Star Trek: Picard

[Spartan Rex]

 

[a-dev]

After some initial promise this season has turned into an absolute snoozefest. The storyline would have been settled in a 2-parter back in the day. The only characters I'm remotely interested in are the legacy characters Picard, Seven and Q. The first two have little resemblance to their previous portrayals and Q is hardly in it anyway.

I know it's a small thing but Picard said ''Guys'' in one episode. Pretty sure that word didn't exist in Star Trek of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s - maybe they used it in Enterprise, I didn't watch that show. But to have Jean Luc Picard of all people addressing his crew with the word ''guys'' in any context is very jarring

 

[abake]

I have to say, I'm not a big follower of the TNG universe, only watched the entire series once (and I'm not sure I watched all the movies), but I did like it a lot. However, even to me, this Picard doesn't seem to be the same character. It's odd that writers (and actors as well) have this hard-on for "exploring" the characters and why they are the way they are and all that stuff, when it usually ends up undermining the characters themselves.
TOS and subsequent movies did it right, letting Kirk, McCoy and Spock be themselves, with no big need to go and "explore", and when they did, they did it very well (Spock and McCoy come to mind). But this... just let Picard be Picard for chrisssakes...

 

[Johnny Utah]

This whole season has been one long meandering trip around LA. It's worse than season 1.

What happened to that dystopian future from the trailers?

I can't wait to start Strange New Worlds next week though.

 

[e30ernest]

This whole season has been one long meandering trip around LA. It's worse than season 1.

What happened to that dystopian future from the trailers?

I can't wait to start Strange New Worlds next week though.

I really hope they stop with these huge crises that requires them to save the entire galaxy all over. Hopefully Strange New Worlds does that.

 

[a-dev]

Their budget must have been small for this season. Very little star trekking. Mostly just 'present day' stuff with none of the fish out of water humour of Star Trek IV because the writers of modern Star Trek have decided 25th century people talk and act exactly the same as 21st century people anyway complete with snark and curse words.

 

[a-dev]

I know it's a small thing but Picard said ''Guys'' in one episode. Pretty sure that word didn't exist in Star Trek of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s - maybe they used it in Enterprise, I didn't watch that show. But to have Jean Luc Picard of all people addressing his crew with the word ''guys'' in any context is very jarring

Why yes a-dev, you were correct

 

[Johnny Utah]

Apart from the Q goodbye scene, the finale was terrible.

 

[e30ernest]

I do feel like they write these new Star Trek series to an ending. Like, they want certain characters to be here/there or in a certain state and then write the rest of that series to get to that ending.

Like in Discovery, the endings of Picard's seasons had OK moments (this one had a good one with Picard and Q) but jeez.... to get there we had to slog through the rest of the season's nonsense and have to endure the closure of those horrible storylines.

 

[Johnny Utah]

That's what this feels like: small moments of nostalgia, modern scenes of vintage characters, crammed into 40 other minutes of absolute crap.

 

[abake]

Just watched the final, and no matter what I might have thought of this show earlier, by god, it's one of the worst written shows I've seen in quite a while!
At certain points it seemed to be some bad 80's TV series, with a total disregard for logic, context or even the merest hint of how things might actually work. It was really eye-rolling bad.
Q was the only salvageable element in this entire mess. How sad to see such a fantastic character so thoroughly dragged down. And I'm not even a huge fan of TNG...

 

[a-dev]

Alright, just watched the finale and I couldn't help but be somewhat touched by the Picard/Q resolution - I didn't really expect that. I don't know what I did expect but it wasn't that. If I could isolate that alone from the rest of the show I would call it canon.......

 

[e30ernest]

I was wondering, why was Tallinn's eye red? Isn't she Romulan? Shouldn't it have gone green?

 

[Asta]

Alright, just watched the finale and I couldn't help but be somewhat touched by the Picard/Q resolution - I didn't really expect that. I don't know what I did expect but it wasn't that. If I could isolate that alone from the rest of the show I would call it canon.......

Their history has always been like the 'will they/won't they' feuding screen couple, Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.

(Q was Cary Grant).

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Watched Picard this evening with my girlfriend. two friends and my cousin; While my GF, my cousin, and I thought it was a good episode our two friends weren't that into it. Oh well, can't please everyone.

We all thoroughly enjoyed SNW after Picard.

I thought the Picard/Q ending was touching and my GF teared up when Picard hugged Q. She's a big softie.

 

[e30ernest]

I'm adding tags just in case, but was it fully explained what:

Spoiler

Picard was to Q? Q only says he loves him and that essentially gods can also have favorites (his being Picard). But did he ever say why? Of the many multitudes of beings in the universe, or billions of humans in the Galaxy, why Picard?

I mean, as touching as the ending of those two were (I really liked it), the above sort of bugged me too.

 

[a-dev]

Picard Into Literal Darkness

WTF. Mood setting is one thing but this is ridiculous.

 

[e30ernest]

Picard Into Literal Darkness

WTF. Mood setting is one thing but this is ridiculous.

Maybe he's mirror Picard.

 

[Johnny Utah]

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

 

[Kebron]

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

Even from people who HATED all the new Trek, are singing the praises of Picard Season 3. I'm looking forward to seeing it.