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

[eschaton]

The digital de-aging looked really good. I wasn't expecting it and it was such a great moment and totally what Q would do.

I kind of wish he made some snarky comment like "let me change my appearance to humor you Jean Luc, in your twilight years."

 

[Romulan_spy]

Anyone notice the TNG theme played when Picard walks on the bridge of the Stargazer? The music was played low so as not to distract from the scene.

 

[fireproof78]

My critique here is not the veracity/verisimilitude of how the therapy happens or is conducted (I am not qualified to make this assessment and will defer to your expertise); rather, it is based in how it is inserted into the flow of the plot and characterization. On DSC it seems like the characters are avatars for contemporary psychotherapists and not...characters on the show. It's a pronounced difference this year over past seasons. Troi might have been a shitty therapist but it made sense for Troi, the character, to be doing therapist-y things, even if she was as bad at it as you say.

I won't wade to far afield here because of the thread. I'll just add that I don't think Discovery's way is perfect. Only that Star Trek could benefit more from it and find the balance between TNG and DSC.

 

[thribs]

Anyone else get the feeling that these last 2 seasons of Picard are going to end the Borg story once and for all?

 

[Reanok]

All I can say is Wow! This was a really great first episode. A rollercoaster ride for Picard and crew in season 2. The Borg Queen is scary when she appeared on the Stargazer. The borg ship is really well done.I voted Excellent.I was wondering too if this will finally be the last of the Borgs story in Star Trek too.

 

[cooleddie74]

10.

A solid start and the best first episode of any Trek since "Broken Bow(ENT)."

 

[cooleddie74]

Also: glad to see Sulu gets a starship named after him. If anyone deserves one it's definitely him.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

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Awesome.

Love the new uniforms and I loves seeing a proper fleet. The very likeable gang are back together and the Excelsior is still going strong.
Also the few bars of the FC theme almost made me cry.
The only thing I didn't like was the awful looking S&M mask Dr. Octopus borg

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[cooleddie74]

I mean, there was a U.S.S. Chekov at the Battle of Wolf 359 so it only stands to reason that the Captain of the Excelsior would also get a ship named in his honor.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

I love how Seven just rolls her eyes when the pirates try to insult her.

 

[Dukhat]

I mean, there was a U.S.S. Chekov at the Battle of Wolf 359 so it only stands to reason that the Captain of the Excelsior would also get a ship named in his honor.

Yes, but the ship only used his last name. Hikaru and John F. Kennedy have one up on him.

 

[cooleddie74]

Removing the first name was a Russian inwention.

 

[thribs]

I feel so sorry for the girl who was assigned to the Grissom. That’s not going to end well.

 

[cooleddie74]

"Captain Esteban welcomes you all aboard!"

"OH, SHIT."

 

[Saul]

Anyone notice the TNG theme played when Picard walks on the bridge of the Stargazer? The music was played low so as not to distract from the scene.

And the First Contact theme too. I loved hearing that again.

Anyone else get the feeling that these last 2 seasons of Picard are going to end the Borg story once and for all?

But would they? They could definitely milk them after their absence these years. Would be fantastic to get them in another movie.

 

[cooleddie74]

I'd actively change only one thing about the bridge design. The need for Red Alert lights around all the doorway arches and inside the railings.

 

[fireproof78]

Anyone else get the feeling that these last 2 seasons of Picard are going to end the Borg story once and for all?

Dude, do not get my hopes up like that. That would make Picard completely worth revisiting the toothless enemy of the Borg just to put a bullet through that inane concept once and for all.

 

[Tuskin38]

DId these Borg come from the timeline seen in the temporal wake from Star Trek: First Contact? Hmm...

or maybe the alt timeline Picard is in now.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

the Borg are back and more frightening than

Bout time. This Queen took over a fleet that other crappy Borg couldn't stop Voyager.

Having not seen the episode fully yet, is there anything to imply that the Excelsior is meant to be a refit of the original ship?

It looked like the same ship what little we saw of it.

How is it that Laris is so damn hot without even trying?

She's Irish

 

[firehawk12]

Not really sure how I feel about this episode. Some of it feels like trying to get people to forget what happened last season, like Juranti literally murdering someone. She gets off on a temporary insanity defense and jokes about it at a bar now?

That and Q being totally fine with Picard being an android even though he's supposed to be testing humanity again. lol