Star Trek boss "almost cried" watching Patrick Stewart read the new Picard script

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Alex Kurtzman, who oversees CBS All Access' Star Trek universe, said at Paleyfest Sunday the Jean-Luc Picard series will be a very different show from Star Trek: Discovery, with a "very thoughtful, psychological portrait" of Stewart's iconic character. “Here’s what I will tell you,” Kurtzman said in front of a crowd at the Dolby Theatre. “I had an amazing experience yesterday. I sat at Patrick’s kitchen table and I heard him read the first episode and I almost cried. It was quite something. He’s at an amazing place in his life. He’s so excited. It’s going to be a very different show from Discovery. The only way this universe, I think, works correctly is if each show is really different and speaks to a different part of Star Trek.” Kurtzman added: “This is going to be a very thoughtful, psychological portrait in a lot of ways. We all know what Picard means to the world and why he, like so many legendary characters on Star Trek, has endured and what he’s represented. He in some ways has to go through a gauntlet to find that again. Things have changed for him and changed him in some ways, and yet he is so deeply and fundamentally still Picard. We’re thrilled at what we’re going to deliver. I know Patrick is really excited. The cast is coming together beautifully. And I will give you nothing else.”