You're right. Sadly that comment is basically what some were and still say about Discovery (going into season 3). Sadly we're in for a repeat it seems.
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SDCC trailer for Star Trek: Picard
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That's actually what I meant, apologies if I seemed to dismiss the old Trek shows.
What I meant to say was TNG felt too clean and like watching a group of old English professors discussing philosophy, TOS by comparison was bombastic.
I'm more of a DS9 guy where there was a little more grey and the characters were edgier.
Keep in mind that the current Starfleet uniforms have colored collars, so he could just be in uniform.
That's never coming back. The smartphone generation can't handle that.
But I'll take Picard roughin' it against Romulans experimenting with Borg tech.
Counterpoint, the earlier, more politically oriented seasons of Game Of Thrones as well as shows like ROME
People just don't want to watch a slow dry show anymore. Again, TOS was kinda action packed too.
Star Trek was big in the XTREME 90's. It can return.
Just a matter of time before the ST'09 experiment is abandoned and the series is rebooted again--hopefully they'll pick a better direction, then.
The worse Game of Thrones got the better the ratings became. Go figure.
Well there is this one seemingly quite successful show which has now made way for a multitude of spin-offs including Picard and potentially a Pike series.
I'd imagine that basically the Romulans could end up being responsible for the return of the Borg after they were so badly crippled at the end of Voyager.
Definitely gonna have a lot of BORG shenanigans in this show, should be interesting to see how they dive back into that well after all this time.
Wow, that trailer was fantastic, seeing Data and Picard together at the end was so wonderful. Looks like I'm gonna have to cave in get a CBS All Access sub next year, might as well as I was already tempted by the Twilight Zone.
Every time they show the vineyard, I remember that they murdered Picard's family randomly in a movie and get sad. I liked his salty brother.
I'm not feeling this mysterious woman plot. I was hoping for a more space adventure vibe since DISCO is doing the dramatic action thing.
I liked seeing Seven if only so she can be on a show that doesn't treat her like trash.
Of course, I'm still giving it a chance since trailers always try to make everything exciting and dramatic even if the media necessarily isn't.
I'm not feeling this mysterious woman plot. I was hoping for a more space adventure vibe since DISCO is doing the dramatic action thing.
I liked seeing Seven if only so she can be on a show that doesn't treat her like trash.
Of course, I'm still giving it a chance since trailers always try to make everything exciting and dramatic even if the media necessarily isn't.
this scene + the borg cube with blue forcefields (friendly) leads me to believe they've captured the cube and it's some form of rebel band of misfits in control of it, and it's not actually a threat. All the borg forcefields were green.
It is new, because this isn't TNG 2.0 like they've said since the beginning
The mystery super girl is such tired standard, very tired, fare for sci-fi but it otherwise looked great. Wasn't expecting to see 7 at all. I know Discovery takes place in the prime universe but it is a prequel so it is nice to see new material that actually references the other shows
I feel like the producers of TNG fielded these exact same complaints from original TOS fans back in the 80s. Yes, if we see the interior of a Galaxy, Intrepid, or Sovereign Class starship (or even a in-universe modern class starship) I'd hope to get some a modern take with hints of old design language, but let's not kid ourselves that civilian characters and extras dressed ridiculously in TNG-era Trek, and that any planet that couldn't be filmed in the deserts or forests of California didn't scream that it was just a flat soundstage with a few rocks plopped on the floor.
I love how you can already see Seven has evolved since Voyager to be a bit looser in demeanor.
It was never intended to be a TNG throwback and they've been 100% up front about that since the initial announcement.
I do think it's interesting how people ignore that Discovery does do episodic adventure stuff, they just usually tie it into an overarching narrative. Season 2 was especially this, with them following mysterious signals, having a self contained adventure and then it ties into the overall plot.
Well we know from the Countdown comics that the Romulans have been hoarding and studying Borg technology for quite a while, which is what they outfit the Narada with. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that they captured a damaged Borg Cube (Or possibly even a fully intact one that went dark during the destruction of Unimatrix One) and are working on reverse engineering the technology.
I doubt it'll be a rebel band of misfits, but the actual Romulan Government, or at least its remnants after the Hobus Supernova.
...and Tim Allen got more viewers. MacFarlane praising FOX's "willingness" to let the show go as soon as there was a bump in the road just paints a picture.
Good for Hulu though.
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Ah yeah I forgot about the narada/borg connection - and I worked on the damn franchise at one point!
I'm excited, too, because if the whole CBS/Viacom merger happens in August, they'll be able to namedrop nero and stuff too to really tie both timelines together.. Could be neat.
I'd rather not be reminded of Enterprise. LOL.
They weren't really that self-contained. I never felt season 2 was more self-contained then season 1. Even in season 1 each episode tackled something different within the overarching narrative. As season 2 unfolded I never saw what some were saying. I even saw many others questioning that narrative as well.
I had to conclude that some tried to push this idea that season 2 was really different in order to knock season 1 or because season 2 had a character or element they liked while they weren't there in season 1. So season 2 must have been doing something really different when it really wasn't. The structure of the two seasons is very similar if not the same. Even if you focused just on the signals taking them to different locations that's largely just in the first half and not even the entire first half.
Reasonably hyped! I'll watch anything Star Trek. But it's already raising some red flags. The past 10 years of Star Trek has been little more than MacGuffins in space, and they've already revealed this arc's.
I'm okay with this show not feeling like a TNG continuation, even with regards to tone, but Picard is a very specific character and TNG has a very particular legacy, so I don't really trust them to respect either correctly considering the hokey space opera that is Discovery.
I'm okay with this show not feeling like a TNG continuation, even with regards to tone, but Picard is a very specific character and TNG has a very particular legacy, so I don't really trust them to respect either correctly considering the hokey space opera that is Discovery.
Definitely gonna have a lot of BORG shenanigans in this show, should be interesting to see how they dive back into that well after all this time.
It occurs to me, that works out to 16 years.
2399 - 16 = 2383
So yeah, the Romulans have been canonically messing with this stuff before Romulus went boom. This ain't some rebel cell
I think because of the damage it's Data salvaged from the Scimitar wreckage. If they're smart, B4 would be causally referenced as being vaporized on a distant star years before and forgotten forever. B4 was probably demanded to be written into Nemesis by Brent Spiner's agent.
Timeline wise that CBS has worked with Star Trek Online on would have Captain Data at this point on the Enterprise-E. Show is set about 8 years before the Enterprise-E is destroyed. I doubt the timeline is something they will follow to any serious degree though as the Klingon-Federation Peace Treaty is supposed to be dissolved at the time Picard takes place.
Which is only five years after the Borg were destroyed in Endgame.
I've been wanting Captain Data for years.
If he's in a starfleet uniform it's yellow, so the only way he's a Captain Is if they went back to ToS colors.
