Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x07 - "Monsters"
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People are posting about it, which may give him more views, and then he gets what he wants
. It's all an act
He did that for seven seasons and four feature films.
Go back and watch it a few more times. Hopefully, it will come to you.
I've never been clamouring for a TNG continuation. I don't think Picard's issues stem from the fact it isn't TNG.
Obviously. A puerile, stupid stunt to get views. What a Trek expert he must be.People are posting about it, which may give him more views, and then he gets what he wants
You'd swap out the E-E for La Sirena.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't make it bad. Try again. And fail. Try again, and fail better.
I think it could have been fun. Of course all they've said so far is that the next season is starship-based and that the old cast are back so it doesn't necessarily mean it will be a Starfleet thing so La Sirena may come back into it.
Can't defend the show so you insult people with valid criticisms. Nice.
Star Trek III, armed and armored security guy hangs out outside the cabin while the admiral goes in to investigate the situation. Security has always sucked in Star Trek.
Insulting them with valid criticism is better than with spurious irrelevancies.
I would HOPE so.
I'd hate to see the current cast pitched out an airlock for a TNG reunion season.
The issue is that it is contrived as per the definition. Agnes has to get captured because she 100% knows that the security people will put someone who gate-crashed an incredibly important gala (with insanely high security) into the main control room with only two guards. The show then does the classic thing of people speaking into earpieces loudly within obvious earshot of people.
I can think of other contrivances: The Watcher just so happens to carry around a device that can allow her to enter people's brains at a time when Picard needs someone to enter his brain.
I also wouldn't be surprised if that the fact that her ears helpfully remain decloaked for a few hours play into next week's episode with the FBI.
Indeed, the whole fact it all hinged on this one gala to my mind seemed to be the case of the writers wanting to do a James Bond/Mission Impossible style episode and coming up with ways to make it fit, rather than allowing the story to develop organically.
At the point that Harlan Ellison started writing for the series Scotty and McCoy didn't even have names yet.
It's kind of a misleading name. Though only kind of misleading. He's just a reviewer, not a hater. At least that's been my experience, I haven't been keeping up with him lately.
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Oh, Harlan hated a lot of things. 
That didn't affect his dedication to his craft and getting paid for his books and other works.
That didn't affect his dedication to his craft and getting paid for his books and other works.
Funny, I wasn't arguing about contrivances. Of course, there were contrivances. It's a heist story. Without contrivances, it doesn't work. Things have to happen in a certain way, and random chance can't account for them all. If the contrivances are entertaining, nobody cares. This is entertainment, after all.
I don't think Harlan Ellison hated Star Trek at the time he wrote "The City on the Edge of Forever". That came after he wrote his last draft and the Genes started revising it.
It's contrived in the sense that Ocean's Eleven is contrived.
It's fiction.
To be fair to the guards, she was handcuffed (they weren't counting on her having Borg strength).
She DID enter people in the previous ep. Why COULDN'T she have entered his brain?
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He didn't. It was just another writing job for him but the rift with Roddenberry didn't come until afterwards and it was deep. But by the mid-'70s they'd repaired their relationship and Harlan called him a friend on national television.
He was never a fan of the Star Trek cult following, though, and repeatedly criticized the fandom.
