🖖 Star Trek returning to small screens :starfleet:

[Polski_Filip]

Now that’s a spoiler to intrigue @pap

And good spot amongst all the other gems!

[Cobham-Saint]

@gavstar

you’ll see when you watch it.

Oh, yes.

Mrs C_S “peaky Bilnders!”

Me:

Slade in Residence - The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer - BBC

[Polski_Filip]

Ffs.
I’m over 60 & a heavy smoker.
I need to be able to breath at least a few times during a 40 minute TV episode.

Picard Ep2
I’d check myself out in the mirror but it’s too darkly to see.

[Cobham-Saint]

@Polski_Filip

I’d check myself out in the mirror but it’s too darkly to see.

Yep

Great episode.

[Polski_Filip]

I love how @pap and his “opinion” is missing some of the best Trek since forever

[Cobham-Saint]

Patrick Stewart is well over the hill tbf and doesn’t have to act as an old man. Still, it adds to the charm.

[Polski_Filip]

It’s lovely to see how he keeps getting whacked with questions he should be retired from.
His bemused look ad the I can’t be bothered ripostes just make the whle point of the story.
And the detail in every shot is insane, stuff from TOS, Voyager and more popping up in every shot

[Cobham-Saint]

As much as I’m enjoying Disco, I’m getting more out of the time invested in Picard (& only x2 episodes so far)

[Polski_Filip]

Long Saints related phone call atm stopping me going to the Disco…

[Polski_Filip]

@Cobham-Saint

As much as I’m enjoying Disco, I’m getting more out of the time invested in Picard (& only x2 episodes so far)

High praise indeed considering how good the latest Disco episode was…

My only issue is that the Kurzman era has been all about needing a baddie (maybe his Hawaii 5-0 days influence that) The series would have worked just as well if not better without it

[pap]

I’ve not watched it. I gave up on Discovery on episode two. I’m not watching Picard. I’ve probably got very different ideas about what constitutes good Trek, going by some of the accounts I’ve read here.

[Cobham-Saint]

But you don’t know until you watch tbf though

[pap]

Frankly, yes I do. I watched all of LOST remember. Same cunts spinning everyone along on Discovery and Picard.

[Cobham-Saint]

@pap

I watched all of LOST remember.

Yeah, you should get a medal for that. Most of us gave up

[Polski_Filip]

Disco ep11 was the best Trek since Kirk met some flashing lights in TOS.
Pure Science shit. Superb
Then ruined (almost) by the bullshit baddie back story.
So understand that
Picard S1 was shit.
So far S2?
Brilliant

[pap]

Sorry, but I’ve been burned by the “crap or brilliant” scale before.

The entire premise that the possibly brilliant season two of Picard (just two episodes so far) is built on shit.

[pap]

So forgive me if I think Star Trek by LOST writers ain’t worth my time.

[Polski_Filip]

Uh oh.
I think @pap may spontaneously combust…

Paul Wesley (paulwesley)

Star Trek Discovery Pod (startrekpod)

[pap]

Still haven’t watched Picard and having heard about of the (ahem) “substance” of the later episodes, not sure I’m going to.

From all accounts except on here, seems to have devolved into what Redlettermedia have called “Star Trek slop”; loads of bits of Trek you remember whacked into a blender and spun at such centrifugal forces that you don’t know quite which bit of prior Trek they’re ripping off.

[Polski_Filip]

Oh there’s plenty, the best is the nod back to the DS9 game changing episode where Sisko was a Sci-Fi author in the 60’s - very small but it was there this week.

The writing is certainly better than the ponderous parts of Discovery, but that isn’t saying much.