You know, I’m so sad right now about all the wasted potential in the Picard series, but one thing I keep thinking about is that we never really had any interaction between Data and Soji, huh

And I keep thinking about Lal, about how Data was such a good dad to her, and how sad her death was…

And yet no one tells this android man that he has a daughter that is alive and well??

Star Trek owns me money for that.

I know this is just a “It’s not that deep” moment and it very clearly tries to emulate the kind of humor they had going with Data in the TNG movies era but like,

This is your friend Data. He has been dead for the past twenty years, and his death shattered the found famiy you had going with the rest of the crew. Your captain spent decades holed up in his vineyard feeling heartbroken and guilty.

Somehow your friend Data has been back from the death, and not only that but he now has within his reach what he dreamed about his whole life - the capacity of feeling emotions. It’s his ultimate dream made reality, something he talked with you for decades…

…. and you can’t be bothered to pay attention to what he’s saying without like, checking your ipad in the middle of his session??

quasi-normalcy:

quasi-normalcy:

quasi-normalcy:

Jack Crusher is like…the textbook definition of Mediocre White Guy We’re Supposed to Hold in Awe

“This is my original character; he’s the son of Captain Picard and Dr. Crusher; he’s an awesome rogue who drinks whisky and loves classic starships and gets all of the girls, and he can knock people out with one punch and get away with it because he’s so cool, but also he has daddy issues and childhood trauma. His eyes glow red when gets angry and he also has superpowers. And he’s also part Borg and part Changeling and part Pah'Wraith and part Armus. He’s dark and brooding and Seven of Nine likes him.”

A bunch of Trekkies who’ve spent the last six years calling Michael Burnham a “Mary Sue”: “Yeah! Finally! Real Star Trek!”

UPDATE: He’s the Borg Queen’s specialest drone, whatever that means! But he can get out of assimilation through force of will and the power of flashbacks to the last 2 days or so spent kind of bonding with his father. Starfleet waived that whole “Academy” requirement (and indeed that whole “post-secondary education in general” requirement) because of how AWESOME he is! Seven of Nine lets him sit on the bridge as her “special counselor” even though he’s only been an ensign for a day because he’s SUCH a Badass! Q comes back to announce that he’s going to put him on trial for the crimes of humanity!

I’m not joking by the way; literally all of these things actually happened in the series finale.

quasi-normalcy:

You know…

I grew up with TNG; it’s always been my Star Trek; I spent much of my childhood obsessed with it. And there I was, watching what promised to be the Last! Appearance! by the TNG Crew! Ever!,

and I felt nothing at all.

Nothing had any weight. The Borg Collective got blowed up real good, but they’d already got blowed up real good 20 years ago, and last season set up another, vastly more interesting version of the Borg anyways if only anyone had bothered to mention them or anything else from the first two seasons, so it means nothing. Nothing had any weight. No one even died. No one even got meaningfully assimilated. Apparently you can just peel Borg implants right off your face without, you know, bleeding to death or ripping out a chunk of your brain. Someone should probably tell Seven of Nine about that.

And now I’ve had a few hours to reflect upon it and what occurs to me is: I think I hate it. Yes, that sounds right. I hate it.

I mean, Nemesis gets a lot of sh*t, much of it deserved, but like…I actually cried during Nemesis. Nemesis also had a fascinating nature-versus-nurture theme, which admittedly, was a come-down from “All Good Things’…” promise of human transcendence, but at least it was something! This just felt like empty nostalgia calories, wrapped it a blanket with bathetic MCU quips. No thought-provoking science fiction. No exploration of the human condition. Just…bloodless violence for an hour.

And then I thought back to how this series started, my beautiful, flawed, Star Trek: Picard; and here I must admit that I’m one of those sad, lonely freaks who actually really liked the first two seasons. I liked the weighty themes of living in the cognizance of death, and the serious engagement with transhumanism. Above all, I liked the characters. Elnor, Soji, Rios, and especially Agnes. And then I thought: what an absolute Insult this season is! You dump all of the characters and you can’t even be arsed to namedrop them. I mean, shit, there’s a reference to Chekov in the first five minutes, but you can’t be arsed to reference any of the characters whose series you hijacked? You have Raffi sparring with Worf and she can’t even mention that her adopted son is a Romulan swordsmaster? You have the Borg invading, and “no one’s seen them in over ten years!” and you can’t be arsed to clarify why that Borg Queen that we all saw Jurati turn into last season doesn’t count? Literally the only allusion, anywhere, to any of the characters from the first two seasons other than Raffi is Shaw telling everyone to “Forget that weird shit on the Stargazer.” That weird shit. Yeah. One of the only characters in all fiction that I’ve ever meaningfully identified with. Thanks, Terry!

But, at the same time…what a gross insult to TNG! TNG, with its humanist utopia and moral conundra and scientific grounding. TNG, which, at its best, showed us what humanity could be; which challenged us to see the world in new ways. Reduced to this. This hollow, plastic pile of rubbish.

But, hey; the reviews are positive! The series is in the top ten for streaming! And a billion YouTube comments have already informed me that, finally, REAL Star Trek is back! Forget “all that weird bullshit,” this is what we, the fandom, wanted all along!

Anyways, can’t wait to see the next exciting installment of Star Trek: Funko Pop

It just occurred to me that Star Trek: Prodigy did the same plot of Star Trek: Picard; an enemy of the Federation used Starfleet technology against Starfleet itself in a way that they would destroy themselves. But Prodigy not only did it before, but did it in a way that made more sense and that was better executed lmao

alk0n0st:

Après la pluie, le beau temps

hadeswearsprada:

STAR TREK Picard - Part 9 Vox Data and Picard

Bonus

trek-daily:

STAR TREK: PICARD (2020-2023)
“Vox” (3.09)

You know, the thing that pisses me off the most about the Enterprise finale is not Trip’s terrible death, or that the crew doesn’t even have a proper POV during their finale episode. Sure, these things makes me very angry, but the one thing that makes me see red, you know what it is?

It’s the presumption that if the franchise were to be given a goodbye to a not known lenght of time, the ones who had to send it off had to be the TNG crew and none of the other series deserved this honor, as if the other ones - even the Enterprise crew, the one show doing the goodbye - were not worth it.

I’m having a similar feeling watching the third season of Star Trek: Picard, considering they wrote off the entire cast of the series, with the exception of Raffi and Seven. It does feel like once again the TNG crew is kicking out the cast of the original show to insert themselves in there at the end.

But it’s not the same because it’s a Picard series and Picard was the main TNG character!

Yes, I see this point, somewhat agree with it but. It’s not the same. Because this is Picard twenty years after his captain years, and it’s about who he is now. We saw him make new friends, a new family in the two previous seasons, and this is now all cast out, as if it was all worthless.

And you see, I’m not actually against the inclusion of the TNG crew in Picard’s last season. I think it makes sense to include them; they are Picard’s family, after all, and Nemesis left several loose ends. What I’m against is the exclusion of the original cast, when they should have been kept IN ADDITION to the TNG crew being brought back.

But it’s too many characters to write about!

Deep Space Nine had NINE main characters (Sisko, Dax, Kira, Bashir, Odo, O'Brien, Quark, Jake, Worf), three main antagonists (Dukat, Winn, Female Founder) and a TON of supporting cast (Garak, Damar, Leeta, Rom, Nog, Morn, Keiko, Kasidy, Ziyal, Martok, Weyoun, Vic Fontaine…) and they managed to juggle it all just fine. More than fine.

But they have to work with much less episodes!

I see this point. It’s true; only ten episodes it’s not a lot of time when there used to be 26 episodes per season, but you know what? It’s still a body of work with almost ten hours of duration. This is just a little less than the hours of the LOTR trilogy, and see the size of the universe and the storylines you’re capable of creating with roughly the same timeframe.

If they focused on what matters and if they were to write it well, it is more than possible to juggle many characters and do a good work while you are at it.

Elnor should have been in this season; he could be a foil to Jack, since he sees Picard as a father figure. So should have been Soji, especially now that Data is back; I think he deserves to know he has a daughter. They never should have gotten ridden of Rios. Borg Queen Agnes is very plot relevant, but she’s nowhere to be seen.

I’m glad that Raffi has been in this season and its a joy to see her with Worf, but it leaves such a bitter taste in my mouth that her romance with Seven seems dead to me. Trek has a terrible record with queer characters, and Seven and Raffi are the first lesbian couple in the whole franchise (and the only main ones apart of Jennifer and Mariner in Lower Decks), and even if they had highs and lows, at least season two bothered to give them time together and interactions. They barely were in the same room together during this season.

The constantly barbs to the early seasons like the way Troi and Riker talked about their home life, the way they ignore Borg Queen Agnes whole existence… this season seems do disdainful of its predecessors, and even if they were full of flaws, this seems so unfair to me. Especially when this season have such a a weak plot being held together only by the talent and the charisma of the TNG crew, it’s really not a good look. The story is weak, it’s repetitive, it doesn’t make sense when you think about it for too long.

And you know what it’s sad? Man, I LOVE the TNG crew. In fact I love TNG; apart from Deep Space Nine, it’s my favorite Star Trek series. I prefer it even over TOS. It makes me sad to see them being brought together again so messily, and in detriment of everything the Star Trek: Picard series had previously established, especially when you can see the ways it could have been good.

whatelsecanwedonow:

Authorization acknowledged:
U.S.S. Enterprise now under command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

STAR TREK: PICARD
S03E09 | Võx