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

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

You have to remember that this was Mars in the heart of the Federation (Sol). Also with the end of the Dominion war they wouldn't have expected a threat, certainly not from within or on that scale.

Personally I always thought that the Breen attack on Earth during the latter stages of the war was strange. No cloaking devices but even allowing for the weapon they had, they've presumably managed to cut through multiple layers of significantly increased defences and systems with sufficient strength remaining to attack Earth, and yet they didn't irradiate the planet before they were chased off?

Hmmm..

It was probably a suicide run by the Breen. They probably dropped out of Warp just above Earth and started firing before they got destroyed or were chased out.

You have to remember that this was Mars in the heart of the Federation (Sol). Also with the end of the Dominion war they wouldn't have expected a threat, certainly not from within or on that scale.

Good point. Still if the starfleet intelligence agencies were doing there job it should not have happened. What were section 31 doing? I just thought how the Synth was hacked and then able to hack all the Mars systems seemed to show a lack of security on Starfleets part.

So Robert Picardo might be back to reprises his role as the Doctor in the second season of Star Trek Picard.

Not sure how true that is. I just seen it on FB.

What would you think of this?

Depends on how far along his personality is at this point. Can honestly see the earlyEMH getting a rise out of Picard over something small... but it was shown that he progresses a lot into the future.

TheValeyard wrote: »

I want Miles O'Brien back!

I don't think there is any chance of that happening unfortunately as he has let himself go and forgotten most of what he said and done on Star Trek. I suppose do if you not doing it you are going to forget it or just not be good at it anymore. He did however say the writing and stories were always very good. The one episode he did remember ''Past Tense'' is obviously his favorite or close to it s it was the one in brought up in his conversation with Tommy Tiernan.

I think one major problem ST:Picard has is it's a three hour story spread across eight hours. It reminds me of the CW DC Universe stuff.

AtomicHorror wrote: »

Plenty of the harsher critics of the show think it's too fast-paced, so it seems like the writers really can't win on that point.

Could you post a few links? I'd love to know the arguments for it being fast paced.

Evade wrote: »

Could you post a few links? I'd love to know the arguments for it being fast paced.

You can dismiss my claim as baseless, if you like. Burden of evidence or no, I don't have time to go hunting for citations.

Greyjoy wrote: »

As much as I'm enjoying this show I can't shake that feeling either. Given Stewart's age it really limits what the writers can do with his character. I think they missed the window for this show maybe 10 years ago. I also think the idea that people could criticise they show for being *too* fast paced ridiculous. Just because there's a lot happening in each episode doesn't mean the actual story has made any progress. We've only got a few episodes left in the season and the story has barely progressed from the pilot episode.

They could assimilate him again. Awake the Borg ship.

AtomicHorror wrote: »

I find the pace perfectly fine- it allows for a lot of character moments. If you don't like the characters, which I think we've established you do not, then I guess that won't be a pro.

Plenty of the harsher critics of the show think it's too fast-paced, so it seems like the writers really can't win on that point.

I get the disparity of opinion, it's paced very unevenly in my opinion. Like all modern Trek it's edited very quickly and can give the impression you've missed important plot details (wait, who was flying that old school Romulan Bird of Prey and where did Seven come from?) But then more often then not these details don't matter and then the plot will come to a complete standstill for more overwrought melodrama (Raffi's backstory for example...) I understand if you like the characters you might get more from these moments but it's all very shallow and inconsequential in my opinion.

But overall the plot has barely progressed at all with a lot still seemingly to wrap up in just a couple of episodes, even allowing for a season 2. Nothing I've seen so far would fill me with optimism for how they will achieve this.

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Let himself go? Did you see Frakes?

I mean he has put on weight just like William Shatner has. Also did you see Colm Meaney's latest add. Its terrible. Don't get me wrong I would love to see him back in Star Trek as Myles O' Brian again. I think he is a good actor and should really have done better after DS9.
If your on about Frakes in ''Picard'' I would say the was the look thy wanted him to have and thought he looked good.
No idea what he looks like away from the camera now do.

Greyjoy wrote: »

As much as I'm enjoying this show I can't shake that feeling either. Given Stewart's age it really limits what the writers can do with his character. I think they missed the window for this show maybe 10 years ago. I also think the idea that people could criticise they show for being *too* fast paced ridiculous. Just because there's a lot happening in each episode doesn't mean the actual story has made any progress. We've only got a few episodes left in the season and the story has barely progressed from the pilot episode.

I think they could have gotten away with the age difficulties if the story had Stewart playing in service Admiral Picard as opposed to rebel on a great big adventure Picard.

Had it been a small federation crew on a small fed ship like a nova class as opposed to this outlaw shuttle it would have mitigated the age disparity. Stewart as old style Picard wouldnt require as much suspension of belief as Captain Picard in TNG days was on the bridge, in the ready room or in his quarters 90% of the time.

The other 10% in cardassian custody or being a borg of course.

Plus it would have allowed for old school serious in charge Picard from TNG

But all that said I'm still enjoying this show !

Note: out of character movie Picard not included in this appraisal.