Star Trek: Picard

SixTwoSix said:
I'd recognise that Data twitch anywhere.

GTFO, first time she's done it I'm sure.
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Nope, she’s done it in previous episodes. First time, I spotted anyway, was when Narek was showing her around on the cube. Can’t remember what he said but he made some point she hadn’t known and there it was. Just like Data used to when someone said something that surprised him.
Thought it was a brilliantly subtle nod to her heritage. Loved Riker picking up on it right away.
 
Washout said:
Nope, she’s done it in previous episodes. First time, I spotted anyway, was when Narek was showing her around on the cube. Can’t remember what he said but he made some point she hadn’t known and there it was. Just like Data used to when someone said something that surprised him.
Thought it was a brilliantly subtle nod to her heritage. Loved Riker picking up on it right away.
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Fair enough, just don't remember having seen it already.

Maybe it was the way they filmed it for Riker to see, one step away from having her head tilt in slow motion with a banner over her head saying Data's daughter :D
 
Caught up by watching episode 6 and 7. It started to pick up towards the end of episode 6. Episode 7 was much better, though some of that was probably due to nostalgia. Lets see if it keeps on improving. Going to save the next 3 episodes and watch them back to back :D
 
TNA said:
Caught up by watching episode 6 and 7. It started to pick up towards the end of episode 6. Episode 7 was much better, though some of that was probably due to nostalgia. Lets see if it keeps on improving. Going to save the next 3 episodes and watch them back to back :D
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Oh, I kept thinking next episode ( episode 8 ) was the finale of the season. If there's more, let it continue to roll! :D
 
Not very far through this so not reading the thread

But so far I'm disappointed. Its just another TV show.it isn't startrek

Discovery was better.
Enterprise was better

As we go forward in time the new star trek attempts have lost what made it star trek.

Think this is my least favourite. I actually watch it waiting for it to end.

The characters, I don't feel any emotion for any of them
 
Rewatched "Nepenthe" this morning, and a line that I must have misheard first time around struck me.

Just after Riker orders "shields up" in the house, he notes that they'd been having trouble with the Kzinti.

Hooray for continuity!

At least, of sorts. So the Kzinti are a race created by science fiction author Larry Niven, they inhabit his Known Space universe. "Ringworld" I guess would be the best-known of those works. The Star Trek connection comes in with a short story of his called "The Soft Weapon" which he adapted for the Trek animated series as "The Slaver Weapon", thus introducing the Kzinti to the Star Trek canon universe (depending on if you believe TAS to be canon, Gene went back-and-forth on that, the studio has as well, but elements of it show up in the rest of Trek so YMMV). The tabletop games set in the Star Fleet Universe (Star Fleet Battles, Federation and Commander, etc) were originally based on materials that were around at the time - so TOS, TAS and Franz Joseph's 'Star Fleet Technical Manual'. And thus the Kzinti show up in that universe as well - their 'hats' being an undying hatred for one of the other empires in the games (the Lyrans) and their heavy reliance on FTL missiles for starship combat.

Their ships are actually quite good fun in the Starfleet Command computer games based on SFB (they were renamed as the Mirak in those games, licensing rearing it's ugly head), at least against races whose anti-missile defences are somewhat lacking ;) Nothing quite like six Type IV warheads from your light cruiser slamming into someone else's dreadnought and wrecking their ****!
 
Not the series I hoped for so far, very much like the X-Files reunion series from ~5 years ago. Starting to think a ~3 hour reunion film might have been better.
 
JRS said:
Rewatched "Nepenthe" this morning, and a line that I must have misheard first time around struck me.

Just after Riker orders "shields up" in the house, he notes that they'd been having trouble with the Kzinti.

Hooray for continuity!

At least, of sorts. So the Kzinti are a race created by science fiction author Larry Niven, they inhabit his Known Space universe. "Ringworld" I guess would be the best-known of those works. The Star Trek connection comes in with a short story of his called "The Soft Weapon" which he adapted for the Trek animated series as "The Slaver Weapon", thus introducing the Kzinti to the Star Trek canon universe (depending on if you believe TAS to be canon, Gene went back-and-forth on that, the studio has as well, but elements of it show up in the rest of Trek so YMMV). The tabletop games set in the Star Fleet Universe (Star Fleet Battles, Federation and Commander, etc) were originally based on materials that were around at the time - so TOS, TAS and Franz Joseph's 'Star Fleet Technical Manual'. And thus the Kzinti show up in that universe as well - their 'hats' being an undying hatred for one of the other empires in the games (the Lyrans) and their heavy reliance on FTL missiles for starship combat.

Their ships are actually quite good fun in the Starfleet Command computer games based on SFB (they were renamed as the Mirak in those games, licensing rearing it's ugly head), at least against races whose anti-missile defences are somewhat lacking ;) Nothing quite like six Type IV warheads from your light cruiser slamming into someone else's dreadnought and wrecking their ****!
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Ah yes, the star league! Their ships were really fun to play, although very delicate if I remember correctly. Loved those games.
 
Ok, it was TV joy to see the 3 reunite over a pizza oven, but other than that the writing is utterly atrocious. So many holes, so many bad idea. Its just bad.

Star Trek needs 20 year rest (same as Dr crap) after this debacle of the federation being a collapsed superpower. The films do nothing for the universe apart from destroy its foundations.

By the 20 years are up I will hopefully be living in a care home strapped to a 8K VR head unit and fed huel in my covid 19 plastic bubble of protection.
 
I've really enjoyed it, probably helps that I'm not a massive trek fan! I enjoyed the kirk era movies and watched TNG every week when I was a kid but thats about it. For me it's just great to see an actor of Stewarts quality back on TV in a role that he has made his own. I like the idea of the federation as a fading super power as all super powers come and go so it is interesting to explore that angle and the story while not being earth shattering at least has me intrigued, I'll certainly watch the rest of this series and cross my fingers for another. The pizza reunion was genius and took me straight back to being a kid.
 
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