Starts out with more teal/orange triteness.
Remember the good old days when people laughed at the Doctor Who story "Logopolis" for rapid cuts between the Doctor's technobabbling about the chameleon circuit and some human with a flat tire? Well, not to be outdone, a Trek show now does rabid intercutting between a ship going pew pew with (Data??)'s double-triumph of improved painting skills combined with new face. That can't be Data but Dr Soong's 12th project he had in a cupboard somewhere, though to be fair I'd ignore NEM's copycat canon that pointlessly and lamely killed off Data too. Even if Spiner wanted out because androids don't age... therefore this could still be Data and a form of dream, since...
They can't ignore Nemesis, and that Picard is dreaming about Data.
An interesting thing I hadn't noticed that they pointed out in
Io9's breakdown, is that Data appears to be painting Dahj.
... he wakes up and rubs his doggie and saying all is okay, as if the dog can even begin to comprehend... So I'm a little worried. His dog is also named "Number One". Hope he doesn't do that in the pee corner too often... is Picard suffering from that syndrome Dr Crusher diagnosed him with in that alt-timeline?
First of all, as I life long dog person, I can say from personal experience, that dogs can comprehend a lot more than you'd expect. Recent scientific studies have shown that on average dogs can understand about as much as a 2 year old person. There are times where I have made a off hand casual comment, and my Border Collie/American Staffordshire Terrier mix has reacted to it. I'm also not sure I see why him naming his dog No. 1 is a problem.
All continues to improve and intrigue until I notice the Federation delta is now turned 90 degrees anticlockwise (better than 90 degrees clockwise, ask Roj Blake) but, dang, Stewart alone sold it for me and seems to be the same Picard I grew to love.
The badge Picard puts on appears to be some kind visitor badge or something along those lines, all of the other badges we see are the same way they've always been.
Seems a bit odd that this show is bucking the trend by saying Picard needs to help this new character.
How exactly is this bucking the trend?
Then the usual dyn-o-mite JJ trek fluff we've all sat through before, if I want stuff about repetition I'll dig up the song "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" from 1985.
I'm really not sure what you're referring to here.
Then we get the best bit, with Picard saying robustly "More than ever!" and I'm reeled back in, if not still skeptical...
Then we get some more rabidly paced clips for people (who make my ADHD an utter nonissue by the slightest of comparison) of 23rd century Romulan warbird (to make up for all the 23rd century Federation ships seen in the TNG TV show, I'll fly with that),
This is just how trailers are put together now, so I don't really see something to hold against this one.
Seven is now The Terminator with impressive multi-gun wielding skills -
This was actually one of my favorite parts of the trailer.
and after a scene with some flaunted and equally bland heterosexual foreplay, is "Picard" now officially a sitcom? Based on that sappy "0 days since an accident assimilation" sign that's fresh out of "Batman 66"'s style, who knows...
Will is now Santa Claus, also inexplicably retired... yup, definitely a sitcom.
There are some more teal/orange effects... just make it in black and white if they're not going to make use of the full color palette...
...then Riker and Picard on golden pond being cranky old men... again, it's all become a sitcom...
I'm really not seeing the sitcom thing at all, it's pretty clear none of this stuff is being played for laughs.
Having said that, it's likely 60/40 in favor of it being good. The teaser has done its job to tell enough of the setup and I'm more interested than anything else as a couple ideas crossed my mind (e.g. humanizing the past as 24th century TNG and VOY did show humanity as being more proto-Vulcan and can humanity really evolve like that?
DS9 certainly got it right, which also opens an avenue to do a not unreasonable retcon and it'll help to keep "Picard" more in its own universe and without TNG being a pillar on which to judge it with. And yet the teaser talks of the past (hence folding into what I just mentioned above...))
I'm not sure I understand what this is all referring to.
Teasing uberfans with a continuity from latter-era TNG or a dream sequence. Probably the latter, per my initial reaction post, or they are using "All Good Things" as being partly correct in its predictions. Either way, I am intrigued and the first couple of episodes will definitely fit the context in the ways a teaser cannot (so 60/40 can easily become 90/10).
It's a dream sequence.
