The good thing is that Robau can still be alive in the Prime Timeline and appear in DSC as, say, Admiral Robau. 
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I mean, I like DSC enough already, but ADMIRAL Robau? That is just too much to hope for!The good thing is that Robau can still be alive in the Prime Timeline and appear in DSC as, say, Admiral Robau.
Star Trek: KELVIN can still happen! Put it in Prime.
And my stupid dad would be bitching about that damn Muslim on Star Trek and why can't anybody on TV be white anymore
With the credits rolling while he's walking. I always found something weirdly modern about that scene. I would even dare to call it something of a "bad ass" scene.
One thin that I noticed is that in TNG, Picard or his crew would usually solve a problem before they had to do something morally drastic. Hugh and the Borg, the Klingon civil war, Sela trying to capture Vulcan with 2000 troops
. Even the stuff with Jellico.Data could have killed Fajo, but he was beamed out just in time, so he had an escape clause. Picard could have ruthlessly infected Hugh with that virus or whatever it was, but an easier solution of 'maybe he'll influence the Borg with his individuality' let him off the hook.
Sisko and Janeway (DS9 and Voyager) didn't always have that luxury. When Sisko saw that the Federation was steadily losing the Dominion war, no matter what they did, he actually tricked the Romulans into the war.
And Janeway technically forced Tuvix (with guards) to give up his life even though he insisted he was a living person and didn't want to give up his life. Usually the episode would end with him changing his mind on his own and willingly do it. Or another freak transporter accident changes him back to normal. It was a crazy situation.
That's a major difference in episodic plots and serial plots.
With Picard, he and other characters finally have to consider doing drastic things, because he no longer has the power or resources to fix everything, and according to Jerri Ryan, "the universe is going to hell in a hand basket".
To me, for the time being, it seems like whether Picard is considered 'darker' or not depends a little on how much power the heroes had to fix the problems by the end of each episode.
Or his ship could have been destroyed by a Romulan ship, as it was patrolling the Neutral Zone back in 2233; and nobody in Star Fleet would be the wiser.The good thing is that Robau can still be alive in the Prime Timeline and appear in DSC as, say, Admiral Robau.
I've pieced together the endo-genesis of TNG. I have proof of what he came up with as well as why and when he came up with it.
I also now know why all Star Trek after TNG, it doesn't matter which series or which movie, had to be a step back from it in order to exist. I also know why PIC, and DSC S3 for that matter, fit along the lines of the ideas Gene Roddenberry already had before his epiphany that he should turn Star Trek into a soup of everything, since it was his most successful series and knew he had to put everything underneath that umbrella if he wanted to get it out there.
It's going to take a few days to put together, at least, but when I'm done, you'll be able to follow along with me as I put together how Gene Roddenberry got from one step to the next, and how Picard fits into it.
I've already been looking at the evolution of Star Trek for almost 30 years, but now I think I have all the connective tissue to pull it all together.
I'm not going to talk about it any further for now. But I'm going to promise you a post that's been three decades in the making, coming soon.
I also now know why all Star Trek after TNG, it doesn't matter which series or which movie, had to be a step back from it in order to exist. I also know why PIC, and DSC S3 for that matter, fit along the lines of the ideas Gene Roddenberry already had before his epiphany that he should turn Star Trek into a soup of everything, since it was his most successful series and knew he had to put everything underneath that umbrella if he wanted to get it out there.
It's going to take a few days to put together, at least, but when I'm done, you'll be able to follow along with me as I put together how Gene Roddenberry got from one step to the next, and how Picard fits into it.
I've already been looking at the evolution of Star Trek for almost 30 years, but now I think I have all the connective tissue to pull it all together.
I'm not going to talk about it any further for now. But I'm going to promise you a post that's been three decades in the making, coming soon.
I guess you could say it will be a long road getting from there to here.
Don't forget ENT and TOS. Archer had to turn space pirate, and the very first season of Trek had Kirk murder a woman he loved to save the world.
TNG is the outlier.
I think saving Hugh was the morally harder choice to make especially for Picard himself and to TNG's credit it did come back on Picard later when the admiral chews him out about it.
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I'll cop to getting misty-eyed when George Kirk sacrifices his life even as his newborn son draws his first breath . . . .
J.J. Abrams has his storytelling issues but when he gets something right does he EVER get something right.
Same. Cannot watch it without crying.
Also, reinforces the theme of father figures evident throughout the trilogy.
Someone mentioned Strangelove a bit up-thread.
I've decided the only way this season can end is with Jurati riding a tachyon positronic cascade disassembler shouting, "We are Sex Bob-Om!"
I've decided the only way this season can end is with Jurati riding a tachyon positronic cascade disassembler shouting, "We are Sex Bob-Om!"
Your dad is Nerdrotic?!?!?!?!?
No, just your run-of-the-mill racist child abusing ultra-right-wing alcoholic dirtbag
Oh. So he'd be perfect for a YouTube comments section.
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