Star Trek: Picard Season 1 * Spoiler Thread*

It feels like TNG even though it isn't.

Picard and Data playing poker on the Enterprise D gave me the feels "I don't want the game to end."

I'm glad that the action scenes are minimal so far. If the show was just Data's daughter doing ninja flips every episode, it wouldn't have the same impact.

I like how they're focusing on the Romulans. They were supposed to be the Big Bad in TNG, but were replaced by The Borg.

You sound miserable. You can’t handle women in authority? Kind of pathetic tbh

You're the prototypical knee-jerk reactionist who thinks everything is an SJW plot.

Agreed. Talk about the show or get the frick out.

So far I'm pleasantly surprised. Data wanting a daughter is right from Next Gen. Good and bad Romulans are straight out of their first appearance in the original series.

So far, Picard's female caretaker is my favorite new character.

Lots of Next Gen goodness, but so far it's a little below the Pike episodes of Discovery. And since Discovery started so slowly, this bodes extremely well for this series.

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You're the prototypical knee-jerk reactionist who thinks everything is an SJW plot.

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Except that Stewart did say the whole thing is a bit of a middle finger to Trump and Brexit.

Not that that is inherently SJW, but most SJW things tend to like to shite on Trump and Brexit.


I do think people like to find made up messages that don’t exist (Knives Out, Get Out) but when the people involved tell us what they’re aiming for (tLJ, Watchmen) it removes all doubt.

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Not much of a middle finger.

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His feelings are hurt.

The reason I started this thread was to escape the first episode thread that got hijacked by politics. Dammit if it didn't happen again.

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The reason I started this thread was to escape the first episode thread that got hijacked by politics. Dammit if it didn't happen again.

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I don't care if Star Trek is invoking politics. Trek has always weaved current issues of the day into its tapestry of story telling. My problem is with the canon and PICARD is trying to clean things as best as they can.

I'm still not happy with the destruction of Romulus but I'll run with it.

I don't like how they Federation has suddenly become the "bad guys". Roddenberry's future had us looking forward to those days and now it's the same with more technology. Roddenbery's Federation would not have abandoned the Romulans on there evacuation. The lady interviewing Picard refereed to the Romulans as one of the Federations oldest enemy...Really? last time we saw any significant Federation-Romulan story was the Romulans fighting side by side in the Dominion War and Picard helping the Romulans from a Reman Coups...Sounds like a blooming friendship.

They are trying to "fix" the Klingon makeup travesty. When they were doing the Picard interview I noticed they used a photo of him with Worf from "Sins of the Father" and I have to think that was done on purpose to show the accepted Klingon look.

With all of my bitching out of the way it was a well told story. I'm interested in seeing how this plays out. I'm hoping it will end with "Q" snapping his fingers like Thanos and fixing everything...LOL

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I don't like how they Federation has suddenly become the "bad guys". Roddenberry's future had us looking forward to those days and now it's the same with more technology. Roddenbery's Federation would not have abandoned the Romulans on there evacuation. The lady interviewing Picard refereed to the Romulans as one of the Federations oldest enemy...Really? last time we saw any significant Federation-Romulan story was the Romulans fighting side by side in the Dominion War and Picard helping the Romulans from a Reman Coups...Sounds like a blooming friendship.

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This. The Federation as portrayed in the OS and TNG was one that had reached an ideal. The new Federation is not what Gene envisioned at all. Even with that utopia, the older shows found ways to make it work and still take on political issues.