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Star Trek: Picard

Hmmm. Nothing against Stewart or Picard at all, I just don't think this current set of clowns in charge of things are capable of making a good compelling series. Could be wrong and I'll give it a shot of course. I'd just hate to see the character ruined because he's kind of a classic.
 
My concerns are that Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner having too much input were partly to blame for Insurrection and Nemesis sucking, so we could get a repeat of that. And although Picard is a good character, I’m not sure I’d be interested in him being the main focus of every episode.

But shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Fingers crossed.
 
Yeah I don't see why anyone would decide already that it's going to be bad (or good.) And as for bringing back old characters...the TOS actors were still making movies over twenty years after it got cancelled and they turned out okay (mostly!)
 
It very well could be.

Remember, it took TNG until Season 3 to actually get good. Sure, there were some good bits in the first two seasons, but there was also a LOT of stupid shit, like "Code of Honor", "Samaritan Snare", and... well.... a lot of other episodes.

In any case, I really hope they get the TNG aesthetic right. They showed signs of learning from that mistake in Discovery - and we even got a behind-the-scenes explanation for the Klingon appearance in that show. Apparently, they're the descendants of Klingons who left Qo'noS a long time ago, and had adapted into a new subspecies of Klingon on whatever world they colonized.

And there's some canon evidence to support this, as well. I mean, take a look at this Klingon from "Into Darkness":
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Yes, I know that "Into Darkness" isn't set in the prime universe, but going by this guy's age, he should have been born before the Kelvin universe diverged from the Prime. He (along with the Klingon captain) look like hybrids between "normal" Klingons and "Discovery" ones.


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Sorry for the long, semi-off-topic post. I guess my Trekkie mojo just got flowing again, and turned into another ramble. Ah well.
 
My reaction to this in my Facebook feed:

We've got to hope it's been long enough for people to forget TV series Picard. And, for that matter, movie Picard. "Ensign Ro" was on last night and the way she acts when she reports for duty and the way the ships Captain grovels obsequiously to her aside, the basic premise of the episode is that it is common knowledge in Star Fleet that Picard is a gullible Pollyanna pussy that can be used as a patsy.
 
Well, the other reason to hope everybody's forgotten TV and Movie Picard is that JJVerse Picard is going to have no relation to either of them. They'll probably make him a Space Heroin junkie or something because it's "edgy" and "in the nowwwwww".

It's like they're all the manager from this commercial:



PUSH! the envelope, you wanna... CHANGE the paradiggum!
 
Actual ST:TNG episode that was on the other night: It's 3am and Picard heads up to the bridge because he wants to make a phone call to his buddy when the rates are low. Data tells him Stellar Cartography has blacked out communications for an experiment they're doing. Oh, and don't forget to go to Data's chamber music recital. So he goes back to his office to read archaeological reports--and is told the computer is down because Stellar Cartography needs it. He resigns himself to reading a book and goes to get some tea but the replicator is down because...

HOW THE HELL DID THIS SLIP IN THE DAILY BRIEFING!? "Oh, by the way, Stellar Cartography will be basically crippling the ship for over 4 hours. So they're going to start at 11pm when most of us are asleep." But rather than get up someone's butt for failing to inform him of what's going on in his goddamn ship, he decides to head down to Stellar Cartography, where his opening a door apparently queers their whole experiment--which is predicting what a solar system that won't form for another 2 million years will look like. Wow. That's got to be the most useful science application I've heard of. But I digress. The point is the new head of Stellar Cartography is a not ugly older woman.

OK. Now that we've got the foreshadowing and exposition out of the way, on to the action! Whoops. Just kidding. This is TNG. On to Picard having an intimate multi course dinner with Dr. Crusher while they yammer about Stellar Cartography until Beverly points out they've got to get going if they don't want to be late for Data's recital.

[cut to 10 Forward]

In walks Data and Ensign Red Shirt--who will be horribly murdered by a gaseous alien that drains her of all her blood before the commercial break--nope, that's the original series--and Stellar Cartography Love Interest, who plays the piano while Picard moons over her.

The recital is a big hit and Data can't remember the last time there was that much applause [I should mention at this point, the only reason I'm still watching is because The Cat sat on my lap and I can't reach the remote]. Then Picard congratulates what's her name on her inspired use of a descending arpeggio in a minor key instead of the more conventional...fuck, I dunno. But at this point we're 1/4 of the way through the episode and NOT A GODDAMN THING HAS HAPPENED.
 
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