Picard S2

[Captain Dunsel]

Wheaton has got to be one of the most insufferable people in the world. I want to punch my screen every time his face pops up.

I’m convinced that he knows all too well that New-Trek is terrible and is using an over-the-top persona, akin to the forced excitement of a boyfriend meeting his significant other’s parents for the first time, to create some sort of absurdist performance art on “The Ready Room”.

Go to the 13:25 mark of this episode to see the best example of this exaggerated, over-the-top performance.

The man is a comedy genius and I’m convinced that he is creating a well-crafted parody and, at some point, he will reveal this to be the case.

 

[Ron]

I’m convinced that he knows New-Trek is terrible and is using an over-the-top persona, akin to the forced excitement of a boyfriend meeting his significant other’s parents for the first time, to create some sort of absurdist performance art.

Go to the 13:25 mark of this episode of “The Ready Room” to see the best example of this.

The man is a comedy genius and I’m convinced that he is creating a well-crafted parody and, at some point, he will reveal this to be the case.

Wow lol.

Also, God bless you for sitting through these. There's a lot of dirt above these nuggets of gold.

 

[Prop Collector]

I’m convinced that he knows all too well that New-Trek is terrible and is using an over-the-top persona, akin to the forced excitement of a boyfriend meeting his significant other’s parents for the first time, to create some sort of absurdist performance art on “The Ready Room”.

Go to the 13:25 mark of this episode to see the best example of this.

The man is a comedy genius and I’m convinced that he is creating a well-crafted parody and, at some point, he will reveal this to be the case.

lollll! She left for a "teaching position"?

 

[NeoRutty]

I said in a previous post that my loose attachment to Star Trek made this so somewhat bearable cuz I'm not overly invested...

but these last episodes have truly been some of the worst, nonsensical TV I've seen...

Be interested in hearing what Marc Bernardin has to say on this... his name is on it... he never brings it up on Fatman Beyond podcast....

I mean he's SUPER CRITICAL on story.... so he can't be letting this go.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

I used to be known as Wesley Crusher, now I’m a traveler, part of a team of watchers…

 

[Captain Dunsel]

I used to be known as Wesley Crusher, now I’m a traveler, part of a team of watchers…

…are these the same “Watchers” that are “…part of a secret society of men and women who observe and record, but never interfere” who also know the truth about immortals and that there can be only one?

 

[NakedMoleRat]

May as well be.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Q is dying alone. What about his son?

Soong takes out a project Kahn file… when the ship launched 25 years earlier.

Picard gives Seven a field promotion to captain, she sits in the chair, utters one line and then Picard and Agnes save the world.

The Borg are now guardians of the Alpha Quadrant?

And so much more.

After this, I turned to Strange New Worlds, read the blurb for episode one and told myself, I just can’t…

I think today is the day that I cancel my subscription.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Soong takes out a project Kahn file… when the ship launched 25 years earlier.

I haven’t seen the episode yet, but OMG does this stupidity mean that I was correct in my prior posts and Soong is now the creator of Khan??????

 

[renaissance_man]

Q is dying alone. What about his son?

Soong takes out a project Kahn file… when the ship launched 25 years earlier.

Picard gives Seven a field promotion to captain, she sits in the chair, utters one line and then Picard and Agnes save the world.

The Borg are now guardians of the Alpha Quadrant?

And so much more.

After this, I turned to Strange New Worlds, read the blurb for episode one and told myself, I just can’t…

I think today is the day that I cancel my subscription.

Do it. Don't fund the absolute abomination that Kurtzman is getting paid to tell you is Star Trek.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

They didn’t go so far as to say that, but…probably.

 

[Lightning]

Soong takes out a project Kahn file… when the ship launched 25 years earlier.

I haven’t seen the episode yet, but OMG does this stupidity mean that I was correct in my prior posts and Soong is now the creator of Khan??????

We don't know. The folder says "Project Khan, Confidential Funding Report, June 7,1996"

This could be taken in several directions.
1. They are moving the date of the Eugenics Wars to the 21st century, and Khan hasn't taken over yet, being born after 1996. This would return to McCoy's original statement that WWIII and the Eugenics wars are part of the same overall conflict, with the year being changed.

2. Someone decided to continue Superman program in the wake if Khan's disappearance. This would be in secret, hence "confidential". Soong was involved with this and is now returning to it. We already know his grandson is involved with augments.

3. This is a report from 1996 about the funding already spent, thus the Eugenics wars took place in the 1990s.

 

[Bloop]

Watching now, this made my laugh out loud (not sure if it was supposed to):

Europa VIP: "I can't believe it's here - the day! History! I never would've thought we'd make it!"

Soong: "You didn't? What a terrible attitude!"

 

[Bloop]

I used to be known as Wesley Crusher, now I’m a traveler, part of a team of watchers…

I know she's a clone, and lived a sheltered life, but she didn't need much convincing to go off hand in hand with some crazy talking rando. Time for another "30 Second Pep Talk" book, I expect!

 

[Captain Dunsel]

 

[Bloop]

Trying to think of what to say about the finale, and the season in general. I'm also trying not to nitpick, so this is just the broad strokes.

Ultimately, I just didn't care what happened, partly because they telegraphed it, partly because the season lacked any real emotional resonance or compelling storyline.

Picard silences his inner anguish (which we never knew he had before this series began), just in time to make peace with a dying old companion - didn't they do that last season?

Rios stays behind, as expected, but when you realize it was just a few days time that he met and fell in love with the doctor, it seems pretty fast. Yeah, he felt he didn't fit in the future, but who commits so fully to being with a person after spending just a handful of hours together? "Love at first sight" is just another tired trope they re-used.
The sad thing is that they had 10 episodes that could've told a longer story, with a longer passage of time in which they could've developed more realistic relationships. Instead, they opt for the battlefield romance, the star crossed lovers - not just Rios and the doc, but Seven and Raffi, and Picard and the Romulan "twins" (Tallin/Larris). Even Agnes and the Borg queen essentially had the same thing happen, only their joining together was literal. Guess there's "something in the water" in the 21st century.

Edit: this season felt much more like it was meant to be (or maybe tried to be) one of the Trek movies, but by stretching it out into a 10 episode season, it didn't have the right pacing to sustain interest. And yet they also tried to pack in too many side-stories, which just bogged it down even more. So I'm left feeling like it was too long, yet it also felt like the conclusions were rushed.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Like the necessary pain one must go through to have a root canal completed, I also put myself through the pain of watching the finale. I am now resting my brain of the abuse and trauma it has endured.

Such a waste of John DeLancie’s talents…what could have been.

We have reached the summit on the long journey to climb a mountain of stupidity at this point…

But my heart sang in triumph when I saw that Wesley received his just reward of a moment of screen time after having toiled away, low these many years, in “The Ready Room”. Yes, it looked “tacked on at the last minute”, but I screamed and clapped and jumped up and down on the couch in pure joy.

And, most importantly, the homicidal maniac and warrior monk—Elnor—was returned to the land of the living. I will smile like an idiot holding an ice cream cone for at least a week in that knowledge.

Butterfly tears for Elnor…butterfly tears.

 

[Gregatron]

 

[Gregatron]

We have reached the summit on the long journey to climb a mountain of stupidity at this point…

“Climb the steps, Jim. Climb the steps of Mount Kurtzman.”

 

[kalkamel]

Why is it when Talinn's eyes are bloodshot, they're red? Shouldn't they be green since she's Romulan?