NakedMoleRat
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The Enterprise was an Uber?
Star Trek Picard Season Three
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I should do a pic of that!!!
kalkamel
Master Member
Well, to me it did.
It's nice to see an efficient bridge crew work together in a professional manner to solve a problem without so much as shedding a single tear.
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
Well, last week we had “The hunt for Red Obtober”
This week was part two, with a twist of TWOK Mutara Nebula - extended director’s cut.
Could have condensed these into one episode.
We’re 40% through the series. BRING THE REST OF THE TNG CREW IN ALREADY!
This week was part two, with a twist of TWOK Mutara Nebula - extended director’s cut.
Could have condensed these into one episode.
We’re 40% through the series. BRING THE REST OF THE TNG CREW IN ALREADY!
Is it another case of NuTrek stretch the thin plot across 10 episodes syndrome?
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
Do you have any reason the believe that the formula has changed?
Silly me.
I watched a review of ep 3 that someone posted a few posts ago and they raised an interesting point. Those who watch week on week are more likely to see the problems in the plotting. The Youtubers who seem to have had early access and watched the whole series and just roll from one episode to the next appear to be swept along and not take the time to consider each episode.
Silly me.
I watched a review of ep 3 that someone posted a few posts ago and they raised an interesting point. Those who watch week on week are more likely to see the problems in the plotting. The Youtubers who seem to have had early access and watched the whole series and just roll from one episode to the next appear to be swept along and not take the time to consider each episode.
Speaking with the outsider-looking-in perspective of someone who has no desire to return to the franchise, all I see in reviews for this season are nostalgia, goofy jokes, ripoffs of plot elements from old TREK, and many of the usual NuTREK tropes. Worf’s much-ballyhooed intro line (“I am Worf, son of Mogh, House of Martok, son of Sergei, House of Rozhenko, Bane to the Duras Family, slayer of Gowron. I have made some chamomile tea. Do you take sugar?”) sounds an awful lot like Marvel Humor, to me. Cheap jokes made to fuel memes at the expense of internal logic and characterization.
In other words, more of the same, but with a nice coat of new paint.
A point I’ve made before also still stands: STAR TREK has become solely about looking back at/rehashing/dismantling the past, rather than moving forward in any meaningful way. I find myself thinking of this recent, excellent article:
Sad Trek — The New Atlantis
How an exhausted liberalism killed sci-fi’s sunniest franchise
www.thenewatlantis.com
In regards to “The End of History”, TREK has very much been there for quite some time. Maintaining history and/or tearing it down instead of making it. Flying around in navel-gazing circles.
This may well be a respectful end for the TNG cast, but it is in no way some miraculous jump-start for the franchise.
I hate to be a contrarian, but Episode 4 was just “OK” for me.
A lot of casually wasted time by the characters, given the supposed death sentence they were under, with limited time.
“I know we are supposed to be dead soon, but rather than spending that time trying to figure out a way out of this, will you join me in the holodeck, which conveniently has its own battery cell that is enough of a priority that it is independent of the rest of the ship’s power? I would like to tell you stories and explore some trauma, rather than taking any action to pull us out of this situation.”
The repeated “speechifying” by the characters, rather than immediately taking any action, was also a bit “Discovery-esque“ to me.
“We are dead…maybe we are not…yes we are…but perhaps not…yeah, we are dead…but we are a team…doesn’t matter, we are dead…but maybe if we tech the tech…oh my gosh, you are right; teching the tech is what we do best! Let’s tech the tech! Wow—that was pretty easy to get out of, after all!”
A serviceable episode but it didn’t blow me away.
A lot of casually wasted time by the characters, given the supposed death sentence they were under, with limited time.
“I know we are supposed to be dead soon, but rather than spending that time trying to figure out a way out of this, will you join me in the holodeck, which conveniently has its own battery cell that is enough of a priority that it is independent of the rest of the ship’s power? I would like to tell you stories and explore some trauma, rather than taking any action to pull us out of this situation.”
The repeated “speechifying” by the characters, rather than immediately taking any action, was also a bit “Discovery-esque“ to me.
“We are dead…maybe we are not…yes we are…but perhaps not…yeah, we are dead…but we are a team…doesn’t matter, we are dead…but maybe if we tech the tech…oh my gosh, you are right; teching the tech is what we do best! Let’s tech the tech! Wow—that was pretty easy to get out of, after all!”
A serviceable episode but it didn’t blow me away.
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If they had an independent power source in the holodeck for all of that...
...why didn't they use it to make the parts they needed to fix the ship?
Bingo
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
I’ll make it until the end as well, I just fear that I’m gonna have to sit through another three episodes of more of the same. And then, on episode seven the rest of the former crew will join them, and then they will head towards the end of the story.
when we were told that the entire next generation cast is joining the season, I really thought they were gonna be there early on in the story.
Not learning about another set of crewmembers on yet another spaceship, that we likely won’t see past the 10th episode.
I’m really frustrated now that the rest of the TNG crew is not there yet. We have only slightly more than half of the season left, it is a lot of wasted time.
kalkamel
Master Member
Terry Matalas did say that this season is essentially a 10 hour movie. We've only seen the first act so far, and the next four episodes will be the meatier second act, in which we will probably see Geordi and Worf reunite with the rest, maybe a bit of Deanna, and we'll probably see Lore too. The last two episodes will the third and climactic act. Based on the strength of the first act, I want to see more, and I'm hoping my patience will be rewarded.
Hey, at least I'm not hate watching it, right?
