And the best thing is that plot armor remains the same no matter how advanced or relatively primitive the technology depicted.
Quite correct good sir.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard General Discussion Thread
- Thread starter Tuskin38
- Start date
Quite correct good sir.
To quote SF DEBRIS: oh for the love; even the future of the future the phasers don't work. You shoot a guy point blank in the chest and he acts like he got a bad case of gas.
~From his "Relativity " review.
Last edited:
Preview pages for the art book are out
https://blog.trekcore.com/2024/02/e...trek-picard-the-art-and-making-of-the-series/
https://blog.trekcore.com/2024/02/e...trek-picard-the-art-and-making-of-the-series/
Retroactively, writers of Picard Season 3 book-ended the series in a few of ways I didn't think of before.
In the second episode of PIC, Picard asks Admiral "Fucking" Clancy for a field demotion to Captain if she thought his rank as Admiral was too conspicuous to go on a mission to rescue Dahj's sister Soji. She of course, rejects his request and tells him... you know the rest! Book-ending that, in the second-to-last episode of PIC, when Picard's back on the Enterprise-D, and Geordi transfers the command codes to him, the ship's computer says, "USS Enterprise now under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard." To which, Picard jokingly says, "I accept the field demotion!"
In the very first episode of PIC, Picard is dreaming about Data and the Enterprise-D, both of which were gone. In the last episode of PIC, Picard is back on the Enterprise-D with entire his senior staff back, including Data.
In the first episode of PIC, Picard says he hasn't been living, he's been waiting to die. In the last episode of PIC, Picard is living, he has a son that he now knows of (whereas he previously believed there would be no more Picards), and he's Saving The Day one last time.
So the series, in and of itself, actually has bookends of its own.
It took Picard 29 episodes to be fully reunited with his ship and his entire crew. I suppose 9 episodes, if you only want to count Season 3. In contrast, in TMP, it probably took Kirk 45 minutes of screen time to be fully reunited with his ship and crew. I forget when exactly Spock shows up on the Enterprise.
In the second episode of PIC, Picard asks Admiral "Fucking" Clancy for a field demotion to Captain if she thought his rank as Admiral was too conspicuous to go on a mission to rescue Dahj's sister Soji. She of course, rejects his request and tells him... you know the rest! Book-ending that, in the second-to-last episode of PIC, when Picard's back on the Enterprise-D, and Geordi transfers the command codes to him, the ship's computer says, "USS Enterprise now under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard." To which, Picard jokingly says, "I accept the field demotion!"
In the very first episode of PIC, Picard is dreaming about Data and the Enterprise-D, both of which were gone. In the last episode of PIC, Picard is back on the Enterprise-D with entire his senior staff back, including Data.
In the first episode of PIC, Picard says he hasn't been living, he's been waiting to die. In the last episode of PIC, Picard is living, he has a son that he now knows of (whereas he previously believed there would be no more Picards), and he's Saving The Day one last time.
So the series, in and of itself, actually has bookends of its own.
It took Picard 29 episodes to be fully reunited with his ship and his entire crew. I suppose 9 episodes, if you only want to count Season 3. In contrast, in TMP, it probably took Kirk 45 minutes of screen time to be fully reunited with his ship and crew. I forget when exactly Spock shows up on the Enterprise.
Last edited:
One more observation that deserves its own separate post. In TNG, the second digit of the stardate always stood for the season. The first stardate ever given in Picard is Stardate 78183.10. If you only look at the second digit and disregard the rest, it's a subtle nod to the idea that Picard is TNG's eighth season; for those who want to view it that way.
Last edited:
And also confirmation that the episode takes place early in 2401.
The Saturn Awards appear to be doing a congratulatory farewell tour for the crew. Not only is there a TNG lifetime award that is well deserved, but they're doing a season 3 celebration that is less well deserved but you can't really get mad about even though SNW deserved it more. Make of it what you will.
I am more curious what the cast and crew make of it.
Dinner at Casa Vega?
Stewart just won Best Actor in a Series at the Saturn Awards.
Yep. I adore Sir Patrick. But Andor ran rings around all three seasons of PIC and most streaming Trek.
To each their own. I view it as the best Star Wars produced since the OT. Beyond that, it managed to not only be good Star Wars, but good TV.
Last edited:
Though Andor was ultimately a damn good show, it was a bit of an acquired taste. The first three episode arc about Andor fighting the corporate security goons honestly bored me. It wasn't until the fourth episode onwards when they began with the ISB storyline and Mon Mothma's material that the show really got going.
It’s almost nothing like any other series or movie.
you need to watch more than one episode
That there’s more Star Trek fans in the committee? Or however they vote for these things.
That it's a popularity contest.
Similar threads
- Poll
