Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x01 - "The Next Generation"
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So Riker mentioned that Deanna and Kestra would appreciate the time away from him meaning there is some drama going on in the Riker family. At first I thought that maybe the two were separated or that maybe Thad's death affected them especially as Kestra got older.
Elnor was explicitly set up as a boy who idolized Jean-Luc and saw him as some sort of absentee father figure, since he was an orphan otherwise surrounded by women. That was a fascinating dynamic, and one the show completely and totally dropped midway through the first season, purposefully splitting him from Jean Luc before any further work could be done with the relationship.
Then in season 2 they paired him up with Raffi of all people, with whom he somehow developed a close relationship off-camera. Totally nonsensical.
That's what I thought, though a humorous thought is: "Dad, you're cooking pizzas EVERY DAY. Mom and I would like some salads or even a bunnicorn burger every so often. She thinks you should go on vacation and rethink your cooking habits."
And did anyone think the Red Lady was going to be Burnham....I did for a second LOL.
I dunno. They all seemed like they had come to some terms with Thad's death in S1. Whatever's going on, I think it's something new. Though honestly, I have trouble imagining Will Riker being the kind of guy who would alienate his wife and daughter.
Yeah, they dropped the ball with Elnor in S1. I would have been okay with it if they had better developed him in S2 (plenty of characters on plenty of shows really come into their own in a later season after not getting as much attention in the first season), but then they not only dropped the ball but intentionally threw it out the window.
Honestly I have trouble seeing Will Riker as the kind of guy who would put Starfleet before his family.
I watched season 2 during its final two weeks of airing, and only saw season 1 last month. Once I saw it, I realized why they tried to make Laris a regular in season 2 (she was supposed to come back in time with them, but executive interference led to the creation of the look alike Tallinn). They really should have just had Laris come on the mission with Picard when he set out instead of the Elnor detour.
Haha, the one scene they held back from Robert Meyer Burnett that turns the season into a "These Are the Voyages" in the 32nd century...
What?!? This makes no sense at all.
Exactly! The moment when Seven activated the Borg was so great but then...they just killed them off and crashed the ship one episode later. You don't spent so much money on a giant CG Borg cube just to do that. They clearly had a bigger story in mind. Same with the copy-and-paste fleet.
A while back on Twitter, Terry Matalas strongly recommended a film called The TV Set (IMDB) about network interference in the development of a comedy pilot. Is available on some ad supporting streaming sites, and is worth a watch.
He's a pop culture YouTuber that some may attach the label "fandom menace" towho?
Why would studio executives care if Laris goes back in time with them?
Well, that's a possibility, but then between Tom Riker and Lore, I think PIC S3 starts to come uncomfortably close to the plot and themes of Nemesis if that speculation is accurate...
Yeah, the Artifact was not well-integrated into the season finale. But I'm sorry -- I just absolutely do not care about the fleet. It absolutely does not matter if they're all the same class of ship or not, it has no impact on the plot, characterization, or thematic concerns. It's not even particularly implausible, if the class is faster than the others and the planet is supposed to be so far outside of Federation space.
Plus, as I understand it, the visual effects for "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part II" were being finished up as COVID-19 hit, and the VFX team were working from home. If that impacted their production capabilities, I think we should all give them the grace of accepting that using all ships of the same class might have been the best the VFX team could do under such extraordinary circumstances and suspend our disbelief there.
Discovery and Picard have both made a choice in their stylization of starship exteriors to give them this sort of soft-focus, colorful, almost painterly look, instead of the sort of stark-contrast shots we're used to seeing. I get what they're going for and I appreciate that they have the creative freedom not to be bound by the creative conceits of earlier shows, but this is one stylization choice I subjectively don't like and wish they wouldn't use. It's not a huge deal though.
It says a lot about our culture that the go-to inverse of damsel in distress is unfettered gun play and not, say, using one's brain to solve a problem.
While most modern military doctors (at least in the US military) do take basic weapons training and carry fire arms while in the field, they do not have to, and they're protected from any prosecution for dereliction under the Geneva Convention.
There really isn't a Hippocratic Oath as such, and hasn't been since the post-war era. It's just a catch-all for all the various oaths of schools around the world doctors take. But all of those modern oaths include (implied if not directly stated) at utmost respect and consideration for all life as outlined by those articles of Geneva.
And in each of those events, violence was the very last resort, And in those times that it wasn't, it became the ethical focal point of the episode. But in how many of those instances was it the doctor? Sure, Phlox is a mass murder, but that's beside the point. Even Julian took to objecting to violence in several different episodes.
But none of this really matters because you too chose to ignore that part where my objection is really of the writers choosing to put her in this position to begin with, which, say whatever else about the rightness or wrongness, is just such a tired and trite plot device.
No you wouldn't. You'd freeze in place, piss your pants in terror, and grab your kid and run. Just like everyone else.
So much so so it even changed class name.
I have the feeling that...
that Chaltok IV will be one of the terrorists' next targets and then their paths will cross again ... or she will die in the attack
Are the stakes of this debate really worth getting so personally insulting?
