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

[Lord Garth]

What is that?

Something that's much better than that time when I was in 10th Grade, I got in-school suspension, and my parents were in disbelief.

 

[cooleddie74]

You just made a lot of people's brains leak out of their ears.

It's just one of the many services I provide.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It's a projection of our future from what ever point it's being written. Or least it should be if done right.

 

[Tarek71]

It's a projection of our future from what ever point it's being written. Or least it should be if done right.

Sure. That's what Sci Fi should do, esp if it is supposed to be our future and not a deliberate alt Earth. No way we are having arguments about "synthetics" rights at the dawn of the 25th Century. This is more likely to be in our own century. Genetic engineering, cybernetic enhancements, neural interface, life extension, etc will probably transfigure the human condition. No way it can be contained just be trying to ban them. IMHO, the best projections of our current tech developments would mean scrapping Trek and reimagining it from the ground up.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Sure. That's what Sci Fi should do, esp if it is supposed to be our future and not a deliberate alt Earth. No way we are having arguments about "synthetics" rights at the dawn of the 25th Century. This is more likely to be in our own century. Genetic engineering, cybernetic enhancements, neural interface, life extension, etc will probably transfigure the human condition. No way it can be contained just be trying to ban them. IMHO, the best projections of our current tech developments would mean scrapping Trek and reimagining it from the ground up.

No it just means ignoring the stuff that doesn't work. No need to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

 

[fireproof78]

No it just means ignoring the stuff that doesn't work. No need to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Exactly. Characters, locations, events, those are more important than how robotics or computers work.

 

[Borgminister]

Was going to give this an 8, but there were enough character moments primarily involving Sir Patrick that I swung to a 9. Nice setup episode. '86 must've been a very good vintage...

 

[oberth]

If you listen to FOX News, hero turned loud crackpot shitting on every thing sacred, Jean-Luc Picard is John Bolton.

there ain't no walruses in trek

 

[Nerys Myk]

there ain't no walruses in trek

Yeah, that's Star Wars!!!!

 

[thribs]

No it just means ignoring the stuff that doesn't work. No need to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

I do that by ignoring Discovery.

 

[Tarek71]

No it just means ignoring the stuff that doesn't work. No need to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Sure. The stuff that still works we should certainly keep.

 

[cooleddie74]

I miss having salamanders in Star Trek.

[*Runs*]

 

[Tarek71]

I do that by ignoring Discovery.

Once I decided to regard Disco as existing in it's own pocket universe, my appreciation of it increased. Slightly.

 

[Tarek71]

I miss having salamanders in Star Trek.

[*Runs*]

Only if they are Warp 10 salamanders.

 

[cooleddie74]

The only fun space salamanders are Warp 10 salamanders.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Who would complain about Picard? He’s a hero to the general public. More people would listen to him than her. How many times has she saved Earth?

And that would make what Picard did a PR nightmare for Starfleet. Hence the admiral not wearing her happy face.

there ain't no walruses in trek

That's Trek's problem.

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[jaime]

It's a Daystrom Home Version 3D-Rep.
It 3D prints all the containers and uses replication tech to create the liquids and foodstuffs.
(uses much less power and the containers are edible)

If you look closely it seems that the tea appears just about at the point when the cup is almost finished being formed, not while it is being formed.




Also, they both got their backs up and that's when the shouting/swearing began.

One of the engineers comments on the change in replicator technology on the fleet yards station.

 

[jaime]

The replicators on the Mars station were just, really guys? The mechanical bits inside of them, the thin aluminium walls, they were clearly present-day 3D printers and it showed. Hard to see these as being an advanced technology. And it appears they are programed/or their design causes them to produce lower quality food than what we normally hear from replicators.

They actually produce sub-standard food that these people barely consider to b e edible. I guess you could probably say they're more akin to TOS's "food synthesizers" and aren't full replicators, but still, the machines themselves just looked pathetic.

And at first I liked it, but I'm not too sure I like the new replication effect it again feels too much like it is drawing, "printing" it instead of replicating it. If the replicators are based off transporter technology it makes sense it'd have the transporter-like look.

But, no buy the cheapest 3D-printer you can and have it "draw" the food in place. That looks like almost-25th century technology!

The entire look and behavior of the Mars staff just felt anachronistic to what we've seen and been told about the 24th Century. It, again, just feels like slightly more techy-like 21st century horseshit.

The technology is no longer unchained, as it was in TNG

 

[Gilora]

I liked it better on the second viewing. 8/10.

 

[jaime]

More like going rogue w/a bunch of ex-Starfleet renegades...

Renegades you say? It’s a good thing there’s no ex-Borg or voya...ah.