Spoilers Picard 1x1, "Remembrance"
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I can believe how unhinged some of these people are.
May have even beat the record held by the Springfield Tire Fire.
I know there are some loonies out there, the thing that frightens me is they have tons of followers and aren't laughed off the web.
I can't. Mecharandom posted a 3 minute video about her feelings of the first fifteen minutes of the episode. Because I'm not about to give Doomcock the clicks and I'm not about to sit through Neckbeard, er, Nerdrotic's 50 minute response video, I tried to watch to see what the "talking points" were. Yeah, couldn't even stomach that. If you can't create a coherent thought, or require an hour to do so, it ain't a coherent thought.
This.
It's 2020. How about some really new, original and fresh sci fi ideas?
What? Nothing?
OK, whatever. Just another nostalgia trip. I must admit, it was one good trip, but nothing special or breathtaking.
If we're doing a 10-scale, I want to watch it one more time before I pin down a number. But if I want to watch it a third time this quick, it's really deciding between a 9 and a 10. I'm leaning towards 9.
but, to be very fair, it were Spock's charms, we're talking about. Those are hard to resist for anyone
It was a nice throwaway line, but where did Mars' atmosphere get the components to maintain any kind of fire at all, let alone one that's lasted for more than a decade?
Terraforming the planet for one or two centuries?
Something feeding the fires from underground?
As early as the Terra Prime arc of ENT Mars was in the earliest stages of terraforming and when the NX-01 officers went down to the surface of the planet to locate and defeat Paxton there was mention that oxygen levels had increased to the point where brief moments without a helmet were possible. The Synth attack on Mars happens at least 230 years later so we can probably assume that Martian terraforming really started to take off after the birth of the Federation. Oxygen levels in the atmosphere could be significantly higher and thus support raging fires on the surface of the planet.
Mars had been terraformed enough not to require EV suits. Whether more had been done in the intervening centuries isn't known.
Most likely this ↓↓↓↓. Even 24th century shipbuilding could produce those components, assuming some of the building went on planetside.
Really liked the episode. Good acting. Loved the flute in the theme. Liked Pill's acting & the lass playing Dahj.
Some info dropping had to happen, it was done as well as could be hoped for. Bit of Treknobabble with Data's memories, but I was OK with it.
FWIW, Data's memories could have been downloaded at other times, or extracted from B4 before they were mostly lost.
I think introducing characters slowly is the best way to go. 6-7 in one episode is too much. We got two new characters (Dahj & the Doc) plus 15 years of catching up with JLP, the Fed, Nemesis, and ST09. A pretty heavy lift for 50 min. Well done.
Worth noting that most initial episodes are doubles. Farpoint, Emissary, Caretaker, Broken Bow, and Vulcan Hello/Binary Stars are ALL doubles (or double length).
We haven't had a 'single' debut episode since "Man Trap." The Cage never aired and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" aired 3rd, I think. While those were the pilots, they were not the debut episode.
Point being, more time to introduce new characters in a double episode.
Some info dropping had to happen, it was done as well as could be hoped for. Bit of Treknobabble with Data's memories, but I was OK with it.
FWIW, Data's memories could have been downloaded at other times, or extracted from B4 before they were mostly lost.
I think introducing characters slowly is the best way to go. 6-7 in one episode is too much. We got two new characters (Dahj & the Doc) plus 15 years of catching up with JLP, the Fed, Nemesis, and ST09. A pretty heavy lift for 50 min. Well done.
Worth noting that most initial episodes are doubles. Farpoint, Emissary, Caretaker, Broken Bow, and Vulcan Hello/Binary Stars are ALL doubles (or double length).
We haven't had a 'single' debut episode since "Man Trap." The Cage never aired and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" aired 3rd, I think. While those were the pilots, they were not the debut episode.
Point being, more time to introduce new characters in a double episode.
I noticed this too upon multiple rewatches. Did the Dominion sign this treaty? Does it still exist? And what about all those Delta quadrant races?
Also, if a "galactic treaty" was signed does that imply we now have galaxy spanning communications? Or can we actually travel quickly to other quadrants to negotiate such treaties?
I don't think it's meant to be taken as literally a "galactic" document signed by all sentient and major powers. It's just shorthand for "treaty that effects all of known and explored space in this part of the galaxy."
True. Pike did describe them as a Galactic Federation in Discovery. Something I thought was a massive exaggeration.