Who Should Replace Patrick Stewart In Star Trek?

As we noted before, Star Trek has already given us some easy options for actors who could replace Patrick Stewart. In addition to Tom Hardy playing a young clone of Picard in Star Trek: Nemesis, Ed Speleers played Picard’s son in the third season of Picard. Fans generally enjoyed his performance, leading to widespread demand for a Star Trek: Legacy show to continue his adventures as young Jack Crusher.

Now, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that Legacy is ever going to happen. In that case, the franchise could lose Speleers’ talents forever, but if he replaced Patrick Stewart in a Star Trek reboot, we’d get a legacy of a very different kind. Such casting would also solve the “problem” of the 35-year-old actor playing a character a decade younger…now, instead of being too old to be Picard’s son, he might be just the right age to play a younger version of Stewart in this famous Paramount franchise.