Star Trek: Picard

lol yeah! tea is just some foul aberration for when you've run out of coffee!

Kathryn Janeway otm

Now THAT was more like it.

I think just having a sassy, overqualified Romulan housekeeper question Picard about having all his marbles is all I need to be happy. Though more seriously, it's nice to see that things aren't going to be easy for JL and that other characters are allowed to have their own agendas and personalities.

I'm sure that Starfleet is thrilled about that living arrangement -- and I kind of wonder if some SF intelligence officer thinks that Picard's Romulan friends have turned him.

Also I really liked the Vulcan(?) Commodore.

I was a bit confused, was she supposed to be Vulcan or Romulan? Because her mannerisms and the fact that she's running the Federation's secret police (presumably built on the foundation of Section 31?) implied she's Romulan, but OTOH there's no indication the Romulan Free State (or whatever it's called) has joined the Federation.

One, i think she's more specifically intelligence, not Section 31, since she wears gold (ops/security).

Two, I think she's meant to be or pass as Vulcan, since the first thing we see of her is a box with the IDIC insignia, and her stilted speech sounded more Vulcan to me.

Pretty sure she's Vulcan

Sorry, mean Romulan

Arrgh, fucksake, thought you were on about Laris.

Oh is Romulan pretending to be Vulcan.

important critical observation: lol data's terrible painting

lol, proof that having an IQ of 6million maketh not Egon Schiele

you'd thought at least he would have been capable of doing a super-humanoid pastiche of a good painting!

folks, this show is good and i like it, even if narek looks like he should be playing guitar in romulan razorlight instead of doing dick-first spycraft in a decommissioned borg cube

it pleases me that it is now canon that there is a space dublin

all paintings in TV shows are terrible and doubly so when they're representational

good arm patches

My biggest problem w Narek that the dude has a full head of glossy black emo hair & then that NASTY brown facial hair that looks like pube trimmings

since i'm watching ds9 rn too it's really noticeable how the aliens have hairstyles in this. any deep space 9 alien species with hair all has the same gross boring hair, no personality.

xp I feel personally attacked

i thought we had a thread abt paintings in movies but if we do i can't find it -- i don't think it's as cut and dried, as ALL ARE BAD, tho representative ones are all bad (and always look as if they've been painted by the same person as well)

Do you mean paintings created for movies? Or would Solaris count?

TV show paintings are always bad. Movie paintings vary but if they are part of the plot they are always bad paintings.

The case could be made that I need to watch better movies though.

I have a soft spot for https://d33c33.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/elwoodandharvey.jpg

ok this topic deserves its own thread, if one does not exist

o shit take my money

https://www.goodfellaspainting.com

itt: paintings that are plot-points in movies and TV that are terrible paintings (or excellent ones if there are any)

Is that Harvey? Why is he wearing a belt without pants?!

pooka pig style

new ep is really good, lotta good threads in this story. Also partly for DS9 reasons i love how Picard’s pleading his case hither & yon mostly to ppl who tell him to rack off

(the new pilot dude w the hologram is HOTT)

the actress playing raffi is a fucking nightmare, truly atrocious acting even by star trek standards. on the level of the twi'lek lady from the jailbreak mandalorian episode.

that's michelle hurd

someone just informed me that there's swearing on this show and I lol'd

they solved poverty but not swearing

fuckin’ HUGH ffs

i love to see it

inequality still exists because HOW’S LIFE ON YOUR VINEYARD, PICARD?!

new ep is really good, lotta good threads in this story.

feels too heavy on exposition, for three episodes in

more bad painting, less voluminous backstory

oh lordy where's this accent meant to be from

the accent is, i concede, bad

but hugh tho

a thing we know abt the star trek universe is that they exterminated the belters and suppressed their much better way of speaking weirdly

also: enigmas assemble! was a bit of a trudge

kind of wish they'd get the team together already and get this show on the space road

displeased vaping still exists in 24th century.

i enjoyed the injoke of raffi living at the foot of vasquez rocks, where kirk famously fought the gorn (and evil bill and ted totally murdered good bill and ted)

also: HUGH ffs

not sure that raffi is a worse actress than the synth twins

feel like nothing really happened in this one; also disappointed that orla brady is being left behind

btw was there supposed to be a lil romulan incest thing going on?

in other disappointments news: my "pooka pig style" post didn't get the rave response it deserved

displeased vaping still exists in 24th century.

Beat me to it.

feel like nothing really happened in this one; also disappointed that orla brady is being left behind

Times two.

It's almost touching that they've carried over the odd-numbered curse to this series.

Food for thought: synthetic life (i.e. androids) are banned, but AI holograms are OK?

I was kind of annoyed that Rios's ship is as skeleton as it gets (I guess that'w what the EHs are for) but surely having two former Tal Shiar would be beneficial?