Star Trek: Picard

[a-dev]

It's getting great reviews. I suffered through seasons 1 and 2 so anything is an improvement.

It is? Wow. The trailers haven't filled me with confidence.

 

[Kebron]

It is? Wow. The trailers haven't filled me with confidence.

Robert Meyer Burnett is a long time Trek fan and has worked on some Trek documentaries back in the day. He has a YouTube channel and has been lambasting all the new Trek since it's come out. He got to watch all of Season 3 a couple months back, and has been singing its praises as a return what Trek truly is. He's dropped some decent hints and spoilers on what to expect.

Also the interviews Terry Matalas has done shows the love he has for the franchise, there are a lot of signs that this might be the Trek some people have been waiting for.

 

[Johnny Utah]

The shot of the crew in the observation lounge sold me. Please don't kill them all like Disney.

 

[ScoutingForToys]

Given how atrocious season 1 & 2 were, there's no way I'm giving them another chance.

 

[HAL9000.]

I didn't even make it to the end of S2.

I do wish they'd stop making these dark and moody epsisodes. I prefered TNG where it's mostly light, positive, and good storytelling. Voyager was like that, but got dark where appropriate - fighting Borg etc. Gave it variety. I keep expecting someone to walk onto the bridge holding a lantern. "Dun worry, lads. Blown a fuse. I'll get the lights back on in a jiffy."

 

[Otomofan]

Given how atrocious season 1 & 2 were, there's no way I'm giving them another chance.

"Fool me once, shame on........shame on you. Fool me.......you can't get fooled again.”

 

[Mike86]

I’ll only watch at the end of season three if I’m hearing mostly good reviews. The first season was awful and what I saw of the second season was worse (didn’t finish it).

 

[e30ernest]

I didn't even make it to the end of S2.

I do wish they'd stop making these dark and moody epsisodes. I prefered TNG where it's mostly light, positive, and good storytelling. Voyager was like that, but got dark where appropriate - fighting Borg etc. Gave it variety. I keep expecting someone to walk onto the bridge holding a lantern. "Dun worry, lads. Blown a fuse. I'll get the lights back on in a jiffy."

I agree with this. It's part of why I liked Strange New Worlds so much. It's a return to the more optimistic tone of Star Trek.

Star Trek Prodigy is this way too. It's pretty much what Voyager should have been. The first episodes were the worst of the season though but past that, it has been great.

 

[HAL9000.]

I agree with this. It's part of why I liked Strange New Worlds so much. It's a return to the more optimistic tone of Star Trek.

Star Trek Prodigy is this way too. It's pretty much what Voyager should have been. The first episodes were the worst of the season though but past that, it has been great.

Yes! SNW was better. You're right. I think that show needs to find its footing though. Still closer to the old ways.

I'll try Prodigy again because I got halfway through e1 and gave up.

 

[abake]

I've bingeing on Voyager (had never seen it) and, despite its oddly very conservative views, I'm loving it. Seeing this trailer I'm once again reminded as to how un-Trek Trek has become.

 

[MeatHookGekko]

I didn't even make it to the end of S2.

I do wish they'd stop making these dark and moody epsisodes. I prefered TNG where it's mostly light, positive, and good storytelling. Voyager was like that, but got dark where appropriate - fighting Borg etc. Gave it variety. I keep expecting someone to walk onto the bridge holding a lantern. "Dun worry, lads. Blown a fuse. I'll get the lights back on in a jiffy."

It appears they are doing in S3 with what they should have done in S1 ( which was just bring back the entire crew )

IMHO, a more effective approach would have been to use S1 as an anthology. Each episode follows one former character and their journey post ST TNG films. Then fracture them as antagonists to each other in S2. Then have a major death that brings them back together as a family in S3.

Instead we got angry feeble old Picard looking for his lost egg salad sandwich.

 

[e30ernest]

Yes! SNW was better. You're right. I think that show needs to find its footing though. Still closer to the old ways.

I'll try Prodigy again because I got halfway through e1 and gave up.

The first few episodes of Prodigy were tough. I found Dal very unlikeable. But as soon as they get into the Protostar and started learning how to be "Starfleet", it got much better.

 

[Skyroes]

I’m giving Season 3 a chance solely because of RMB, though I’m keeping my expectations cautiously low.

This series on paper had a ton of potential if they had bothered to listen to the fans but they blew it. Picard’s death was so hollow and pointless, now we have this avatar instead. I’ll try to forget the first two seasons.

 

[a-dev]

Well this really sucks

https://www.space.com/star-trek-picard-borg-queen-annie-wersching-passes
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1156709/
Check out her credits, you'd know her from various other shows the past decade or more. I first remember her from the later seasons of '24'.

Damn, she was beautiful, not that it wouldn't be sad either way. RIP.

 

[Kebron]

I’m giving Season 3 a chance solely because of RMB, though I’m keeping my expectations cautiously low.

This series on paper had a ton of potential if they had bothered to listen to the fans but they blew it. Picard’s death was so hollow and pointless, now we have this avatar instead. I’ll try to forget the first two seasons.

Apparently, some of the Treksperts were sent the first 6 episodes, and they are singing its praises now too. They were about as critical of new Trek as RMB. Seems the most critical people are all on board with the third season of Picard.

 

[e30ernest]

Apparently, some of the Treksperts were sent the first 6 episodes, and they are singing its praises now too. They were about as critical of new Trek as RMB. Seems the most critical people are all on board with the third season of Picard.

That sounds promising. Fingers crossed they get this right this time.

 

[MeatHookGekko]

I’m giving Season 3 a chance solely because of RMB, though I’m keeping my expectations cautiously low.

I'm hoping they have a storyline where there are 100 multi-verse Wesley Crushers and they show the brutal deaths to all of them.

I just really don't like Wil Wheaton. He's a genuinely horrible actor. I think many people just give him a pass because Stand By Me was such a coming of age film for so many. He just seems like the kind of guy to hit on someone else's wife while he's sober, but wouldn't do it if he's drunk.

Does he think he's too good for two "L"s in his name like everyone else?

Maybe it's the perpetual smirk on his face.

A full series about Geordi instead of Picard could have been interesting. Out of all the main cast, I've always felt we got the least coverage about Geordi. Obviously Hollywood would have tried to make it woke. However a series about him losing all his other senses too, very slowly, would have been a thoughtful character study. If you see interviews with LeVar Burton, he's very charismatic. Seeing that character teach at something like StarFleet Academy, something of that nature, would have been a treat.

Alas, we get Picard pretending to chase another white whale, when at this point, he is the white whale. Enjoy your egg salad sandwich, old man, all it cost you is fan good will and your character legacy.

 

[Skyroes]

Apparently, some of the Treksperts were sent the first 6 episodes, and they are singing its praises now too. They were about as critical of new Trek as RMB. Seems the most critical people are all on board with the third season of Picard.

That’s promising, maybe just maybe they’ll actually get it right and do a proper send off for TNG.

I'm hoping they have a storyline where there are 100 multi-verse Wesley Crushers and they show the brutal deaths to all of them.

I just really don't like Wil Wheaton. He's a genuinely horrible actor. I think many people just give him a pass because Stand By Me was such a coming of age film for so many. He just seems like the kind of guy to hit on someone else's wife while he's sober, but wouldn't do it if he's drunk.

Does he think he's too good for two "L"s in his name like everyone else?

Maybe it's the perpetual smirk on his face.

Hilarious, I love it when the guys at Red Letter Media creatively edit clips of him in their Picard reviews to mock him.

 

[localmonkey]

Time to dial-back that optimism...

"Picard remains a grimdark slog, shot on perpetually underlit sets and featuring a succession of increasingly-bleak setpieces. The plot is stretched so thin that the first four episodes turn out to be little more than an extended prologue for the rest. A prologue that could, I should add, have been an efficient, and possibly more enjoyable, hour. The story is so obvious, too, that you’ll be ahead of the characters pretty much non-stop as they stumble from one ***** plot to the next."

https://www.engadget.com/star-trek-picard-season-three-paramount-plus-preview-review-080010650.html

 

[jedibear]

The headline of that review says it all. I made it two episodes into the last season and decided enough was enough.

"All Good things" is exactly where this should have ended.