Picard Showrunner Talks His Idea for a Star Trek: Voyager and DS9 Sequel Series

This Star Trek: Picard article contains spoilers.

With a few episodes yet to go, the third season of get their eyeballs ripped out!

So it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that Picard‘s showrunner wants to keep the good times going past the third and final season of Picard. Showrunner Terry Matalas has been open on social media about wanting to do a new spinoff series called Star Trek: Legacy, which would follow the further adventures of Captain Liam Shaw on the USS Titan as well as some of the ’90s characters.

Matalas gave attendees at Galaxy Con (via TrekMovie) some details about what Legacy could be, details that should thrill fans of ’90s Trek. If he has his way, Matalas would dig even further into the worlds of Deep Space Nine and Voyager in this potential sequel series. “Boy, wouldn’t you want to check in with the Klingon Empire?” Matalas asked attendees. “Wouldn’t you want to check in with Deep Space Nine and The Doctor [from Voyager]”?

To be sure, the answer to these questions was a resounding “yes,” which Matalas certainly knew. Although both series came to definitive and largely well-received ends, the finales of Deep Space Nine and Voyager also signaled the end of the line of ’90s Trek. After the last episode of Voyager in 2001 and the movie Discovery set 10 years before TOS.

Lower Decks and the first two seasons of Picard have dropped a few hints about the universe after the ’90s series, but Matalas sees much more left to explore. In particular, he wants to follow the surprise return of Ro Laren in Picard by catching up with her fellow Bajoran freedom fighter Kira Nerys, beyond her cameo in a recent episode of Lower Decks. “She’s so good,” said Matalas of Kira’s actor Nana Visitor, who has been a vocal fan of Picard. “I mean, gosh you want to see that. You want to see Nana so bad and what’s going on with her and everyone. That would be phenomenal.”

Of course, it’s important to note that all of this is just Matalas thinking out loud. Paramount has renewed The Motion Picture in the ’60s and ’70s. “[Fans] get to decide. So however you best make noise is how to do it.”

Star Trek: Picard season 3 streams on Thursdays on Paramount+.