Spoilers Star Trek: Picard General Discussion Thread

That's nice to see the bill board supporting Star Trek Picard for awards. Scifi fanatics is interviewing Evan Evagora and talking about Terry Matalas telling him Elnor's character wouldn't be in season 3 and Michelle and Isa Briones telling each other about the news.Terry told them they all did a good job in the first 2 seasons.

 

It’ll get tech nominations and probably nothing else.

Interesting though that looking around you do see some lower tiered and NGNG predictions (like in the 10-12th range of rankings) for Michelle Forbes, Patrick Stewart, and Marina Sirtis from pundits and sites. Matalas and Paramount seem to only be pushing McFadden, Frakes, and the show judging by the awards stuff they’ve sent out and have on the FYC site. They could probably get a guest actress nomination for Michelle Forbes if Paramount actually pushed her a bit.

 

Just being NOMINATED is an honor in and of itself.

 

I have loved all 3 seasons of Picard. A truly fitting wrap up to TNG/DS9/VOY Trek.

 

I'm not a huge TNG fan (TOS is and always will be my #1 Trek series, followed by SNW, TAS, DS9, ENT, STD, LDS, TNG, PIC......Prodigy...........VOY)

And I will give Matalas and the PIC writing staff credit that finally after 37 years, they managed to finally write the TNG characters as actual and relatable human beings with flaws and actual conflicts and emotions after 37 years (and for me made this version of the TNG crew actually interesting and watchable); but the PIC S3 plot itself was a HUGE mess, and the manner of the Borg Queen defeat itself was a big 'meh' for me.

The set design team SHOULD get an Emmy for the work they did on recreating the Hotel Lobby style bridge of the 1701-D; but for the hackneyed end with yet another Borg Queen defeat.... no.

 

That's not what happened at all.

 

The what???

 

I don't think there was anything standout about makeup or costuming this season (even if Dorn as Worf was looking damn good). Betting on special effects, if anything. It's not every day you see a pissed off starship. XD

The Exiles pitch was the part that had most of my interest. I doubt Evagora would have been speaking so freely if there was any chance of it actually getting picked up, but LDS and PRO are two of current Trek's strongest offerings, so I'd been hoping P+ would consider another animated program.

 

Looks like season 3 will be released on Blu-ray on September 5, according to Amazon. There's a reference to a "special edition" and a "standard edition"... so this could be a steelbook, or one with expanded extras?

 

It's probably a reference to steel book.

 

Speaking of books next year we'll be getting a new Picard novel with Seven of 9 Firewall by David Mack that will fill in the banks after the Voyager finale and what happened with Kathrine Janeway and up with Seven ending up Joining the Fenris Rangers. The book will be coming out February 27.2024. This great news about a new Picard coming out.

 

*fair warning: this joke makes much more sense if you imagine it as spoke out loud, and are familiar with Caboose from Red vs Blue.*

"Steele...book? Books are not made out of steele. They are made from paper. That is why trees are redwoods."

I'll show myself out.

 

I have seen various parts of Picard recently. I cannot say I am impressed with it, personally. I do like the idea of the Enterprise D being rebuilt, however.

 

Can I ask what turned you off?

 

Mainly it is the visual style of the show itself as well as the Plotline as a whole that didn't make sense to me. If I were to have a continuation of Star Trek, it would be something set a few decades after the Dominion War in which the Romulan supernova never happened. Perhaps it would even involve a Captain Data of the USS Enterprise F or G.

 

I'm neither a fan of the TNG Films (except FC) nor a fan of the Kelvin Films, but I have huge respect for PIC taking what happened in them and making lemonade from lemons. Ignoring all the shit that happened in-between would've been too easy, whereas instead they decided to grab the bull by the horns.

Plus, I'm not going to lie, when I saw the 2009 Film, I was interested in knowing what happened on the Prime Timeline side of things before, during, and after 2387. After Star Trek began streaming on Netflix, I knew it would be a matter of when Star Trek would return to TV, not if, and I thought they'd deal with this. Turns out I was right, except I was one series off. It wasn't the next series (DSC), it was the one after that (PIC).

Also, when I was a kid, I kept thinking that we'd see as huge of a visual jump from TNG to the TNG Movies as there was from TOS to the TOS Movies. I was disappointed when that didn't happen with the actual TNG Movies, but that jump was finally there going from TNG to PIC.

So, in a lot of ways, Picard -- as a whole -- delivered things I wanted to see for a long time. Including PIC Season 3, since it's really basically a TOS Movie starring the TNG Cast. And another "TOS Movie" was something else I always wanted to see. I was one of those people leaving the theater in 1991 thinking, "Why does this have to be the last one?!"

 

But that would contradict canon.

What was wrong with it? It was evolution of what we last saw in the TNG movies.

 

Why? That's an extremely impactful event ripe for dramatic potential.

 

I suppose that is one of my unpopular opinions. I was never ever fond of it and I found it to be something that I just never liked. It made the Romulans into refugees, instead of a powerful interstellar power.