Star Trek Picard Season Three

[asalaw]

Yes, it’s an old trope: After a failure, Hollywood execs traditionally become risk-averse and go for the sure thing.

Thus it has ever been, and thus it ever shall be. And Hollywood execs are almost always risk averse. As Richard Rush once pointed out, good films don't get released--they escape. That's why low-budget indie films often tell better stories than big movies; at low budgets there's more risk tolerance. This is the way.

 

[Picard102]

While Season 3 ain’t perfect, it’s lightyears beyond the first two seasons, IMHO. I think the series would have had much more success had it started this way instead of ending this way…

Hope they wrap the season appropriately!

Ya, the first two seasons were rough. It's a shame that at the end we finally get this.

 

[kalkamel]

I'm gonna miss Shaw.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1646911229011832832

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Pretty sure now that Shaw was the red herring in Matalas’ claim that not everyone makes it out alive.

 

[pengbuzz]

Pretty sure now that Shaw was the red herring in Matalas’ claim that not everyone makes it out alive.

I wish they would retcon his death; that character was simply wasted.

 

[Krieger]

I'm gonna miss Shaw.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1646911229011832832

Awesome!

Now I have to play that 80s song again

 

[Captain Dunsel]

I'm gonna miss Shaw.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1646911229011832832

That guy is awesome. I watched quite a few of the podcasts he’s done and he’s the real deal, in terms of being a fan of the franchise.

 

[CB2001]

I just had a thought: before she died, Majel Barrett recorded a whole library of phonetic sounds for future use in Star Trek productions as the voice of the computer. Consider that and the amount of dialogue she provided as the computer for three shows, the TNG movies and video games from the late 1990s early 2000s, her voice can be recreated to be used for new dialogue as the computer for future shows and movies now.

 

[Paul Andrew]

Not super thrilled about the borg reveal, but getting everyone back on the D is everything.

 

[kalkamel]

 

[Bloop]

Variety: How ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Resurrected an Iconic Set
Just saw this story - the Enterprise-D set was, in fact, re-built.

It also mentions the lighting - I know the typically darker lighting seen in Picard and other recent Trek shows has obviously been a point of contention by some people in this thread.

It wasn’t just about the physical construction of the bridge, either; it was also about the lighting.

“That was tricky because you’re talking about lighting that was much more intrinsic to the 1990s,” Matalas says. “Now we have different cameras in a different cinematic style to the show. We had to find a hybrid of the old style and the new with our director of photography, John Joffin, and I think we found a really great sweet spot.”

 

[asalaw]

Variety: How ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Resurrected an Iconic Set
Just saw this story - the Enterprise-D set was, in fact, re-built.
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It also mentions the lighting - I know the typically darker lighting seen in Picard and other recent Trek shows has obviously been a point of contention by some people in this thread.

It wasn’t just about the physical construction of the bridge, either; it was also about the lighting.

“That was tricky because you’re talking about lighting that was much more intrinsic to the 1990s,” Matalas says. “Now we have different cameras in a different cinematic style to the show. We had to find a hybrid of the old style and the new with our director of photography, John Joffin, and I think we found a really great sweet spot.”

Unfortunately American Cinematographer doesn't seem to have any coverage of this. I'd love to read more about the lighting on this show.

 

[BlandoCalrssian]

This picture was just tweeted by production designer Dave Blass. Apparently the dedication plaque is the original.

 

[kalkamel]

Big D energy.

 

[Treadwell]

is someone burning a 55-gallon drum full of sulphur just off camera?

 

[pengbuzz]

This picture was just tweeted by production designer Dave Blass. Apparently the dedication plaque is the original.
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Maybe, but the bridge is slightly off:

And unless Picard has some really bad scoliosis, people don't shrink that much as they get older:

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[Johnnyfl]

Not super thrilled about the borg reveal, but getting everyone back on the D is everything.

I had expected the Borg to show up but not as the main protagonist but as an ally that Picard might call upon to stop the Changeling threat after the complete change in the Borg timeline and mission direction from the end of season 2. Clearly even Kurtzman is now pretending that the first 2 seasons didn't happen as there is absolutely no continuity from one season to another. So is Picard now human again by any chance as the previous seasons have been wiped from existence?

 

[Paul Andrew]

I mean, Picard's old human body was featured pretty clearly so no the didn't retcon that.

It's going to be interesting to see how/if they make sense of the borg queen returning after last season.

IIRC in Voyager it was alluded to that she had more than one body, but I could be wrong there.

 

[asalaw]

I mean, Picard's old human body was featured pretty clearly so no the didn't retcon that.

It's going to be interesting to see how/if they make sense of the borg queen returning after last season.

IIRC in Voyager it was alluded to that she had more than one body, but I could be wrong there.

Well, the Borg Queen last season was played by Annie Wersching, who has since sadly passed. This season she's being played (or at least voiced) by Alice Krige, who played her in First Contact (destroyed by Data). It seems that there would have to be some sort of replication of queens happening across the Borg population, perhaps with one queen per cube? I'm curious to see how they'll deal with the "resurrection" of Krige's Queen.

 

[CB2001]

Maybe, but the bridge is slightly off:

View attachment 1691446

And unless Picard has some really bad scoliosis, people don't shrink that much as they get older:

Do People Shrink as They Age? | UAMS Health

Vision, hearing, memory and hair are just a few things that tend to disappear as the candles increase on our birthday cake. Unfortunately, height can be added to this list. In fact, we can begin shrinking as early as our 30s, according to some research. Men can gradually lose an…

uamshealth.com

I still say Geordi just accidentally hung it higher than it was before. I mean, the plaque came off the wall when the saucer crashed. And he was probably going from memory when it came to placing it back up there. Sometimes the best answer is the easiest one.