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Finished Picard I saw someone else on the internet say some of this, but it's like if you took the worst sensibilities of Voyager and Nemesis, used the JJ Abrams Star Wars dress rehearsal Star Trek as a base, sprinkled in the goofier elements and tip-top-notch CGI of Discovery (holy SHIT, some of that Episode 10 CGI, those space lotuses are what I want my shitflowers to look like), and then you don't actually like TNG but they made you use the TNG stuff so you went "UGH, fine" and out popped Star Trek: Picard. If you excised all the TNG elements, then it's dumb but it's fine in the same way Discovery is dumb but it's fine. They're trying to pull Millennial dorks back in and dangle something Zoomers might get into (which apparently means dumbing it down and having a lot of bare-basic inter-cast drama), but you can't mix Boomer, Gen X, Millennial and Zoomer all together and then shit on the Boomer elements of it (we can forget about Gen X because everyone does anyways ) So my final rating on a 10 scale is a Watch-The-Expanse-Instead/10

Took me about Partway through Episode 7 into Episode 8 to be properly stockholm syndrome'd into the fanfiction handling of the setting the overall storyline

Episode 6 A strung-out women who's been drinking ruins a long-term friendship of hers just to get diplomatic credentials for the Scooby Gang for 24 hours... and Picard gives her standing applause. Like this woman is in a personal spiral and ruining more of her life and Picard's like "HELL YEAH, YOU JUST HELPED OUR MISSION OUT." What the fuck.

Picard E5 Torture porn doesn't belong in Star Trek, thanks. Something about the setting I'm really missing here and I don't remember if it was mentioned earlier (Serious, not babby-whining that this isn't muh Trek)

Picard E4 The space battle CGI is spectacular. I'm always going to miss the practical effects models but god damn, Discovery had incredible space-battle CGI and it's made its way into Picard too.

EARTH DOESN'T USE MONEY HOLY SHIT I'M MAD Raffi's living in a hovel pretending like she's been banished to poor-land when EARTH DOESN'T USE MONEY SHE'S CHOOSING TO LIVE LIKE THIS and then pilot-guy is all "Hurr durrr I'm expensive" but he's operating on Earth which DOESN'T USE MONEY SO WHY WOULD A FOR-HIRE EVEN BE THERE. I literally turned my brain off so I'd stop comic-book guy'ing it but I can't stupid myself down enough to let slips in the basic setting like this go by. I hate everything new and wish they'd stop injecting stupid young-people shit into. THEY TURNED ME INTO A FUCKING BOOMER

"This Facility has gone 5843 days without an assimilation." Okay I lol'ed

Actually I just needed to eat lunch, back on it

Just finished Episode 1 of Picard. I'm offended as fuck tbh. Who's this sad old man in this sad old timeline with this sad old Starfleet where we pretend that JJ Abrams' Star Wars dress rehearsal is canon and actually happe- oh hey, that looks like a Borg Cube On to Episode 2. "And the replicator will ding like it was a microwave xD xD xD xD" Nope, I'm not watching any more of this today

Mannnnn, that was some kind of CGI in the Discovery Season 2 finale. Who knew Federation Starships had the potential to have like 800 million starfighters in them and they just never used it before (or since...)

Discovery S2 E13

I think half of the problem is that the original showrunner foresaw it as an anthology series where each season had a different crew in a different era. Most of these characters were never meant to be anything more than vehicles to move the plot. Part of what I don't like about Season 2 is that it undid a decent amount of the events of Season 1 primarily because "Oh shit, we weren't expecting to use these characters anymore and now we have to figure out how to reroute them back into the plot." Apparently we're getting another new showrunner for next season too, so who knows if any of this is even going to last

Saru is the best part of the show for me. Airiam could've been another but they didn't really focus all that much on her and then (Season 2 spoilers) I also go halfsies on Tyler (S1 and beyond spoilers) One thing I really, really liked

I like the concept, but after seeing the crew of Discovery having a drunk-ass club party, I'm also waiting to be horrified

Anyone still watching Discovery? From an old-head Trekkie perspective, graphics are pretty and sometimes there's a good episode or good element (I really like the casting on Sarek and Spock tbh) and clever usage of concepts, but it's mostly bogged down by poor consistency (apparently there's a lot of backstage drama that's interfering with the original vision for the show), Michael being the most Mary-Sue character ever, continuity flaws (both in keeping with the universe and even in the story itself, like those times ) and how silly Millennial-shit it gets sometimes (Discovery was attacked by giant space sawblades a few episodes ago, that's like TOS space-hippies level of injecting too much of our goofy modern world into this far-future world). I mostly keep up with it just to keep up with whatever Star Trek is up to these days, and also those pretty sfx. (And ye, I've heard of The Orville, I'll probs try to watch eventually but I'm in no rush. I also still need to watch the third reboot movie at some point... and maybe all of Voyager eventually because that's the one I haven't seen all of ). Also they're launching a Picard TV show at some point? TNG is now so old that Picard is retro the same way Kirk was retro when Picard first came onto the scene