Star Trek Picard Season Three

[Captain Dunsel]

After being served nothing but cringe and disappointment for almost a decade, I have just sat back and enjoyed this Season of Picard.

It’s been an enjoyable romp and a fitting end for the TNG crew. I’ve actually looked forward to each week’s episode and am sorry to see it ending—which I NEVER thought would happen with this series.

I will give them a pass on all the ‘member berries, this season, as they support a great story.

Now…join me in the All Things Star Wars thread if you want to pile on about nostalgia nuggets vs. great storytelling…

 

[Gregatron]

Except, in real life, Scotty would have recreated the engine room, not the bridge.

Not so sure about that. It’s not just the ship he’s thinking about, it’s the people. His comrades and friends for so many years. So of course it would be the Bridge he’d recreate.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

I’m wondering who will die. Geordi won’t as Burton was on Whoopie’s show saying he’d love to do a spin off series.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

I’m wondering who will die. Geordi won’t as Burton was on Whoopie’s show saying he’d love to do a spin off series.

I am thinking we may get an All Good Things type of send-off and no one dies, this time.

 

[kalkamel]

 

[pengbuzz]

I am thinking we may get an All Good Things type of send-off and no one dies, this time.

Or everybody dies and just sails into eternity on the E-D...

 

[asalaw]

After being served nothing but cringe and disappointment for almost a decade, I have just sat back and enjoyed this Season of Picard.

It’s been an enjoyable romp and a fitting end for the TNG crew. I’ve actually looked forward to each week’s episode and am sorry to see it ending—which I NEVER thought would happen with this series.

I will give them a pass on all the ‘member berries, this season, as they support a great story.

Now…join me in the All Things Star Wars thread if you want to pile on about nostalgia nuggets vs. great storytelling…

I feel the same way.

 

[BlandoCalrssian]

Call it member berries all you want, but that last few minutes was beautiful. And that bridge set was just….perfect. Sometimes you see a recreated filming set and it will look pretty close but you’ll quickly notice an angle that’s slightly off, some small sizing difference. This was pretty damn close.

 

[pengbuzz]

Call it member berries all you want, but that last few minutes was beautiful. And that bridge set was just….perfect. Sometimes you see a recreated filming set and it will look pretty close but you’ll quickly notice an angle that’s slightly off, some small sizing difference. This was pretty damn close.

The bridge looked a bit off to me; the incline of the ramps down the sides of it was too steep. In one episode in TNG, Picard wiped the dust from the dedication plaque and it was eye level. In this episode of Picard, it was almost above his head! O,o

 

[BlandoCalrssian]

True, but would you even notice the ramp if Levar Burton hadn’t specifically mentioned it in that interview a while back? As for the plaque, Patrick has probably shrunk a bit in his old age

 

[jts1031]

My opinion of modern Trek is pretty critical. The first two seasons of Picard are abysmal. I was going to skip this season entirely, but all the positive comments leading up to the premiere convinced me to give it a shot. And I enjoyed episode after episode. I had to suspend my disbelief in places, like with the ability to warp anywhere quickly. But I also found myself rewatching episodes, which I hadn't done since Deep Space Nine. There was something about this episode though that hit me hard. To see that ship and that bridge, it was like being pulled back to the early '90s when life was simpler. It was comfort food of the absolute highest quality, and I loved every second of it.

 

[Krieger]

“If Adama was in charge of the fleet, this would never have happened”

And the moment I saw where they parked it…Sergeant Apone : Bay Twelve, please.

 

[asalaw]

My opinion of modern Trek is pretty critical. The first two seasons of Picard are abysmal. I was going to skip this season entirely, but all the positive comments leading up to the premiere convinced me to give it a shot. And I enjoyed episode after episode. I had to suspend my disbelief in places, like with the ability to warp anywhere quickly. But I also found myself rewatching episodes, which I hadn't done since Deep Space Nine. There was something about this episode though that hit me hard. To see that ship and that bridge, it was like being pulled back to the early '90s when life was simpler. It was comfort food of the absolute highest quality, and I loved every second of it.

Hell, I just watched it for the third time. I am lapping this up like a dachshund with bacon-flavored syrup. Even with its (minor) flaws, this is the best Trek in decades.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

It’s not lost on me that all of these old guys are now collected together again on the E-D.

Not just nostalgia, but symbolic as well.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

The bridge looked a bit off to me; the incline of the ramps down the sides of it was too steep. In one episode in TNG, Picard wiped the dust from the dedication plaque and it was eye level. In this episode of Picard, it was almost above his head! O,o

They dealt with that by having Riker ask if it was just him or did the bridge look smaller.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Well, if you want to get really nitpicky the bridge of the D should include the expanded port and starboard stations seen when we last saw her in Generations…

But—I’ll let all of that go. At least it doesn’t look like the TOS bridge seen in Relics, which was full of inaccuracies.

 

[Gregatron]

Well, if you want to get really nitpicky the bridge of the D should include the expanded port and starboard stations seen when we last saw her in Generations…

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But—I’ll let all of that go. At least it doesn’t look like the TOS bridge seen in Relics, which was full of in accuracies.

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It certainly did the job, though. Even the far more impressive set built for ENTERPRISE had its issues, too.

 

[CB2001]

The bridge looked a bit off to me; the incline of the ramps down the sides of it was too steep. In one episode in TNG, Picard wiped the dust from the dedication plaque and it was eye level. In this episode of Picard, it was almost above his head! O,o

To be fair, the saucer did survive a high speed crash from orbit. IIRC, the plaque came off of the wall from the impact, so the original bolt (or whatever it was that held the plaque in place) probably broke off too, so Geordi was probably going from memory and placed it lower.

 

[ave4uevoli]

To be fair, the saucer did survive a high speed crash from orbit. IIRC, the plaque came off of the wall from the impact, so the original bolt (or whatever it was that held the plaque in place) probably broke off too, so Geordi was probably going from memory and placed it lower.

Old people shrink

 

[Picard102]

Don't bother trying to apply any logic or continuity to modern Trek, we know the writers don't. They just pump up the volume on the music, crank up the nostalgia to 11 and flash a load of easter eggs to paper over the rehashed stories and plotholes.

But the writers addressed it this season already.