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[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I hope this is his swan song. Patrick Stewart is amazing, and I love Captain Picard, but he's not Harrison Ford. The franchise will be fine without him. We don't need to play out Too Short a Season in real life

[–] EarMaster 45 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Three seasons of PIC were already a mistake. The only good thing coming from it is the possibility of a Riker cooking/baking show (which I would totally watch).

[–] Apollonius_Cone 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In rewatching the original series and TNG thereafter, the consistent factor, regardless of the early special effects, was the scripts. The dialogue was always great. In ST: Picard, the dialogue is trash.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Everything about ST Picard is trash. Dialogue, script, Character behavior, 50 years of fransche history ignored, it was all written and executed by people who don't like star Trek, cast excluded though I just don't understand why any of the vast was on board with this turd. We're they so desperate for money?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

The sitcom The Rikers as pitched by Sirtis and Frakes would have been better that the three seasons of Picard, frankly.

[–] Avigrace 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

2 seasons were a mistake and by far the worst trek seasons from any show, the third season while being massive fan service was just what I seemingly wanted as I loved every second and was a great ending to the TNG crew

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I just watch the third season and pretend all of the random references to the early seasons happened in a more logical way.

I knew somebody who was running a "what could have been" Star Trek TTRPG campaign based around episodes of Voyager that could have been executed better, I think I would love to run a campaign that had plot elements from Picard's first two seasons as a personal headcanon.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No. Please, no.

The Picard show was already dreadfully bad and has effectively destroyed TNG and Q for me, please let the dead body rest on piece, no more.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did you watch Season 3 of Picard?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's dreadful. Just gathering up the old cast for nostalgia sake. Quite an anticlimactic resolution to the enemy fight too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's fair. I enjoyed it, but I can see why you wouldn't. Hopefully we can agree at least 3 was better than 1 & 2.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In my opinion the first Picard season is the best. It actually tries something different; a new crew and ship and rules.

Season 2 is in that patronizing and lecturing tone that feels extra misplaced for anyone outside the United States.

Season 3 is complete creative sellout and I hate it. It was sort of nice to see them all again, but that’s pretty much it. Nostalgia bait everywhere, with a weird hamfisted plot. Barely a single original idea in that series, just a theme park ride to check all the boxes… look at the old crew on the bridge! Even data is back after we just let him die in season 1! Look at the E N T E R P R I S E, and we are fighting the borg PLUS the changelings!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I agree with you. I actually enjoyed the freshness of season 1.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Oh man, I'd repressed the memory that Q was in s2 of Picard! I kind of liked the first season but the follow-ups were nostalgia dumpster fires. Literally what Sir PatStew said he didn't want to make going into the show.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I prefer to think that Picard is just still stuck in the Nexus and everything that has happened to him since has been a result of magic Nexus fever dreams.

Movie Picard and PIC Picard acted nothing like TNG Picard to the point where they were seemingly completely different people. Movie Picard wanted to make the Borg pay for what they did and literally beat in dead Borg with his fists and snapped the Borg queen’s spine in two with his bare hands while TNG Picard knew things weren’t that cut and dry and even had an opportunity to potentially genocide the works of them and didn’t because ethics and shit. Movie Picard would have drove Hugh up to their doorstep infected with the fractal virus the first chance he had.

PIC Picard… is literally an android I guess? But still old? They kind of ignored that later. So, literally he isn’t the same Picard as TNG Picard.

The Nexus is my head canon.

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[–] someguy3 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Potatisen 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I thought we had seen it all.

[–] paddirn 9 points 10 months ago

“Yes, and she's scrabbling around to get them back on again, but even before she can get her knickers on, I've seen everything. Yeah. I've seen it all.”

[–] ikilledlaurapalmer 3 points 10 months ago

But I've seen everything anyway. And I get on my bike and I ride off. On the grass.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I gave up watching Picard at the end of Season 1 after

spoilerthey kill Picard and replace him with an android.
If it's not actually Jean-Luc, I'm not interested. And I'm definitely not interested in returning to Picard's universe with all of those boring ass characters if it means that they'll do another time-travel plotline to save his life. Yawn.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Season 1 and 2 sucked ass, but season 3 is actually pretty great and you can watch it as a stand alone without really needing to watch the previous 2 seasons.

[–] Anticorp 4 points 10 months ago

I strongly disagree. It had promise, but was ultimately very stupid. The entire show uses "Borg" as an excuse to explain away ridiculous concepts that are far-fetched and more akin to magic than technology.

[–] shartedchocolate 4 points 10 months ago

Season 1 was such absolute dog shit. The orbital defense flowers, "JL" etc... but yeah, S3 feels like Kurtzman got kicked in the sack and someone else made Picard. I recommend watching S3 and forgetting the other two were ever made.

Also in S1 Jean Luc Picard picked a bar fight. The person that had his dick dragged through a mile of broken glass getting killed by a Nossican over and over in a bar fight, went to pick a bar fight. What was that show?

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[–] Anticorp 5 points 10 months ago

Picard had a lot of promise, and they almost got it, but overall it was trash IMO. More Star Wars and hand waiving than Trek. It was a beautifully made universe, the SFX were superb, but they seemed to spent all their time and money on that, and none on dialogue or character consistency. Picard is nothing of his former self. He spends three seasons whining and complaining rather than commanding. The writers invent a traumatic backstory for him, depicting his authoritative personality as a character flaw as a result of trauma, rather than a strength of character. I rather disliked what they did to him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Season 2 was arguably worse.

[–] bababooey 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Will skip this if it gets made. All good things for Picard really came to an end after that episode.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is First Contact erasure and I won't stand for it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I heard only last night about a script that is being written, but written specifically with the actor, Patrick [Stewart], to play in it. And I’ve been told to expect to receive it within a week or so.

Notably, that week was several weeks ago:

TrekMovie has confirmed with Josh Horowitz that this interview was recorded in early November as Stewart was out promoting his new memoir, Making It So.

[–] feedum_sneedson 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

He'll die before it happens. Don't think people realise quite how old the guy is. I love him to bits but it's like David Attenborough, just let the man rest, he's given us enough.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He's not on contract. He wants to do Star Trek.

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[–] MrDodel 3 points 10 months ago

Shhhh, the reaper has hopefully forgotten about these two and Morgan freeman.

[–] c10l 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He’s 83. Definitely old but I wouldn’t write him off anytime soon.

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm OK with this, people shit on Star Trek Picard but I still thought it was alright despite the departure from more traditional Trek.

[–] VerseAndVermin 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I watched the first season and liked it. The fan service didn't feel so bad (I enjoyed it!). Season twos portrayal by half way through of an old enemy felt too casual to me and I tapped out. Is season 3 worth a whirl of two stopped me?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Season 3 is literally just fan service. They reused the V'Ger sound/theme for the enemy. They brought back a character from another show in the franchise. They brought back a character who appeared in two whole episodes of TNG. Large parts of the sound design were lifted from the TNG-era series. Seriously, almost as much fan service as Lower Decks.

[–] chronicledmonocle 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honestly with the train wreck that was Seasons 1 and 2, going full fan service was about the only path forward for the last season. I liked Season 3, but it certainly was NOT original.

As for Lower Decks.....brah.....how is Lower Decks fan service? There are references and stuff, but its got its own vibe now going on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

To be fair, I haven't watched the latest season of LD, but up to that point, it really was "get this reference? See? Giant Spock's skeleton! Remember this energy being that escaped the Enterprise-D?" However, I went into LD knowing that that was what I was going to be getting, and while I won't say it's my favorite nu-Trek series, I do really enjoy it.

[–] chronicledmonocle 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It definitely has some inside jokery going on and references to other shows, but I'd argue it's more organically done than just calling it "fan service". It's also a comedy SciFi, so I feel like it has more leeway than I'd give most shows, though.

The show has progressively become it's own thing as each season progresses, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oh I in no way meant it as an insult. I love that about LD. I did not love that about PIC.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

TBH, i never seem to like anything thats made after Voyager or Nemesis. And i understand it, the new movies and new series are made for a different (broader) audience, so it needs splendor and lots of shooting, but to me thats not what Star Trek was about.

Ive always hoped they’d make a serie with the USS Prometheus, but alas! I’ll just keep rewatching Voyager and DS9 untill i die, i guess.

[–] c10l 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Strange New Worlds has been quite good tbh.

Picard has its moments as well. It’s more valuable as a TNG revival than as a whole new ST work but it’s not bad, especially the last season.

Discovery is one of the worst sci-fi ever produced though, so definitely stay away from it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

i will always love a new picard movie since i have memories of watching tng with my dad and i loved picard but i still want them to make star trek legacy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If this thread is anything to go by, me and my other half were the only people on the planet that actually enjoyed Picard S1 and 2, and didn't like S3 as much.

In that spirit, if a film is made I look forward to enjoying it even if I'm the only one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

@7of9 @USSBurritoTruck

I'll raise my hand and say that I actually enjoyed all three seasons. I felt like 1 and 2 had a sense of melancholy at times, but that was welcome. Kind of felt right at that time in my life.
3 I really liked for the interpersonal relationships, and that sense of wonder in space.

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[–] Fades 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I liked all 3, 3 being hit or miss but overall enjoyable for me. Season 2 had a lot of fun parts

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