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

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  • #1862
    pixelburp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Guys, FFS this is the "no spoilers" thread?? Would you ever take it to the episode thread


  • #1863
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,756 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    pixelburp wrote: »
    Guys, FFS this is the "no spoilers" thread?? Would you ever take it to the episode thread

    Apologies, completely in the wrong thread.

    Deleted the comments


  • #1864
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yet the romulan siblings accents is ok?

    I've no issue with that one. It's a real Irish accent and she's not making it into some kind of joke.

    While Star Trek has had some excellent Irish characters e.g. Miles O'Brien and even Data's Irish mammy, geologist Juliana O'Donnell, played by Fionnula Flanagan, it still goes off on these bonkers di-de-li O'Irish tropes like Fair Haven on Voyager which was utterly cringe inducing unless you're watching while eating a box of Lucky Charms with your Green Beer somewhere in the US Midwest.

    A US audience won't really notice that they're suddenly gone into the Irish version of Groundskeeper Willie school of bad voice coaching.


  • #1865
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,945 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Speaking of spoilers...

    The Picard soundtrack has been released, and the track titles spoil some moderately specific plot points from future episodes, so don't be tempted by it.


  • #1866
    Slydice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Just had a thought that it might be fun to see Colm Meaney have a cameo in this show...

    .. and to hear his opinion
    on the Irish accents
    :)


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  • #1867
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    Also Data wasn't the only working android of that level of sophistication. His mother was actually even more sophisticated and has more in common with these 'synths' in the sense she's undetectable as an android.

    Bring back Juliana O'Donnell!


  • #1868
    Justin Credible Darts
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Justin Credible Darts


    Optimus Prime wrote: »
    I liked that comment actually , because in my mind she was pointing out that the northern romulans , including the 2009 film ones look different because they are from a different region.




    A no spoiler thread and your entire post is a spoiler.


    "shakes head"


  • #1869
    Calhoun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    Been late to watching it as I wanted a bit of peace uninterrupted to watch it. I am hooked, haven't been as excited for a series in a long time.


  • #1870
    368100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭368100


    Calhoun wrote: »
    Been late to watching it as I wanted a bit of peace uninterrupted to watch it. I am hooked, haven't been as excited for a series in a long time.

    Me too, surprised a little how good it is.


  • #1871
    Optimus Prime
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 5,456 Mod ✭✭✭✭Optimus Prime


    Justin Credible Darts wrote: »
    A no spoiler thread and your entire post is a spoiler.


    "shakes head"

    Yeh I know , I’d accidentally posted it replying to another comment not realising what thread I was I. . A few of us lost the run of ourselves that day. So I spoiler tagged the whole post.


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  • #1872
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,353 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    https://www.instagram.com/p/B8INVWNAnlx/?igshid=bolzppj8kxpm

    What Data would look like if they hadn't applied the CGI


  • #1873
    FFVII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭FFVII


    Optimus Prime wrote: »
    Yeh I know , I’d accidentally posted it replying to another comment not realising what thread I was I. . A few of us lost the run of ourselves that day. So I spoiler tagged the whole post.

    No spoiler in the post anyway.


  • #1874
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,945 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    It turns out the actress that plays Admiral Clancy has a colourful past work record.

    She was the lead singer in a psychedelic rock band called Bongwater, and later sang in a satirical metal band call, appropriately enough, Vulcan Death Grip.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Magnuson


  • #1875
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    In the first episode the Irish accents reminded me strangely of those Kerrygold ads with French people.


  • #1876
    Slydice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    The setting too! :)


  • #1877
    uncleoswald
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭uncleoswald


    EltonJohn69 wrote: »
    I’m not liking frail Picard... I’m hoping at some point he loads up on some space steroids or maybe some Romulan speed
    Patrick Stewart is 79 years of age, let him be frail. I'm really glad they are not trying to make an action hero out of him. It was bad enough in the Next Gen movies. it's one aspect of the show I actually like.


  • #1878
    EltonJohn69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,252 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    uncleoswald wrote: »
    Patrick Stewart is 79 years of age, let him be frail. I'm really glad they are not trying to make an action hero out of him. It was bad enough in the Next Gen movies. it's one aspect of the show I actually like.

    Stallone is 82 and he just made a new Rambo !!!
    We need to see Picard throwing some double fist punches !!!


  • #1879
    Spear
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    EltonJohn69 wrote: »
    Stallone is 82 and he just made a new Rambo !!!
    We need to see Picard throwing some double fist punches !!!

    He's a comparitively spritely 73.


  • #1880
    pixelburp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    At least the show treats Picard as the age he is; and Stewart himself is ageing gracefully. Stallone is a roided up, botoxed mess clearly fighting the tides.


  • #1881
    EltonJohn69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,252 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    pixelburp wrote: »
    At least the show treats Picard as the age he is; and Stewart himself is ageing gracefully. Stallone is a roided up, botoxed mess clearly fighting the tides.

    Stallone will our live us all... got the best steroids/wigs in Hollywood.... if they can reclaim a Borg cube then Jean-Luc can reclaim his hair !!!


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  • #1882
    368100
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    EltonJohn69 wrote: »
    Stallone will our live us all... got the best steroids/wigs in Hollywood.... if they can reclaim a Borg cube then Jean-Luc can reclaim his hair !!!

    Wasn't he voted sexiest man or somewhere on that list? They obviously liked the bald


  • #1883
    pixelburp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    EltonJohn69 wrote: »
    Stallone will our live us all... got the best steroids/wigs in Hollywood.... if they can reclaim a Borg cube then Jean-Luc can reclaim his hair !!!

    One of the many egregious balls ups of Nemesis was that awful college photo of Picard, bald in his 20s, just in case the audience was too stupid to twig it was Jean Luc. IIRC too, some dialogue passed it off as a dare, but that he liked it so much he kept it? Or am I mis-remembering?

    As to Stallone, I'd say his heart might be struggling to keep pace with that regimen. Can't be good for it, all those steroids and weights. Arnie's ageing better I thought, he looked well in Dark Fate. Definitely a touch less neurotic in his appearance.


  • #1884
    santana75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭santana75


    Started watching this last night, had no idea it was available over here yet. It was by fluke that I saw a trailer on youtube and decided to see when it would be released.......I watched the first episode and the start of episode two. Straight away it just felt right. I tried to get into Star trek discovery but it didnt feel like "Trek" if that makes any sense. But I was hooked into this from the get go.
    Looking forward to seeing where its all going.


  • #1885
    Rawr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Rawr


    EltonJohn69 wrote: »
    if they can reclaim a Borg cube then Jean-Luc can reclaim his hair !!!

    He sure can!

    112201818023431489.jpg

    :D


  • #1886
    Calhoun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    Didn't they have TnG episodes with him and hair?

    I need to rewatch nemesis i don't remember that scene at all.


  • #1887
    Evade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,961 ✭✭✭Evade


    Calhoun wrote: »
    Didn't they have TnG episodes with him and hair?
    It was in Violations and was a dream/flashback of Picard telling Beverly that Jack was dead.


  • #1888
    Rawr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Rawr


    Calhoun wrote: »
    Didn't they have TnG episodes with him and hair?

    I need to rewatch nemesis i don't remember that scene at all.

    There was a flashback where Dr. Crusher was remembering going to identify Jack Crusher's body. Picard came along as support, and was done up in this makeup.

    Cadet Picard also had hair when Q sent him back in time to fight a Nassican.

    Apparently Steward also had to wear a wig in his early screenings of TNG because Roddenberry wanted the new captain to be a "New Kirk", and Kirk couldn't be bald apparently....


  • #1889
    ilovesmybrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭ilovesmybrick


    Just an FYI, but the new Picard novel gives some really good back story as to what happened during the Romulan crisis. Presumably the most important plot & character points will eventually come up during the series, but it oulines where the irritating JL came from (no less satisfying, but anyway), what was going on with the synths, why the federation may have retreated into themselves etc. Worth a read in my opinion.


  • #1890
    mewso
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,258 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    I think the show has been fairly poor all round but I'll stick with it for now. Just wondering will
    this ship Captain turn out to be an ECH opening the way for JL to take charge of the ship.


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  • #1891
    FFVII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭FFVII


    Yea, very slow first 3 EPs. Nothing happening.


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