Star Trek: Legacy is a show which has been proposed by Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas as a follow-up to both Picard and also a number of other previous Star Trek iterations.

It was previously proposed by Matalas in February 2023 when he told TrekMovie: “There’s no question that this will feel, by the time it’s over, like the final voyage of the Next Gen cast. And without going into spoiler-ific detail, that doesn’t mean to say that a kind of ‘Next Next Generation show’ couldn’t continue with legacy characters.

“A kind of ‘Star Trek: Legacy’ if you will, where these characters can continue to interact with a whole new generation. And when I say that, I also mean characters from Deep Space Nine and Voyager as well. But again, I will remind fans, this is just my dream of dreams. And it’s not currently in development in any way. But should it ever be, I would be there in a New York minute.”

He later went on to tell Den of Geek that he would “love nothing more” than to make a spin-off set in the 25th century focused on Seven of Nine and Raffi, something which was certainly teased by the ending of Picard.

Meanwhile, when talk of Star Trek: Legacy trended on Twitter, Frakes told TrekMovie that he is “an eternal optimist” and that “given what’s going on on social and trending, it seems to me that somebody’s got to address it”.

He continued: “You’ll see that by the end of the show, it’s set up. The legacy characters – the two LaForges, Worf’s got a kid, Riker and Troi have a daughter who’s brilliant, and Jack Crusher is a brilliant character. And he’s on the bridge now. Jeri Ryan is there as a captain. Everybody loves Shaw.

“There’s a lot of the pieces of the puzzle for the Legacy show, in my humble opinion.”

Most recently, Matalas told Variety in an interview about the Picard finale that he and producer Alex Kurtzman “talk all the time” and that if Legacy is “something that’s going to be done, we want to make sure we don’t rush into it”.

He explained: “We want to make sure we do it right. That’s where we’re at with it, I say coyly. At the moment, there’s nothing developed on it. But we talk all the time.”

He also said of the Picard ending that he was “not specifically seeding for a spin-off, as lovely as that is to think about” but that he “definitely wanted the feeling that it could go on, that it was a passing of the torch of the last generation to the next”.

“That I really wanted. I think that’s the spirit of Star Trek, that they’re going to continue exploring strange new worlds. That’s a feeling of hope. So you want to get just a little taste of what that might be — for it to be a satisfying ending, it needed to be a satisfying beginning.

“Having said that, of course, I want to see Jack and Seven and Sidney and Raffi and everybody go on forever. But yeah, that was the creative impulse behind it.”

Will Star Trek: Legacy actually happen and when would it be released?