Star Trek: Picard - Amazon Prime [** POSSIBLE SPOILERS **]

pixelburp wrote: »

This is about Picard, in old age, on one last adventure. So long as Jean Luc is written well and in character I don't give a damn if this isn't TNG V2.

I probably said this already, but I worry about this more than anything else. I think Picard was a very difficult character to write, especially when taken off the Enterprise. If you look at the episodes where he was the main focus, I'd argue the writers got him wrong as much as they got right. Anytime they tried to give him an emotional or personal challenge, something that brought him down a step or made him more vulnerable, the result often felt out of character. This show's concept of "Picard in old age" may end up being just another variation on this.

I also think Stewart's instincts about the character weren't always the best. Him holding Riker's hand in the Picard trailer for example seems more Stewart than Picard to me. The character possibly worked best when you had Roddenberry (or his ghost) in the background reigning everyone in.

pixelburp wrote: »

It fit into the universe, but most certainly did not adhere to the principles of TNG era Trek. I might be misremembering and mangling a DS9 quote but it was observed that it was "easy to be a saint in paradise", the show regularly taking the idea of the Federation and slowly disassembling the latent hypocrisies and compromises they would surely have committed in the name of their creed.

I'm sure the letters written to the studio and fanzines amounted to the same thing said now, that it wasn't "my Trek". Not that I believe Picard is going to ace it, I remain sceptical but from what I've read and heard it seems like there might be more DS9 era Fed; not so much corrupt but a little toothless and irrelevant

in the round DS9 is broadly liked, at the time I would have preferred TNG, DS9 was probably one of those shows that got better as it went on. it was Trek in the way that there was a group of strong characters, one didn't tune in to see op Sisco personally save the station each week from whatever.
I don't know much about Picard except he will only be in the first series? so im guessing he will be more a side character or will be constantly upstaged by whatever whippersnappers they introduce.

Patrick Stewart is going to be appearing on the Graham Norton show next week about 6 days before the show is released. I wonder what he will have to say.

TheValeyard wrote: »

Awww I just had part of the season one ending spoiled for me

Unless it's a fake.

I think I need to get off the internet for the next too months. Thanks for the warning.

So what do I need to prep for Picard? I’m thinking:

Nemesis
The shorts
The comics

What do use reckon?

I pay for Prime and Netflix. Looks like the shorts have to be Torrented. Which is ridiculous.

AMKC wrote: »

I would say any TNG Borg episode and maybe one or two from Voyager because Seven is going to be in this too.
I would also watch say watch ''Measure of A Man'' just because it is a brilliant episode. Maybe the first episode of DS9 as well as there is some shots of the Borg and Locutus at the beginning of that.
I would say ''Generations'' and First Contact as well.

I am sure there is more.

There is a thread here about what maybe would be worth watching,

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058039851

Thanks for that. Never knew about it.

For me I just want to catch up on the storyline of Picard.

7 of 9 character motion poster

https://twitter.com/Alex_Kurtzman/status/1216427764275789825

AMKC wrote: »

Just two good links for anyone wanting to catch up before Picard is out,

These cover every TNG episode you need to catch up on before Picard

Can you redo the links, they aren't the correct ones, they've been parsed?

AMKC wrote: »

Thank you for letting me know. They work now.

No bother, thanks a million

@Slydice Yep It has been confirmed on here already but sure there is no harm in bringing it up again just to remind us all as well as for anyone who did not know

So just seen that Will Wheaton will the new hostof ''The Ready Room'' which is something I have never watched but is on after Picard and was on after Discovery I think to talk about it/them.