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It is all feeling abit reminiscent of the hype/excitement of 2009 .. and that trailer was just as exciting as the ones for ST09 and felt more like an impending Trek movie than a TV show (that's if streaming series like Picard, Dark Crystal etc can be even considered tv shows now.. more like extended 10hr+ movies)
plus obviously TNG became a movie franchise and this is picking up from Nemesis (and maybe ST09) and everyones is used to PStew being a movie actor now
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It is all feeling abit reminiscent of the hype/excitement of 2009 .. and that trailer was just as exciting as the ones for ST09 and felt more like an impending Trek movie than a TV show (that's if streaming series like Picard, Dark Crystal etc can be even considered tv shows now.. more like extended 10hr+ movies)
Yes - even though it was mainly Picard and his new crew it felt to me much more like a trailer for a 5th TNG movie, following on from Nemesis 20 years later
OMG! I hope it’s in the show!
What makes you think those are B-4's parts?
Spiner said the parts in the drawer are B-4, and the speaking part ("I can see that, Captain") is Data.
It's still up in the air if "Data" is a hologram, flashback, daydream, or resurrected through some means. The fact that he refers to Retired Admiral Picard as "Captain" implies that it's not contemporaneous or the real Data.
While that is true, B-4 isn't the only other option, is he? Wasn't Lore disassembled after his final appearance in TNG?
(Ignoring for a moment that, as everyone has mentioned, Spiner apparently told us it was B-4.)
I believe so, yes.
Also, "Inheritance" revealed that Soong had built three other prototypes, and that was before we learned of B-4. In the novelverse (per Immortal Coil), Data was in possession of the bodies of those prototypes, although they were destroyed in a later book.
just looking in this months Empire magazine and its got a brief article on Picard and it states its got a cinematic style and feels like a continuation of the movie canon (calls it 'Star Trek 10.5')
another way of looking at Picard is that its like 'The Motion Picture' for TNG - in that before now we've never had a long wilderness period for TNG comparable to 69-79 - so if you view the TNG films as a direct continuation/extension of the series with hardly any gaps - Picard becomes 'TNG:TMP' (or at least 'TNG: Phase 2' )
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Well, there's also the fact that when we see the disassembled android in the trailer we hear Picard's voiceover talking about Data sacrificing himself twenty years earlier. It would make a lot more sense to have such a line delivered while looking over the disassembled parts of B-4 rather than Lore.
Commerce site listing for the first issue (11/27/19) of the Picard: Countdown comic; no artwork yet (cover is said to be by Sara Pitre-Durocher per a listing on the Comics Continuum site, as reported by TrekToday 8/23/19), but there will be soon): https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Picard-Countdown-Mike-Johnson-ebook/dp/B07WV6WYKB/ref=sr_1_8?crid=30HAMRMHE6WEL&keywords=star+trek+picard&qid=1567038036&s=books&sprefix=star+trek+pic,stripbooks,200&sr=1-8
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Nemesis vibe cov art
https://twitter.com/TrekCore/status/1187695131014696962
https://twitter.com/TrekCore/status/1187695131014696962
It's okay, but it's got nothing on "Future Imperfect" Admiral Picard.
