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Star Trek: Picard
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If there were going to be spin offs from previous series, based on one character from that series, I'd go with Shran from Enterprise or Garak from DS9.
My vote is for Shran! I feel that Enterprise was the only series to even begin to use the Andorians. They were a great alien race that was totally underutilized.
I finally broke down and signed up for the 30 day free trial of CBS Access. First thing I did was start binge watching Picard. I just finished after two days.
I've been a fan of Star Trek since it first aired in the '60s and all of its spin-offs and movies but especially the recent films. I was thoroughly entertained by Picard in the same way I was with the recent films. Neat trick they pulled in Picard by paying tribute to the classic "it was all a dream" ending.
Now I have to start watching the two seasons of Discovery. Then maybe some of the 'net series.
Engage...
I've been a fan of Star Trek since it first aired in the '60s and all of its spin-offs and movies but especially the recent films. I was thoroughly entertained by Picard in the same way I was with the recent films. Neat trick they pulled in Picard by paying tribute to the classic "it was all a dream" ending.
Now I have to start watching the two seasons of Discovery. Then maybe some of the 'net series.
Engage...
Just watched it and holy cow!
Was not expecting Seven to come in and plop down on a chair then say, "What the hell do you want Picard?"
Except that they had to put the F-word in every episode I liked it.
Will now go through and read this thread.
Was not expecting Seven to come in and plop down on a chair then say, "What the hell do you want Picard?"
Except that they had to put the F-word in every episode I liked it.
Will now go through and read this thread.
This is what I did.
Just read this whole thread and agree with almost all of Gorn on this show.
Watching it in a three day chunk I think helps, makes it like one long movie. If watching it weekly more would have been digest and the head banging against the wall would have begun.
It was an ok Star Trek version of F Star Wars.
See, I added the F in just like they had to... Every episode...
Buy the fourth episode I made a game of when and who would say the F.
Got it right twice.
***POTENTIAL SPOILERS****
I wanted to love this show... really and truly I did. But it fell totally flat for me and I really didn't like it. I didn't find myself able to invest in any of the newer characters because there was precious little time devoted to fleshing them out. The whole series was really exposition heavy, it didn't pay enough service to the canon of the pre-existing universe and the whole thing was WAY TOO reminiscent of Mass Effect. At one point, I swear there was an actual sound effect that was almost a direct copy to the Reaper noise from ME...
At least I can go back and re-watch DS9...
I wanted to love this show... really and truly I did. But it fell totally flat for me and I really didn't like it. I didn't find myself able to invest in any of the newer characters because there was precious little time devoted to fleshing them out. The whole series was really exposition heavy, it didn't pay enough service to the canon of the pre-existing universe and the whole thing was WAY TOO reminiscent of Mass Effect. At one point, I swear there was an actual sound effect that was almost a direct copy to the Reaper noise from ME...
At least I can go back and re-watch DS9...
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Galactic Treaty...I am exhausted and still have over an hour to watch....Very entertaining though
I'm only halfway through but that's far FAR more entertaining than the actual show.
The show just doesn't make any sense, as Mr. Plinkett expertly points out. The characters have no depth. And something I guess I noticed but didn't pay much attention to, the whole thing is a Patrick Stewart vanity project. He's a savior for a cause which was ridiculous to begin with ever since JJ Abrams got involved.
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Interesting. After 4 minutes, I had to turn it off. That guy's voice just grates on me. Maybe I'll watch a bit more later.
And anyway, I disagree.
And anyway, I disagree.
What do you like about the show? I'm legitimately curious.Interesting. After 4 minutes, I had to turn it off. That guy's voice just grates on me. Maybe I'll watch a bit more later.
And anyway, I disagree.
I like how the Romulans and AI's are now oppressed races, in this supposed advanced, future world. I like how Picard stands up for them in the face of disadvantaged odds. I like that 7 of 9 is dressing like a normal woman and being her badass self. I like how the story had me absorbed, and how I looked forward to each episode.
What do you think about the circumstances that led to the Romulans being oppressed? Are you familiar with their on screen history and status in the galaxy? Did that question just bored you as you were reading it and you don't care about the answer?
Wow.
I think it was a good part of the story.
We started as enemies, we joined forced for a while during DS9 to fight off the Dominion, then the supernova deal, and their secret societies deal who were against AI. So I am to some degree. I'm still catching up on the various series between TOS and Enterprise. Not a big fan of them.
Non sequitur, your facts are uncoordinated.
I think it was a good part of the story.
We started as enemies, we joined forced for a while during DS9 to fight off the Dominion, then the supernova deal, and their secret societies deal who were against AI. So I am to some degree. I'm still catching up on the various series between TOS and Enterprise. Not a big fan of them.
Non sequitur, your facts are uncoordinated.
They would've known the supernova was coming years ahead. Thousands of years ahead. JJ Trek has the star exploding out of nowhere. ST Picard thinks the Romulan Star Empire consists of just the Romulan star system. That's now how space empires work in Star Trek. There must've been hundreds or thousands of Romulan controlled star systems with thousands and thousands of ships and more time than even the most incompetent aliens would need to prepare an evacuation of Romulus. The idea that one particular star would explode without them knowing years ahead of time is the basis of the entire show. And it doesn't make any sense. The terrible story and characters matter more, but when the central premise doesn't make sense, it's a problem.
If you want to get even more technical, it's unlikely that any inhabited system would have a star that is going to go supernova at its center. Stars the size of, say, our Sun, do not go supernova because they are too small. They just go Red Giant, and then turn into a white dwarf. Stars that are big enough to go supernova typically do not harbor life bearing planets because stars of that size are typically too unstable. Stars like our sun, typically are the most stable (naturally enough, one of the reasons we are here) in that there are relatively fewer solar flares and CME events. A star big enough to go supernova would typically irradiate their planetary systems to a degree that would not be conductive to life.
Yeah, I watch too many science documentaries.
To be honest, most science fiction movies and series have plot hole in their science big enough to fly the Enterprise through. So this particular one, that they would know of their star going supernova years in advance (unlikely that it is that life could have developed on a planet orbiting such a star) is no big deal to me.
Yeah, I watch too many science documentaries.
To be honest, most science fiction movies and series have plot hole in their science big enough to fly the Enterprise through. So this particular one, that they would know of their star going supernova years in advance (unlikely that it is that life could have developed on a planet orbiting such a star) is no big deal to me.
