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Star Trek: Picard

#321
BOOOO!!!!

OK...just finished. First off: I did not inventory the actor's skin hue. So, apologies.

My capsule review-
Could this Series not be more derivative??
Dune/Tolkien/Star Wars/Terminator/Battlestar/Caprica/A.I.

...and I'm basically a Sci-Fi wannabe...so there should be plenty more from those immersed in the genre.

Sorry...I'm majored in English Lit. I shoulda been bawling in the last 7 minutes(?). Not. Trust me, I can well up...no problem. Instead, I was thinking how this Series pretty much makes the TNG almost unwatchable...I do watch a bit of it every night, too. Great, tonight is night #1 after this hot, sentimental mess.

I realize a lotta of you liked this. God bless...
 
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#326
Nothing in real life has ever made me cry. Not the death of relatives or friends or breaking bones. But a good show or movie can make me bawl. No new Trek has ever brought me close. I was watching the TNG episode "Offspring" the other day and when the admiral is describing Data's attempt to save his daughter (his real daughter, not Soji) the tears were flowing.
 
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#328
Gorn said:
Nothing in real life has ever made me cry. Not the death of relatives or friends or breaking bones. But a good show or movie can make me bawl. No new Trek has ever brought me close. I was watching the TNG episode "Offspring" the other day and when the admiral is describing Data's attempt to save his daughter (his real daughter, not Soji) the tears were flowing.
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OK, I admit that was one of the few really good TNG episodes, and it made me cry too.
 
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#330
JimK said:
Did you watch after Season 1?
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I have seen episodes from all seasons, though not every one. I'm currently catching up, because H&I is showing all 5 series each night, and we're all stuck inside anyway. OK, I've been catching up for months, even before the lockdown. I'm retired, so have the time.

Season two sucks also, for the most part, and there's only a few fair episodes each season. A few are exceptional, like the above mentioned Offspring, as well as Inner Light, which may be my favorite. Most are pretty bad though. The character "Q" is so bad, that it makes me cry. And when ever I see Wesley, I want to puke. :vomit:
 
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#332
I skip Q episodes, except for the one with Olivia D'Abo:

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#333
JimK said:
:)
What's hilarious is...I kept asking myself (waiting, even) for Q to show up on Picard?!!?
Where the Hell is he????
:D
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If the show runners had seen any of TNG and not just the TNG movies, they'd know that the Q continuum's trial of humanity is ongoing and if there was a super advanced AI living outside of the known cosmos, Q would at least say hello to Picard and maybe drop some hints. I doubt Michael Chabon or Alex Kurtzman have any idea who Q is.
 
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Gorn said:
If the show runners had seen any of TNG and not just the TNG movies, they'd know that the Q continuum's trial of humanity is ongoing and if there was a super advanced AI living outside of the known cosmos, Q would at least say hello to Picard and maybe drop some hints. I doubt Michael Chabon or Alex Kurtzman have any idea who Q is.
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...there is supposed to be a Bible, no?
An arc to this saga?
After "All Good Things", I just assumed Q was a quasi-Guardia Angel of sorts to JLP.
Are they that clueless?
 
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JimK said:
...there is supposed to be a Bible, no?
An arc to this saga?
Are they that clueless?
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There's memory alpha, which is a complete compendium of all ST knowledge. But they don't even need to nerd out that hard. When they visit Riker and Troi, they call out Picard for not being a good parent because he's never had kids, except Picard had kids and grandkids and was a family man for decades in the Inner Light. Picard was a great father.
 
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Gorn said:
There's memory alpha, which is a complete compendium of all ST knowledge. But they don't even need to nerd out that hard. When they visit Riker and Troi, they call out Picard for not being a good parent because he's never had kids, except Picard had kids and grandkids and was a family man for decades in the Inner Light. Picard was a great father.
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Yep-pers!!!

And BTW, Troi (Marina Sirtis) did not look terrible, per some comments, I have read.
IMO, Alison Pil looked a bit age-inappropriate. She may be 30-ish...just looks young for her age (I can relate, BTW). :)
 
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Alkali Ike said:
Are you referring specifically to Inner Light? Or was it established elsewhere in TNG that Picard had children?
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Just the Inner Light. But within the context of the show it was well established that, despite the fact that it was a simulation, it was real. He lived a ~50 year life in 20 minutes. Every second of it was real. He says he never thought he'd need kids to feel fulfilled but after he couldn't imagine is life without them. True, the majority of is real life was childless, but that experience was legit and essentially added 50 years with a wife and two kids and a grandchild to his experiences.
 
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