The Academy Award-winning writer of A Beautiful Mind has no super-secret neato-cool android things.
Spoilers How do you like it that Picard is an android now?
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The Academy Award-winning writer of A Beautiful Mind has no super-secret neato-cool android things.
I would actually have liked to see something of Picard dealing with the fact that, in one technical sense, he isn't Jean-Luc Picard. That man died. The Picard of Season Two is a new being with a copy of a dead man's memory and personality.
But I'd have liked to see Spock deal with the same issue in The Voyage Home or later, and that didn't happen either.
But I'd have liked to see Spock deal with the same issue in The Voyage Home or later, and that didn't happen either.
Didn't happen when he returned from being a P in the computer either
Wellllll, you could argue that in that case it was still the same “energy” or whatever that had consciously acted to signal his own presence — some of himself just got scraped away when they beamed him back via a transporter backup pattern.
With Q coming back, I think he may return Picard back to normal without the disease he once had. The topic of his android body may not even come up because of the strands of time being tinkered in season 2. I'm not sure there's much to explore with the android body but I would like the writing staff make an attempt to tackle it.
I'd argue that in the case of Spock as well, and if they touch on it at all in Picard season 2 they may well argue the same in that case. Like it or not, it's well established in Trek that consciousnesses can transfer. It's about as scientific as Harry Potter, but thanks to Turnabout Intruder, Return to Tomorrow, Lonely Among Us, The Schizoid Man, Cathexis, The Crossing, Vulcan katras, Culbers mind getting lost in the mycelial network, etc. etc.....
I mean, wasn't it already announced like a year ago that season 2 wasn't going to acknowledge that Picard is now an android? So how is this thread news or even relevant? That's right, it isn't.
Good day, everyone.
Good day, everyone.
So, exactly as said by Alton Soong at the end of season one? Neato.
Nothing's changed. Nice try, though.
Wait until after we've seen it before bitching? BORING!
At the very least, I’d have liked to see Picard looking pensively over his own corpse. (What a publicity image!)
Good day, and thanks for the threadcrap.
I'm not a fan of android Picard. It was pointless to make him an android but leave him the same lifespan he would've had as a human being. I wish that ST: Picard had just been a limited series that truly was the character's Logan. And if they had to do a season two, it could be about Picard's legacy and what that meant for the other characters, the Federation, and the galaxy. So, the series would still live up to the name "ST: Picard". And they could always bring back Sir Patrick for flashbacks or as a hologram, and I would love it if James McAvoy had been serious about playing a younger Picard. If so, that could also be a way they could've brought back the character perhaps in flashbacks/holograms.
I'm curious to see how much time and exploration will be spent on Jean-Luc coming to terms with dying and being reborn as an android. Will he feel a greater affinity toward the other synthetics now? He could become a powerful advocate for them and other artificial life in the Federation. My inkling, from what I got from the season 2 trailer, is that the creators aren't going to explore him being an android much at all and just treat him like an elderly human, much like the first season.
I'm curious to see how much time and exploration will be spent on Jean-Luc coming to terms with dying and being reborn as an android. Will he feel a greater affinity toward the other synthetics now? He could become a powerful advocate for them and other artificial life in the Federation. My inkling, from what I got from the season 2 trailer, is that the creators aren't going to explore him being an android much at all and just treat him like an elderly human, much like the first season.
Picard is dead. It leaves any threat without tension and me devoid of all interest in any further outcome. Sarcastic "congrat's" to the writers for this particular take on deconstruction and the continued trashing of cultural heros. I have a new idea - let's kill a bunch of regulars for the sake of ratings and call it a "special episode."
@JoaquinSlowly liked it, so there’s that. @KennyB too.
Oh, and welcome back to the TrekBBS after being gone for 4 1/2 years, just to pop back in with a negative nonsense post and zero sense of humor.
Oh, and welcome back to the TrekBBS after being gone for 4 1/2 years, just to pop back in with a negative nonsense post and zero sense of humor.
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