Kovich is an enigma, purposefully so, but who knows if there's any real explanation to his idiosyncrasies. He pulled out a Gilligan's Island reference last week, and NO ONE IN THE ROOM would understand that.
As for this week, some good stuff. I know the focus is on "Picard" for all sorts of good reasons, but there's lots to mine here too.
- The shuttle doesn't HAVE a door after all..?! People just beam aboard from the shuttle bay? Why even GO to the shuttle bay, then? Personal transporters are cool and all but there's no real logic to why they need to walk anywhere. They were ready to go before their hero walk down the corridor, and there was no need for everyone to assemble down there if all they had to do was tap once and go.
- Programmable matter is part of the Tron suit biofilters, which actually makes good sense here. One wonders why they weren't wearing them in the first place, instead choosing to head down to the Strange New World in their fancy S3+ away suits and THEN changing. I get that changing is probably a matter of one button and Iron Man CG, but still...
- I didn't know that a "Dyson Ring" was a thing... Sphere, yes. But even Freeman Dyson's original study didn't comprise a hard shell, but the construction of thousands of spherical worldlets (using Jupiter as the source material) arranged in a spherical pattern around the sun. You can Google the rest.
- I'm guessing that the steaming banana is a deep cut reference to Lower Decks, which is awesome. But it still begs the question of who would ever NEED a steaming hot fruit.
- It hasn't been stated in the season thread yet, but I've learned the combo PADD / Tricorder / Transporter badge is called a "tricom" in production, but not yet in dialogue. Here, you can clearly see the UI say "Tricorder Mode - Status Active" at one point. It seems there is a standardized hand gesture that brings the UI up in the needed mode, and then you interact with it as needed.
- Jet is seen wearing her tunic open at the top this week. Notably, it shows that the clasp at the tunic neck opens down the middle, which is not now the actual costume works (it buttons on to one side and exists to conceal the zipper pull). So here we have a case of a specific costume being made to demonstrate the futuristic tech that holds it together when all zipped up, which is cool. Recall how Ensign Ro removes her uniform top back in "Ensign Ro", unzipping down the front with a seamless opening, where the costume zipper is inaccessably down the back of the neck.
Mark
As for this week, some good stuff. I know the focus is on "Picard" for all sorts of good reasons, but there's lots to mine here too.
- The shuttle doesn't HAVE a door after all..?! People just beam aboard from the shuttle bay? Why even GO to the shuttle bay, then? Personal transporters are cool and all but there's no real logic to why they need to walk anywhere. They were ready to go before their hero walk down the corridor, and there was no need for everyone to assemble down there if all they had to do was tap once and go.
- Programmable matter is part of the Tron suit biofilters, which actually makes good sense here. One wonders why they weren't wearing them in the first place, instead choosing to head down to the Strange New World in their fancy S3+ away suits and THEN changing. I get that changing is probably a matter of one button and Iron Man CG, but still...
- I didn't know that a "Dyson Ring" was a thing... Sphere, yes. But even Freeman Dyson's original study didn't comprise a hard shell, but the construction of thousands of spherical worldlets (using Jupiter as the source material) arranged in a spherical pattern around the sun. You can Google the rest.
- I'm guessing that the steaming banana is a deep cut reference to Lower Decks, which is awesome. But it still begs the question of who would ever NEED a steaming hot fruit.
- It hasn't been stated in the season thread yet, but I've learned the combo PADD / Tricorder / Transporter badge is called a "tricom" in production, but not yet in dialogue. Here, you can clearly see the UI say "Tricorder Mode - Status Active" at one point. It seems there is a standardized hand gesture that brings the UI up in the needed mode, and then you interact with it as needed.
- Jet is seen wearing her tunic open at the top this week. Notably, it shows that the clasp at the tunic neck opens down the middle, which is not now the actual costume works (it buttons on to one side and exists to conceal the zipper pull). So here we have a case of a specific costume being made to demonstrate the futuristic tech that holds it together when all zipped up, which is cool. Recall how Ensign Ro removes her uniform top back in "Ensign Ro", unzipping down the front with a seamless opening, where the costume zipper is inaccessably down the back of the neck.
Mark
