Frakes and Dorn on the possibility of being recast someday.

Well....I suppose that's cool. But I tend to think, even as popular as they were back in the day, the TNG characters and everyone else that followed aren't as iconic as the TOS crew. Shatner is still around and there have already been 2 versions of Kirk.

I just can't see anyone caring much about Riker, Worf, etc...20 years down the road.

“How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene be acted over / In states unborn and accents yet unknown!”

Interesting to consider the potential deep legacy of Star Trek. I am reminded of a scene in the movie Time After Time where a time-travelling HG Wells assumes the false name Sherlock Holmes when arrested in 1979, thinking that by that far future time this popular Victorian character would have been forgotten.

Also, recasting may not be needed. The descendants of Dall e and Midjourney will be able to generate new, visually perfect episodes from new scripts written by writers both human and algorithmic.

New Star Trek starring Shatner, Nimoy, Frakes, Stewart et al. Artistic dystopia? Or— something else…

Just some early morning (Au) ramblings from someone whose profession is on the line in the upcoming state election.