Spoilers Star Trek: Picard General Discussion Thread
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Doug Drexler talks about TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, Galactica, and Orville, it's really interesting stuff!
Starting around 1:03:00 he mentions that Stewart himself was shocked about the profanity in PIC, and explains why he feels it doesn't fit. At 1:06:30, Cirroc Lofton explains why he agrees.
Starting around 1:03:00 he mentions that Stewart himself was shocked about the profanity in PIC, and explains why he feels it doesn't fit. At 1:06:30, Cirroc Lofton explains why he agrees.
Doug Drexler is one of the greatest things to happen to Star Trek post-1987.
Drexler, Okuda, Sternbach, and Probert are my heroes.
Did I miss where it was casually used? I appreciate their point of view, and certainly can recall being shocked by Picard's use of damn in TNG. But, unlike Lofton's assertion, fuck has been around for a lot longer than "What's up, man?"
I'll agree to that, however he seems more than a little bitter about Trek now, and not being included. I find it funny that he holds up The Orville as how he likes his Trek, then calls nuTrek crude. Has he watched the Orville?
Yeah, the profanity in Picard was not used casually.
It was used casually once in Discovery, but not Picard.
Has anyone seen the Picard panel of Comic-Con yet? I thought it was supposed to be released t 10.00am, but haven't found anything.
It's up and not much there.......just a Zoom type meeting. Nothing really new at all Trek wise other than Prodigy being officially announced as the Nic show. I was a bit disappointed. All pre-recorded.
Thank you, yes, quite underwhelming.
ETA: The one about "ladies in Trek" is much more interesting, particularly for Trek literature readers, I would think. It has Una McCormick, the author of the PIC novel.
ETA: The one about "ladies in Trek" is much more interesting, particularly for Trek literature readers, I would think. It has Una McCormick, the author of the PIC novel.
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^ This. Picard used it to show the seriousness of a situation of a scene. Disco did that at times, but sometimes it could be a bit much. Just too casually used.
Only exception to that rule for me is Deadwood. The swearing was used in such a way to show the crudeness of the era itself.
I mean I guess that depends on your definition of swearing, didn't they only use the F word twice?
Yeah, and the moderator's questions were mostly fairly superficial, I felt. He didn't give the impression that he'd paid much attention to the show, so inevitably failed to really dig into it (case in point describing Rios as a 'space cowboy', which Cabrera clearly disagreed with - as would anyone who actually paid attention to the character beyond his first scene). Not much to the panel at all. Sirtis amused me, though, shouting down anyone who sucked up to Stewart!
The generational gap really showed itself there, with a fairly glaring gulf between the TNG cast who've known him for 30-odd years and the new Picard cast who are still slightly in awe of this living legend!The only problem I have with the swearing is that it may lead parents to not let their kids (especially really young kids) watch Star Trek. I have a similar issue with things like Icheb graphically being tortured, except that in that case I agree with the parents. Rather the reason is legit or silly though, it's a shame, because kids should be able to watch Star Trek.
"Regardless of rather" that should say: I don't seem to be able to edit my posts yet.
Which is silly. I knew all the "bad words" by the time I was about 7 thanks to my classmates at school. Parents would be better off to explain which words NOT to use rather than shielding kids from them. YMMV.
Indeed. Parents have the opportunity to engage the material with their kids not just blindly shield them. I grew up shielded. Not how I raise my kids.
This particular branch of the Star Trek franchise is not aimed at young children.
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