Vadic can be a full changeling and still be subservient, this is not the Great Link, this is a splinter group that can have a completely different caste structure not seen previously in what we saw on DS9.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x04 - "No Win Scenario"
- Thread starter Commander Richard
- Start date
Yeah, about that, Paramount+ already has that show in Star Trek Strange New Worlds. I doubt they want to have two live action Star Trek shows with that same premise. Hell, at this point they may not want two live action Star Trek shows at in production concurrently.
I had no doubt!
That scene was perfect as it was, imho.
do we now! They (perhaps) know what pot is, this doesn’t necessarily imply they smoke it.
what’s that?
Not for the current cost.
Star Trek has always used colloquial language of the times it was produced. In Star Trek we have Spock using the term "fly paper" TOS S1 The Corbomite Maneuver, and from TOS S1 The Squire of Gothos:
Kirk: "Yes - dipping little girls' curls in inkwells, stealing apples from the neighbors' trees, tying cans on - forgive me, Mr. Spock. I should have known better..."
So yeah the script writers writing character dialogue using colloquial English of the time the script was written is an old Star Trek tradition.
That's why I keep saying had they written Star Trek: The Next Generation like this back in 1987, I would have really enjoyed it a lot more.The one thing I find pretty amusing:
This is essentially a TOS movie, with the TNG cast.
Now, I did like the TOS movies a lot more than the TNG movies (or the nuTrek movies).
But still it's pretty weird a spin- off of TNG feels nothing like TNG or the TNG movies, but goes full 80s TOS movie
Same. Absolutely the same. TNG was a much different animal and I prefer TOS.That's why I keep saying have they written Star Trek: The Next Generation like this back in 1987, I would have really enjoyed it a lot more.
You mean the children watching an a 90 plus year old man and a 20 something drinking Jack Daniels whiskey?
Well...there's at least one 10 person life pod on the Life Deck....
I doubt it.Maybe Vadic cut out one of the Conspiracy Parasites in her?
They should start writing modern Trek using outdated slang to help with the verisimilitude. They should use credits to navy beans or dipping girls' curls in inkwells in dialogue on SNW next season.
Wow, I can say that I'm starting to like Shaw, now that I know some of his back story. Although the Wolf-359 Sisko-ish attitude towards Picard seemed a bit Deja-Vu, I suppose there could be a lot of people who have issues with Locutus/Picard.
Gave this a 9/10. Very thankful there was no Raffi in this episode.
Gave this a 9/10. Very thankful there was no Raffi in this episode.
A full changeling wouldn't need a knife to cut off a hand
That's how the TMP refit worked - they still had the old SNW parts lying around, and Decker wanted them back
There was a hidden Vader costume at the premiere...
I've really enjoyed the Raffi-Worf interactions, but that said I think it'd maybe feel a bit out of place tonally compared to the rest of this episode if included.
What if it wasn't a knife? What if it was a long range transmission antenna to the Great Link; and it just looked like a knife?
I agree. Allthough on paper it would be a very exciting episode (and many do seem to think it's very good), S3 of Picard is not really doing it for me, so far.
What I dislike about the first 4 episodes is the exaggerated hero worship we see (with LaForge being "a legend", people nagging a celebrity in a bar), but also the rather forced drama and the way the crew of the Titan is treated.
For the drama, I dislike that much of it did not grow from earlier seasons/movies but was invented for Picard S3 (much like Picard's S2 issues) or became a thing only during the episodes. Take the spat between Riker and Picard: it came suddenly in ep3 (rather out of character IMO) and it was immediately put aside in ep4. What was the point, other than to have cheap drama and stuff the episodes? What about Deanna and Will, whose relationship was fine in "Nepenthe", perhaps the best episode of Picard? Suddenly it has become a problem between them?
Shaw and Wolf-359 I get, at least that was a major event where one can see the resentment, and it also had some meaning over the course of the 4 episodes with Shaw acting on his emotions. It's a better callback to TNG, instead of viruses effecting the Ent-D that didn't exist during the run of TNG.
For the crew of the Titan, for me they are being marginalised on their own ship. I'm surprised that Burnett, who wants his starship crews to be "the best of the best", does not seem to dislike this part. In ep4, Shaw neglects his duty by not at least attempting to retake command (we don't see the doctors ruling him out, at least). His bridge officers, during ep 3 and ep 4, don't realise things that Jack and Beverly Crusher point out. They are not even consulted by Riker/Picard/Crusher afterwards, the old guys + the son are effectively running things while the Titan crew watches or goes through the motions. Even ensign Laforge (whose father is a legend...) does not get to do her job, which is piloting the ship (Picard does it instead). The ship's doctor has to be told by Beverly that the captain has an internal bleeding. All in all, for me it looks like the writers decide to make the ships crew look bad to elevate the old heroes + Jack, the latter getting Wesley Crusher vibes as the local genius. I don't like it. Quite a contrast to the competence of the Titan's crew in Lower Decks, or even the Dauntless' crew in Prodigy.
Then there is an old habit of Trek in general (though not The wrath of Khan), which is that there is a tendency to give the enemy all the advantages (like the Scimitar in Nemesis: massively armed + cloak + super weapon) and then they somehow have to turn things around anyway, and since the enemy has every advantage this is difficult to achieve in a believable way. In ep3, Vadic is so much on top of things that not only does she have a massive firepower advantage, she even manages to turn the Titan's meagre return fire into "friendly fire", crippling the ship. Yet in episode 4, suddenly the Shrike is helpless against Riker's asteroid attack. What photon torpedoes and phasers don't come even close to do, the asteroid accomplishes with the one hit.
So, in light of this, one wonders if the deflector isn't supposed to deflect objects like this, and if slinging mass with some speed at an opponent is so much more effective than using conventional weaponry, how come the tactical geniuses like Riker haven't been tossing rocks left, right and center at Borg cubes and Dominion armadas? If only the crew of the Valiant had thought of that, against the Dominion battleship.
Also, no Worf in ep 4, which is a shame.
On the plus side, I did like Shaw's character and the actor's performance. I just wish he hadn't been "Harriman'd" by the writers.
And there was at least tension and a feeling that the overall story is going somewhere, which is better than Picard S2 I guess.
I doubt it was sudden. I imagine they faked it very well and tried to keep it together for their daughter and couldn't.
She gives the expression "Talk to the hand!" a whole new meaning.
