I'm not saying I enjoy it or otherwise. I'm saying the reason the show is dark is a stylistic choice on the part of the creators. You said it was done to keep costs down on the electricity bill and that's patently nonsense.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x02 - "Disengage"
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I'm not saying I enjoy it or otherwise. I'm saying the reason the show is dark is a stylistic choice on the part of the creators. You said it was done to keep costs down on the electricity bill and that's patently nonsense.
Shaw seemingly knows a LOT about Picard and Riker (although the latter is more understandable as Riker was his predecessor on the Titan). People in Starfleet talk. Shaw obviously listened. Add to this the seemingly well known fact that Crusher ditched Starfleet and cut off contact with the Enterprise crew, and I'm betting there was gossip about some kind of misconduct on Picard's part.
The Enterprise-D crew would be famous to the Borg, because they are one of the few ships that prevented the assimilation of their society, and as First Contact revealed the Borg Queen at least survived to relink with the Collective afterwards. Seven, as a member of the Collective, would have all that info in her brain, including that Crusher was probably the first Starfleet doctor to de-assimilate a Borg (unless I'm missing another retcon, I don't think anyone did that before her--in retrospect her confidence at fully restoring Picard in BOBW seems bizarre with the newer info on how hard it is to remove all Borg cybernetics as in Seven's case and other ex-Borg).
Lets assume there's nothing like Hollywood in the deep future.
All entertainment is community theatre or recordings of community theatre, or far more likely holographically generated.
Picard's logs + Community Theatre.
All entertainment is community theatre or recordings of community theatre, or far more likely holographically generated.
Picard's logs + Community Theatre.
he was only Borg for a few days. Also, I’m not so sure everything was removed.
Yeah, he could still hear the collective, so there was probably still some things in there.
I wasn't talking about Crusher's supposed success in de-assimilation, but the fact that she's so confident about it ("It's only micro surgery, I could do it!") when literally no one she's known of has ever done this before.
Lighting at the moment is the same "in vouge" horseshit that so many shows suffer from, this and the fricken "mumblecore" sound design. Because, in the minds of the wanna be avant garde directeur it makes everything more "realistic."
In reality we're adjusting our TV or monitor screens, or sticking on the subtitles because of what basically equates to lazy sound/lighting design pretending its being clever.
Same with the recent show on Amazon Tennet which has audio so abysmal most people had to watch it with subtitles before abandoning it.
A recent version of Jamaica Inn by the BBC managed to suffer from the wonderful double whammy of lighting which sucked and audio which was entirely scuffed.
In reality we're adjusting our TV or monitor screens, or sticking on the subtitles because of what basically equates to lazy sound/lighting design pretending its being clever.
Same with the recent show on Amazon Tennet which has audio so abysmal most people had to watch it with subtitles before abandoning it.
A recent version of Jamaica Inn by the BBC managed to suffer from the wonderful double whammy of lighting which sucked and audio which was entirely scuffed.
I just read about the whole process and OMG
https://www.brides.com/story/guide-to-changing-your-name-after-marriage
Serious question to those who have taken the spouse's last name after the wedding (and therefore not united their own with that of the other).
Why? Why bother with all this bureaucracy and headaches?
And I don't think it's "to symbolize family unity", because
a) Why practically only women do it?
b) If as proof of love and dedication to the family the groom expects the bride to go through this, then there is something really perverted, borderline sadistic, excuse me.
Maybe he too watched TNG as a kid.
From a genealogical records perspective, someone has to make the sacrifice, otherwise both sides get lost to history rather than just one. The west went with men, and we are stuck with it. All the women I know who have kept their last names are published Academics, so they have needed to keep theirs for publishing reasons.
How are family units referred to collectively in Belgium? Here we would say "Here come the Smiths", when everyone has the same last name.
in Italy we just use the first names in those cases. It’s not impossible to use the husband’s surname but it sure sounds very dated.
I can’t speak for Belgium but here in Quebec, where it has been legally mandatory for women, since 1977, to keep their own family name (with exceedingly rare exceptions), it’s a non-issue as that expression is almost entirely used as a reference to the past OR deliberately singling out an extended family sharing the same name. Instead of “Here come the Smiths” it’s almost always “Here comes (insert first name of a parent)’s family” or “here comes so and so and her/his brood/gang/family/etc. (usually en français).
Agree. Even when it came to very large families, I always said things like "Tomorrow Paolo and Anna will come with their children and her parents".
If you are so interested in the purity of genealogical records (?!?) just join the surnames, as they do in many Latin countries.
As reviewing genealogical records is sometimes part of my work (historian who teaches and does archival research), I would say it makes it a bit more complex but hardly impossible. Moreover, as important as it is to have clear records, present day families do not “owe it to posterity” to “sacrifice” their own family identity and subsume it to another’s.
I suppose that for @UssGlenn it's not just about making genealogy searches more or less easy, but also about the "pride" of being associated with a certain surname. Like in the clans. Let's say that for continental Europeans (unless they are literally belonging to a royal dynasty) it is a somewhat unfamiliar concept.
At least it's not as bad as the insipid NuBSG shaky-cam "cinema verité" B.S. that dominated early-mid-00's TV at the time. That was downright irritating and made me a little dizzy at times.
My wife did it because she wanted to distance herself from her abusive father.
On a blink-and-you’ll-still-need-glasses-and-guesswork arrest record Sneed’s known associates (presumably alive “now”) include Quark, Morn, Brunt, Thadiun Okona of the Omega Sagitta System, Larell of Renhia, Krinn of Vulcan, Jae of Earth, T’Luco of Romulus (now decapitated in the standard ST:Picard fashion). Interesting to me that Okona has two names listed but it doesn’t list Jae’s last name (Hwang in the novels). Sneed was arrested by the authority of the UFP on DS9 in 2384, he got a 3 month sentence. So, somebody has seen “Who Mourns For Morn?” (Recommend!) and there’s still UFP authorities at DS9 at least a handful of years after “Hear All, Trust Nothing”.
Not to mention that surnames tend to change anyway for several reasons…Mine surely did a few generations ago when my ancestors immigrated from Poland!
Well, I guess that that is an option…
