Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x02 - "Maps and Legends"

It took my second watch through to realize Soji’s new co-worker was a trill. Her spots are really hard to see.

 

Tilly: That's so fucking cool!
Stamets: It is fucking cool.

Clancy: Fucking hubris!

Leah Brahams: So you're the one who's fouled up my engines.

The way Leah says it, that counts as an honorary. We know what she really would've said if the censors would've allowed it.

 

As I mentioned in the thread discussing The Trouble With Edward, the idea of a black trill with dark spots is stupid. Presumably the Trill spots evolved via natural selection for some sort of display reason, and they don't show up well on dark skin.

I have no issue with black trill existing, but they should have inverted it and given them light spots or something.

 

Cheeky feckers.

 

Fenris Rangers. That's the organization that Annika "Seven of Nine" Hansen* is working with these days.

* - subject to correction upon the reintroduction of her character

 

Amazon subtitles didn't say "feckers"

With Leah's quote, that makes 5

 

No, they didn't. I don't think they cared about the pronunciation difference.

 

Ah, so a new spin on canon debate. What's more canon, verbal pronunciation or written subtitles

 

What you have done is called "not reading a post properly and jumping the gun. Completely missing the point I made."

I said was that it was done as an effect. As in, "done on a computer" instead of just doing it for real. That's what I didn't like about it.

 

Iconic ship to most people

 

One thing I am not a huge fan of is that they are using so much implied knowledge from things established in Picard: Countdown that we're being forced to get the comic to understand everything. Also they don't mention this fact in the show anywhere so if it weren't for you guys I'd have no idea the comic was even there, and was required reading to understand half the main characters.

I dunno, why can't they do a "Previously on Star Trek" with pages from the comic?

Traditionally the print material has been a separate canon, so I hope they don't go in the direction of having entire print series be official alpha canon that will be used as implied knowledge for future story developments.

 

I really don't think the comic is at all required in order to understand the show.

 

My wife has not read the comics nor seen any other Trek (a bit of TNG thirty years ago) and it makes sense to her...

 

I agree, except I've run into people who haven't read the comic who are upset for some reason that Picard has two Tal Shiar agents working on his vineyard.

 

It was alright. But Star Trek isn't Blade Runner.

 

This is a valid point. In the first episode, someone unfamiliar can just assume relations between the Federation and Romulans have improved and leave it at that. In the second episode, when they mention the Tal'Shiar, someone would right to wonder "What's going on here?" I hope they explain it within the show itself too. They probably will in the third episode, which seems like it'll be the last of the "opening" episodes, before we head into the middle portion of the season.

 

me too - i've never seen those comics and i don't intent to

 

Well, then I am glad no one spoiled it for me before I got the chance to see it with my own eyes (in a manner of speaking).

 

I've read the first two issues, but damn if I can recall what happened.