A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
HAD THINGS NOT GONE THE WAY THAT Star Trek producer Alex Kurtzman intended, the world would have one less Star Trek show right now – not to mention the fact you’d be holding a very different copy of SFX in your hands.
When he and colleagues met Patrick Stewart in 2017 to discuss a potential return for Jean-Luc Picard, there was no plan B – no other series in mind. No Star Trek: Sisko, no Star Trek: Janeway.
“No, we knew that if we ever got him to come back, it was going to be a Picard-specific series,” Kurtzman, who has been executive producer on all things Star Trek since 2009, says. “There was nothing where he came onto somebody else’s show. In fact, he has acknowledged that he said he would never come back to play this part at all.”
“From the start we mapped out a story that would probably take up three seasons”
Fortunately he and his team were able to convince Stewart there was a story to be told (see page 40), and to seal the deal they turned around a
