Bit of both, I thought. I wasn't feeling the delivery, but, in fairness, the actress had tough dialogue to deliver.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x03 - "The End is the Beginning"
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Bit of both, I thought. I wasn't feeling the delivery, but, in fairness, the actress had tough dialogue to deliver.
It's early, and I'm trying to keep an open mind. I don't want the problems with Discovery to color my perceptions of this show. I had hoped we wouldn't need these Farpoint-style introductions, but I get that they have a lot of place-setting to do. As long as the characters move beyond this, I will try to cut them some slack.
We do still have a fair amount of introductions though. I mean, Elnor isn't going to be dropped into the main cast until the next episode, and of course we're waiting on the return of Seven and Will/Deanna. Hopefully the backstory here will be kept to a minimum though.
This was about on par with last week's. Agnes is definitely up to something, whether on her own accord or Oh's. I really like Raffi. Rios is an interesting character but definitely the type we've seen before. I hope we break away from that stereotype. The Tal Shiar vintners are still the best part of the show. I am not sure where the storyline for Soji is going but I hope its going somewhere.
Oh, and I hate to say I told you so but... who was right on the identity of the Executive Director? This guy. Right here.
7/10
Oh, and I hate to say I told you so but... who was right on the identity of the Executive Director? This guy. Right here.
7/10
Nice to see that EMH technology has branched out to other programs besides just Robert Picardo and Andy Dick.
This is one reason I think I'd have preferred Picard on a ship with the Romulan housekeepers. The next episode is almost the halfway mark, and we're still in setup mode.
I hope this show doesn't end up like the latest Star Wars trilogy where we meet a bunch of characters who wind up with too little screen time to be significant or interesting.
If holograms had killed more than 92,000 people I'm sure they would have been. The Federation tends to be an "outlaw the specific technology or type of system that causes the problem" kind of organization otherwise AI wouldn't have survived past the M5 multitronic computer disaster during TOS.
Post-Dominion War Admirals probably take no crap from anybody and just go ahead and fire everyone in a disastrous chain of command. It's not right but after the war ended it's clear Starfleet was never again the same.
I see two possibilities.
1. Raffi was already kinda a damaged/flawed officer who was only still in Starfleet because Jean Luc was personally protecting her.
2. She wasn't really fired, but immediately assigned to shit she didn't want to do, so she felt forced to end her career abruptly.
Maybe they couldn't stand her use of offputting nicknames.
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She was too deeply involved in his rescue scheme and when his resignation was accepted.. there was no one left to protect her from a vindictive hierarchy.
Remember how admiral whatsherface talked to Picard? "F*king hubris!". You wouldn't guess she was talking to someone who saved Earth from the borg... twice!!!
Raffi's grudge against Picard seems deeper than Commander Sisko's.
With so much of the fleet destroyed and gone after 2375 it's a miracle that Starfleet is still as open-minded and tolerant as it is. The past generation has not been kind to the Federation.
Schadenfreude exists, and tends to be felt when people more powerful/prestigious than you are brought low.
Yes she did, remember they hacked her computer last week and found her in her call records?
Her name also shows up in her favourite contacts list when she calls her mother.
SFHQ has never been consistent.
It isn’t. Nothing outside the TV shows and movies is canon.
No, I think the flashback was very helpful, not just in giving us more of Raffi's backstory but also showing us the contrast of how her character has changed and why. It was good to see Raffi as she used to be, the idealistic, driven, classic Starfleet officer and loyal to Picard, in sharp contrast to how she is now, disillusioned with Starfleet, angry and bitter.
So all posers who had predicted Rios to be either Tom Paris 2.0 or Nick Locarno 3.0 are all wrong then....
Rios is basically a more serious Thadiun Okona based on the feeling I'm getting from him.
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