Spoilers Star Trek: Picard General Discussion Thread

[cooleddie74]

Both are canon. One is just a lot more visually annoying than the other and pretends it isn't.

 

[matthunter]

Is pretending that DSC is supposed to be in a different universe from TOS/TNG/etc. actually a thing?

I think the idea that either actually fucking matters is a thing, and it's a thing that deserves taking out back and giving the Ol' Yeller treatment.

 

[Danja]

Picard cleans up messy Trek timeline:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/star-trek-picard-solves-kelvin-prime-timeline-mysteries/

 

[cooleddie74]

They failed to mention ENT. Bunch of savages on that page.

 

[thribs]

Picard cleans up messy Trek timeline:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/star-trek-picard-solves-kelvin-prime-timeline-mysteries/

Has it really? I’ll need to know more about the supernova

 

[Danja]

They failed to mention ENT. Bunch of savages on that page.

We don't talk about ENT.

 

[DaveyNY]

They quite conveniently left out DISCOVERY as well.

 

[thribs]

They quite conveniently left out DISCOVERY as well.

Except the Discoprise and the countless shuttles that is.

 

[DaveyNY]

Except the Discoprise and the countless shuttles that is.

I was talking about that particular article, not the show.

 

[Tuskin38]

For the Canadians out there, Picard episodes do go live in the AM on Crave, I don't know at what time, but they're there when I wake up in the morning Atlantic time.

 

[DaveyNY]

For the Canadians out there, Picard episodes do go live in the AM on Crave, I don't know at what time, but they're there when I wake up in the morning Atlantic time.

You're an hour ahead of me (EST), so my guess would be sometime between
3am & 4am (AST) if CBS lets CRAVE air the episodes at the same time that All Access does.

 

[Alan Roi]

Both are canon. One is just a lot more visually annoying than the other and pretends it isn't.

TOS doesn't pretend it isn't, it just keeps looking less like the future every passing year.

 

[cooleddie74]

All Trek will as time passes.

 

[Alan Roi]

I don't think Discovery and TOS fit together, at all. Which one gets thrown out is up to the individual viewer.

I can fit them together in my head, just like I can the different approaches to TOS in all the novels and comics I've read. Seems like lots of other people can as well. I don't feel the need to throw anything out. I just understand how and when they were made and adjust how I watch or read. Its not hard.

 

[BillJ]

I can fit them together in my head, just like I can the different approaches to TOS in all the novels and comics I've read. Seems like lots of other people can as well. I don't feel the need to throw anything out. I just understand how and when they were made and adjust how I watch or read. Its not hard.

All I can do is offer this post from another thread...

It just isn't the actors. It is the writers and directors as well that made those versions of the characters who they were. They have all since passed on. These are new versions of those characters, and there's nothing wrong with that. But saying they are the same is a disservice to what those people brought to life on the screen in the 1960's. Trying to wash away what came before.

I have no issue with new versions of the characters. New versions is what they are (just like the cast of the Abrams films). And it is a disservice to the new actors, writers and directors to expect them to shoehorn who they are into fifty year old versions of the characters in the name of continuity. Allow them to bring their own uniqueness and life experiences to these roles.

I guess the best analogy I can come with (that is fresh on my mind), comes from the car world. I was watching the morning news (FOX19 here in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky), and were at the new car show at the local convention center. Catherine Bodak (local meteorologist) shows us all the new 2020 Mustang Shelby 350 GT. Sharp looking car, which I'm sure is quite the performer. But Carroll Shelby has been dead for nearly eight years now. This isn't his car. No matter how much people want to sell it that way. It is a new version, trading on the affection people have for the past. But it is still a new version that has very little to do with the late-60's Mustang Shelby 350 GT.

As an additional thought, I may paint something in the style of Van Gogh or write something in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but it doesn't make that work theirs.

 

[Tuskin38]

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[Danja]

Twitter 's getting the vapors over Seven of Nine!

 

[Lord Garth]

A lot of complaints are that Picard looks and feels too contemporary. Down to the apartments. Well, I have a little something to counter with. I'm re-watching "Pathfinder" (VOY). It was one of the few episodes I watched after I stopped watching initially.

The mock-outraged will be disappointed to know that Barclay's apartment looks very "contemporary". I thought so at the end of 1999 and I think so at the beginning of 2020. But even though it looks contemporary, it doesn't mean I think it looks dated. I'm not thinking "This is so Y2K!" The interiors of a lot of apartment buildings haven't changed that much since the 1800s and they're probably not going to.

 

[Doctor Tiki]

Pushback, ... a constant reaction in Star Trek.

To be honest, it wouldn't be Star Trek, if there were no angry letters (tweets) about it.

 

[cooleddie74]

24th century Berman Trek Earth was always just our Earth with more advanced technology and aliens walking around in broad daylight. As it should have been.