Star Trek: Picard

something daft already!! · 27 Jan 2022 at 17:45

He's too old to be doing much more than just bodily functions bless him. I suspect he probably has a few accidents there too. He probably just wants to die in peace now. Shame he made this to soil the legacy.

steve5424 · 27 Jan 2022 at 17:50

Gerard said:
https://www.slashfilm.com/748048/st...-3-will-be-its-last-confirms-patrick-stewart/

Well it's hardly cancelled as you put it. Sounds like that was the plan as Stewart is getting too old now.

Gerard · 27 Jan 2022 at 18:05

steve5424 said:
Well it's hardly cancelled as you put it. Sounds like that was the plan as Stewart is getting too old now.

I didn't put it as anything.

steve5424 · 27 Jan 2022 at 18:58

Gerard said:
I didn't put it as anything.

You said it was cancelled. That implies the studio canned it. However the showrunner has said that 3 seasons were all that was planned. It was never intended to be a long running show.

b0rn2sk8 · 27 Jan 2022 at 19:05

I thought they already confirmed that last year when S1 aired or even before?

Patrick isn’t exactly a young man any more!

Uncle Petey · 27 Jan 2022 at 19:56

steve5424 said:
You said it was cancelled. That implies the studio canned it. However the showrunner has said that 3 seasons were all that was planned. It was never intended to be a long running show.

Efour said that, not Gerard.

ivrytwr3 · 28 Jan 2022 at 06:37

from greatness to ridiculousness; this scene still haunts me:

SkeeterUK · 28 Jan 2022 at 06:53

Make up could have done a better job to de-age him a bit but the worse thing about this picard vs the past one is his voice. Its just that he has lost its commanding presence and depth and thats the big thing i think which has been lost.

Shame they cant use that ai stuff to map young faces onto old i.e deepfake stuff. I think ai voices could probs be used too to get the old sounding picard back kinda. Tho its probs a little ways off from commercial use but still, the stuff fans do on utube with ai stuff for these things is pretty cool, just wished hollywood would use em a bit more.

steve5424 · 28 Jan 2022 at 08:10

Come on the guy is 81. Of course he'll sound different to when he was 50-60.

Also why would they deage him?

james.miller · 28 Jan 2022 at 08:16

Picard is supposed to be what, 98 now? so pretty old. But, people live longer in stark trek future. Bones was knocking on 140 when he appeared in TNG so..i dunno. He's probably about right looks-wise, ignoring the fact he's a bloody robot now

TNA · 28 Jan 2022 at 19:23

ivrytwr3 said:
from greatness to ridiculousness; this scene still haunts me:

Not the same Picard as far as I am concerned, so not a problem. This Picard is clearly from a different universe, or so I keep telling myself... :cry:

something daft already!! · 3 Mar 2022 at 09:38

Series 2 is about now. I expect it will be a load of filler and then the bit with Q will be right at the end. I suspect most people will skip their way through the episode.

doodah · 3 Mar 2022 at 09:39

I'm not hopeful.

SixTwoSix · 3 Mar 2022 at 09:45

Morbid curiosity will make me watch this - and the faintest hope it might be better than the first. I mean, I managed to watch 2 seasons of Discovery so i'm clearly a masochist.

Iamzod · 3 Mar 2022 at 09:46

doodah said:
I'm not hopeful.

I wasn't hopeful, but after reading some initial reactions in some of the US forums this morning people are saying it feels a little like a soft reboot after season 1. Initial reactions seem pretty positive.

I do remember that Season 1 was decent & then for me went downhill after episode 3 as it started to feel like a generic sci-fi show.

jonneymendoza · 3 Mar 2022 at 09:50

something daft already!! said:
Series 2 is about now. I expect it will be a load of filler and then the bit with Q will be right at the end. I suspect most people will skip their way through the episode.

mrk · 3 Mar 2022 at 09:55

I still enjoyed season 1, Picard is great regardless so have been looking forward to season 2. Likewise Discovery this season has been good, especially in recent episodes. Starfleet stuff, discovering stuff, space aliens, new tech, imminent peril.... Classic Trek.

SixTwoSix · 3 Mar 2022 at 09:55

Also is this coming to Prime weekly?

steve5424 · 3 Mar 2022 at 10:00

Well so far I'm impressed. Opening scene alone was pretty epic. Proper Star Trek looking ship and uniforms and setting the intrigue to the max.

jonneymendoza · 3 Mar 2022 at 10:03

mrk said:
I still enjoyed season 1, Picard is great regardless so have been looking forward to season 2. Likewise Discovery this season has been good, especially in recent episodes. Starfleet stuff, discovering stuff, space aliens, new tech, imminent peril.... Classic Trek.

Wow someone other than me actually enjoyed season 1 of picard??!?!?!?!!?!?