Star Trek: Picard

Uncle Petey said:
I thought the dilithium that went boom was any that happened to be in the engine of an active starship? I may be wrong, as I honestly stopped giving a **** about the dumb plots and ended up watching it for the visuals.
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Maybe. If they ever actually stated that this is why some dilithium was still around then I'll hold my hand up to missing it.

Pretty sure the Romulan use of quantum singularities for power in TNG/DS9 never got a mention though - no dilithium required there, so where did that idea go? And FTL/subspace communications no longer work so even Titan is cut off from Earth in the same solar system...but subspace sensors work well enough to stop the few FTL vessels out there from cramming into stuff?

Ever since the JJTrek films it's like no-one wants to spend six minutes doing a sanity check on the stories and scripts...
 
TheOracle said:
Discovery was bad....Picard was even worse though

Not even Patrick Stewart could save it. He did say one of the reasons he agreed to come back was that he was allowed to influence the storylines. Maybe he's to blame.

Where's Rick Berman these days?
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I recon it is. He just wants to have fun it seems. Like apparently in Star Trek Nemesis the Argo (the buggy) was his idea. Lol
 
TNA said:
I recon it is. He just wants to have fun it seems. Like apparently in Star Trek Nemesis apparently the Argo the buggy) was his idea. Lol
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It wouldn't surprise me. I very nearly gave up when he did that daft french clown act, but I carried on.

It's almost as if he's taken all his internet memes and turned them into a tv show.
 
There we are, all 10 episodes watched. Loved mostly every minute of it, the exception being pretty much all the Narek scenes. Absolutely detested that character. But I’m really looking forward to season two now.

The only disappointment I had was where was WESLEY?!

j/k

But I was expecting Dr Crusher to make an appearance at some point.
 
ic1male said:
Loved mostly every minute of it, the exception being pretty much all the Narek scenes. Absolutely detested that character. But I’m really looking forward to season two now.
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It's possibly the major disappointment with season 1. The bad guys that we saw a lot of - Narek, Narissa, Oh - were all utterly uncompelling. The bad guys we saw nothing of - the eldritch synthetic horrors from beyond the portal - could have been really interesting.
 
JRS said:
It was assimilating Ramdha who had already lost her mind to the Admonition that damaged the Borg Collective on the cube and caused it to be cut off.
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Oh I know, it was just a bit of a let down vs where my imagination was going with that plotline. I think there was a line saying she was the first assimilated Romulan (could be wrong, and I know we've seen background borg romulans) which made me think maybe there's something in Romulan dna that acts as a kill switch for the Borg. Mix that with their fanatical anti ai cult. Could have been some juicy storylines about both their entwined early history which we know very little about. Not to be!

Anyway, Picard was very good to start. Got very average in the middle. A little silly in places with a disappointing finale which was saved somewhat with the goodbye for Data. It was a work of genius compared to Disc... excuse me while I have a cry ...overy.
It's like that show was written by committee. There's clearly a couple people around that table who know their Star Trek as we keep getting flashes of it and clever nods to the past. But the other 80% haven't a clue. Worse still, they can't tell a good story. It'd almost be forgivable if it was Star Trek in name only if it was actually good!

JRS said:
Ever since the JJTrek films it's like no-one wants to spend six minutes doing a sanity check on the stories and scripts...
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That's a good point actually. TNG they used to have astrophysicists and other scientists on hand to fill in some technobabble but also point out mistakes. It seems these scripts have no one competent giving them a once over.
This is made worse these days by having story arcs. A plot mistake in tng days just made for one bad episode. Get the basic premise of your season long story arc wrong and you've fluffed it from episode one.
 
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b0rn2sk8 said:
Voyager had a single story arch running through the entire show from the first to the very last episode. How many episodes was that?

Edit: Also @ic1male, see what you’ve started! :p:D
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Well, it did have an overarching story but it had a lot of filler villain of the week episodes too. Enterprise was the only series to have a continual storyline from start to finish. DS9 was closer but that had a lot of fluff as well, at least in the first few seasons.
 
Almost all American made episodic dramas have an overarching story arch for the season and beyond. Even police dramas like NCIS which is almost all villain of the week.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Almost all American made episodic dramas have an overarching story arch for the season and beyond. Even police dramas like NCIS which is almost all villain of the week.
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Well, exactly. So it doesnt really mean much. Enterprise was one continuous story from start to finish. Excluding the last episode which, obviously, doesnt exist.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Voyager had a single story arch running through the entire show from the first to the very last episode. How many episodes was that?

Edit: Also @ic1male, see what you’ve started! :p:D
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I'm not saying having story arcs is a bad thing. I'm saying if the basic premise of your arc is rubbish and full of holes then you're doomed from episode one.
 
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