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Spoilers Star Trek Picard Season 2 Hopes and Predictions
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I thought he was alright and I prefered him to his high camp evil sister
He did look a bit too much like a mirror universe Discovery Spock though
Its not real Trek if they dont modify the deflector dish to emit a beam in every episode
Was there even a "Level 2 Diagnostic" all series? Only Geordi can do those!
Well, hey, Geordi was in an episode of VOY and he did visit DS9, even though it was technically an episode of TNG. So, they count.
If only Geordi was in "These Are the Voyages".
Refresh my mind, did he run a Level 2 Diagnostic on the Challenger to let Chakotay and Kim get a head start? :-D
It doesn't work on wood.
That and specifying the quantum sub-atomic article of the week!
Tachyons, chronitons, interferons, harryhermionirons...
Modifying the main deflector was always the deus ex machina get-out clause!
So you’re saying it’s Star Trek?Some unrealistic technobabble thing that comes out of nowhere you say? Who's only purpose is to solve problems and to make up for a lack in writing talent?
Because it was long ago. It's like a lot of historical advisers on shows too.
Sorry, I go to Trek for different reasons than science education.
You and @fireproof78 should check what I was replying to. It was ridiculing past Trek's technobabble resolutions in the last 5 minutes. I just posted how nothing had changed. In fact, Picard's answer was even lamer. "Here have this magical little device that makes all your dreams come true, for erm... reasons."
No, nothing has changed. Yet the complaining continues as though its the first time.
And the complainers continue to make it all about themselves. I'm growing weary of the Trek BBs for the first time in 17 years.
This was written in 1979 in regards to Star Trek the motion picture, but if you switch out the name Gene Roddenberry with Alex kurtzman, it could have been written yesterday...
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That’s a more than slightly patronising comment. I’m not talking about science education — and you know that.
I’m making the point that while Trek has always been storytelling or, supposedly, a morality play wrapped in sci-fi form, there was a point where they made some effort to try to have their basic underlying science more-or-less based in reality.
Of course, there is always a fantastical element; that’s in the nature of sci-fi that is telling its stories using speculative future technologies, not to mention that there will always be story requirements that require them to bend their own rules with dramatic licence.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who misses that aspect of their production values.
It was not meant as patronizing. It's more an observation that the fantastical elements have always been a part of Trek, and that the basic underlying science has largely given way to Trek's in universe technologies.
My larger point is that I feel like this hasn't been a part of Trek's production in a long time.
This is actually very valuable! I haven't written my TMP reaction parody yet. It's a challenge because I have to keep "tru fan" outrage reactions ("How can they do this?!") separate from general audience reactions ("It's so boring!") and make it funny at the same time. TWOK gave me more to work with because it was "Roddenberry vs. Bennett/Meyer", which is easier to do than "Roddenberry vs. Roddenberry". But this gives me a start.
It's kind of strange that the last episode didn't give any clue as to why they are all still together on the ship. Or maybe I just need to rewatch.
They glossed over it. I'm under the assumption the second season will fill us in early on.
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