The Measure of a Fan
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I am not even watching this thank you for the field report o7
so sheâs also Somehow a Secret Robot who was Somehow Based On Picard right?
right?
right???
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So wait what was this ancient anti-robo Romulan secret police doing this whole time Data was lieutenant commander of the flagship of the Federation? Were they just hanging out?!
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thank goodness picard introduced star trekâs first canonical vape pen
this is a show that really really obviously does not have an entire seasonâs worth of plot but it is very refreshing to watch a show where picard is basically the only typical evangelical federation dorkus that usually fills up every cast that is not DS9
i like those 14 years ago uniforms those should have just been the regular ones
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are they justifying the complete inconsistency in uniforms between ships and series by just chucking as many as possible in this show?
Still processing Raffi taking a fat rip of cotton and saying âProtip? For future reference, on your next top-secret synthetic girl rescue? Try not telling Starfleet exactly what youâre doing.â
Love the idea that a GamePro reference buried its way so deep into the cultural consciousness that it survived a world-ending war and three and a half centuries.
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I really love seeing Hugh in this. Doesnât matter what the scene is, he looks great, character is warm, I love that itâs just this random TNG actor⌠makes me actually excited to see what his arc will be.
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This was a lot better than last week but god this could have been two really jam packed exciting episodes instead of three kinda lean ones.
Spoiler thoughts time:
Goddam it the romulans really are being set up as the creators of the borg, and I think the girl might be some kind of replacement borg queen? This is disappointing.
Hughâs cool. Happy to see Hugh. Always got time for more Hugh.
Those romulan fortune telling cards or whatever are pretty much being set up as a relatively cheap to produce merch item, IMO.
The robot doc is going to betray the fuck out of everyone because her role could easily be replaced by the cool robot girl.
I think thereâs a not small chance the other robot girl didnât actually die. I give this one 50/50
I actually like the new crew quite a bit. Looking forward to meeting the romulan samurai dude.
Maybe something will even happen next episode!
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I heard a rumor that if you donât require every single character in your show to explicitly describe in dialogue their relevant personal history, current mental state, and future plans the moment they show up and (ideally!) give additional verbal updates later just to make sure everyone is on the same page then
sometimes
it leaves room within the running length of your narrative entertainment for Events to occur?
I could be wrong though I am told one should not listen to idle gossip
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The final scene of this episode shows this perfectly, where Dr. Jarate surveys the crew, exclaims how excited she is to be part of this ride-or-die renegade crew, briefly interacts with Raffi, says out loud to the camera âwhat is the story with this mysterious woman?!â, then turns to Picard in time for Picard to Say The Thing, cut back to reaction shot of her being excited that he Said The Thing.
This⌠this is painnnâŚ
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plz make all of Picard season 2 just extremely mundane slice of life vignettes from his life on Kataan
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Honestly that is what I want at this point. Make a whole season of filler instead of the epic ramping up to a boring season finale.
I want to see the whole cast escape for a day at the spa.
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Iâve been rewatching TNG lately. I donât think Iâd ever noticed that the poem in âA Fistful of Datasâ is from âSchismsâ.
I happened to watch them in order and was pleasantly surprised.
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TNG constantly flirts with having tight continuity. Itâs super charming.
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I could maybe be into the idea of the show just being an exasperated Picard dealing with a bunch overenthusiastic fans of his career. Kind of like that TNG ep where he has to convince that bunch of medieval-ish Vulcan types that he wasnât God, but with him being more irritable about it.
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Told myself I wouldnât do this, but, a few things that really jumped out at me in the last ep:
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They talk for an entire scene about how much money âa captain like youâ costs, when they were chatting with the new captain. And then Jarate is like, âOh, I have a high-level position in robotics, so I have plenty of money.â GUYS, THEREâS NO MONEY IN THE FUTURE. YOU DONâT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT.
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So they mention Sunday School in this??? ??? And constantly say like, âOh, God!â
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How the fuck is the ship they used just parked directly in Earth orbit, uncloaked, beaming people up and down from the planet, and thereâs absolutely no problem at all with that? Couldnât this just as easily be a massive romulan warbird or whatever? Which, I guess there had to be, to get those two romulan strike teams planet-side? At least with that I could believe the romulan mole covered it up.
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Would anyone that wasnât part of the Enterprise crew even know that âEngageâ is a thing Picard says?
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Iâm actually very excited about the money stuff especially the difference between what Raffi can afford as someone kicked out of the military compared to Picardâs massive swath of inherited land. I just want an entire episode about Federation real estate law.
I think itâs fair play to have a freelancer character like Rios. That no money shit is for improving yourself through Roddenberrian self motivation or whatever. Heâs just here to do a job. Heâs not in the Navy anymore.
Theyâve already previously established that there is a Federation Credits currency that is spent on previous shows. I mean the feds on DS9 werenât gambling at Quarks with good wishes.
Star Trek is full of Christian ceremony and ephemera. And âOh Godâ comes up all the time. The original Enterprise has a chapel with a cross in it.
I have never had any idea what the deal with beaming down was. I generally agree with your sentiment, but I feel like teleportation has never been shown as a problem even into enemy territory of other advancee societies as long as the narrative needed it.
I will argue that he camera and editing were more excited for the âEngageâ than anyone around it and Jarati was just happy for everything but yes it is still very goofy.
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My theory is that if your a licensed operator of a starship or whatever you probably get the beam down codes to open temporary windows in planetary shielding? I dunno, seems as good a fan theory as any.