Though it never happened, it’s interesting to imagine how things would’ve turned out had Kotto played Picard, and how he would’ve portrayed the Captain differently.
Obviously, Star Trek: The Next Generation found its man in the end, and while Yaphet Kotto never got a chance to be in Star Trek, he continued a successful run in film with some television work for a long time after.
Perhaps in some Terran version of Earth they saw this play out, but for us in the Prime (or possibly Kelvin) universe, we can only speculate.