I’m been doing a @pap over the weekend.
Chose to watch “The Dominion War” part of DS9. Series 6 onwards.
Interesting that the episodic nature of the show moved closer to serialisation.
Also now how critical to long term cannon it is.
By the Pale Moonlight is a classic, Avery Brooks wrestling with his conscience borders on a descent into madness
(S6 E19. Conning the Romulans to join the War)
And the following episode introduces Vic Fontaine- one of the great Trek characters.
You’re not talking about the same thing until the last ten or so episodes. Even Babylon 5 which DS9 stole its episodic clothes from, still managed to find some time to explore strange new things.
Nothing in Picard is new. Most of the stuff that seemed new in Discovery, such as tardigrades and a good complement of the crew, might have been nicked from somewhere else. There is currently an appeal court case going on because it appears Disco nicked a good part of that from a computer game.
This is what happened to Star Wars after the prequels. Nothing advanced whatsoever. Just a box-ticking exercise for fan boys.
Well, Picard continues to pick up the pace.
I could review the episode or simply say
Watching 7 of 9 get it from behind was a big moment
Don’t ask me how, but I’ve seen the penultimate episode of Picard. With no major spoilers, the catalogue of dumbness continues.
The crew have finally arrived at Sochi’s birthplace. They meet the other beings created there, along with Brent Spiner playing Doctor Soong’s son. The admonition that drove all those Vulcans crazy turns out to be a very fast forwarded video that you need to have a synthetic mind to slow down and comprehend.
It’s massively off the fucking rails at this point, shamefully plundering script ideas from every other science fiction trope involving synthetic life.
Meh. Bollocks.
Oh PSP.
Possibly the greatest SciFi moment since a bowl of Petunias & a Humpback Whale just gets a meh?
“What happened?”
“They hit us with an Orchid”…
If you’re happy with the end of Picard, either as a denouement for the show or the arc of the character, you need your fucking head testing.
Oh my fucking god. And not in a good way.
I do love the irony in the way that @pap has turned into Star Trek’s version of Bazza.
I enjoyed Picard from start to finish.
And the moment between Seven & Raffi will fire up the long forgotten naughty fantasy sections of the brain for some time to come.
Let us hope they all make it through the dark days safely to film a season 2. The nostalgia & tying up of story lines/goodbyes is done, needed but done. Let them go kick some ass.
There’s no irony
There’s just a very poor TV show which happens to fuck the character and universe up completely.
Your enjoyment of it doesn’t make it good.
Think I agree with this.
I enjoyed the show, but 10 part stories isn’t real Trek.
So it has been a couple of days since the last episode of Picard aired, so I’m doing a critique which includes spoilers.
Now I remember watching Trek in the nineties and early 2000s. People used to moan about those shows all the time. TNG took three years to become a consistently good show, around the same amount of time for DS9 to lose its plodding feeling and I can’t remember anyone at the time liking Voyager. Same deal with Enterprise.
The benefits of hindsight, eh? All those shows seem fantastic by comparison with the mostly excrement that has turned up on the small screen.
Picard is probably the worst Trek show ever made, closely followed by the utterly dumb but still likeablr Discovery S2. It’s not just crap. It downright shits on one of Trek’s most beloved characters in a thinly veiled attempt to expand a single TNG episode into ten episodes of television.
They kill off Picard and bring him back as an android, FFS, based on a relationship between Data and Picard which never actually existed in the form depicted here.
It’s a fucking mess, start to last, and to have Trek’s longest serving captain killed off and replaced in a bonfire of woke bad writing is just plain insulting.
This is not good. At least for the makers of Star Trek Picard.
They’ve been doing round-up reviews of a few episodes at a time. I was wondering where the last two had got to.
This was on their YouTube channel today. They’re going full Plinkett.
More Old School - Episodic.
Now THAT is good news
Doubt it will happen. Larger things are afoot with Trek at the moment, most of them involving wrestling the rights out of the hands of those presently involved.
Not sure a second season of Picard is happening.
The Plinkett has landed.
Star Trek cominh to real life? 
Great Bantz
Are they sure it’s not a very square piece of dirt on the lens?
