Star Trek: Picard teaser trailer
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He'll probably be stealing a shuttle and temporal tech to go back and save Data. And somehow the Borg will get involved. 
Picard must spend the opening of the first episode talking to himself, reminiscing, with closeups of his hands working the vines, until a long camera shot shows that he's made a bigass delta. 
Maybe they found a cure, or he had to resign from Starfleet due to the disease.It IS Irumodic Picard.
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on?
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
And did I hear you say he was a-making wine today
To forsake his great starship in the sky?
It's strange to me that so many can walk away from this trailer excited. I'm not saying that one should be jaded, like am, or angry; but it just seems so unusual for people to be excited. In a world where people flip their shit when Robert Pattinson is rumored to be the next Batman (yet at the same time are all for signing petitions for Danny DeVito to be the nex Wolverine. Huh?!) A Starbucks cup appearing on Game of Thrones and a disappointing final season drives them to a petition to redo the entire fucking thing, it's strange that people can jump on board this trailer and think that, well, it can only be good, great and awesome.
It was a nice looking trailer, good visuals, and music and the narration was... Meh, mostly because it just feels like it's going to deal with "dark" stuff I'm not interested in when it comes to my Trek and I didn't blow my wad when Picard appeared. I sort of expected it.
But what is there to be excited over? The hovercraft tending to the vineyard? (Which, what was it doing? Any answer I can think of doesn't fit in the Trek world. Watering them? Today such a device might be needed in times of droughts, but in Trek's time weather control would make such a thing impossible. Applying herbicides/pesticides or other such chemicals? Seems to me that such a thing wouldn't be done in Trek's times and other means to protect plants from biological threats would've been found.) A Picard body double grazing his hands on the vines?
It reminds me of that Ghostbusters [3] trailer that came out a few months ago that was some of the first movie's eerie music playing over a shot of a barn with flashes of light and the sound effects of the proton packs as the wind blows a tarp off the rear fender of Ecto-1, not a single shot of the movie has been made, hell is there even a script?! And people declared that was going to be the greatest Ghostbuster movie since the original and that those behind it "got it."
This over-reactionary action of the internet.
A rumor that a former Twilight actor is going to be Batman? Madness and anger!
Meme of Danny DeVito being Wolverine? All for it! Go to Change.org and make a petition for it to happen!
"Gangsta's Paradise" playing in a video-game movie trailer? You're ruining an entire property. (Ok, that trailer was pretty crappy.)
Tarp blows off the fender of a 60-year-old vehicle? The franchise is BACK baby!
Water bottle barely seen behind someone's foot in a show taking place in medieval times? Remake the entire season!
Hovercraft farm-equipment treats a vineyard? Going to be the best Trek, ever!
Sigh, Internet.
It was a nice looking trailer, good visuals, and music and the narration was... Meh, mostly because it just feels like it's going to deal with "dark" stuff I'm not interested in when it comes to my Trek and I didn't blow my wad when Picard appeared. I sort of expected it.
But what is there to be excited over? The hovercraft tending to the vineyard? (Which, what was it doing? Any answer I can think of doesn't fit in the Trek world. Watering them? Today such a device might be needed in times of droughts, but in Trek's time weather control would make such a thing impossible. Applying herbicides/pesticides or other such chemicals? Seems to me that such a thing wouldn't be done in Trek's times and other means to protect plants from biological threats would've been found.) A Picard body double grazing his hands on the vines?
It reminds me of that Ghostbusters [3] trailer that came out a few months ago that was some of the first movie's eerie music playing over a shot of a barn with flashes of light and the sound effects of the proton packs as the wind blows a tarp off the rear fender of Ecto-1, not a single shot of the movie has been made, hell is there even a script?! And people declared that was going to be the greatest Ghostbuster movie since the original and that those behind it "got it."
This over-reactionary action of the internet.
A rumor that a former Twilight actor is going to be Batman? Madness and anger!
Meme of Danny DeVito being Wolverine? All for it! Go to Change.org and make a petition for it to happen!
"Gangsta's Paradise" playing in a video-game movie trailer? You're ruining an entire property. (Ok, that trailer was pretty crappy.)
Tarp blows off the fender of a 60-year-old vehicle? The franchise is BACK baby!
Water bottle barely seen behind someone's foot in a show taking place in medieval times? Remake the entire season!
Hovercraft farm-equipment treats a vineyard? Going to be the best Trek, ever!
Sigh, Internet.
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"Fifteen years ago today, you led us out of the darkness. You commanded the greatest rescue armada in history. Then? The unimaginable. What did that cost you? Your faith? Your faith in us? Your faith in yourself? Tell us, why did you leave Starfleet, Admiral?"
The TNG finale, we got to see the Picard in his advanced age, 25 yrs in the future at the time. I assume it is a bit earlier or close to that in the new series. In All Good Things he chatted with Geordi and went to consult Data, who had greyed his hair on purpose. He then asked Beverley for a ship to go to see the anomaly and admiral Riker was there too. I wonder if any of them will make any cameo in this new show since they are all still alive.
15 years ago, today, you led us out of the darkness. You commanded the greatest rescue armada in history. Then... the unimaginable. What did that cost you? Your faith? Your faith in us..... your faith in yourself? [Note: I am not sure if this is a question or a statement] Tell us, Why did you leave Starfleet Admiral?
the reaction on twitter is overwhelmingly positive. which surprised the hell out of me because (A) it's twitter and (B) the reaction discovery's teasers was a lot more mixed. i really don't think it's what's in the trailer that's getting people (there's not much there), it's the simple fact that this show is going to exist. there's goodwill here because the targeted audience grew up with captain picard and nostalgia's big right now.
for me, i appreciated the tone this struck. i've always said that the TNG movies (particularly nemesis) bothered me because it seemed like the characters never grew after the series ended. if this trailer had picard sitting in a captain's chair, i would've rolled my eyes. so i'm all for a jean-luc picard on an unexpected, maybe more believable path. captain kirk's character was captain kirk of the starship enterprise. picard is far more nuanced, i want to see what he's up to and that does not include continuing to save the universe like he's still in his um... 50s... so yeah, what little there is here struck a chord with me. and clearly a lot of other people.
Scriptwriter: Hey Jonathan, here's the latest episode screenplay for you to direct.
Jonathan Frakes: All right! Hmm... the episode is titled 'Mourning Riker'... Picard says, "Life just isn't the same after Will Riker died, I don't know how to go on."
Scriptwriter: Yeah, it's going to be a great episode, and I know you'll do a fantastic job as usual at directing it!
Jonathan Frakes: ...
This is particularly funny cos during Disco season 1, Frakes got on his high horse about 'all these shows' Paramaount made post-TNG.
Now here we are on the verge of a similar phenomenon and he is literally the only Trek alum to have been involved in every Trek television production since 1987 - up to and including Picard. 'All these shows' indeed
People love feeling nostalgic, as long as you don't recast characters or do prequels.
Looks gorgeous and I have to hand it to CBS because so far the marketing has been top notch.
I'm wondering about the fate of the Enterprise because she should still be in service and it seems weird Picard would leave it. I'm also hoping that we get a better explanation for the destruction of Romulus and why an advanced race was caught off guard by a Supernova...
I've always liked the idea that the destruction was caused by a star so big (maybe it was already located on a weak point between space & subspace) that it's own supernova literally travelled through subspace exiting at multiple points in the Galaxy and one was the Romulan Star System. This could cause Romulans own star to Nova taking out their entire Solar System and catching them off-guard before the evacuation was complete.
Sorry I just like techno babble complex explanations
I'm wondering about the fate of the Enterprise because she should still be in service and it seems weird Picard would leave it. I'm also hoping that we get a better explanation for the destruction of Romulus and why an advanced race was caught off guard by a Supernova...
I've always liked the idea that the destruction was caused by a star so big (maybe it was already located on a weak point between space & subspace) that it's own supernova literally travelled through subspace exiting at multiple points in the Galaxy and one was the Romulan Star System. This could cause Romulans own star to Nova taking out their entire Solar System and catching them off-guard before the evacuation was complete.
Sorry I just like techno babble complex explanations
In that case he should be alive another 20-30 years.
That's some good camera work. They made vineyards look exciting. It's not only a good teaser for Star Trek: Picard but also a good wine commercial for Chateau Picard, if they ever made it for real.
I'd buy a reasonably priced Chateau Picard if it was decent. And I drink quite a bit of cheap ass wine.
