So I'm sure many of us had a preconceived notion as to what the Picard show was going to be about based on internet rumors and pre-show teasers/trailers. So what did you expect versus what actually happened? Here's my thoughts.
1. I thought the show was going to focus heavily on the supernova from Star Trek '09, and its repercussions. I had assumed that Picard was commanding a fleet that was in charge of evacuating the Romulans when the sun unexpectedly exploded sooner than they thought, destroying the planet and his entire fleet, but that somehow he managed to escape, and then resign from Starfleet immediately afterwards. I figured the main plot of the show would be about Picard dealing with survivor's guilt or a feeling of failure that he didn't save the Romulans, just like how Spock Prime felt. I also thought that the Enterprise was destroyed during this time, so Picard lost both his ship and his career.
Instead, we see that the destruction of Romulus mattered very little, the Tal Shiar is operating just like they did before, the Romulans have tons of ships, and if I didn't already know that Romulus was destroyed, I wouldn't have known any different. We still don't know anything about the supernova, why it happened or if someone was actually responsible for it (the show implies that it was just natural, but there was so little exposition about it that who knows?)
2. After the first trailer, I thought that we were seeing flashbacks to the original Romulan exodus from Vulcan 2,000 years ago, and one of the colony ships was being attacked by early Vulcan fighters. That scene turned out to be the synth ships attacking Utopia Planitia. I had this preconceived notion because of another scene showing what looked like contemporary Romulan ships heading toward Vulcan, showing like of a role-reversal where the Romulans are now returning to their origin world after Romulus's destruction (those ships turned out to be the Tal Shiar fleet headed towards Mars, which ironically wasn't even used in the show for some reason.)
3. After "Children of Mars" and the next trailer showing F8 and the other synths, I thought that 'rogue synths' referred to these androids who gained sentience and revolted from their existence as slaves/workers, not that they were reprogrammed by someone else. Again, there's no underlying moral implication about these androids being used as slave labor, only that they were banned after the UP incident and then the ban being lifted with, again, no moral implications about the androids themselves.
1. I thought the show was going to focus heavily on the supernova from Star Trek '09, and its repercussions. I had assumed that Picard was commanding a fleet that was in charge of evacuating the Romulans when the sun unexpectedly exploded sooner than they thought, destroying the planet and his entire fleet, but that somehow he managed to escape, and then resign from Starfleet immediately afterwards. I figured the main plot of the show would be about Picard dealing with survivor's guilt or a feeling of failure that he didn't save the Romulans, just like how Spock Prime felt. I also thought that the Enterprise was destroyed during this time, so Picard lost both his ship and his career.
Instead, we see that the destruction of Romulus mattered very little, the Tal Shiar is operating just like they did before, the Romulans have tons of ships, and if I didn't already know that Romulus was destroyed, I wouldn't have known any different. We still don't know anything about the supernova, why it happened or if someone was actually responsible for it (the show implies that it was just natural, but there was so little exposition about it that who knows?)
2. After the first trailer, I thought that we were seeing flashbacks to the original Romulan exodus from Vulcan 2,000 years ago, and one of the colony ships was being attacked by early Vulcan fighters. That scene turned out to be the synth ships attacking Utopia Planitia. I had this preconceived notion because of another scene showing what looked like contemporary Romulan ships heading toward Vulcan, showing like of a role-reversal where the Romulans are now returning to their origin world after Romulus's destruction (those ships turned out to be the Tal Shiar fleet headed towards Mars, which ironically wasn't even used in the show for some reason.)
3. After "Children of Mars" and the next trailer showing F8 and the other synths, I thought that 'rogue synths' referred to these androids who gained sentience and revolted from their existence as slaves/workers, not that they were reprogrammed by someone else. Again, there's no underlying moral implication about these androids being used as slave labor, only that they were banned after the UP incident and then the ban being lifted with, again, no moral implications about the androids themselves.
