Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x04 - "Absolute Candor"

[Danja]

Rather clumsy of Seven to trip at the end there.

She passed out.

She was yanked out of her ship.

 

[Campe]

She was yanked out of her ship.

Which had received some pretty serious damage.

 

[Nerys Myk]

She was yanked out of her ship.

And had a wound on her forehead.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

We've just got to have Vaughn Armstrong play the son of Telek R'mor. There's a Romulan I want to see.

Why? What possible use could the son of a random one off voyager character be to the show other than terribly forced fan service?

 

[Trekker4747]

It's still not a bad show, but frankly nothing says entitlement more than spending the 1st half of your premier season presuming you have the leeway to do little more than introduce one main cast member per episode, namely our Romulan Samurai this week. If I have to wait for you to spend the majority of the season to assemble the cast, what else have you really accomplished beyond a butt-ton of exposition & backstory?

4 hours into 10 & we are still no closer to anything involving the plot, or even knowing what that plot might be. I mean I realize we have gotten away from episodic Trek many decades ago, but have we completely gone to the utter end of the other side of that spectrum? I can't possibly imagine somebody spending more time than this.

The real issue is that all the lead up material, trailers, teasers etc... that we got in the many months prior to the show, really misled us about that aspect. All the things I saw that led me to this show had Seven of Nine plastered all over it, Ryan, Spiner & Del Arco doing press everywhere & yet she's only showing up now. Who cares if her name was in the opening credits. I've been waiting for her to show her face for weeks. I was honestly more relieved than surprised

I have to hope that after spending the next hour with some of her getting to know you stuff, we might actually get underway with the story

The pacing of story and such feels more like it was built for a Netflix-like show where all of the episodes are available at once and you can sit down and binge watch it inside a day or two. Look at a series like Stranger Things where every episode is a small step in the overall story which isn't a big deal, the next step is right there for you to take! Not a week away.

Here, as you said, it seems like we've spent all of the episodes so far spending entire episodes introducing the characters. Picard. Soji. Rio, Elrond, etc. Next episode we'll probably spend talking about Seven.

When is our story going to get going?

 

[Aragorn]

I want to read these episode threads, but what I'm seeing is giving me flashbacks to Stewey and Enterprise.

 

[rahullak]

Seems to me they're doing several things at once: Introduce the characters, show motivations for the main protagonists, fill in back story, move the plot forward. So any single aspect is moving slowly, but taken together, it seems there's good progress.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Why? What possible use could the son of a random one off voyager character be to the show other than terribly forced fan service?

Hmm...Dr R'mor was a sympathetic Romulan. Maybe his son inherited that trait. And could be an asset to Picard. Even if it's only for a scene or two. Blink, and you'll miss Vaughn Armstrong!

 

[thribs]

She passed out.

I know but it looked like she tripped.

 

[XCV330]

WOW. this was the episode I started loving this series. Excellent. I like Space Legolas.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I know but it looked like she tripped.

Were you watching on a portable black and white TV from the 60's?

 

[oberth]

Were you watching on a portable black and white TV from the 60's?

that's the only true trek feeling

 

[thribs]

Were you watching on a portable black and white TV from the 60's?

I did have a telly like that once. You had to tune the channels like a radio with a big dial.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I did have a telly like that once. You had to tune the channels like a radio with a big dial.

Welcome to my childhood.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Welcome to my childhood.

Don't forget the rabbit ears that only got a decent picture when you held them just so.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

I enjoyed this episode a great deal, much more than the last two. Probably because the story was no longer shackled to Earth. Also because there was a small character story with a beginning, middle and end with just a touch of the big mystery arc.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Don't forget the rabbit ears that only got a decent picture when you held them just so.

My sister actually broke the dial from channel surfing. We had to use a pair of pliers for a while.

 

[Gov Kodos]

My sister actually broke the dial from channel surfing. We had to use a pair of pliers for a while.

The Bruins games were shown on UHF channel 38 which meant the portable black and white in my bedroom. The on/off knob was also a one hour timer if you turned it past its initial on point. I woke up in the middle of a lot of hockey games to some very colorful French euphemisms long before Star Trek fans heard Picard's.

 

[Paul755]

The Soji/Narek stuff just grinds the show to a halt every time. Same when they bring in Narek’s Romulan cohort.

The rest of the episode was fine. I like the idea of the Romulan assassin nuns that not even the TalShiar will screw with.

 

[Commander Richard]

10.

Loved every minute. Trek is back.

And Picard giving up because he wanted perfection over good? Powerful stuff.

Just being absolutely candid.