Star Trek: Picard

I watched episode four last night and really enjoyed it. One thing that bothers the hell out of me though - ships going to be destroyed, everyone going to die. So they all jolly off to the holodeck to get drunk.

Doesn’t the ship have shuttle crafts?
 
So head pirate had a changeling inside her and she had to cut it out to speak to it, it then commanded her to go in the nebula even if it meant the death of everyone, then went back inside her, meaning its death too? i was a bit confused over that bit[\spoiler]
 
I'm not even a huge Trek fan but loved episode 2.

It's actually nice to see some decent dialogue.

The episode built some lovely tension and one character kinda redeemed himself and it finished with the money shot.

I can tell Kutzman had very little to do with this season. Its actually watchable.
 
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Meh its fine. It feels so much more like a TNG movie, the way they talk and act.... Which im fine and happy for.
This little arc feels wrapped up now and im wondering where it will go from here.... for the last 6 episodes.
Its fine.. :p keep it coming.

Im not ultra keen on the swearing or cannabis references... cringy.... but yeah its 2023... ha ha ha... /
 
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Moley said:
I watched episode four last night and really enjoyed it. One thing that bothers the hell out of me though - ships going to be destroyed, everyone going to die. So they all jolly off to the holodeck to get drunk.

Doesn’t the ship have shuttle crafts?
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Depends if they had enough power to escape the gravity well and the nebula, plus opening the bay doors etc.

Also, plot.
 
VincentHanna said:
In the TNG era shuttlescraft could only take about 4 people I think...maybe a few more.

Either way, certainly not enough for 300+ people supposedly on board.
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Also escape pods, which i'd assume would have some form of life support that could potentially have been used.

IIRC the shuttle capacity varied a lot, 4-6 was st:TOS by TNG they were slightly larger usually IIRC with a shown 4-6 seats but some capacity behind them, whilst DS9 and Voyager had them with up to 10+ as a standard model and the "runabouts" like the Ganges could take something like 40-60.
It's also worth remembering that seating capacity does not mean life support is that limited, if Star Fleet have any sort of sane ship designers* the life support capacity for a shuttle will be far over the seated capacity at least for short durations, as one thing the history of transport from the first ships has taught us is that the "rated" capacity of any method of transports is usually only a recommendation as there will be times you need to put more people in/on it, be it 2 or 3 people on a donkey, to 640-800+ in a C17 that was rated for around 330 (and IIRC at least one a 747 had nearly twice it's rated number of passengers during an evacuation), let alone how common it is for shipping to be over the rated "safe" capacity for passengers.


*Debatable given some of the on screen design decisions shown over the years :p
 
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I love how people argue plausibility of storyline in a genre where we think warp travel is unquestioned. ( That being said, I thought the same when they said the holodeck would still run )
 
Donnie Fisher said:
I love how people argue plausibility of storyline in a genre where we think warp travel is unquestioned. ( That being said, I thought the same when they said the holodeck would still run )
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I don't understand why people question this. it's science fiction - certain things are supposed to be either impossible or at least unattainable right now - suspension of disbelief is a requirement. However, that doesn't mean crap writing should go unchallenged because there's a massive huge gulf of a difference between well written scifi and toilet fodder.
 
im loving this 3rd season and waiting on the next ep to see where their going with it.

am i the only one that got annoyerd with what happend too poor egypt or how ever i spell it :P
 
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