April 6, 20214 yr I was wondering how they would get me sucked in to another season. Yep that will do it.
June 18, 20214 yr I’m starting to hope that this series ends with Picard in a medical facility in a suite adjoining Tudor’s. It’s all a dream. Seven has been visiting Tuvok and sometimes Picard. Everyone else is someone who works there. At the end, Picard dies, but his body is transported to the ST equivalent of Avalon by Q and Wesley Crusher. (King Arthur’s death scene, recall the end of Excalibur.) It would take courage to address terminal, degenerative mental conditions in ST so bleakly.
January 20, 20223 yr Picard is my favorite ST Captain even if he is a bald Frenchy. Also, I would still do nasty things to 7 of 9.
March 4, 20223 yr First episode was pretty good. I like some of the reviews I've read, suggesting this season gets back to what made the better seasons of Star Trek series what they were.
March 4, 20223 yr Enjoyed it... Spoiler 1. Less of Guinan really is more. 2. Borg fight is a Kobayashi Maru scenario ???
March 4, 20223 yr 8 minutes ago, Dr Fear said: Enjoyed it... Hide contents 1. Less of Guinan really is more. 2. Borg fight is a Kobayashi Maru scenario ??? Well, I now see what the episode title was lol
March 4, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, Augustus said: First episode was pretty good. I like some of the reviews I've read, suggesting this season gets back to what made the better seasons of Star Trek series what they were. They surprised gave the early premier party viewers the second episode. I heard it gets GOOD right away.
March 6, 20223 yr I think I watched all of tng, probably most of it twice. I only saw parts of deep space 9, and very little voyager. Is there a list of episodes that would get me caught up enough for Picard?
March 6, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Parliament said: Do they ret con rhe fact he's an android now? I still can't believe that happened. (but no, they did not)
March 6, 20223 yr 6 minutes ago, Buzzrock said: Since season one apparently sucked can I just skip it and watch season 2? I told a friend earlier who never watched season 1 to skip it. You will see a lot of characters you don't know. They're Picard's friends. Also Picard is a robot now. You're good to go.
March 6, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, Red Five said: I still can't believe that happened. (but no, they did not) I'm hoping at some point this season Q addresses this and snaps his fingers to fix it. Such a stupid and worthless plot point.
March 6, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Red Five said: I told a friend earlier who never watched season 1 to skip it. You will see a lot of characters you don't know. They're Picard's friends. Also Picard is a robot now. You're good to go. Yeah that sums it up
March 7, 20223 yr 7 hours ago, Buzzrock said: Since season one apparently sucked can I just skip it and watch season 2? Please, for the love of God, skip Season 1. 7 hours ago, DeepEastTexas said: I'm hoping at some point this season Q addresses this and snaps his fingers to fix it. Such a stupid and worthless plot point. I'm in for that.
March 7, 20223 yr I want Picard to just morph into a Star Trek series about Rios and the USS Stargazer.
March 8, 20223 yr On 3/6/2022 at 1:20 PM, Buzzrock said: Since season one apparently sucked can I just skip it and watch season 2? In thinking about it, with S2, they basically reintroduce and in a way, reboot all of the major characters. You’re good to go.
March 9, 20223 yr Red Letter Media Review, and they noticed the Half-in-the-Bag reference mentioned in the episode, and wondered if it was Kurtzman/whoever referencing them
March 9, 20223 yr Rich from the review above mentioned a theory that has me fucking groaning, because it could be true in the Kurzmanverse Spoiler Picard's mom (as imagined in Picard S2) is the Borg Queen What if Picard's mom was dragged away from him (remember the green lighting) by the Borg, who may have been trying to alter Picard's past or get to Picard. And the Borg Queen, right before Q hops into the fray, says "Look up" which is what Picard's mom had said to him in the observatory. Picard doesn't remember everything that happened with , but he's been obsessed with getting to space ever since.
March 13, 20223 yr So far so good. Much better than season one. Spoiler Even if the whole "undue the damage in the past to repair the future" thing has been done a bunch. I liked Q's "That's so 'Yesterday's Enterprise' of you" line.
March 13, 20223 yr 7 hours ago, Red Five said: So far so good. Much better than season one. I have no idea when they filmed it versus when S1 had been out, but I feel like they decided to lean into what the fans/critics were saying it needed.
March 14, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said: I have no idea when they filmed it versus when S1 had been out, but I feel like they decided to lean into what the fans/critics were saying it needed. They killed Alex Kurtzman?! Seems kinda extreme. I'll allow it.
March 14, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Parliament said: They killed Alex Kurtzman?! Seems kinda extreme. I'll allow it.
March 14, 20223 yr So I found some Ep 2 clips on Youtube, and I'm in. $4.99 on its way to Paramount Plus.
March 15, 20223 yr I'm liking it so far. Cheeky callbacks, and they build on the TNG world. The writers definitely did their homework.
March 15, 20223 yr On 3/13/2022 at 10:47 AM, Red Five said: So far so good. Much better than season one. Hide contents Even if the whole "undue the damage in the past to repair the future" thing has been done a bunch. I liked Q's "That's so 'Yesterday's Enterprise' of you" line. Not to mention his Mirror Darkly line.
March 22, 20223 yr This is a minor nitpick, but I really hate that the Borg queen is smarmy and arrogant. That just doesn't seem consistent with a creature that evolved. Those emotional behaviors are an expression of (and response to) feelings of insecurity. Nobody behaves that way unless their ego is threatened. I'm a hypocrite though because I love Q's immaturity. Nevertheless... Not that I ever liked the introduction of a Borg queen to begin with. The Borg were absolutely perfect as a "villain" when introduced in Q-Who. Part of what made them so terrifying is that there was no individual to whom one might appeal, no emotions whatsoever that one might hope could be persuaded to mercy or justice, etc. For all practical purposes, they were organic machines and completely incapable of empathy or sympathy, pity or mercy. But then Star Trek did what Trek always does, and turned another alien species into just another form of human. That aside, this is definitely feeling like vintage Star Trek, and I'm enjoying it. Rios is such a great character. Formulaic as hell, though. As soon as they started beaming to LA I wondered which one would be the victim of a transport gone wrong and get separated from the group, etc. Edited March 22, 20223 yr by Augustus
March 25, 20223 yr 33 minutes ago, Parliament said: That was an OK episode. Didn't seem to move the plot along much. Yeah it was fine but hard to match the last 2
April 1, 20223 yr Spoiler I want this show to be great, but... Europa is remotely considering sending out an astronaut who's one sneeze away from going nutso? Not a great plan. How can a French police man just walk right into a cloaked spaceship? Caught back up with the show.
April 2, 20223 yr Okay, I'm generous as hell when it comes to Star Trek. But this is just.... bad. For some reason, in the year 2024, Guinan has absolutely no recollection that she met Picard in late 1800's San Francisco (Time's Arrow, STTNG). But hundreds of years from 2024, she recalls the event so clearly that she warns Picard that if he doesn't go on the mission to travel to late 1800's San Francisco, the two of them will never meet. This gaffe had to have happened due to ignorance of Star Trek canon, because the writing could have easily accommodated Guinan recognizing him. The Borg Queen waits until Agnes unloads a shotgun blast on her to stab her with the pokey assimilator thingies. She's had more than ample opportunity to do this. At any time, she could've grabbed Agnes or someone else with whatever she grabbed the cop with, yanked her ass over and assimi-poked her. We can't let the illegal immigrants see the transporter beam disappear Rios, 7 and Rafi. But doing it in full view of LAPD is just fine. We have to travel 376 years into the past, but we still have to utilize the cast under contract, so we'll just have exact duplicates of everyone, working in much the same professions, who all happen to come in contact with some of the others. An omnipotent being appears to have the Q-equivalent of MS or some such. And he's surprised, despite transcending time which means he should remember the future as well as the past. The absolute laziness (or incompetence) necessary for writing this bad is staggering. It's like some high school kids were given the task.
April 2, 20223 yr I must now confess that I'm the idiot, not the writers, on the Guinan complaint. I just realized in the altered time line, Picard will not have gone back to San Fran, because there's no federation, all that shit is changed. Once again but not for the last time, being judgmental bites me in the ass. I stand by the rest of my self righteous post. At least until someone points out the idiocy in my other comments.
April 2, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, Augustus said: The absolute laziness (or incompetence) necessary for writing this bad is staggering. It's like some high school kids were given the task. Welcome to The Kurtzmanverse. Where way too many writers are writing what they think Star Trek is, not what fans know it to be.
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