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“Jean-Luc Picard is back”: will new Picard show eclipse Discovery?

I wonder if Jean-Luc will still be having his Earl Grey?

https://mindhacks.com/2009/10/15/tea-intoxication/

Or would the replicators take care of that situation?

he had been drinking up to 4 L of black tea per day over the past 25 years.
Imagine drinking a Gallon of tea every day. (Visualize how big that gallon jug of milk in your fridge is). If you drink that much of ANYTHING, it will not be good for you.

There are 16 cups in a gallon. How many cups of tea does an average person drink per day? One? Maybe two?
 
Imagine drinking a Gallon of tea every day. (Visualize how big that gallon jug of milk in your fridge is). If you drink that much of ANYTHING, it will not be good for you.

There are 16 cups in a gallon. How many cups of tea does an average person drink per day? One? Maybe two?

Good points.

One wonders what the situation with allergies is in future Trek, including allergies to very small amounts of something, and whether devices like replicators and transporters filter out different things.....
 
An average person or an average British person?
How about a French person played by a British actor? How about this: How many cups of early grey are in canon that Picard drank? Then we'll assume one episode is one day on average, and we'll go from there :)
 
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There are 16 cups in a gallon. How many cups of tea does an average person drink per day? One? Maybe two?
Blessed cups. US/Imperial or good ole teacup. A gallon of tea... hurts my bladder thinking about it. My father-in-law has tea first up (big mug, I mean not him but in a mug). Tea with breakfast. Then it's like tea for morning tea. Tea at lunch. Tea for afternoon tea. Tea for pre-dinner. Tea before sleeping. A good seven mugs and that's not counting top ups. Roughly equating the mug to an Imperial cup. Maybe 7-8.
 
Blessed cups. US/Imperial or good ole teacup. A gallon of tea... hurts my bladder thinking about it. My father-in-law has tea first up (big mug, I mean not him but in a mug). Tea with breakfast. Then it's like tea for morning tea. Tea at lunch. Tea for afternoon tea. Tea for pre-dinner. Tea before sleeping. A good seven mugs and that's not counting top ups. Roughly equating the mug to an Imperial cup. Maybe 7-8.
Oh boy, this is going to get complicated:
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So how many cups in a gallon again?!?! :shrug:
 
Series seasons that long are a thing of the past. They're impractical both financially and artistically. The only reason broadcast networks still use them is because their business paradigm is stuck in the 1980s.
 
I'd love to see 26 episode seasons, if we're talking about a show that's good. And I'm far from alone.
I don't think there were very many who wanted 26 episodes even back when Trek was doing 26 episode seasons regularly. Seriously, by the mid 90s Star Trek was the only show still doing 26, most other shows were doing 22-24.
 
Say what you will about DSC, shorter seasons was the right move. In Old Trek, even the best seasons had some episodes we could've done without. Plus, if this is a Picard Series and not just TNG II, it presumably has a particular story it wants to tell and that's why Patrick Stewart is back.

If it's the long-delayed TNG Season 8, then it would be the same mix of episodes as before, except more current. If that's your cup of tea, great. But I'm thinking they have something different in mind.
 
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I don't think there were very many who wanted 26 episodes even back when Trek was doing 26 episode seasons regularly. Seriously, by the mid 90s Star Trek was the only show still doing 26, most other shows were doing 22-24.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I just rewatched TNG and I loved how many episodes they were. This modern trend of 10-15 episodes bugs the hell out of me. As a Brit I long lamented how few episodes we got in a season compared to American shows, so seeing US shows headed along the same path? It makes me sad.
 
I'd love to see 26 episode seasons, if we're talking about a show that's good. And I'm far from alone.

There are multiple reasons why 26 episode seasons are no longer viable. TV shows requiring a lot more money to produce now is one, 'Event' tv like Game of Thrones and the shift to arc based story telling that came along with that type of tv series are also factors.
 
There are multiple reasons why 26 episode seasons are no longer viable. TV shows requiring a lot more money to produce now is one, 'Event' tv like Game of Thrones and the shift to arc based story telling that came along with that type of tv series are also factors.
I don't disagree on the causes. None of that stops it from being sad, though.
 
The only disappointment I have is that it's harder for a show to reach 100 episodes.* I'd like to hear that Discovery (or any future series) will be on broadcast television some day, far in the future, on something like HiTV or BBC America. Maybe they'll lower the threshold for the number episodes required for strip-syndication.

* It would take eight seasons for DSC to reach 100 episodes and I doubt it'll go that long. On the other hand, it would only take them five to reach 65. That at least sounds plausible.
 
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