Jeri Ryan being offered a different Star Trek show than Legacy is bad news

Star Trek fans have been hoping for a Star Trek: Legacy announcement ever since the end of Star Trek: Picard. Legacy, which would've featured Jeri Ryan returnin once again as Seven of Nine, would have followed the son of Jean-Luc Picard; Jack Crusher. Jack would have been played by Ed Speleers once again, the same young man who played the character in Picard.

They would've likely been the featured stars of the show, but other new characters that were introduced in Picard would've likely appeared as well, like the daughters of Geordi La Forge. It would have possibly been helmed by Picard season three showrunner Terry Matalas, and would've picked up right where Picard ended; with Jack Crusher meeting Q.

Fans have been salivating over the prospect of this show for a while now, but the longer time passes, the more likely it is not to happen. It's become so unlikely to happen, that the stars of the proposed idea are getting other offers. We're not talking about other offers outside of Trek, we're talking about other Star Trek projects.

As our own Rachel Carrington recently commented on, Ryan herself was offered a different project within Star Trek to reprise her role of Seven of Nine. Speaking at Spacecon, Ryan revealed that she was offered a different show, one built around Seven of Nine, saying (via TrekMovie.com).

"There has been talk. And there was an idea that was actually pitched to me after Picard ended, which was not the Legacy show that I know the fans are asking for, that I want to do. But it just wasn’t me… It didn’t feel like the right kind of thing."

Ryan did reveal that she's holding out hope for the project, saying "Never say never" about the show. Yet, she's already getting offers to return to the franchise, outside of the show she and the fans want. That says to me that the folks at Paramount+ aren't interested in doing a Legacy series.

Keep in mind, that filming for Picard's final season ended nearly three years ago in March of 2022. In three years, we've had no movement on any follow-up project. That's pretty damning, especially since Star Trek already greenlit Starfleet Academy's second season, well before a teaser has come out. Let alone a full season.

This is that old adage, "If they wanted to, they would". If Paramount+ wanted to make Legacy, they would. None of the key actors are involved in another Trek project and they've had nearly three years to greenlight it. Instead, they did Starfleet Academy instead.

The window for this show is quickly closing, if it isn't already shut.