Plus fertility treatments in the late 24th century probably make today's real world equivalents look like Flintstone vitamins.
Also, glad they kept the Ferengi design almost totally unchanged. Sure, the ears were a little more pinned back and detailed but other than that - well done.
People get cranky when they KNOW that their chain is being yanked, especially by people who have a reputation for shenanigans. I felt like his whole deal last week was him skating right up to the line of being disrespectful. Was he ACTUALLY disrespectful? Yep - BUT - Picard and Riker WERE in fact pulling shenanigans and if they attempted to write him up for it, so to speak, they'd have to reveal THEIR hand to others, not something they wanted to do. So that gave him a lot more freedom. I'm looking forward to see him under better circumstances.Shaw's less of a total dick and more likable this week. See. I knew he wasn't a total loss.
I do have to say, I was really thrown for a loop when it turns out that even as a retired admiral, Picard can countermand Shaw's orders at any time.
Like, why didn't he do that before?!?
More generally, I'm getting nervous regarding the quality of the show's writing overall at this point. I understand that Matalas wasn't really showrunner last time around, but we have the writer's credits for much of the last season out already and it's the same people who wrote season 2 - people who he brought over from 12 Monkeys for the most part. The overall narrative seems to be more cohesive, but I'm already seeing signs of sloppy, plot-focused writing - characters getting "hunches" which prove to be correct, amazing coincidences which happen because they need to, etc.
Probably one of the worse things they could have done, IMO4) TWOK #2 set up in the nebula.
Surely Kirk had gotten other women pregnant. Carol might have been the only one who told him.2) Big reveals (Picard's son, Worf) were telegraphed, but still fine with me. Good to see Worf again, and I have always been a Picard/Beverly shipper. Glad JLP is not the last Picard like Kirk was. Hope Jack does not meet David's fate.
So?1) Picard & Riker & Jack forgetting the transport inhibitors. From 30 seconds before.
Vadic is one dimensional as anything. Every villain in trek has a conflict of good/evil, she just looks like and sounds like a panto villain.
I'm sure Beverly had good reasons for doing what she did.Having a child without letting the father know, someone she cares about deeply, is a shitty thing to do.
I guess I have more faith in the writers than you do at the moment.It's not having the kid, it's the keeping Picard in the dark about him. That's a significant violation of trust, and it's going to take some very good writing to make why Beverly's kept that secret for the last 20 years or so believable, let alone in character. Right now, I've got my doubts if they can pull it off.
3. Worf's bad-ass arrival would have been much more so if the fight had been at all visible. Blurry, shaky-cam seen from the floor does not cut it. I get that it was supposed to be Raffi's point of view, but c'mon, man! The audience ain't Raffi!
Remember some of us were burned by what they did to Rios and Jurati last year despite being told to have faith in the writers and that they have good reasons for doing what they did.I'm sure Beverly had good reasons for doing what she did.
I guess I have more faith in the writers than you do at the moment.
It's not the # of Torpedo tubes you have, that just indicates how many ways your Torpedoes/Missiles can leave the vessel.Another nitpick, when they read off the weapons on the Shrike, it kind of reminded me of the Scimitar in Nemesis. It does feel cliche that the villain ship has to be some uber ship with a gazillion weapons. Just saying 20 torpedo tubes would be plenty powerful. You don't need to say 200 torpedoes this and 300 missiles that to convey the ship is powerful. It's over the top. Plus, it creates a plot hole and how the Titan will ever survive if Vadic actually did use all the weapons. The villain basically has to hold back to give our heroes a fighting chance which is a cliche.
He probably needs support of the rest of the bridge crew behind them, it doesn't work just by stating so.I do have to say, I was really thrown for a loop when it turns out that even as a retired admiral, Picard can countermand Shaw's orders at any time.
Like, why didn't he do that before?!?
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