Star Trek Picard SPOILERS thread

[MarkB]

HOh, and, sigh, guess Freecloud is just a lame space casino...yet another cool copy from Star Wars, right?

Space casinos are hardly an original Star Wars concept. They've been around ever since people started setting stories in space. Quark's bar on DS9 is a casino.

 

[Mallus]

First reaction to episode 4: I love this and Michael Chabon should write every episode (with Frakes directing - he’s damn good).

Second reaction: I want to see Michael Chabon writing emo scripts for the Lord of the Rings show because he really needs to work more in the pointy ears, swords, and quests genre.

 

[Mallus]

Episode 4

Well...more building with not much happening.

Hum Romulan Mad Max world had a space shield...just like in Star Wars. Hummm.

Lots of fun spin writing. Like how Picard is all shocked the Romulans are living all poor like. Guess he thought they would be living like Federation people on Earth, right? And then...loony old guy that he us, he blames the Federation! And, gosh, none of the Romulans seem happy that Picard HELPED SAVE THEIR LIVES, nope they are just all evil space thugs.

Oh and a Romulan elf guy joins the crew....yae?

Oh, and, sigh, guess Freecloud is just a lame space casino...yet another cool copy from Star Wars, right?

Congratulations! That was a terrible summary. Why are you watching this if you get nothing out of it?

 

[Umbran]

Like how Picard is all shocked the Romulans are living all poor like.

What? I didn't see him shocked. He was unaware of how far things had slipped, but he's been out of the loop for a long time. He's ashamed that the didn't do more for them. Bu he isn't shocked.

And, gosh, none of the Romulans seem happy that Picard HELPED SAVE THEIR LIVES, nope they are just all evil space thugs.

None of the Romulans... except for the ones he spends time with and do like him. So, yeah... all of them don't like him, except the ones that do like him :/

And, with respect, they were given assurances that they'd be helped, and then abandoned with limited resources and no prospects, for something like 14 years. People left in poverty for over a decade... yeah, they get angry. Duh.

Oh, and, sigh, guess Freecloud is just a lame space casino...yet another cool copy from Star Wars, right?

"Out in space there's a lawless place with no regulation, filled with gambling and various other unsavory activities" is as old as sci-fi. And with a name like "Freecloud" what did you expect?

 

[MarkB]

I don't think we've ever really seen an example of planetary shields on any major developed world in Star Trek

Hi, I am run-down frontier planet. I has shields.

Well, that didn't take long.

 

[trappedslider]

Episode 4

Well...more building with not much happening.

Hum Romulan Mad Max world had a space shield...just like in Star Wars. Hummm.

Lots of fun spin writing. Like how Picard is all shocked the Romulans are living all poor like. Guess he thought they would be living like Federation people on Earth, right? And then...loony old guy that he us, he blames the Federation! And, gosh, none of the Romulans seem happy that Picard HELPED SAVE THEIR LIVES, nope they are just all evil space thugs.

Oh and a Romulan elf guy joins the crew....yae?

Oh, and, sigh, guess Freecloud is just a lame space casino...yet another cool copy from Star Wars, right?

What did i just read?

 

[Morrus]

So going back to the previous conversation — it’s 900M people evacuated to planets outside the blast zone.

 

[Raunalyn]

So going back to the previous conversation — it’s 900M people evacuated to planets outside the blast zone.

Right, 900 million. How many ships would that take? What would be the capacity of those ships? I remember reading something about the Enterprise D having a crew compliment of around 500 people, but Constellation class star ships are not the biggest in Starfleet. How many could you safely stuff into the ships?

 

[Morrus]

Right, 900 million. How many ships would that take? What would be the capacity of those ships? I remember reading something about the Enterprise D having a crew compliment of around 500 people, but Constellation class star ships are not the biggest in Starfleet. How many could you safely stuff into the ships?

1024 crew, but that’s by the by. That’s not a colony ship. It’s purpose isn’t transporting large numbers of people.

 

[Umbran]

1024 crew, but that’s by the by. That’s not a colony ship. It’s purpose isn’t transporting large numbers of people.

If you look on Memory Alpha or the like... the Federation seems to like its colonies small - Federation colony ships carry a couple/few thousand people, not tens of thousands.