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

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It was one part fog of war making it difficult to hear, one part "Holy shit, Borg, kill it!" understandable reflexive reaction, and one part more people piling in from the turbolift who had not yet heard the order to cease fire.

No OSHA in the future.

TNG Gambit.

CRUSHER: Hello. I'm Doctor Crusher, and this is Lieutenant Worf. We're here to conduct a health and safety inspection of your ship.
KORAL: Health and safety inspection?
CRUSHER: That's right. You know, radiation leaks, biochemical contamination, other health hazards. Excuse me.
 
Any of us novel readers get any Coda vibes from this episode? I could imagine an army of Nagas coming out of that anomaly
 
Watched the ep. Thoroughly enjoyed it and the reinstatement of post-Nemesis Starfleet. Felt like watching TNG The Movie #5 at times.
Favourite scene was Admiral Picard, back on the Stargazer, giving orders, surrounded by officers in those gorgeous uniforms!
Also Guinan and Q are still wonderful. i hope this sets the tone for the next 19 episodes #nopressure
 
Well, Amazon Prime took their sweet time making this available to the rest of the world, but having finally managed to watch, I loved it. A really strong season opener. The time jump was the right choice, after the S1 finale. Everyone has moved forward in believable ways. I loved seeing Rios as the full-blown Star Fleet captain he was always meant to be, before Oh's betrayal (100% would watch a Star Trek: Stargazer series with Rios and his crew, he has a style that's all his own), and Raffi looking so content and fulfilled with her new role at the Academy, Elnor so happy to have joined Star Fleet, building a whole new life for himself that he could never even have hoped for while stuck on Vashti. It was lovely to see Soji looking so at peace and so comfortable in her own skin, Drunk Agnes was loads of fun, and I love that Seven has been bumped up to full cast member now, still rattling around the galaxy with the Fenris Rangers and La Sirena. Picard too seems at peace with his life now - other than the slight domestic drama with Laris. So of course having caught up with everyone, they are immediately dropped into High Drama to kick off the seasonal arc. I am well and truly intrigued and looking forward to episode two!
 
Well...I just watched it...

Did they really decide that El-Aurians can age at will to fit in?
It explains why Soran looked much older than Guinan and then didn't age for 80 years ;)
He probably liked white hair and knew men can get more attractive with age :D

less than a bar, actually, more or less when raffi leaves for the excelsior. Which was a curious point to put it in, actually!
Found it! 27:16-17:23, and she actually says "mmmmh, they're playing my song!"
Brilliant :D

These Borg seem to be much-much nicer and have a sense of aesthetics. Which is the biggest realization they are not "our" Borg. If the Borg can appreciate beauty then they are a fundamentally different race on a primal level.
"Our" Borg queen wore red lipstick! :D
 
Laris wants a relationship with Picard. In fairness, I don't think Laris is Picard's type. Daren from "Lessons" is Picard's type. Unless Laris has a thing for astrology, art, music, and literature, etc. My sense is she misses Zhaban in the way of having a man.

But, at the same time, it gives a chance to delve into why Picard hasn't bothered to get into a serious long, lasting relationship. I think Picard is demisexual and he hasn't found too many kindred spirits.

One thing about Laris is that she's a Romulan, so she has layers upon layers that Picard probably hasn't seen. And she probably didn't really love Zhaban, so much as learned to love him, which are two different things.
 
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I liked pretty much everything about this episode except the "big start, flash back X hours" style opening. Tedious.

My big issue with the shot is why the Vulcan officer was acting so emotional when in the turbodeck/under fire.
 
Well I'm not saying it's going to be a USS Stargazer show or anything. However if you look at the first two seasons of Discovery, non-Discovery sets were pretty basic compared to some other shows like the Expanse, likely to save money (the Expanse was also extremely expensive, which is what's gotten it canceled twice). The only sets that were elaborate were Discovery (which was redressed into the bridges of a few ships), the Klingon Bridge, and the Section-31 ship. Even the corridors of the Discoprise were just redecorated Discovery corridors. In Seasons 3 and 4, they added their virtual stage (like the Mandalorian pioneered) to generally great effect for the show, but sets have generally been pretty simple including it. We see a room with a pillar or a table most often. Cheap for production.

But then we get this lavish new set and conference room and corridor? For just a few episodes of Picard since we're now headed to an alternate universe than back to 2024? Yeah not a chance. They may redress into another early 25th century ship, but they're going to use this again and again to get their money's worth.

The other *potential* alternative, and this might be nearly as good, is they did what they should have done from the start and constructed a "miscellaneous bridge" that can be the bridge of any starship, of any race with a redress. The TMP Enterprise bridge famously served this role during the TNG-Voyager era, where it was redressed into dozens of different ship bridges. Of course, having that was because TNG benefited enormously from having many sets and props ready to go from the cancellation of Phase 2 and the production of the TOS movies. Discovery / Picard had none of that, and I do think visually suffered for it (Riker on the Discovery bridge in Season 1 was just a eye sore).

So we'll see. I think though now that we're in 5 full years of production of Streaming Trek, the warehouse of sets and props (both physical and digital) for CBS to use is starting to build up again, like it did during the TNG era.
I think it's pretty likely that there will be a 25th century continuation show following Picard. One of the things we don't know is when the Starfleet Academy show will be set, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up shooting in LA. I had thought it would be in the Disco future era following the Tilly story this season, but introducing Picard as Academy commandant and Elnor as a cadet might be a hint.

I think when we all saw those incredible Enterprise sets in Disco season 2 we all knew they hadn't just been built for those episodes. We'll see.
 
I think it's pretty likely that there will be a 25th century continuation show following Picard. One of the things we don't know is when the Starfleet Academy show will be set, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up shooting in LA. I had thought it would be in the Disco future era following the Tilly story this season, but introducing Picard as Academy commandant and Elnor as a cadet might be a hint.

I think when we all saw those incredible Enterprise sets in Disco season 2 we all knew they hadn't just been built for those episodes. We'll see.

Seems more likely to me that after the third season they'll just have a new show with Jeri Ryan as the lead actor and whoever wants to stay on from Picard.
 
I think it's pretty likely that there will be a 25th century continuation show following Picard. One of the things we don't know is when the Starfleet Academy show will be set, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up shooting in LA
in fact seeing how Picard is now working for the academy made me wonder if the academy show won’t be set in the 25th century, with Stewart doing occasional cameos. This would make of Tilly’s departure a red herring, though, intentional or not.
 
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