There are many famous “Star Trek” fans, with one of the most vocal being James McAvoy, who has a long-running passion for “Star Trek: The Next Generation”.
McAvoy got to step into the shoes of that show’s leading man, Patrick Stewart, when he took on the role of a younger version of Stewart’s Professor Charles X. Xavier in the “X-Men” films.
Turns out though, at one time, he had serious eyes on playing Stewart’s iconic Trek role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and actually pitched a project involving Picard’s days before the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Appearing on Happy Sad Confused podcast recently, and joking that “all I really want to do in my career is play young versions of Patrick [Stewart],” he subsequently revealed that they nearly made the project “Mutiny on the Stargazer” as a limited series:
“That was a whole idea I had I pitched to the Star Trek people as well, and we nearly did it…I had this whole story of a young Picard that I love. I pitched, it was like a one-off standalone season … when he took over as captain of the Stargazer and what actually happened, and the secret he’s been holding his entire career. I just pitched it to them, talking to them, and they were into it, but we...