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I think there is a lot of stuff that is not in the trailers to avoid spoilers Even the space combat stuff is just quick cuts so we can’t see what’s going on
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2020 15:35 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 01:28 |
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funkymonks posted:I really really dislike super serialized Star Trek. When DS9 first aired (and shows with similar structure like Babylon 5, Farscape, Stargate, etc), I didn't appreciate what it was doing at the time having a coherent arc while also having plenty of breathing room to develop characters. I just wanted them to get on with the main plot. Well that's all we get now and I hate it. Nobody’s going to pay for 26 episodes in a season for this kind of expensive show
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2020 16:37 |
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Croatoan posted:All Good Things was great but they just had to have an enterprise upgrade with a third nacelle.
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2020 19:02 |
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Disco will significantly improve when they stop filming the first drafts of the script
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2020 23:53 |
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HD DAD posted:Disco is like the kid who’s under a fuckton of pressure to succeed, and burns itself out while trying to do 400 extracurriculars at once. What will be interesting is if they actually stay in the future or not
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 00:17 |
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Drink-Mix Man posted:They'll probably stay in the future so they can have fewer continuity issues to juggle as they plan 2-5 other shows set in the 23rd/24th Century.
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 02:51 |
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Good news, they’re bringing back Leland T Lynch
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 15:58 |
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Croatoan posted:This is why although we haven't seen him in the trailers I assume Geordi will show up? Right? idk Although someone found a while back that Michael Dorn was on the Picard set at some point. Just no confirmation he is actually on the show.
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 16:03 |
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Someone posted the theory that the Romulans are trying to capture one of those super androids to use the tech to create an army, which is certainly possible. What I'll be curious about is whether we find out if there is still a Romulan Empire or if it collapsed after 2387. I am also very curious as to how Seven and those other ex-Borg play into this, and whether this show is going to establish that the Borg are gone now.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 06:04 |
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Cojawfee posted:I want to see Ensign Harry Kim in the background somewhere. Picard walks past him on a Starship and he tries to say he's been waiting for a promotion but they walk past too fast and the door closes on him.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 06:25 |
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i would be surprised if Lore was involved at all since Data says at the end of Descent Part 2 that he deactivated him, and they at least make it seem like that’s the end of Lore. But who knows.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 15:04 |
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Nemesis was the last time the TNG cast really appeared in Trek, so it was bound to come up again
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 16:07 |
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MichiganCubbie posted:That was actually never canon before a few years ago, when it was officially "canonized," IIRC.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 17:04 |
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I think like 39 ships were lost in Wolf 359
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 20:01 |
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Gaz-L posted:Also, as someone who actually mostly likes DISCO, I was pleasantly surprised to see Dahj's fridged BF was a Xahean. In fact, the show was pretty good about using established Trek humanoid aliens, the make-up artist for the journalist was Bajoran, and one of the crew was a Trill.
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2020 01:39 |
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:Jay's turning sexist? I haven't noticed. He just seems more smug... He's a super nerd that is more into older horror movies than anything else Just watched him and Jack talking about Tron and Tron Legacy, which was good
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2020 23:05 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Probably either space mines to keep someone from tractor beaming it away or to blow the poo poo out of it if the cube reactivates suddenly, because the Romulans are hella paranoid like that. Or some kind of gravity tethers to hold the cube in place and keep it from drifting through space.
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2020 01:22 |
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Khanstant posted:Are there any time travel fictions that work on the premise of time not being linear? We always have to think that if we go back in the past and change this or that, it must have consequences for the future but in our world the nature of time is still kind of mysterious and in a fictional world you're obviously free to construct time to work however you want. Go back in time, kill your dad, go back to present and you still exist both with a dad and a dead dad.
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2020 18:26 |
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I am not that well versed in physics, but isn't the whole idea of warp drive that it cheats relativity because you are warping space to go FTL? I know the show also says that they used 'subspace communication' to have instantaneous communication across space as well, although that is not something that is very well explained
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2020 00:16 |
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I’m sorry, but why would the government be encouraging people to just do gay sex
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2020 01:00 |
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Thom12255 posted:I'm going to go with ignore - the first episode already got flak from critics for spending awhile doing scenes purely for exposition. I doubt they're going to mention anything else that hasn't made its way into the general culture beyond very unimportant easter eggs for fans.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2020 02:59 |
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I do think it's a little weird that the Federation, or at least some of the people in it, would blame the Romulans for an attack carried out by a lab experiment on Earth Doesn't make a lot of sense for there to be that much xenophobia against the Romulans, but we also don't have the full picture yet I don't have a problem with them trying to make a 21st century analogy with the plot of the show, but it needs to be done properly.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2020 03:56 |
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MikeJF posted:The description of lower decks is that they're on a 'second contact' ship that comes after the fancy explorers breeze in and out and does all the paperwork. Hoping it’s not trash. The TNG Season 8 guy is apparently the head writer
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2020 21:14 |
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Personally I’m surprised that they did a Re:View already. With Discovery they did one partway through the first season, after the first season, and after the second season.
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2020 16:11 |
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Rhyno posted:I ordered a couple of Eaglemoss XL Starships, my Trek fandom is back in full force!
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2020 15:49 |
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Here's a minute or so clip from what I assume is this week's episode where we get more information about the Borg Cube POTENTIAL EPISODE SPOILERS https://www.ign.com/videos/picard-take-a-closer-look-inside-the-borg-ship I found it interesting that they refer to this as a 'Borg artifact', at least implying that the Collective is no more. Although the Romulan overseer does say that it could still be potentially dangerous. It's also pretty muffled but I think the guy says that this ship is Romulan property? Those people standing around are clearly Federation scientists (there is a background Andorian as well).
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2020 04:00 |
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This show is having some similar problems to Discovery in that the editing is done by someone on speed. Picard's doctor walks in, and that scene speeds through so fast to the commercial break that I had to rewind it. Ep 2 Spoiler thoughts I thought it was OK, but they kind of clumsily set up some new characters here like the Vulcan Admiral who seems to be corrupt and a Romulan operative that I guess is surgically altered to pass as human? They just gloss over that fact really fast and also that she's Narek's older sister. I do find it interesting that it appears they are going to establish that the Romulans have been gradually taking Borg drones out of stasis over a long time and removing their implants. I think in that one surgery scene the one doctor says that the drone had been in stasis for 12 years. More interestingly, we see (and they reference) 'reclaimed' Borg drones working on the project. However, I have a feeling that they are being forced into doing the work and are basically slaves for the Romulans, but we'll see. Someone else brought it up, but they also referenced the 'Romulan Free State'. I just wonder if that is going to be a splinter government from the Empire or the newer version of the Empire post-Romulus destruction. There's a modified Romulan logo on the cube that is no longer holding Romulus and Remus in its talons, so I'm wondering if that is the Free State or not. What's also unclear to me is, who orchestrated the synth attack on Mars. I am doubtful that it's the super-secret Romulan group since they hate synths so much. It sure looks like something reprograms the synth before he starts to hack into the Utopia Planitia network to turn the weapons onto the planet. But the impression I'm getting from these Romulan operatives is that they don't want to use the synths for anything, just destroy them.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 06:12 |
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I’m skeptical that the original actor who played Maddox will appear at all. I checked and he’s been a professor for some time and retired from acting.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 06:30 |
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I don’t understand how it’s possible to cover up an explosion the size of the one we saw in the first episode. No one else saw that?
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 06:33 |
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The idea that Romulans are androids would be a bit much for me to believe after how long they have been in the franchise. Now, maybe the secret organization’s leader could be an android, but there’s no way they could have kept that kind of secret for centuries.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 14:09 |
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I said come in! posted:It's not much better though. It's a Borg cube, controlled by the Romulans and clearly wanted to be worked on in secret, yet they are just hiring random people around the galaxy to work and live there? This entire Borg plot thing is so confusing right now. Like, I get revealing stuff slowly, but this is just written like fan fiction and is only there because its cool. It sounded like this Cube got disconnected from the Collective for *reasons* and went inactive. There’s a line about being careful because they don’t want to accidentally reactivate the thing and have it contact the Collective which tells me that the Borg are not totally gone, just that maybe some of them were disconnected from the collective. I’m curious as to how both Seven and Hugh figure into the plot.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 16:22 |
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Ro may be dead by this point. The Jem’Hadar wiped out the Maquis to the last man.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 20:20 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:That was Ray Wise (Arturis). He was great because he finally put Janeway in her loving place.
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2020 06:08 |
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Angry Salami posted:I didn't think it was meant to be secret - the Trill woman says she had to get some sort of clearance from the new Romulan government, so I assumed she applied to work there, not that she was recruited by them. And Dahj and her sister were in regular correspondence with each other, so there's no communications blackout or anything.
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2020 06:10 |
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CaveGrinch posted:Track titles are up for the first five episodes of Picard’s soundtrack. I guess this is the first confirmation that we will actually see Maddox show up? The question is whether it will be the original actor or not.
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2020 06:32 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Track 26 has me more intrigued. Are we gonna see The Doctor show up? Or at least a version of him?
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2020 06:40 |
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My main issue with the Disco uniforms is that they all look the same and it's not color coded by department like in all other series. I think the Disco Enterprise uniforms are a good modernization of the old TOS ones.
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2020 06:17 |
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Lizard Combatant posted:
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# ¿ Feb 4, 2020 01:21 |
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Drink-Mix Man posted:New "leak" from a clickbait site alleges the following details for future Trek series: I think i have heard the Starfleet Academy reports before.
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# ¿ Feb 4, 2020 21:01 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 01:28 |
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San Diego Spoonheads has a good ring to it
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