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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x01 - "The Star Gazer"

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After a two-year hiatus, the penultimate season is finally here and Q is back. Will we get an answer to what he almost revealed to Picard at the end of "All Good Things…"? Will we learn anything about his spat with Guinan? All will be revealed in time, or maybe not. Either way, it looks like we'll be in for a fun ride.

"Starfleet must once again call on legendary Jean-Luc Picard after members of his former crew – Cristóbal Rios, Seven of Nine, Raffi Musiker, and Dr. Agnes Jurati – discover an anomaly in space that threatens the galaxy." - TrekMovie.com

 
starfleettanner said:
The whole "Threat to the galaxy" schtick is now on par with the "Bug Eyed Monster of the Week" schtick...this is seriously the best they can come up with for each long story arc? ANOTHER threat to the galaxy?! LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZYYYYYY WRITING!!!!
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On Discovery, they need something that pulls the Federation back together again. It has to be large scale to fit that story goal. Like it or not, and I know you don't, a Major Crisis will do that. Context matters and you're not taking that into consideration.
 
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starfleettanner said:
The whole "Threat to the galaxy" schtick is now on par with the "Bug Eyed Monster of the Week" schtick...this is seriously the best they can come up with for each long story arc? ANOTHER threat to the galaxy?! LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZYYYYYY WRITING!!!!
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Best? No. Most marketable? Yes.
 
I don't know what's going on with Picard this season, but I'm pretty sure whatever story they tell will be going about things completely different. I'm expecting "All Good Things" meets "Yesterday's Enterprise" meets DS9's "Past Tense". With probably some "Tapestry" thrown in for good measure. At least that's the way it looks.

Alternate timelines, paths not taken, 21st Century Earth, and "The trial never ends... "
 
To be fair, having Q in the story ASKS for the stakes to be as high as possible. I mean they can't have "a slight diplomatic impasse on planet whatever" when an omnipotent being is running around. There has to be something drastic. TNG tended to have something drastic as well whenever Q was involved, lives changed, the Borg were introduced, etc - I mean putting the whole of humanity on trial sure sounds VERY drastic to me. ;)
 
Lord Garth said:
On Discovery, they need something that pulls the Federation back together again. It has to be large scale to fit that story goal. Like it or not, and I know you don't, a Major Crisis will do that. Context matters and you're not taking that into consideration.
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I take it into consideration when its NOT the ONLY type of arc the writers can come up with. Why just galaxy threats now? What happened to stuff like political conspiracies and a buildup to potential conflict or alliances? Enterprise was doing that so damn well in its final season. They really should follow that example for season 5 and not make it about a galaxy wide threat anymore.
 
starfleettanner said:
I take it into consideration when its NOT the ONLY type of arc the writers can come up with. Why just galaxy threats now? What happened to stuff like political conspiracies and a buildup to potential conflict or alliances? Enterprise was doing that so damn well in its final season. They really should follow that example for season 5 and not make it about a galaxy wide threat anymore.
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Right, so Season 1 wasn't a galaxy-spanning threat and The Burn happened 120 years before Season 3 took place.

Only DSC Seasons 2 and 4 have a galaxy-spanning threat.

Not even PIC Season 1 had a galaxy-spanning threat. So only two live-action seasons out of five so far had one. So enough with the hysterical hyperbole.
 
starfleettanner said:
The whole "Threat to the galaxy" schtick is now on par with the "Bug Eyed Monster of the Week" schtick...this is seriously the best they can come up with for each long story arc? ANOTHER threat to the galaxy?! LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZYYYYYY WRITING!!!!
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I think the description is just an exaggeration to catch the eye. I'm pretty sure the entire season isn't about that.
 
Lord Garth said:
Right, so Season 1 wasn't a galaxy-spanning threat and The Burn happened 120 years before Season 3 took place.

Only DSC Seasons 2 and 4 have a galaxy-spanning threat.

Not even PIC Season 1 had a galaxy-spanning threat. So only two live-action seasons out of five so far had one. So enough with the hysterical hyperbole.
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Technically true but:
  • Season 1 of DIS did ultimately threaten Earth and the Federation with total destruction (and Stamets offhandedly said that the entire multiverse could have been destroyed by Georgiou's ship, which I have to consider to be histrionics on his part for headcanon to make any sense).
  • Season 1 of PIC ended with a threat that the advanced AI life forms would at least wipe out humanity in order to "save" the planet of synthetics (and possibly the whole Federation? It wasn't very clear).
So I'd argue that Season 3 has been the only season lacking absurdly high stakes that Trek generally in the past only dabbled with in movies (and even then, only like half the time).
 
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