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

Was kind of interesting but that scene was a visual mess. They were pulling the same crap they’ve pulled in Discovery where they roll the camera about without rhyme nor reason making the whole thing a good bit harder to follow. I hope that was just them re-editing the scene for the trailer, and not what we’re going to get for the entire show.

Beyond the nitpick of her calling him “Picard” and not “Locutus” (and this might be explained in the story itself), didn’t the auto destruct seem a little too instant? You normally see them adding an ID code and in most cases they have to give a countdown lenght. I’d accept that the sequence system may have changed by then, but Auto-Destruct kind of loses its dramatic bite if you leave out most of the steps.

Along with the viewscreen windows and overly polished deck-floors, the whole “pew-pew” nature of the Secret Hideout phaser is just grating. I know compression Phasers became a thing towards the end of the TNG era, but what they’ve been doing in this Discovery family of Trek shows just feels like a mindless apeing of the JJ-verse Phaser. Another reason I enjoy Lower Decks is that all of those 2009 movie ascetics have been ignored in favor of the likes TNG-style beem Phasers.

The whole Pew-Pew of effect of these new live-action Trek shows also feels like the weapony has no real impact or punch to them. TNG phasers were presented with the impression that it would melt a hole through you if you got in its way.

He's right though?

Prime and/or Paramount themselves went to town over here in Oslo with marketing for Picard. Since Monday all of the bustops and metro stops have Picard adverts all over.

I wish I had taken some pictures, but down in the city center they had one Metro station completely plastered with Picard adverts, wall-to-wall. It even included some admirable yet incredibly cringe-worthy Metro info-signs that included awful puns such as:

"If you are a Borg, avoid vending machines" (With infograph of an assimilated stickman malfunctioning beside a vending machine)

"Remember to set your Phaser to Stun before entering the Space Vessel" (With infograph of a TOS phaser)

"10% off Puddings for Federation Members" (With infograph of a pudding)

They were....less than good....puns...

What bamboozled me the most is that adverts invited me to watch Picard "now". So later in the day I loaded up Prime, and there was still only Season 1...it feels like they timed it wrong.

Interestingly, Paramount+ is also in Norway and although I have been digitally advertised to about Discovery Season 4...that show never got a physical advert campaign like this. The last time I saw anything like this here was for the 2009 movie.