Final Trailer!

Discussion in 'Star Trek: Picard' started by NCC-73515, Jan 30, 2023.

  1. donners22

    donners22 Commodore Commodore

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    "As it should be" - rapidly losing its audience because it had become stale, predictable and largely irrelevant?

    Voyager was widely derided by the fanbase at the time and dismissed as "TNG lite", having thrown away its premise to stick to the TNG formula. I don't recall the last two seasons being considered by "most" to be the best (if nothing else, the Doctor's character was ruined).

    Voyager should be a warning for the modern series, not something to aspire to.
     
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  2. Tuskin38

    Tuskin38 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Terry was also on DS9 and Enterprise. He even has a cameo in the Enterprise series finale.

    Memory-Alpha doesn't mention his DS9 role, but I believe he said he worked as a post-production associate or something.
     
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  3. Vger23

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    Came here for the outlandish over-reactions and complaints about “not real Star Trek with an OPTIMISTIC VISION OF THE FUTURE,” and “why is everything so dark???”

    I am not disappointed.

    Same drill since 2009. I’m amazed that things can be so consistent, quite frankly.
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  4. Aragorn

    Aragorn Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    I do remember seeing a bunch of keyboard warriors foaming at the mouth because the SNW bridge was all women outside of Pike and the occasional glorified extra.
     
  5. Lord Garth

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    You were smart to avoid posting in this thread. Smarter than I was.
     
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  6. ananta

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    I guess it is. The trailer definitely captured the style, tone and content of TNG movies…whether that’s good or bad is a matter of opinion. I was hoping for at least a hint of the spirit of the TV show. Still hopeful. The trailer for Star Trek Beyond was truly shite, but that movie ranks among the best.
     
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  7. Tuskin38

    Tuskin38 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Trailers are misleading.
    Someone posted the TMP trailer a couple pages back and it made it looks like an action romp.
     
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  8. ananta

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    I agree, I actually edited my post just as you were posting this as Beyond came to mind.
     
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  9. Mr. Laser Beam

    Mr. Laser Beam Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Who's the guy in the trailer who says "Is anyone you knew...still the person you knew"? :confused:
     
  10. RuleofAcuisition17

    RuleofAcuisition17 Commander Red Shirt

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    God no, the character's just sucks.
    The problem I have is the character hasn't had their "come to jesus" hubris breaking moment. Where they can't really keep doing things the way they have been. Instead they've just blindly bull-in-a-china shopped their way through and it's worked, usually with a chagrined "Oh sorry Burnham, you were right all along!" It's become a bit of a lazy hollywood trope to think a strong female lead has to be basically a dude, and a completely reprehensible one at that. It also seems to be male writers making this mistake when some of the strongest women I've ever known in real life were incredibly feminine and it was the makeup of their character and actions which made them strong. It's like someone is trying to write Tomboys who's never seen one before and winds up writing about the Jock that bullied them in high school. With boobs. Burnham would suck no matter who was in the role, male or female.

    To boil it down to show terms. Janeway is strong. Kira Neris is strong. Kai Wynn is strong. Deanna Troi is strong.

    Burnham's an arse.

    The Military Committee of NATO's? Every military procurement committee? Starfleet's militaryness is always hilariously vague and at times I feel they should canonically shit or get off the pot and begin divinding themselves back into a "War Fleet" and an "Exploration fleet" like they used to have in the 2200s

    Then clearly something's changed enormously since I read that is exactly what they're going to do for season 5 and Kovalchick in the NYCC trailer quite literally going "there's a big galaxy out there. Get to it." which suggests a bit more of an open ended plot.

    BUT WHY IS IT SO DAMN DARK? Was the budget blown entirely on hiring all the actors on at their proper rates to play these characters again? Did the lighting guy not get his favourite snacks and the craft table and quit partway through production? Is Terry secretly a vampire and thus hates bright lights? We'll never know!

    We can't bloody see it to find out.

    See, the warriors thought it was to be tokenistic and woke.

    I say it's so Pike could oggle an all female bridge crew in those leggins for a bottom half of a uniform.
     
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  11. XCV330

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    I finally found my trailer review. From a show better lit than Picard.
     
  12. fireproof78

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    That would certainly clear up a number of threads around here at least. So, I agree on this part.
     
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  13. Aragorn

    Aragorn Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    New character. Also on the poster. Lots of speculation on who he is that's probably correct.
     
  14. RuleofAcuisition17

    RuleofAcuisition17 Commander Red Shirt

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    The Defiant is clearly a warship. Officially it's an "Escort Vessel".

    It feels very Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force "Throughdeck Destroyer". Ya know?

    Just Admit you have a fleet to beat the other dudes if they do dumb stuff already.
     
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  15. Tuskin38

    Tuskin38 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    They're chasing after some sort of lost treasure, it's in the trailer.
     
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  16. fireproof78

    fireproof78 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Well, until they do it will be debated about endlessly. See this for the latest thread on the subject.
     
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  17. RuleofAcuisition17

    RuleofAcuisition17 Commander Red Shirt

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    Oof, no. I'm firmly in the "I really enjoy 3/5 shows currently of Trek" crowd. I love SNW, Prodigy and Lower Decks. I'm rather skeptical of Picard and Discovery, but have still watched them. I grew up on DS9 and Voyager on BBC2 in the UK, which usually tapped out for a rerun of the classic battlestar galatica in its timeslot when they couldn't air either of them. So I suppose a lot of what I feel Trek "is" is viewed through that Lens. (Your own experiences may vary)

    I didn't fully appreciate either show until they appeared on Netflix and you could go through them fairly seemlessly rather than waiting for them to appear every Tuesday night at 6.30.

    Ooo then it has changed a bit then. Unless it's the "overarching" plot.

    Hurray, more places to debate people on the internet!
     
  18. JoseNoodles

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    While I'm excited for Season 3, this trailer really didn't do it for me. It shows a lot of imagery, but ultimately nothing noteworthy. Let's hope the season lives up to the review hype.
     
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  19. fireproof78

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    Spoiler alert: It won't.

    Hype is hard to live up too. Hell, people were posting just being disappointed in the trailer something meant to gin up excitement and an excuse to set money on fire. :wtf:
     
  20. JoseNoodles

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    What's funny is that this trailer does do something trailers rarely do nowadays. It showcased the production without giving away the story. However, the presentation just seems so random and unfocused, it fails to drum up any excitement from me.