Star Trek: Picard teaser trailer

[Yistaan]

Spock's ship also gives "Stardate 2387" as it's commissioning year. The evidence is incontrovertible.

In universe, it's a coincidence. He's using the same TNG stardate system, and it was not Earth year 47988 in All Good Things.

Also the jellyfish never said the word year, just commissioned stardate 2387.

Stardates are created by an unknown (to us) process in universe. Out of universe we have orci's new rules for kelvin movies from interviews that coincidentally match earth years in key instances , but the correlation at all times is not canon and orci's ruleset is never stated on screen

 

[XCV330]

For the ultimate in Trekkie wine critiques: https://twitter.com/trekonomics/status/1131907786055573504

Dude gets WAY too damned worked up about it. Or he likes showing off his knowledge of French wine and grape facts.

I must summon legal advocate The Sisko

"IS IT NOT POSSIBLE THAT VITICULTURE COULD HAVE CHANGED IN THE 300 YEARS SINCE YOU HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE OF IT.. IS IT NOT.... POSSSIBLE?"

 

[SJGardner]

Dude gets WAY too damned worked up about it. Or he likes showing off his knowledge of French wine and grape facts.

I must summon legal advocate The Sisko

"IS IT NOT POSSIBLE THAT VITICULTURE COULD HAVE CHANGED IN THE 300 YEARS SINCE YOU HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE OF IT.. IS IT NOT.... POSSSIBLE?"

But imagine how hilarious it will be when the first episode ends up being about Picard finally bottling his first batch of Burgundy, expecting to get all the official quality marks etc. for it...
He spends most of the episode trying to get everything in order, perfectly cushioning the crate to avoid all damage, traveling to the county seat and waiting for five hours in a line at the prefecture... only for the quality inspector taking a single cursory glance at his wine and saying "But Monsieur, these are Bordeaux bottles."

Cue a slowly zooming-in closeup of Picard's face with a look of utter, horrified embarrassment as the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme starts playing.

 

[XCV330]

But imagine how hilarious it will be when the first episode ends up being about Picard finally bottling his first batch of Burgundy, expecting to get all the official quality marks etc. for it...
He spends most of the episode trying to get everything in order, perfectly cushioning the crate to avoid all damage, traveling to the county seat and waiting for five hours in a line at the prefecture... only for the quality inspector taking a single cursory glance at his wine and saying "But Monsieur, these are Bordeaux bottles."

Cue a slowly zooming-in closeup of Picard's face with a look of utter, horrified embarrassment as the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme starts playing.

I will never get that out of my head now, thank you. I mean it.

 

[Gibraltar]

If the referenced tragedy is the Hobus star supernova, perhaps something else occurred that would tie Picard in directly? For instance, we've seen Q put humanity on trial more than once, but we've never seen another humanoid species subjected to the same scrutiny. Perhaps the Romulans failed some kind of morality test, something Picard assured Q that they would pass, and Hobus was the result? A warp-speed supernova that moved faster and farther than Federation science would have predicted.

I'm just spit-balling here, but I think that would suit audiences better than another tired Section 31 plot.

 

[Tuskin38]

I really hope it's not a migrant crisis episode or they try to do any political commentary with refugees, strict borders or any of that.

Which isn't to say I mind political commentary and allegory in Trek. Heck, it was baked into the show from the beginning.

But I think that would be a little too on the nose.

Star Trek has always been 'on the nose', ever since TOS.

 

[XCV330]

Star Trek has always been 'on the nose', ever since TOS.

I'm glad to see Star Trek have a conscience and not be afraid to show it, if it comes to it, either.

 

[ITDUDE]

It's being watered with time crystal infused protowater. It grows backward from a hangover into grapes. If you can halt the process early on you get a fine wine..

but only at a terrible cost

You don’t get hangover from wine. Well, atleast I don’t. And I have been at parties where 3 people downed about 10 bottles or so.

 

[XCV330]

You don’t get hangover from wine. Well, atleast I don’t. And I have been at parties where 3 people downed about 10 bottles or so.

oh, you can.

 

[ITDUDE]

oh, you can.

Well, if you’re a lightweight

 

[XCV330]

Well, if you’re a lightweight

I just dont do it anymore. Not really a part of my life I'd brag about or recall that fondly.
Anyway I suspect Picard isn't bottling Mad Dog 2020 or Night Train

 

[Tomalak]

The worst hangovers I've ever had have been red wine-induced. But that's probably down to the quantity, it's too easy to drink.

 

[KennyB]

Well I think for a teaser it has done exactly what the name implied..........we have been teased! Hopefully a proper trailer or BTS stuff in Vegas this summer!

 

[Steve Roby]

I know, I’m reading too much into Picard’s expression, but I wonder if there’s a bit of a Prisoner vibe here. “Why did you leave Starfleet, Admiral?” could be an interview question, but it could also be a “Why did you resign, Number Six?” kind of scenario.

I am not alone after all.

 

[Yistaan]

I know, I’m reading too much into Picard’s expression, but I wonder if there’s a bit of a Prisoner vibe here. “Why did you leave Starfleet, Admiral?” could be an interview question, but it could also be a “Why did you resign, Number Six?” kind of scenario.

"How many lights do you see there?"

 

[zar]

Dude gets WAY too damned worked up about it. Or he likes showing off his knowledge of French wine and grape facts.

I must summon legal advocate The Sisko

"IS IT NOT POSSIBLE THAT VITICULTURE COULD HAVE CHANGED IN THE 300 YEARS SINCE YOU HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE OF IT.. IS IT NOT.... POSSSIBLE?"

His response to that was "it'd take a nuclear war" for culture to change. I wonder if he realizes he just described the whole premise of Star Trek.

 

[XCV330]

His response to that was "it'd take a nuclear war" for culture to change. I wonder if he realizes he just described the whole premise of Star Trek.

if i were an expert on stop signs, and I saw a stop sign in a current trek series, I would expend no shortage of effort to become the authority on all things Trek-Stop-Sign related.

Someone should remind him that apparently Northern California made it through the Horrors unscathed and they probably STILL make better wine

 

[Phily B]

Watching it again and thinking about it, it looks like something that would be a flash back episode. But I don't think they could do that with his age, right?

 

[arch101]

If the story is about a romulan migrant crisis, I will not be pleased. There must still exist enough uninhabited M-Class worlds to relocate those Romulans. Either this or the Hobus Nova ripped such a massive hole in the beta quadrant, destroying habitable worlds on an unprecedented scale.
Or maybe, they just came to late in their rescue mission.
Anyway, the probability of Kurtzman using his 09 Story as starting point and some modern political issue in combination with it is quite high.
And I'll try to be open about it. As long as it doesnt feel anachronistic.

They’d really be stretching to do some kind of anti-Trump migrant crisis here- the Romulans had an EMPIRE. They would presumably resettle Romulus people on other Romulan worlds.

 

[imdbrefugee]

I find it really hard to get excited for anything to do with Trek these days, nothing I see about it moves me the way Trek does. I can watch almost any episode of TNG right now and love every moment of it and know why I love the franchise so much.

But everything Trek has done for the last, I'm going with, 10 years is just... Disappointing and for me misguided. Discovery (from what I've seen/heard of it) is right along this track.

There's elements of this trailer I liked, visuals, the music and such but I can't help but feel that the stuff the show is going to reveal, do and show is just going to disappoint me and take away more of the idealistic/hopeful and inspiring future handed out by Trek. Introduce things from ST09, STO, Discovery, etc. It's just...

It's hard for me to look forward to this.

Same for me, unfortunately. I got excited seeing Sir Patrick and hearing the flute gave me chills, but then I see people talking about Mobus and Nero and Kelvin and I just shudder and check out. Hopefully my low expectations are unwarranted. Fingers crossed.