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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x02 - "Disengage"

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Plus fertility treatments in the late 24th century probably make today's real world equivalents look like Flintstone vitamins.
 
Shaw's less of a total dick and more likable this week. See. I knew he wasn't a total loss.
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.
 
They've probably found ways to simplify Ferengi makeup since the last time it appeared in the 32nd century in DSC.
 
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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?!?

He couldn't - the crew just rolled with it and then Shaw did. It was all a bit silly.
 
Vadic seems cartoonish with all the smoking and laughing. No surprises with today's episode. Who will join in the next episode? Geordi or Deanna?
 
Probably because he knew Shaw would shut him down earlier, before the Shrike showed up. He probably could have pushed it but then we wouldn't have this drama in the second episode.

Plot convenience. ;)
 
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.

I feel like people have been understating Matalas' involvement in season 2. I mean I wasn't there but based on what I've read and his own statements the Q and time travel plots were all his idea. Picard's prior trauma was Akiva's. Matalas was brought on board as co showrunner in early 2020 and they started filming in early 2021. He had to have a big part in shaping the season.
 
4) TWOK #2 set up in the nebula.
Probably one of the worse things they could have done, IMO

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.
Surely Kirk had gotten other women pregnant. Carol might have been the only one who told him.

1) Picard & Riker & Jack forgetting the transport inhibitors. From 30 seconds before.
So?
 
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.

You may be right, but this is just her introduction. We really don't know anything about her at this point so its just way too early to say she's a one dimensional villain. It would be like complaining about Shaw last week and saying he's just a one dimensional asshole before we learn more.
 
Having a child without letting the father know, someone she cares about deeply, is a shitty thing to do.
I'm sure Beverly had good reasons for doing what she did.

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.
I guess I have more faith in the writers than you do at the moment.
 
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!

This I agree with 100 percent. I thought something was wrong with my screen during that fight. Just not well shot and I was not impressed. Of course, I'm happy to see Worf again but we couldn't make anything out.
 
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.
It's not the # of Torpedo tubes you have, that just indicates how many ways your Torpedoes/Missiles can leave the vessel.
It's the inventory that matters.
And 200 Torpedoes & 300 missiles easily exceeded the entire complement of torpedoes that the Enterprise-D ever had in total.
The Enterprise-D only had 250 Torpedoes & hundreds of Anti-Matter mines.

Has anybody else noticed how the Shrike's deflector dish section looks just like the StarDrive section of the Enterprise-D?

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?!?
He probably needs support of the rest of the bridge crew behind them, it doesn't work just by stating so.
Picard probably needs time to build rapport with a brand new Bridge crew.
 
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Dave Cullen, who has already seen the entire season, has his review for the episode up.

He stresses that this episode demonstrates that the season will have consistent tone, pacing, and cohesive characters, but laments the lighting and swearing.
 
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