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[-] Infynis@midwest.social 44 points 11 months ago

I hope this is his swan song. Patrick Stewart is amazing, and I love Captain Picard, but he's not Harrison Ford. The franchise will be fine without him. We don't need to play out Too Short a Season in real life

[-] EarMaster@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

Three seasons of PIC were already a mistake. The only good thing coming from it is the possibility of a Riker cooking/baking show (which I would totally watch).

[-] Apollonius_Cone@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

In rewatching the original series and TNG thereafter, the consistent factor, regardless of the early special effects, was the scripts. The dialogue was always great. In ST: Picard, the dialogue is trash.

[-] Avigrace@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

2 seasons were a mistake and by far the worst trek seasons from any show, the third season while being massive fan service was just what I seemingly wanted as I loved every second and was a great ending to the TNG crew

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 15 points 11 months ago

The sitcom The Rikers as pitched by Sirtis and Frakes would have been better that the three seasons of Picard, frankly.

[-] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

I think the difference between Stewart and Ford is that Stewart seems more to be doing it because he enjoys this character. Ford seems to be doing it in spite of his feelings.

As long as Stewart is still having fun, I'm happy with him continuing as long as he wants.

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[-] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 23 points 11 months ago

I prefer to think that Picard is just still stuck in the Nexus and everything that has happened to him since has been a result of magic Nexus fever dreams.

Movie Picard and PIC Picard acted nothing like TNG Picard to the point where they were seemingly completely different people. Movie Picard wanted to make the Borg pay for what they did and literally beat in dead Borg with his fists and snapped the Borg queen’s spine in two with his bare hands while TNG Picard knew things weren’t that cut and dry and even had an opportunity to potentially genocide the works of them and didn’t because ethics and shit. Movie Picard would have drove Hugh up to their doorstep infected with the fractal virus the first chance he had.

PIC Picard… is literally an android I guess? But still old? They kind of ignored that later. So, literally he isn’t the same Picard as TNG Picard.

The Nexus is my head canon.

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago
[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I thought we had seen it all.

[-] ikilledlaurapalmer@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

But I've seen everything anyway. And I get on my bike and I ride off. On the grass.

[-] bababooey@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Will skip this if it gets made. All good things for Picard really came to an end after that episode.

[-] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago

This is First Contact erasure and I won't stand for it.

[-] simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 2 points 11 months ago

@themoken @bababooey

Unless this new movie is frankly outstanding it won't beat First Contact.

I do wish Paramount would concentrate on a Captain Seven series though 🙄🖖

[-] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago

Agreed wholeheartedly.

As some have mentioned, this could be a/another backdoor pilot for Legacy where Seven more or less takes the torch from Picard, similar to Picard taking it from Kirk in Generations - although that was obviously after TNG instead of before.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I'm OK with this, people shit on Star Trek Picard but I still thought it was alright despite the departure from more traditional Trek.

[-] VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I watched the first season and liked it. The fan service didn't feel so bad (I enjoyed it!). Season twos portrayal by half way through of an old enemy felt too casual to me and I tapped out. Is season 3 worth a whirl of two stopped me?

[-] dmonzel@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Season 3 is literally just fan service. They reused the V'Ger sound/theme for the enemy. They brought back a character from another show in the franchise. They brought back a character who appeared in two whole episodes of TNG. Large parts of the sound design were lifted from the TNG-era series. Seriously, almost as much fan service as Lower Decks.

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Honestly with the train wreck that was Seasons 1 and 2, going full fan service was about the only path forward for the last season. I liked Season 3, but it certainly was NOT original.

As for Lower Decks.....brah.....how is Lower Decks fan service? There are references and stuff, but its got its own vibe now going on.

[-] dmonzel@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

To be fair, I haven't watched the latest season of LD, but up to that point, it really was "get this reference? See? Giant Spock's skeleton! Remember this energy being that escaped the Enterprise-D?" However, I went into LD knowing that that was what I was going to be getting, and while I won't say it's my favorite nu-Trek series, I do really enjoy it.

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

It definitely has some inside jokery going on and references to other shows, but I'd argue it's more organically done than just calling it "fan service". It's also a comedy SciFi, so I feel like it has more leeway than I'd give most shows, though.

The show has progressively become it's own thing as each season progresses, though.

[-] dmonzel@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Oh I in no way meant it as an insult. I love that about LD. I did not love that about PIC.

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The reason I think Lower Decks does a fine job with its "fan service" is that none of those "get this reference? See?" moments matter. They're just stuff that's going on in the background, where an ordinary non-Lower-Decks Star Trek show would simply put a bunch of random meaningless gizmos or whatever to fill out the scene. The story that's being told in the foreground works perfectly well if you don't "get" any of the references. Often the story is enhanced by those references, but if you watch Lower Decks without any knowledge of the previous shows (aside presumably from a general gist of how shows like Star Trek work) you can still enjoy it.

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[-] socprof@masto.ai 5 points 11 months ago

@VerseAndVermin @FartsWithAnAccent I'm among the few who didn't like S3. I could not care less for "the chosen one" thing, which is just annoying and a tired trope.

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Season 3 wasn't amazing, but it certainly wasn't as awful as Seasons 1 and 2. The scene with the D reveal and the fighting inside the cube was pretty dope, but I'll admit it was full fan service start to end.

Seasons 1 and 2 of Picard left me going "WTF how did this story make it out of the writer's room with approval?" With some editing and reworking it COULD have been good.....but it wasn't.

And don't get me started on Discovery. That show has been a Trainwreck forever.

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

The third season isn't as good as 1 but its clear and away better than 2 by a huge margin and has some extremely fantastic emotional payoffs.

[-] johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl 7 points 11 months ago

TBH, i never seem to like anything thats made after Voyager or Nemesis. And i understand it, the new movies and new series are made for a different (broader) audience, so it needs splendor and lots of shooting, but to me thats not what Star Trek was about.

Ive always hoped they’d make a serie with the USS Prometheus, but alas! I’ll just keep rewatching Voyager and DS9 untill i die, i guess.

[-] c10l@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Strange New Worlds has been quite good tbh.

Picard has its moments as well. It’s more valuable as a TNG revival than as a whole new ST work but it’s not bad, especially the last season.

Discovery is one of the worst sci-fi ever produced though, so definitely stay away from it.

[-] graded6827@feddit.uk 6 points 11 months ago

Glad to see someone else hating on discovery, on the Star Trek subreddit everyone’s obsessed with it and I thought it was hot garbage

[-] accideath@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I‘d say Discovery has its moments (aka those including Jason Isaacs or Anson Mount) but yea, the Series as a whole is rather bad with an annoying as fuck main character…

[-] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

All of the arguments I see for Discovery are based on representation and that's literally the only thing the show got right. It's like yeah, it's great to have a diverse cast... I just wish they were on screen doing something good. Trek lives and dies in the writing, all the acting, effects, and out of universe concerns won't save it from absolutely horrendous writing.

If they'd have done SNW style plots with DSC cast, it would have been amazing from the beginning.

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[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 7 points 11 months ago

I heard only last night about a script that is being written, but written specifically with the actor, Patrick [Stewart], to play in it. And I’ve been told to expect to receive it within a week or so.

Notably, that week was several weeks ago:

TrekMovie has confirmed with Josh Horowitz that this interview was recorded in early November as Stewart was out promoting his new memoir, Making It So.

[-] 7of9@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago

If this thread is anything to go by, me and my other half were the only people on the planet that actually enjoyed Picard S1 and 2, and didn't like S3 as much.

In that spirit, if a film is made I look forward to enjoying it even if I'm the only one.

[-] astroPug@hachyderm.io 3 points 11 months ago

@7of9 @USSBurritoTruck

I'll raise my hand and say that I actually enjoyed all three seasons. I felt like 1 and 2 had a sense of melancholy at times, but that was welcome. Kind of felt right at that time in my life.
3 I really liked for the interpersonal relationships, and that sense of wonder in space.

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[-] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

I enjoyed all 3 seasons of Picard. I'll likely enjoy this movie. It's always a joy to see Patrick Stewart in a dramatic role.

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[-] Fades@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I liked all 3, 3 being hit or miss but overall enjoyable for me. Season 2 had a lot of fun parts

[-] 7of9@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

The thing I liked with 1 and 2 was that they both tried to tackle big ideas of past trauma, even if it didn't come out well the big thinking was in there while a lot of recent things I've watched has felt skin deep at best

[-] cupcakezealot 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

i will always love a new picard movie since i have memories of watching tng with my dad and i loved picard but i still want them to make star trek legacy

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

You know they have to use the bridge a lot more than one single episode. It was always part of the plan.

[-] ulkesh@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

I think this is great and anything I can see Patrick Stewart in, I will. I don’t share the opinion that Picard series was bad. I don’t see Picard as a one-dimensional must always be the same character. People change over time. And Picard has also changed. Like it or not.

Bring on the movie!

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[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago
[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

It's the one and only. You're my hero, Picard.

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