releases in the ’90s but it’s not the same I know that 🙂. Thanks for the update 👍, kmart, and live long and prosper 🖖.

Take it easy, One Lion 🙂! I happen to know that Enterprise has it’s fair share of fans, like all the Trek shows. You shouldn’t presume to speak for the fandom by saying that Enterprise was a mistake and should just be forgotten. I am a Trekkie and have been one since 1991.

I support ALL of Star Trek, the good and the bad. I try to find some good even in the bad. Yes, there are terrible episodes of Enterprise but then again what show doesn’t have it’s bad episodes, especially in a franchise that’s been around for 56 years. Was Enterprise a great series?

I’m not gonna say it was but I like T’Pol a lot. I think she was a great character. I love some of the reactions she gave being around humans, they were classic! Dr.Phlox was a good character and so wasn’t Captain Archer.

And the ship, Enterprise (which was the Enterprise’s Mama because the NX-01 started it all.), was very beautiful, just like the NCC-1701 💖. The show is set at the very beginning of Starfleet so they’re not the polished, rules and regulations officers we see in TOS and beyond and I’ve come to understand that about Enterprise. I understand it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, just like Discovery and Picard aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. But there are fans who like Enterprise and I am one of those fans.

Now I accept that you don’t like it, One Lion, but please don’t presume to speak for the rest of the fandom by saying that most of the fandom hates Enterprise. There’s enough divisivness in the country, we shouldn’t have it in a franchise that touts peace and IDIC as its main concepts. Live long and prosper, One Lion 🖖.

You wanna quote? Here’s a direct quote for you from you – “Enterprise was a failed series that most fans gave up on”. And that is from earlier today. By saying “most”, it appears as though you are attempting to speak for others. You’re attempting to quantify ratings loss from the early-’00s in the year 2022.

I know Enterprise was a failed show, I never said it wasn’t. You’re attempting to start another argument with me, just like you tried to over the Picard show the other day. You have no idea how people feel about Enterprise today or who likes it and who doesn’t. Comparing Enterprise to the way it was received 20 years ago is wrong.

Have you ever heard the phrase “cult classic” before? DS9’s popularity has grown. So has Voyager’s and Voyager was almost a failed series itself until Seven of Nine saved it. You wanna talk ratings loss, look at season 2 and 3 of Voyager then.

They’re ratings dropped too, just like Enterprise’s did and they were on the verge of cancellation themselves until the arrival of Seven of Nine saved them and I read that in the book The Fifty Year Mission vol. 2. But Voyager’s popularity has increased over time thanks in part to streaming. So how do you know that Enterprise’s hasn’t? I don’t presume to speak for others.

I speak only for myself and I like Enterprise. If you don’t like it, I don’t care. I have the right to like what I want in this world. I’m not “shooting any messenger”.

You’re just trying to pick a fight with me because I like a Star Trek show that you see as garbage and that’s your problem, not mine. Live long and prosper, One Lion 🖖.

You know what I’m through with this conversation. I quoted you from your own message and your gonna sit there and say you never said that. I’m through, I don’t need to play games, like you do. I don’t need you to point facts out that I already know since I’ve been following Star Trek since the ’90s.

I don’t need you to clarify what I already know about Enterprise. On the Picard show conversation, we only had a good conversation about the Picard show after I ceded that season 2 had it’s share of faults to it. Before that, you wanted to jump on me because I didn’t agree with you about it’s budget. That’s why I prefaced my reply with “I am not going to have a war of words with you”.

And it wasn’t just low ratings that did in Enterprise. It was also the fact that UPN was in the process of being sold off and turned into the CW and the CW did not feel that Enterprise would be a good fit on their schedule. And how about the political climate at the time? It was after 9/11 and it was a dark time in our country and Enterprise could not find her footing at that time. I know the gist of everything that went on with that show, just like I do with ALL Star Trek shows and movies.

You can backtrack your words all you want. Your reply is on here. So go read it for yourself 🖖👋.

Yes Beyond was like a forgettable two parter on the big screen (like Insurrection) with near ‘Gold Key’ elements, in contrast to the epic ‘star trek movie’ feel of the previous 2 films where the stakes were very high for the crew, earth and star trek canon. in Beyond it was really just the crew (who aren’t ‘really’ the classic crew but alt universe versions) and some far away outpost we’ve never heard of before (under threat from a villain whose motivations dont make any sense). At least Bob Orcis version sounded legit like a ‘star trek movie’ with the fate of the timeline at stake and the return of Shatner Kirk which would’ve been a huge event in the canon.

Regarding the lack of a Beyond novel I feel its two reasons, First the aforementioned Orci ST3 being cancelled fairly late on may have disrupted any novel preparations, not given ADF or whoever enough time to do it (maybe they’d even started adapting the Orci version by the time the plug was pulled). And second by the time Beyond came out tie in novels were perhaps considered by the studio to be a thing of the past , or at least an unimportant novelty – especially a direct adapation of the movie. ive noticed some movie tie in novels now tend to be based around the movie exploring before the events of the film. Its similar with comic adaptations – neither Beyond or Into Darkness got adaptations of the actual film but there were prequel ‘Countdowns’ to the films (and in ID’s case direct follow ups ‘Khan’ and ‘After Darkness’)