Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x02 - "Maps and Legends"

[Beckerjr]

Meh, was a noticeable step down for me. Too much exposition being dumped out. Also the just happens to be be former Tal Shiar house staff woman who of course has this totally convenient piece of secret high tech that she ya know keeps tucked away which somehow recreates the past through...technobabble reasons had me doing an eye roll.

6/10.

 

[Quinton]

Although I agree with the sentiment that this episode isn't quite as strong as the first, I still think it's quite fine and as press have been referring to it as a "bridge" between the first and third episodes I believe it will hold up rather well as having successfully achieved that goal.

 

[Skipper]

About conspiracy theories that don't hurt anyone...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory

 

[cooleddie74]

Oh, some conspiracy theories are dangerous. Pizzagate got out of hand and Alex Jones' vile treatment of the families of the Sandy Hook victims is one of the most shameful incidents of a conspiracy theory leading to defamation and misery for innocents. I'm on record in favor of mandatory infant and childhood immunizations and fines or even jail time for parents who refuse to vaccinate but aside from a select handful of theories that actually threaten lives or health or both or slander to the point of court action being required to get justice for one's defamation I'm not much motivated to penalize or criminalize other conspiracy beliefs.

 

[MvRojo]

So wait... Romulans don't research cybernetics? Alidar Jarok knows a "whole host" who'd loved to be close to Data, & I always assumed that he meant they'd want to strip him down & figure out how he works to make them

Just because they don't trust or like synthetics, doesn't mean they wouldn't do research on them to know to identify them, detect them, destroy them, etc. Something like how the Dr. Jurati's team at Daystrom gets to work on synthetics and cybernetics durng the ban.

For example, assuming they hacked the synths to attack Mars, they'd have to know how they work.

 

[cooleddie74]

Canada never built nuclear weapons but it had nuclear scientists and still does.

 

[Skipper]

Oh, some conspiracy theories are dangerous. Pizzagate got out of hand and Alex Jones' vile treatment of the families of the Sandy Hook victims is one of the most shameful incidents of a conspiracy theory leading to defamation and misery for innocents. I'm on record in favor of mandatory infant and childhood immunizations and fines or even jail time for parents who refuse to vaccinate but aside from a select handful of theories that actually threaten lives or health or both or slander to the point of court action being required to get justice for one's defamation I'm not much motivated to penalize or criminalize other conspiracy beliefs.

I have been threatened by the followers of one of the most important Italian "theorists" of chemtrails for over a year because of a case of mistaken identity (and he has thousands of followers). And one of my acquaintances has been threatened with death by the Flat Earthers. I'm not sure there is something as an "innocuous" conspiracy theory.

 

[T'Bonz]

I hope Picard's blundering about doesn't endanger his Romulan buddies back in France. :/

 

[MvRojo]

I have to disagree with the people calling the opener filler. I think it's going to turn out to be important to see exactly what the synths were doing before and during the Mars attack.

Kurtzman and Culpepper in a podcast interview on Deadline discussed that this scene was added as part of the process that led to the two episodes being changed to three episodes. They mentioned how they realized they needed to show the attack so people knew how bad it was. Otherwise, it would be just be some event that people are talking about as a terrible event.

 

[Kor]

This might sound a bit odd, but one of the things I was hoping to see in this series was appearances by familiar character actors who have been around for years, but never managed to appear in Trek back in the TNG-DS9 days. David Paymer fit the bill perfectly.

Kor

 

[thribs]

Why is it ”previously on Star Trek Picard”? It should be, “Last time on Star Trek Picard”.

 

[SolarisOne]

Why is it ”previously on Star Trek Picard”? It should be, “Last time on Star Trek Picard”.

Because it's not the 90s anymore.

 

[thribs]

Because it's not the 90s anymore.

What does the decade have to do with anything? I’m talking about consistency.
Would have been cool if they got Rebecca Romijn to voice it as well.

 

[Yistaan]

Are recaps even necessary? In the old broadcast days, people could have missed the previous episode and had no chance to find it. By the very nature of streaming shows, if you missed the last episode you could just watch it whenever you want.

 

[thribs]

Are recaps even necessary? In the old broadcast days, people could have missed the previous episode and had no chance to find it. By the very nature of streaming shows, if you missed the last episode you could just watch it whenever you want.

I think they are intended to be on proper TV eventually. Discovery is now in the UK.

 

[MvRojo]

Why is it ”previously on Star Trek Picard”? It should be, “Last time on Star Trek Picard”.

"Previously" works better than "last time" once the recaps start including scenes from multiple episodes.

 

[Kor]

Yeah, TNG never had serialized arcs longer than two episodes. More recent and current TV has arcs spanning whole seasons, and the recaps tend to show snippets going back several episodes. Didn't DS9 do that sometimes?

Kor

 

[thribs]

DS9 had long arcs.

 

[Skipper]

Are recaps even necessary? In the old broadcast days, people could have missed the previous episode and had no chance to find it. By the very nature of streaming shows, if you missed the last episode you could just watch it whenever you want.

Well, they can be useful if you don't remember any important detail of the previous episodes.

 

[Kor]

If they released the whole season at once like Netflix and it was possible to binge-watch, then the recaps would be a little less useful.

Kor