The Changelings, I suppose, though maybe it’s a collaboration of enemies with various grudges. I think the Enterprise C crew is involved.
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He might spell his name Jec and it's a portmanteau of Jean-Luc? Though Jacque would've given it away sooner.
My thoughts exactly Except the Enterprise C crew, but maybe you are onto something
not really, most was inspired by but not straightly lofted.
yeah, on this I agree.
and it was beautiful, much better than the odd mess of those of season 2.The credits is literally LCARS graphics scrolling
In the books they had a son called Rene Jacques Robert Francois Picard. The Jacques was in honor of Jack Crusher. Maybe they borrowed something from that. The most reasonable explanation for Jack Crusher II would be that Beverly and her late husband had stored some embryos before his death and she decided to thaw some out and use them to have another child after the events of Nemesis. But the show is called Picard so that kid will be Picard’s son and his real name could be Jacques Picard.
Yeah, seems like Shaw may be having a severe freak-out moment around the scary former Borg. Most captains are just going to be able to roll with a surprise dignitary, no matter how annoyed they actually are about the intrusion. But you could say this guy literally can't stand to be in the same room as Picard for more than five minutes - he sends Seven to greet him and cedes the bridge during the inspection, sets up the dinner situation so that he can do some chest thumping to cover that it's actually a dine and dash, then, so far as we know, isolates in his quarters until he realizes the ship is off course.
It's busy and not very functional (some names hard to read). What's wrong with a star field?
There's no version of Starfleet we've ever seen where a ship won't have accomodation suitable for a visiting dignitary (or two in this case). It's such bad world building, all for a bad joke version of characterisation. Shaw would be eligible for a reprimand for that behaviour.
I liked this episode. I thought there were some nostalgic callbacks.
- This episode opened with the tag line "In the 25th Century" much like TWOK opened with "In the 23rd Century".
- I thought Beverly's jacket at the beginning looked like a variation of the away team jackets in TWOK.
- Use of music from past TNG movies was kinda nostalgic.
- After reading various thoughts on the look of the Titan, I liked that they refer to that class as Neo-Constitution Class Refit. At first glance to me it looked kinda like the Constitution class saucer on an Excelsior class body.
- Just really don't like Captain Shaw.
- What's going on with Raffie?
It's a recreation of a prop first seen in TNG. It's not her son's, it's her husband's.
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Nah, he was just being a dick. Nothing wrong with that. Starfleet isn't a modern military.
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This is exactly what has happened. Give how those two seasons went, I'm okay with it at this point.
Well, to be fair, there wasn't anywhere to go with Rios and Jurati. One got left in the past, the other is the Borg Queen. Elnor was all but ignored even when he was a cast member.
Agree on Rios, and Jurati to an extent. I could have watched a whole show centered around Rios. Elnor was like a hanging plot chad. As others have said, whatever was originally planned for that character got mostly dropped and chopped beyond coherency.
Jorg says he worked on Seasons 2 and 3 of Picard. so I wonder why he was only credited in Season 3.
Wil Wheaton also called him Jack in the Ready Room for this episode.
Not sure where you got that idea. Raffi is working for Starfleet Intelligence, Beverly isn't working for anyone.
It's mimicking the films, Both TNG and TOS films preferred dark lighting for some reason. TOS films were brighter, but still darker than the TV show sets.
She's working undercover for Starfleet intelligence, but is also a recovering addict, that's why she struggled for a bit to drop the drugs.
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I’m not quite sure I agree. While yes, all of those things were meant to set up Shaw to look like an asshole in front of our heroes, Shaw had every right to have his XO go by her actual name and not her Borg designation. And he didn’t have time to set them up in better quarters. Could he have gotten them something a little nicer? No doubt. But he’s making a point to them (along with the dinner) that he didn’t get where he is today by kowtowing to the upper echelon who just want to use his ship for nefarious purposes. He has a right to be a dick.
Honestly, none of Riker’s plan makes any sense. But apparently these people have no qualms about putting other people in danger just to rescue one woman. If Picard and Riker needed to get to non-Federation space for an unauthorized rescue, why didn’t they just ask Worf or someone else in the Klingon Empire to help them? It’s not like Picard doesn’t have clout there.
It has nothing to do with a last name. Shaw didn’t want her referred to as Seven of Nine, because that was her Borg designation. And honestly I’ve never understood for the last three years why Seven doesn’t just use her real name anyway. She’s not a Borg anymore.
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I have to agree with this. Nothing against the characters who aren't coming back, but they don't fit into this story. It's as simple as that. Getting most of them back in S2 was a stretch. After S1, most of the characters had no reason to stay together, much less still be on the same ship.
PIC as a whole wasn't designed like other series where the characters have reason to stay together long-term. The result is a series that's more fluid from season to season than we've seen in Star Trek before. If PIC came back for a fourth season, it would be different even still. But now I'm convinced it won't be. Terry Matalas wants to expand the scope beyond Picard. So he probably wants a new series designed to follow up on everything TNG/DS9/VOY.
It's not the same as with DSC when Michelle Paradise inherited that series. She was handed a blank slate by the series jumping to the 32nd Century and even though she had the same characters, they had short histories and she could take them where she saw fit. And they have every reason to stay together, all being fish out of water in this setting.
PIC is the opposite. Terry Matalas doesn't have a blank slate in the 25th Century, he has to have different characters to make whatever he might want to do long-term work, and he has pre-existing characters with long histories where he can't do whatever he sees fit as easily because it has to grow out of something else from before that makes sense now.
Also, PIC has the '80s and '90s Trek Nostalgia Market cornered from the Movies to VOY. SNW has the '60s Trek Nostalgia Market cornered. If someone wants a Star Trek series free from all of that... Give DSC another chance. "STD sucks!" First I disagree, but either way, the series has changed a lot since S1. Ultimately for the better IMO, but that's just my take.
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Raffi is a lot like real world undercover operatives. You usually choose the people who can best fit into the environment you want to survey. An addict blends in well with Orion drug dealers on a distant outpost planet.
This is an unnecessarily long way of saying "Lower your expectations."
Also, I did have a thought that considering what they were asking him to do as a retired Admiral and Captain with no chair, he could have made a case for the BRIG, but put them there instead as a "You know and I know your request is wrong. But you are who you are so take the humiliation and go away."
What’s the new series? Captain Seven of the Starship Titan with Sidney LaForge as helmsman and maybe Dr. Jack Crusher/Howard/Picard and Cadet Kestra Riker in the mix somehow with all the new crew? I’d go for it.
No.
The films used proper contrast lighting because they could, you know, afford a DP.
PIC is just dark.
*Also, the films never resorted to heavy desaturation.
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No idea, but it looks to me like something along one of these lines. I think the Titan, but who knows? All blind guesswork.
