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

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Whoa, Uhura got her own ship! I guess the communications officer to captain career path can work out.

It must have been a pretty important ship as well, as it was apparently famous enough for Starfleet to look back at it 100 years later and design all their new ships to look like it. Who knew the Sovereign class was so retro?

Could they not have just made it Excelsior class or Ambassador maybe. That yoke looks like a Batwing with a saucer
 
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THIS is the PS2 graphics San Francisco shot I was talking about. It looks so fake in comparison to all the other city or ship shots in the series. I think it's just too clean and all made of the exact same metal texture, whereas in say Star Trek Into Darkness (with admittedly a far higher budget) loads of building materials and clearly dozens of different generations of buildings were depicted.
 
I remember the Golden Gate on fire at the end of the Dominion War, so maybe a huge chunk of the city burnt down and was replaced at the same time.

As well as a crashing Dreadnought, in Wrath of Khan Too, which might have happened in this alternate time line too?
 
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I pointed out to you that the name Ted Forward predated Guinan being on the Enterprise. That's a fact.

You countered with a hypothesis that maybe Troi was just using the name retroactively. That's speculation.

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It's possible that Guinan had her bar in LA even before she joined the crew, maybe even decades or longer before that, and we don't really know if the wasn't already on the Enterprise-D in Season 1. Maybe there just wasn't a reason for her to show up ;)
 
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It bothers me that Picard is a-ok confronting the actual, active, extremely dangerous Borg here after having a panic attack upon boarding the Artifact just a year or two before.

It's just one of those big important character things that stops mattering with a change in showrunner. It's not that I don't find the plot compelling (at least the teaser we've had so far), I just wish it felt more in sync with season one.
it’s a total different situation, I don’t have any problem with it. Also, I think it was mostly being IN the cube that triggered the attack.
 
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THIS is the PS2 graphics San Francisco shot I was talking about. It looks so fake in comparison to all the other city or ship shots in the series. I think it's just too clean and all made of the exact same metal texture, whereas in say Star Trek Into Darkness (with admittedly a far higher budget) loads of building materials and clearly dozens of different generations of buildings were depicted.
Isn’t this a reused shot (or at least CGI landscape) from Discovery anyway?


I remember the Golden Gate on fire at the end of the Dominion War, so maybe a huge chunk of the city burt down and was replaced at the same time.
yes, however the bridge is up again in the 32th century. Also it has solar panels, like here qnd on discovery, whereas on TMP a tube-like train went over it.
 
Solar panels produce microscopic amounts of power compared to an antimatter reactor, and then we found out in Voyager that the Federation figured out how to recycle antimatter waste into fuel.

So, either the solar panels are heritage artifacts to maintain the historic authenticity of the bridge, or they are something else that just coincidentally look like solar panels.
 
Solar panels produce microscopic amounts of power compared to an antimatter reactor, and then we found out in Voyager that the Federation figured out how to recycle antimatter waste into fuel.

So, either the solar panels are heritage artifacts to maintain the historic authenticity of the bridge, or they are something else that just coincidentally look like solar panels.

Well ya gotta do something when people no longer use cars.
 
How did they get the Easter egg wrong ?

How I took it was Guinan had 10 forward on the ship which was named like you say and then as a nod to that opened a bar at no.10 Forward st.

I confused myself.......:crazy:

yes, if it's simply that Guinan named new new bar after the ENT-D, it's not "wrong." Just kinda lame and flat.
 
Isn’t this a reused shot (or at least CGI landscape) from Discovery anyway?
The core of it yeah.
https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1499825252263612417

1. DSC Season 1
2. Picard Season 1
3. Picard Season 2
4. Discovery Season 3
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THIS is the PS2 graphics San Francisco shot I was talking about. It looks so fake in comparison to all the other city or ship shots in the series. I think it's just too clean and all made of the exact same metal texture, whereas in say Star Trek Into Darkness (with admittedly a far higher budget) loads of building materials and clearly dozens of different generations of buildings were depicted.
Was there more than one shot of this area in the episode? Because the tweet above has a screencap from this episode with more buildings in it.

The textures also seem more varied. But some of the buildings in your screen cap are more detailed.
 
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