Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x02 - "Maps and Legends"
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SIMILAR does apply here.
The constant shifting from character to character and setting to setting could get confusing. I will probably have to go back and watch it just to make sense of the storyline.
My initial impressions:
Picard is dying and would rather die in space and his doctor friend thinks he would be lucky if he did. OK, then. I don’t think Picard will be around for Season 2.
Romulans have infiltrated Star Fleet and they were behind the murders of Dahj and her boyfriend, unless Commodore Oh is a particularly murderous Vulcan. But Starfleet was apparently already coming apart at the seams and vulnerable to manipulation from outsiders. I suppose the writers are trying for a commentary on our current political climate.
I’m not sure where they’re going with the Zhat Vash cartel story, what they’re supposed to be or why they hate and fear synthetics, but they probably have a point. The android killers on Mars were chilling.
I watch Star Trek mainly for characterization and so far they’re doing a good job there. I really like Picard’s Romulan friends Laris and Zhaban and even Narek, the villain of the piece. The Romulan penchant for secrets and dramatics fit well with past novel and screen interpretations of their culture. Soji is as appealing as Dahj was. And Picard is still Picard.
My initial impressions:
Picard is dying and would rather die in space and his doctor friend thinks he would be lucky if he did. OK, then. I don’t think Picard will be around for Season 2.
Romulans have infiltrated Star Fleet and they were behind the murders of Dahj and her boyfriend, unless Commodore Oh is a particularly murderous Vulcan. But Starfleet was apparently already coming apart at the seams and vulnerable to manipulation from outsiders. I suppose the writers are trying for a commentary on our current political climate.
I’m not sure where they’re going with the Zhat Vash cartel story, what they’re supposed to be or why they hate and fear synthetics, but they probably have a point. The android killers on Mars were chilling.
I watch Star Trek mainly for characterization and so far they’re doing a good job there. I really like Picard’s Romulan friends Laris and Zhaban and even Narek, the villain of the piece. The Romulan penchant for secrets and dramatics fit well with past novel and screen interpretations of their culture. Soji is as appealing as Dahj was. And Picard is still Picard.
It's just such a weirdly specific thing for the "real" raison d'etre for the Tal Shiar. It's just a dumb idea. You don't need an android-hating cabal, especially one that is supposedly the "true" purpose for your massive secret police/intelligence agency.
True. But I remember a young ensign and her superior used that word, Star Trek fandom went ballistic. i guess its another case of, if it happens on Picard,
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Interestingly, when they showed the episode during the premiere, they threw up a graphic reading "VASQUEZ ROCKS" when Picard arrived at Raffi's. It got a huge laugh. Wondering why they got rid of it?
Additionally, I don't remember seeing the massive fleet of ships over Utopia Planitia before the synth attack scene. I thought I was just misremembering, but given that other change, it's possible it wasn't in there.
Additionally, I don't remember seeing the massive fleet of ships over Utopia Planitia before the synth attack scene. I thought I was just misremembering, but given that other change, it's possible it wasn't in there.
They eventually branched out from just Synths and started hating everybody not Romulan.
So they created the Tal Shiar to cover that.
Maybe because just about every Trek Fan is well aware of what that place is?
Unless it's as I suggested and they had a run-in with the Borg a few millennia ago. Then it makes perfect sense.
Sounds like they are taking a leaf from the litverse. In the novels Andor seceded from the Federation.
Personally I think it's less believable that all these species just get along with out any conflict at all.
Let the past die Kill it if you have to :P
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And he resembles a smidgen, a young Tom Hardy playing a young Jean-Luc Picard....
Every time i see that guy I keep expecting him to eat a mouse like Jane Badler in V. The synth that is, not Tom Hardy.
I think people are use to it now and expect it from All Access Trek. Patrick Stewart warned us at DST that it would have naughty language so I wasn’t surprised.True. But I remember a young ensign and her superior used that word, Star Trek fandom went ballistic. i guess its another case of, if it happens on Picard,
The Discovery Shuttles were expensive to make.
Gotta use them as often as possibles to get Their monies worth.
So use them more in Discovery. Picard should have different ones.The Discovery Shuttles were expensive to make.
Gotta use them as often as possibles to get Their monies worth.
No one ever said they couldn't have conflict. But, again, if a Fed member can leave whenever they want over a single disagreement, well, then the Federation would never, ever be able to endure.
Yeah. That's why it was funny.
Well so far, they have only been used for civilian craft.
Which seem plausible for older models to be repurposed for.
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