Star Trek: Picard

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So episode 6 is another memberberry festival, like s3e1. Moriarty turned out to be another unexplained callback instead of a main villain.

I think Worf has said he's a pacifist in every episode he's been in. You'd think at least one writer would notice that the word isn't being used correctly.

formerly abanana (dat), Thursday, 23 March 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link

There's something gross and unsettling about Picard's casual way of strip-mining fan nostalgia when
they literally have Kirk's corpse on display in a CIA Section 31 museum and if it ends up being actually intentional self-hating meta-commentary from the writer's room, I am down with it!

Philip Nunez, Friday, 24 March 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link

Also digging Plummer's power move in refusing to pronounce Picard anglo-style.

Philip Nunez, Friday, 24 March 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link

As I was saying on FB, they take Kirk's skeleton to the Enterprise-A, pose it in the captain's chair and take selfies with it -- "Hanging with the legend!"

Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 March 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link

Also digging Plummer's power move in refusing to pronounce Picard anglo-style.

Ha yeah that made me giggle. "Picarrrrr"

Some thoughts:
- Moriarty was basically just a security key aka fanservice cameo? Were we meant to think Sec31 set him up or he just decided to protecc the archive himself, like why would he use a melody only Riker would know?
- I kept thinking that I didn't like how the changelings goo looks now (lol not that it looked good in DS9), but it occurs to me now that it looks bad because it looks... diseased. On Reddit someone speculated that maybe they never quite cured everyone, and the disease mutated so they effectively banished the incurable from the greater Link, and its those changelings who are bitter and want revenge. Who knows, but its a theory I like!
- on this note, might we see the return of the breen? I doubt the Vorta will reappear. Though lol - good excuse for an Iggy cameo.
- the ref to a hangar where Geordie cuts his daughter off, is speculated thats the Ent-D being repaired, and that'll come into play because now clearly they need a ship that isnt networked to the compromised fleet.
- Expected Spiner to put on the schizopersonality thing, and we were clearly informed - TWICE - that the bot has "all the personalites unintegrated in there". So it was annoying when he shifted to a clearly Lore expression and said "I'm Lore!" ffs

- "We will not be prey. We will be ... friendly energy."

"I don't understand the world anymore."

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 24 March 2023 23:37 (one year ago) link

i definitely was left a tad deflated by this ep vs the last one

but i do love the thread of family dynamics running through this season, like Geordi’s admission that as a dad he’s now fearful for his daughter over circumstances he himself would have embraced as a young crewmember - even just having him at odds with her is interesting to watch

and 7 talking about her Voyager family was v moving

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2023 03:00 (one year ago) link

Yeah "I was reborn there" was lovely.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 25 March 2023 03:33 (one year ago) link

and it led to our Voyager rewatch skipping to season 4 so we can watch her arc :D

which i only partly saw once so i am excite to revisit

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2023 04:06 (one year ago) link

When Sooong started talking about embracing the future I thought they were going to blow up all the old relics. Go full Last Jedi on them. But no, they were just there for nostalgia.

formerly abanana (dat), Saturday, 25 March 2023 12:45 (one year ago) link

Thought parts of the latest were too crammed with so-so zings, which compounds the wonky pacing of this season. I wish they spent more time fleshing out Sydney's character more before this episode because she's kind of been a plot device before now and her actor still seems a little tentative.

Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 26 March 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link

Loved the clips show style callback to the actual TNG 'Shades of Grey' clips show episode.
(that was a tough sentence to write)

Spencer Chow, Thursday, 30 March 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link

If it hadn’t been posted here yet, there’s a fun interview with Jonathan Frakes that Tawny Newsome and Paul F Thomkins did on the official Rod cast

https://www.audacy.com/podcast/star-trek-the-pod-directive-a7faf/episodes/the-actors-director-with-jonathan-frakes-1d9b7

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 30 March 2023 22:55 (one year ago) link

I remembered that the whistling clip had been used before. Had to look up that it was in Shades of Grey. It was also mentioned in one of the movies. Kind of weird that this season is so focused on season 1 of TNG, then skips ahead to the DS9 stories.

Episode 7: Was it coincidence that Jack got telepathic powers right after Troi was kidnapped? Also, kind of silly that the changelings just figured out that they can pretend to be a floor, something Odo did all the time on DS9.

formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 31 March 2023 04:22 (one year ago) link

thumbs down on the telepathy oof

but otherwise v intense
plummer is so good!

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 31 March 2023 06:05 (one year ago) link

Will admit, nice to see that happen towards the end of this one.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 April 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link

should have happened 4 episodes ago

formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 7 April 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link

My biggest takeaway from this ep: WTF is going on with Deannas accent? She isn't even trying to do it!?

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 7 April 2023 08:01 (one year ago) link

But that aside:

- really wondering re pa-wraiths now
- started singing "reeed door, whats that secret you're keeepinnng" at the end
- presume frozen changeling shattered into pieces is not gonna... recombobulate, right?
- DataLore is going to be a problem later, right?

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 7 April 2023 08:06 (one year ago) link

if vadic’s boss is a pah-wraith we had damn well better get a sisko appearance

i feel like everything can be better explained by jack being, rather than picard’s son, that of the scottish candle ghost

mookieproof, Friday, 7 April 2023 10:53 (one year ago) link

also the PREVIOUSLY ON title makes me irrationally angry

mookieproof, Friday, 7 April 2023 10:57 (one year ago) link

deanna joking about being space-raped by a changeling was kind of odd, no? it's beverly who's into that stuff

formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 7 April 2023 11:25 (one year ago) link

also the PREVIOUSLY ON title makes me irrationally angry

Yeah, disappointed they didn’t use a clip of Majel Barrett’s voice

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 7 April 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link

Clearly this episode was written by a cat person.

As meh as I am about a lot of this, I am enjoying this new version of Worf.

Shartreuse (Leee), Saturday, 8 April 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link

loved his line about sending each of the crew the heads of his enemies

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 April 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link

So much of this particular season is about parents and children, isn’t it

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 8 April 2023 22:30 (one year ago) link

You mean like last season?

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 April 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link

kind of like the title "The Next Generation"

formerly abanana (dat), Saturday, 8 April 2023 23:33 (one year ago) link

This season has done a good job of pretending that previous seasons of Picard don't exist, then addressing the continuity issues a few episodes later. e.g. finally acknowledging that Picard is a synthetic, or that Data wanted to be dead.

formerly abanana (dat), Saturday, 8 April 2023 23:43 (one year ago) link

‘somehow, data returned’

mookieproof, Sunday, 9 April 2023 06:39 (one year ago) link

Well that was a heck of a rabbit to pull out of the hat.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 April 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link

Some really funny lines in this one!

[h]"I hope we die quickly!" killed me.

"Obviously, we can't use the Enterprise-E" "That was NOT my fault!"
- this one I laughed at but didnt get, and turns out its a Prodigy reference so no wonder.

Didn't twig this til I had a squiz at Reddit but someone pointed out Ro was avoiding transporters when she showed up, I guess we know why now! (not to say she knew per se, just that something was wrong)[/h]

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 April 2023 23:03 (one year ago) link

oh ffs, I had ALL of that in the hide tags, sorry

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 April 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link

Tried to fix the tags but didn't work. Hmm. (Also you were using HTML formatting originally I think?)

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 April 2023 23:12 (one year ago) link

no i used a [ h ] then a [ /h ] I think it doesnt like para breaks?

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 April 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link

Thank fuck I didnt include my really spoilry comment, so I'll do that here.

If Kriege is back as the Borg Queen is this intentional or out of neccesity bcs of the other actor's death?

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 April 2023 23:23 (one year ago) link

They're packing a lot in each episode but also wasting a lot of minutes reiterating to the audience what we were shown in exactly the previous scene.
At the same time, if they're going to tie in last season's socially awkward rogue borg alliance as a deus ex they're being pretty negligent in not setting that up, almost conspicuously so.

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 13 April 2023 23:32 (one year ago) link

I'm struggling to recall last season - Jurati became a (not THE?) queen, and then what happened? was that just all an alt timeline that doesnt count cos it was a Q fuckup and they fixed it?

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 April 2023 23:35 (one year ago) link

Last season did seem like a setup for a future resolution but it's bizarrely unclear whether this supposed final season of Picard is part of it.

Also, they're really casually killing characters off left and right at a real finger-snapping pace. At this rate, they'll probably kill Data off two or three times during the finale.

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 13 April 2023 23:39 (one year ago) link

So if I haven't seen any of these and can now access them, can/should I start with season 3?

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 13 April 2023 23:45 (one year ago) link

I want to say yes bcs it feels like S3 is a bit seperate, more fanservicey too. But there is some stuff in S1-2 that happens that S3 will be confusing if you dont know.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 13 April 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link

Even though a lot of the show is written as if it's really inconvenient to them that S1 & S2 happened, if there are any good 5 minute season-summary videos, I would recommend watching those before S3.
Also, if you haven't seen DS9, a brief summary of that might be in order as well.

A lot of prereqs for this course!

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 13 April 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link

Oh right Voyager as well. I'd lay 2:1 odds we get a Janeway appearance, something that they actually did take the trouble to leave multiple breadcrumbs for.

Philip Nunez, Friday, 14 April 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link

I haven't seen S1 or S2 either, but jumped into S3 easily with a few minutes of Memory Alpha reading.

You would think that Starfleet would have given up on all-encompassing control systems after the M-5 incident... Section 31 naming their black site after M-5's creator is perverse, even for them.

I wonder how often the carpeting needs to be replaced on Galaxy-class bridges?

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 April 2023 00:31 (one year ago) link

LOL when Picard said "you know what I missed" re the carpet, I said "WESLEY" at the screen.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 14 April 2023 01:27 (one year ago) link

I just kept thinking "I wonder if Geordi replaced the broken dome over the captain's chair with something tinted."

Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 April 2023 01:39 (one year ago) link

I thought this twist was a possibility when I first saw Jack's vine dream (being something like Picard's Borg dream in First Contact) but I dismissed it as too stupid for the show. Oh well.

formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 14 April 2023 02:42 (one year ago) link

I was expecting the Borg bcs I could swear we'd discussed that here but I must've seen that on Reddit I guess. I'm still a little unclear on the changelings/Vadiks role here. Organic borgs they were saying? If they'd been able to infect everyone under 25 who used a transporter (lol what a deus ex) then what was the point of the changelings? given everything else this season was TNG, that now feels out of place. Perhaps I missed something in all that exposition.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 14 April 2023 03:20 (one year ago) link

Ha, Memory Alpha has already been updated with spoilers

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 14 April 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link

Also, yeah, this season has been weirdly paced. They’re doing some reveals that seem like you’d want an additional episode or more to chew on

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 14 April 2023 03:39 (one year ago) link

A lot of the fanservice winks are a little too ham-handed (and I echo Philip's sentiment), but seeing the bridge and hearing Majel Barrett's voice gave an actual thrill.

That said, I was hoping that the red door thing WASN'T Borg-related, because post-BOBW Borg stories, especially those involving the Queen, have generally resulted in middling Trek, and Picard's writers are bad at Trek, and as it turns out two wrongs do not make a right. Also, is Jack the Borg Prince?

I have the same questions as Trayce. If it turns out that the motivation was just petty vengeance, MEH. Also, is Vadik's boss a reconstituted Borg Queen?

Shartreuse (Leee), Saturday, 15 April 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link


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