Star Trek: Picard

I do wonder if at some point after they saved the galaxy, perhaps while playing poker, Picard turns around and tells his crew what a close shave they had. Last time he was that close to death (aside that time he actually… erm… died) was that time Data’s daughter got incinerated by a Romulan secret service agent!
Data spits out drink, WHAT!
Oh don’t worry Data, your other daughter is grand.
Spits out second drink, WHAT?!??
 
Yeah, compared to any trek since Voyager (IMO), this has been the best. I did like the way they disregard last series "Borg" elements and go back to Janeway's destruction of the Borg and followed on from there. Although I do feel the Borg have been done to death, but they were still a welcome adversary and the build up all series long was well done. The series actually went somewhere for a change, there was a plan all along and not just winged like the other stuff we have endured recently.
 
You know one of the reasons I dislike the new ST.. The ships are cold. They look like horrible places to work and live. The D looked so comfy and light everywhere. The new ships are reflective, shiny and dark.
 
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ChroniC said:
You know one of the reasons I dislike the new ST.. The ships are cold. They look like horrible places to work and live. The D looked so comfy and light everywhere. The new ships are reflective, shiny and dark.
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I read that one of the reasons is to hide any imperfections now that everyone is watching in 4K. Not sure how true that is.
 
ChroniC said:
You know one of the reasons I dislike the new ST.. The ships are cold. They look like horrible places to work and live. The D looked so comfy and light everywhere. The new ships are reflective, shiny and dark.
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I'd agree that they look awful to actually live and work on. Maybe specific warships should be darker, and plainer in their decor, but I can't imagine being on the Titan "exploring strange new worlds and seeking out new life on it". Bring back the carpet!
 
I thought it was all pretty contrived and badly written.

Hardly any of it made any sense and it really pushed the boundaries of suspending disbelief for the sake of science fiction for me.

I don't understand the changeling plot, as capturing Jack in time for Frontier day seemed paramount to the plan...yet in the end it didn't seem to matter?

Also, Jack was repeatedly willing to sacrifice himself to the changelings to save everyone, yet he put the whole galaxy in danger taking himself to the Borg queen... which is exactly what the changelings would have done with him..?

The whole plot just seemed bizarre to be honest.
 
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Martini1991 said:
I've just finished this.
But I don't understand the Borg in it given the end of Season 2 .
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Different Borgs. These ones are the remains from where Voyager left off, completely screwed by the plague Janeway infected them with and the Queen putting everything into one last attempt at reviving the race.

Jurati's Borg sequestered themselves in a corner of the galaxy as a separate race and didn't go around assimilating species, waiting for a few hundred years to pass till they were needed at the start of Season 2.
 
2 was slightly better than 1 but still garbage

3 was probably the best but the bar was so low it's not hard, yet it was still poorly written although Vadic was a good villain and I thought it funny they just ignored the ending of S2
 
something daft already!! said:
Just take seasons 1 and 2 and put them out of your mind. I know I have.
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If they'd removed Rafi from S3, I would easily have been able to manage that :D But her being there just reminded me of the quite poor S1 and S2.

In hindsight they could have easily had another character being a starfleet deep cover spy who needed saving merely to reintroduce Worf. Ensign Kim, a grown up Jake Sisko, B'lanna Torres. The list is endless.


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I just started watching this again from episode 1. Not something I have done with any TV series in a while, probably since I watched Voyager. The first thing you hear is Picard's log of his encounter with the Borg. This is the sort of thing which has been missing from recent Trek. Just very subtle little hints, which leads into a bigger plot later. A very well written series IMO. Mostly.
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If they'd removed Rafi from S3, I would easily have been able to manage that :D But her being there just reminded me of the quite poor S1 and S2.

In hindsight they could have easily had another character being a starfleet deep cover spy who needed saving merely to reintroduce Worf. Ensign Kim, a grown up Jake Sisko, B'lanna Torres. The list is endless.


rp2000
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Seeing her at the end made me fill with some concern. I'd rather not see a series with her in, although she was hugely better this season.
 
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Seeing her at the end made me fill with some concern. I'd rather not see a series with her in, although she was hugely better this season.
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I'm not sure if the damage is done, not sure if shes just not as strong an actress as the rest of the cast or if it was just bad writing.

I would've much preferred it if she had been the one to die rather than Shaw, a show with him still in it would have been better with any show with her in..
 
Trig said:
I'm not sure if the damage is done, not sure if shes just not as strong an actress as the rest of the cast or if it was just bad writing.

I would've much preferred it if she had been the one to die rather than Shaw, a show with him still in it would have been better with any show with her in..
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I'm not sure the season would have been as good if the demise of a fairly well received character was instead shifted cynically to one people didn't like, though perhaps there was more technical reasons for the choice they made such as him not wanting to be a regular or maybe he had other obligations/desire to be on another show/movie.
 
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Just saw a post on the Picard subreddit - someone binge watched it and thought it odd that Rafi didn't get an 'ending' with Picard as such, and skimmed the whole series to see what interactions they'd actually had. Turns out, he never actually spoke to her, and she yelled a couple of things at him which he didn't respond to...
 
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