Shatner is in talks to return as Kirk. There's potential for the Starfleet Academy series to feature the iconic character.

In 1987, a PADD was high-tech ... In the timeline of "Star Trek: Picard," a series set several decades after "Next Generation," LCARS had partially moved from PADDs and panels to hovering ...

However, the one crossover that Star Trek fans always wanted to see, but never did, was an encounter between Captain Kirk’s Enterprise-A and Captain Picard’s Enterprise-D from The Next Generation.