Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x03 - "The End is the Beginning"

[BorgTheory]

Soji forgot the important rule:
When your badge goes green RUN.

(I had to go back and check but when her hand is grabbed it flared green before going back to gray)

Which means the it's picking up the XB's nanoprobes as a side effect. OR the nanoprobes aren't as harmless as everyone thinks.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Or maybe Soji was the one setting it off...

 

[Danja]

The only bad people so far, at least as far as UFP citizens, are Commodore Oh and Rizzo (I don’t recall the rest of her name or her rank).

Rizzo is a Lieutenant.

 

[Phily B]

Why was Oh wearing glasses?

 

[oberth]

Why was Oh wearing glasses?

she's a movie nerd - too much blues brothers

 

[cooleddie74]

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[Soong-type Android]

Did anyone else find the acting in this episode a bit wooden?

 

[oberth]

Did anyone else find the acting in this episode a bit wooden?

for starters: whose?

... don't get me wrong. if certain romulans acted wooden they'd be dead by now, so please specify.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Don't know any Drug Addicts, do you.
Ninety-nine percent of the time, they blame EVERYONE ELSE for their problems.
(and this personal knowledge is from 40+ years of hands-on hospital nursing employment)

Raffi is displaying classic, long-term addict tendency's.

As a recovering drug addict, I disagree with the sentiment that 99% of the time addicts blame "everyone else" for their problems. I don't care for blanket statements when it comes to addiction because it further stigmatizes it. Which is the perfect recipe for shame rather than empathy.

Some blame others, but not all do. And not in all cases. For myself, it was self-medicating and a growing inability to live with my own shortcomings. Later using became a coping mechanism for traumas in my life. Addiction is far too complicated and nuanced to say addicts behave in one way 99% of any given time.

My own addiction experience: https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-saved-my-life-literally

But with some skilled medical professionals, and thank you for your 40+ years of service in the field, I got the help I needed.

As for Raffi... I'm willing to see where PIC goes with her addiction. She obviously has unresolved resentments toward JL. Although, I fear that the show is going to fumble the subject.

Gene's "rules" about no-drama were pretty awful and restrictive and resulted in characters like Riker, who is just...a chummy and likable guy who practically worships Picard. In later seasons, he had virtually no purpose on the show at all. He was just...there.

I've always felt Gene's "no conflict" rule was taken too the extreme and misunderstood by the writing staff. Gene knew conflict drove stories.

@Mark 2000 explains it better in this article: http://trekcomic.com/2018/11/01/the-myth-of-the-no-conflict-rule/

 

[Bad Thoughts]

First Romulans with Irish accents, now holograms. What's the fascination here with irish accents?

Derry Girls is the craic!

 

[oberth]

As a recovering drug addict, I disagree with the sentiment that 99% of the time addicts blame "everyone else" for their problems. I don't care for blanket statements ...

thanks - this is a topic i don't know much about and let me be honest i'm rather lucky that i don't; we need to listen to people who were there and are willing to talk about it. and we need to listen to people who tried to help. obviously the pov is different but @DaveyNY doesn't look like blanketing anything (maybe ladies) to me. i'd definately like to hear from a personal pov about raffi.

thx again - i'm going to read that thread of yours

 

[Nerys Myk]

she's a movie nerd - too much blues brothers

Elwood: There's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark out, and we're wearing sunglasses.
Joliet Jake: Hit it!

 

[Soong-type Android]

Derry Girls is the craic!

It's funny and incongruous hearing a Romulan speaking in an Irish brogue. Orla Brady fits the role brilliantly though.

 

[Longinus]

I've always felt Gene's "no conflict" rule was taken too the extreme and misunderstood by the writing staff. Gene knew conflict drove stories.

@Mark 2000 explains it better in this article: http://trekcomic.com/2018/11/01/the-myth-of-the-no-conflict-rule/

Great article and absolutely spot on.

 

[Alan Roi]

Did anyone else find the acting in this episode a bit wooden?

No.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

It's funny and incongruous hearing a Romulan speaking in an Irish brogue. Orla Brady fits the role brilliantly though.

It's seems more natural to me now, but it does seem (either because of talent or familiarity) there is a larger body of talented Irish actors. And my reference to Derry Girls was somewhat self-serving: Saoirse Monica Jackson would make a great alien character, even with her natural accent.

 

[Soong-type Android]

for starters: whose?

... don't get me wrong. if certain romulans acted wooden they'r be dead by now, so please specify.

The scenes between Patrick Stewart and Michelle Hurd felt a bit stiff and unnatural as well as those between Stewart and Santiago Cabrera or it might have just been bad dialogue or script writing. Perhaps it's just me though.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The scenes between Patrick Stewart and Michelle Hurd felt a bit stiff and unnatural as well as those between Stewart and Santiago Cabrera or it might have just been bad dialogue or script writing. Perhaps it's just me though.

Liked both those.

 

[oberth]

The scenes between Patrick Stewart and Michelle Hurd felt a bit stiff and unnatural as well as those between Stewart and Santiago Cabrera or it might have just been bad dialogue or script writing. Perhaps it's just me though.

maybe you find that really close to where you stand

 

[Bad Thoughts]

The scenes between Patrick Stewart and Michelle Hurd felt a bit stiff and unnatural as well as those between Stewart and Santiago Cabrera or it might have just been bad dialogue or script writing. Perhaps it's just me though.

I was mostly pleased and enthused by both scenes. However, it seems like they are using more one-camera style than they need to. It makes things seem more disjointed.