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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x03 - "The End is the Beginning"

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Ok I'm still watching but had to comment, posting stream of consciousness

Hello Hugh! Running the entire program?!?! Nice.

Love the old school navigation system in between the helm and navigation on the ship!!!!

Holy shit Starfleet sure has a history of pretending things they don't like never happened. Completely pretending and entire major vessel never existed....

The legendary Spock

Picard is an ass for abandoning Raffi, but it also feels in line with his character.

Oh the Romulans are body guards, now it makes sense why two former members of the Tal Shiar work as his housekeepers and cooks!

Starfleet is so damn easy to infiltrate. You'd think they'd have learned there lessons the first half dozen times.

Is anyone else a little suspicious of Allison Pill? I'm leaning towards her being a mole as well.

The destroyer?!? Drax has really up'ed his camouflage game, I had no idea he was the sister on the Borg cube!

That is way too much insectual tension between Mrs. Sterling and Boy and Romulan. I feel like they're one camcorder away from a featured PornHub video.

Ok, and they just blatantly expositions out no one has done any check on Allison Pill so, yeah, mole.

Holographic controls like that seem super irritating.

Overall still good TV, not as good as the last two. More putting the pieces in motion.
 
Well, Zimmerman programmed The Doctor to look just like him....so....

Consider the potential for abusive sexual misconduct, if the user can customize what the naked hologram rubbing their feet look like.

I know we all already have sex with ourselves, but this is a step too far, if we have to deal with a non-idealized version of ourselves offering the sex hand over fist.
 
It is weird how short they have been. 46, 43, and 44 minutes. Basically it seems like they're trying to keep to broadcast length even though it's a streaming-only show everywhere except Canada. Discovery never bothered with this.

Since Netflix didn't buy the international rights like Disco it makes sense they designed the show in keeping with broadcast standards so they had the option of selling it to non-US markets as a cable show before Amazon picked it up.
 
I liked this one a lot. I enjoy the slow-burn approach to the story, and I truly enjoy slowly unpackaging of who Picard is and what he has gone through since Nemesis ended.

I love how contrary to some of the eye-rolling elements of TNG this series is. I especially appreciate how they've surrounded Picard with a mis-matched crew of broken or lost people, which is so different than the environment we are used to seeing him in. Is it a bit of a sci-fi trope? Yeah, sure. But Star Trek invented about 2/3 of all sci-if tropes, so they've earned the right to borrow one.

This was better than last week's episode. I gave that one an 8, but it was probably more realistically a 7 or 6.5.

This one is an 8/10
 
Gave this one an 8. Really liked Raffi and Rios. Agnes might be a mole, but since that's obvious maybe she isn't and to throw a curve ball, Raffi is.
 
IMHO it doesn't make sense to just see this as a "political" firing. It's more likely that Raffi had already done things which would have resulted in her being dishonorably discharged if she worked under anyone else, and was only keeping her rank by virtue of Picard.
... and since when is any cinc spending time for personally firing lousy commanders?
 
Oh, one more random thought - it's likely not intentional but I like to think Rio's smoking in the bridge is a call back to the TWoK no smoking sign
 
Since this commander the number two on the evacuation plan.

a cinc would just order one of their stuff to tell bupers to sink the commander in question in the barent sea - no need to have that commander in the cinc's office
 
The intro display a lot of particles and chrystals comming together and forming stuff (nanoprobes?),
like an eye, then the eye becomes artificial, then bits and pieces are forming Picard....

OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!
 
... and since when is any cinc spending time for personally firing lousy commanders?

a cinc would just order one of their stuff to tell bupers to sink the commander in question in the barent sea - no need to have that commander in the cinc's office

Rank doesn't always equate to importance or visibility. Raffi was an attaché to a senior Starfleet Admiral who openly opposed a highly charged political stance. She was essentially the XO of the Romulan Rescue Project. That project was just torpedoed and had resulted in a damaging resignation that would likely be a PR nightmare. There was no way Raffi was going to keep her job and there was no way anyone but the chagrined CinC was going to handle it.
 
I thought Raffi browbeating Picard about his Chateau while she lived in a trailer was interesting.

Overall I liked the episode even if it was a bit scattershot.

Not huge on the Soji/Narek subplot. It seems far too generic.
 
I thought Raffi browbeating Picard about his Chateau while she lived in a trailer was interesting.

Overall I liked the episode even if it was a bit scattershot.

Not huge on the Soji/Narek subplot. It seems far too generic.
Yeah, that class stuff shouldn't really be on Star Trek. Especially on Earth.
 
Likely all those channels will cease to exist in a few years. I expect cable television to be dead for all intents by 2030 completely replaced by streaming.
I disagree. Eventually you'll need so many streaming services just to watch a handful of shows that it will be more expensive than cable ever got and cable will have a resurgence. Corporate greed will resurrect cable.
 
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