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Despite high hopes, I've been really disappointed by S3. And I feel a little sad that I can't get there when I see how much enjoyment so many people are getting from it. (Watching other people's joy is delightful, actually?) I'd be quite up for a thread for critically discussing the things...

I love these. Thank you so much for sharing them. I love the framing of the shot of Gates with the bridge behind her. (But Beverly, why are you just standing staring into an open turbolift? People are probably trying to get to work!)

I just wanted ten hours of these characters hanging out. The plot could have been any nonsense at all. Alas, I did not get the character stuff I craved. Turns out nobody has stayed in touch, and when they do all get together, everyone just talks about their kids. Grim realism! I've been...

I don't think holding off the Jack reveal until the finale was worth it. If we'd done this sooner, there would have been space for reflection and to really properly develop themes and character work around generational divides, legacy, connectivity etc. Instead, I've felt like plot and themes...

I thought the Nepenthe thing was unnecessarily mean-spirited. Even if you don't find it appealing yourself, the creative work that went into that episode deserved more respect than a snide joke about hippies and a scribbled retcon about Troi manipulating Riker's emotions. Left a bad taste in my...

I'm going to be obnoxiously earnest here. There is a type of fan - and I'm one of them - who quite likes imaging things that might have happened alongside canon but that don't contradict canon. A lot of the fun I get from Star Trek is imagining what characters are/were up to off screen. But I...

Thank you so much for doing that so we don't have to, Lord Garth. Super appreciate it! Poor Elnor. It's helpful for me to see this baldly articulated. They started from the premise that Picard having a biological son he didn't know about was the top priority and reverse engineered it...

I bet one time Beverly Crusher probably bullied a kitten. A really cute one as well. And everyone cried, but she didn't even care. She just used it as material for her hair metal band (as we remember she always did in TNG).

Yeah - fundamentally, she didn't trust him to make good choices. She might have been mistaken, but there it is. I think you have to give Picard's friends at least three years before it's clear that this incredibly uncharacteristic retirement is going to stick? So by now the kid is 8, and rumor...

I think the truest reason it is that the writers wanted the drama and didn't care about whether it stretched suspension of disbelief too far. But if we're scrambling for a diegetic reason, I'm choosing to believe the metaphasic energy in the Briar Patch had unexpected long-term effects that...

I guess the implication is that a life of frontier adventure is one thing - and that's an acceptable risk to Beverly - but known to be Picard's son would, for some reason, be an order of magnitude more dangerous again. I don't buy it based on what we saw in TNG, but we do keep being told how...

I think finding out about Jack is a devastating punch and maybe not one you ever exactly come back from. But Picard had other opportunities to have children, and he never actively pursued them. Beverly denied him the opportunity to choose how to react to her accidental pregnancy and the...

Can somebody help me out with timelines? I'm so bad at keeping them straight in my head. Jack must have been born some time between 2379 and 82? Picard left the Enterprise in '81 and was managing the Romulan evacuation until '85 when he (accidentally) resigned. So up until Jack was about 4-6...

I was hoping there would be a better reason why Beverly never told Picard. That Jack was in London while Picard was sitting on his ass in France - definitely not in any way in the front lines of anything - for years makes it so much worse. Beverly has always been my favourite. She's tended to...

Man, I just want all the spoilers. Patience is so hard. My biggest questions are all about Beverly. What's the vibe of her relationship now with any of the others when the season opens? How do Picard and Riker seem to feel about her? How does she seem to feel about any of them? I'm also...

Picard is a synth now. Clancy and the other powers that be probably imagined sitting through all of his speeches as he represented himself in court and thought: life's too short; repeal the thing.

That's my thought too. A big part of this show is going to be some sort of character arc for Picard himself. Beverly is a useful narrative piece to have on standby depending on where they plan to take that. I can see the wisdom in not playing that card too soon. (For my own part I choose to...

Beverly Crusher was formative for me as a kid, which means that a lot of my excitement about ST:P is wrapped up in unreasonable amounts of worry about her. She really does often seem to be a late afterthought to writers. In some ways I'd rather she was fridged if the alternative is apathy.

I've always thought INS would be so much better a movie if we'd seen the Ba'ku's mask slip. They consciously benefited from a resource that could help billions and kept it to themselves. They adopted Luddism that allowed them to shirk any moral responsibility or intellectual curiosity in...

I went to see it last night and I cannot remember the last time I laughed that hard at a movie, or so seriously considered turning right around and going in to see it again for the late showing. I was worried because I thought there would be gross-out stuff in it, and I cannot cope with that at...