Star Trek: Picard [spoilers]

[scifisam]

Q said he'd aged himself to make Picard feel more comfortable with his own aging. He doesn't really have a form of his own, so always has to choose one anyway. And Q has learned, and was trying to be kind.

There was also a vague hint that he might be somehow losing his powers and becoming corporeal - getting stuck in an "older" version of a human would sorta make sense, if that turns out out to be the storyline.

I suspect that all those museum pieces that were so carefully listed will play a big part in the climax. We were told the Starfleet has fitted AirTags to the current fleet, so the Titan can't just hide by changing its transponder code. But the Enterprise, Defiant, Voyager, Bounty, etc. don't have such, and so enjoy more freedom of movement.

It will be a cool and fanservicey moment when ships from every incarnation of the franchise come charging to the rescue. I wonder whether we will see Picard in the captain's chair of the retired Enterprise E, which I think survived it many engagements.

It'll be fanservice that actually does serve the plot, the best kind (and the only kind there should be in an ideal world).

Campanula - I honestly didn't notice, sorry. It's a show set far in the future and I don't expect their pets to necessarily be like our pets.

If anyone does notice and look it up, what they'll find will be advocacy for adopting rescue dogs, not docking dogs' ears. If they wanted to be more like Jean-Luc it'd be by adopting a rescue dog, not docking a dog's ears. Those who don't notice it won't want to dock their dog's ears to be like Jean-Luc's dog, because anyone who is influenced enough to want their dog to be like Jean-Luc's dog would look it up.

 

[Ax^]

showed the da one episode of picard s3

he said it was good trek after watching and liking nothing since TNG

series does feel sort special like if the undiscovered country has been a season of the original trek

 

[Cloo]

I work for a big multinational firm and we have a sci-fi chat group... one woman said she'd be watching it as her friend Todd had a main role. He's the guy playing Captain Shaw - I told her kudos to Todd, he's excellent!

The series continues to deliver on lots of great parts for older women, which we need to see more of in entertainment.

 

[T & P]

This is just ridiculously good. And Amanda Plummer is fucking superlative in this episode.

Just pure brilliant television, and this last few episodes are for me as good as the best of any ST series past or present

 

[8ball]

This is just ridiculously good. And Amanda Plummer is fucking superlative in this episode.

Just pure brilliant television, and this last few episodes are for me as good as the best of any ST series past or present

Ooh! Thanks for the reminder!

<fires up PS4>

 

[strung out]

This is just ridiculously good. And Amanda Plummer is fucking superlative in this episode.

Just pure brilliant television, and this last few episodes are for me as good as the best of any ST series past or present

I'm just glad we're finally getting the Deep Space 9 sequel we deserved. It's the best Trek since then, for sure.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I'm just glad we're finally getting the Deep Space 9 sequel we deserved. It's the best Trek since then, for sure.

In terms of tone it's much more DS9 than Next Generation. Which is no bad thing.

The whole cast is great, but I've particularly enjoyed Michael Dorn and Levar Burton's performances.

 

[T & P]

Whereas you kind of see in advance where this week’s episode is going to develop, still a very satisfying one Nostalgia and fan service done right

 

[ruffneck23]

What an episode....

SE03E09

 

[editor]

I'm going to be very disappointed when there's not afresh episode to look forward to on Fridays (there's10 in all).

 

[steveo87]

Spoiler

I can be honest with your Urbz, i cried a little when i saw the Enterprise D.

Yeah I'm going to be gutted when it finishes. That said, I still see this as a 'back door pilot' for a series involving the 'younger' crew and the Titan - and I'd be down with that.

 

[Ax^]

boo thought it was on paramount plus tonight

gonna have to tap fingers till tomorrow :/

 

[ruffneck23]

I cant wait to see the reactions today

Spoiler

Best bit of I trek I have seen in years

 

[ruffneck23]

From 7 of 9 herself and I concur, just wish you lot would hurry up

ee

Although Im expecting a certain poster or 2 to not like it.

 

[Chz]

Ho-Lee-Shit. That is all.

 

[Cloo]

I have to hand it the series, it handles its fan service well. It's somehow avoiding being gratuitous, maybe as it's executed in such a spot-on way.

 

[steveo87]

Have we all seen it yer? Cos I don't like using spoilers

 

[T & P]

Yes, to add to the consensus, fantastic telly and it should become the new standard of how to do fan service right. I reckon even those who hadn’t watched TNG that much back in the day will be enjoying this immensely, but those of us who have… the end of the episode was a proper spine tingling moment

 

[moochedit]

How are they gonna wrap all THIS up in just one more episode?

Spoiler: Spoiler

umm..... i thought that borg had changed after all that Q timeline stuff in season 2 and whatshername was the borg queen now? Or is that stuff not canon anymore?

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

I'll ever know. My Prime membership ends tomorrow.

Spoiler:

i think all of last season was wiped out when they reset the timeline. Though it is confusing.

Spoiler

BOO

 

[Ax^]

did no one watch the last season

and

 

[strung out]

did no one watch the last season

and

Haha, oh god, that was so laughably bad.

 

[ruffneck23]

How are they gonna wrap all THIS up in just one more episode?

Spoiler: Spoiler

umm..... i thought that borg had changed after all that Q timeline stuff in season 2 and whatshername was the borg queen now? Or is that stuff not canon anymore?

Spoiler: According to the showrunner...

That was an alternate faction of the Borg from an alt timeline. History was not rewritten. The Real Borg were still in the Delta Quadrant after poisoned by Janeway. Agnes Nice Borg are distracted guarding a trans warp conduit across the galaxy. Shaw explains this in 304.

 

[moochedit]

did no one watch the last season

and

Spoiler: Spoiler

This puzzled me as well but this "explains" it..

Star Trek Now Has TWO Borg Queens

Resistance is double futile.

screenrant.com

 

[moochedit]

So Q back next episode?

Everyone else has had their 15 mins

 

[moochedit]

No Kirk returns through some time travel worm hole something or other and has a fist fight with the borg queen

 

[strung out]

Captain Sisko comes back from the wormhole and disappears the entire fleet.

 

[Ax^]

ok aside from fuck yeah

"Picard!!!"


why not call in friendly borg

 

[Chz]

did no one watch the last season

and

I bailed halfway through S1, skipped 2. Everyone told me that not only did I not need to watch it to enjoy S3, some insisted that skipping it would make S3 better as I wouldn't be bitter about it.

 

[Ax^]

so more sober comments

Spoiler: hmm

is star fleet just dumb in general seeming as any attempt to automate their system with one control system always ends with a massive screw up..
did not one look at the history book and ponder why control disappeared with Discovery