After seven seasons of Next Generation, Data has maintained a consistent presence in the Star Trek universe<\/a>, with Spiner appearing in two spin-off series and four films \u2013 even getting a writing credit for 2002\u2019s Star Trek: Nemesis \u2013 as well as lending his voice to five video games. <\/p>\n But speaking in New York ahead of the new Star Trek documentary, The Sixty-Year Mission<\/a>, Spiner said there was even more of the story to be told. <\/p>\n The actor has revealed a sequel to Star Trek: Nemesis was initially planned, which was “going to be fantastic”, bringing together multiple characters from throughout every part of the franchise in a story around the Mirror Universe and time travel. <\/p>\n Brent Spiner as Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation.\u00a0CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n However, speaking to TrekMovie<\/a>, he said: “Thing is, it was a pipe dream on our parts, because obviously nobody could afford to do that. Particularly not after my salary, they weren\u2019t going to be able to. <\/p>\n “We had an original script that we wrote that was rejected. It wasn\u2019t the script. We had a story idea that involved everybody playing two roles, but alas, that this wasn\u2019t to be.”<\/p>\n He added that ultimately executives decided they “didn\u2019t want to do it” due to the poor box office of Nemesis, ending its potential. <\/p>\n Shortly after the project was scrapped, it was announced that Star Trek was getting a full movie reboot, with JJ Abrams at the helm and a new cast. <\/p>\n Chris Pine led the new all-star cast as Captain James T Kirk (previously played by William Shatner) with Zachary Quinto taking over the role of Spock from Leonard Nimoy and Simon Pegg playing Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott, replacing James Doohan. <\/p>\n The film, released in 2009, would eventually evolve into its own trilogy with 2013\u2019s Star Trek Into Darkness and 2019\u2019s Star Trek Beyond. <\/p>\n However, the original cast and story continued to endure on television, with Star Trek: Discovery launching in 2017. <\/p>\n Since then, there have been six further television spin-offs in the Star Trek universe, three live-actions, two animations and one short-form series, including Star Trek: Picard<\/a> in 2020 and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n Star Trek: Starfleet Academy<\/a>, which focuses on up-and-coming cadets training to join Starfleet, launched earlier this year. <\/p>\n It\u2019s been confirmed the series will end after its second season<\/a>, which will air next year. <\/p>\n Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 2 will arrive on Paramount+ in March 2027.<\/p>\n Add Star Trek to your watchlist on the Radio Times: What to Watch app<\/a> \u2013 download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more.<\/p>\n Check out more of our Sci-fi<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what’s on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Trek legend Brent Spiner has opened up on a spin-off series that sadly never made the light…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-801267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Brent](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-459889288-7ab51a4-scaled.jpg\" "\\"Star")
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