Star Trek

(Prepubescent voice) Am I a joke to you, Number One?

Edit: I bet you read that in Wee Picard's voice.

Stop remaking things. It's to go boldly for fucks sake.

Because TNG is perfect and no attempt to remake it could possibly improve it

Actors who have played Picard:

TNG has aged well and despite some dated elements it is still within the comfort zone of modern audiences. TNG created the baseline for how following Trek shows for decades would look and operate which gives it a connection to all of those shows for people to grab onto. TOS is both older and of a significantly different wavelength. I personally love it, but a lot of people bounce off of it. That is why there is more openness to rebooting it. Also, the JJ Abrams movies have broken the seal, as it were, on the idea of recasting TOS characters, making it less of a major step. This is why people at large talk about it.

SNW also slowly and softly incorporated the building blocks for a TOS reboot spread out of time, rather than just dumping the idea out all at once. This assembly was made more palatable by fitting the process inside of a pretty good Trek show.

In terms of canon, it is much easier to introduce a TOS reboot than a TNG reboot. A lot of things in TOS have had to be explained away in convoluted ways or mostly ignored by the rest of the franchise. TOS is more ripe to be retuned with details that fit better into what Trek has become. TNG has a much tighter connection to the rest of the shows.

For what it's worth, I don't think either TOS or TNG should be remade. A new Trek show should always expand or move Trek forward in some way. I am tired of reboots, reimaginings, and rehashes.

How come?

Because if it ain't broke don't fucking fix it.

Further, a lot of the modern films are a lot less Philosophy Trek and a lot more Action Trek. TNG as a series is squarely Philosophy Trek, even if the TNG movies veer a little too much into Action Trek themselves.

I just don't have faith that the themes would be faithfully reproduced, even if the actors, setting, and so forth could be.

The obvious answer for who to play Picard in the TNG remake is James MacAvoy.

There are ~~more~~ equal number of actors that have played Captain Pike than Captain Kirk:

EDIT: I forgot there is a 4th Kirk actor. In the first Kelvin film Star Trek (2009), there is a young kirk actor. So 4 for Kirk and 4 for Pike.

By technobabblecality, there is also a case for claiming Tom Hardy playing Picard

The TOS reboot movies were a mistake

maybe in another 20 years after nu-trek fails and they want to recapture millennials with nu-nu-trek.

William Shatner was the only actor to portray Kirk for the 43 years between 1966 and 2009. TNG premiered in 1989, “only” 35 years ago. I'm sure a reboot of some sort will happen one day, just be patient.

I'm wondering how many people who are so bitchy about the Kelvin movies grew up loving TOS in first run as kids. I did, and for me the new movies are like a birthday present. I can totally believe Pine and the rest of the cast are younger versions of the characters. It's like watching old home movies of close friends from before I knew them. Yes the tone of the newer movies is different - that's because younger audiences like faster paced movies. So what? The story is being retold now, not in the 1960s. If I can embrace the changes at age 70, I don't know what everybody else's problem is.

Just continue the timeline with fresh characters. ENT -> DIS -> SNW -> TOS -> TNG -> DS9 -> VOY -> Lower Decks -> PIC -> ???

I'd love a live action Lower Decks

If they had set the upcoming Starfleet Academy series before TNG we could’ve seen a new actor play young Picard and others.

Tom Hardy also played Picard. So, there are three actors that played Picard

What about David Tristan Birkin? He played young Picard.