So I just saw a petition for “Make Star Trek: Legacy with Matalas as showrunner” and it has about 66 thousand signatures…

To be hyperbolic I would rather gouge out my own eyes with a rusty spoon than watch anything that man had a hand in ever again.

Make Star Trek: Legacy but give it to anyone BUT him.

Season Three of Picard was truly awful for reasons which have been enumerated many times. More like that? No thank you.

Honestly I don’t even understand the point of this petition. Who started it? For what reason? Star Trek: Legacy has been so heavily hinted that if development allows (filming schedules etc.) it’s a pretty sure thing. Strange New Worlds took a year or so from being a “you guys would like that?” To being made/announced. These things take time. Just because it isn’t big news right now, doesn’t mean it’s not developing behind the scenes.

It just feels like an ego boost to be honest for Matalas. I wouldn’t be surprised if he hadn’t made it himself to go “look they like my work” and obviously 66 thousand people do. I certainly do not.