Star Trek Picard SPOILERS thread

[scottiemick]

Been slowly catching up on the series and man there's a lot to unpack here! haha

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Happy to be wrong. While the finale was a bit clunky, here and there, I found it quite satisfying. Also. lots of love. Which I like. Good season overall. Maybe it'll be like Next Gen and get even better as it goes along.

 

[Mallus]

I’m so glad Picard reversed the trend of exciting penultimate episodes and disappointing finales. I found Arcadia part 1 weaker than the three preceding episodes - though the most TNG the show has been. But part 2? I think it might be the best Star Trek film.

(which of course is cheating a bit since it had 9 hours of setup and a Pulitzer/Hugo winner at the helm)

edit: and I wish this board didn’t have the languages rules it’s always had, so I could repeat the joyous stream of expletives I let out when I realized the scene at the end with Data was a nod to Gilgamesh; Picard ended up venturing into the afterlife after his friend.

Which is so Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel. I pity the poor fools who think the team behind Picard didn’t know Trek (or good writing).

 

[Dire Bare]

A few things I wonder after episode 10 . . .

After our heroes interrupted Soji's activation of the beacon, what happened to Narek?

Seven flies off with the "Motley Crew" at the episode's end, what about the rest of the XBs?

I'd like to think the XBs stay on the synth planet (what's it's name again?) and live in harmony and peace with the synths. Idea that struck me, could the synths replace the XBs Borg implants to correct for disabilities, without reactivating the collective? Making the XBs individual cyborgs, outside of the collective? Would the XBs even want that?

One failing of the series, IMO, is that very few of the XBs beyond Picard, Seven, and Hugh were given much personality. There was Seven's "son" who was harvested for parts, and the crazy Romulan mythologist & Zhat Vash witch. Is that because they are stunted mentally and/or emotionally? Or they just didn't get the screen time?

Most importantly, when does ST: Discovery Season 3 start? Other than "soon"!?!?!

 

[bloodtide]

I wonder if a Mecha-Cthulhu seed tentacle slipped out of the portal?

It was nice to see a Star Trek ending and not a ''pew pew" Star Wars ending.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Why did you torture yourself watching an entire series you clearly hate?

For the record, I have never implied any hate about the show, disappointment yes. And it was very much so, in the latter, in spades..

 

[Truth Seeker]

The series had it's plot holes and imperfections, but . . .

I loved it. I even got emotional watching episode 10 when Picard died, and then again when he hung out with Data in the simulation, and when the classic musical theme cued up at various points . . .

No cliffhanger, but a good set-up for Season 2. Lots of love on the Sirena going into next season, Rios and Jurati, and it looked like something burgeoning between Seven and Raffi. And everybody loves J.L.!

I liked the new ship designs for both the Romulan and Federation fleets, although I need a better close-up of those new Federation ships. I did have a quibble, both groups seemed to have awfully large fleets considering what we've seen in the past and the current "state of the galaxy" . . . but still cool to see.

Just at a glance, the Fed side, it looks to be same ship model in mass. checking now with a froze cut. yupe...it is all the same ships or the majority. No Prime Trek ships, this is all of one Secret Hideout model. There are two direct views that shows, the same ship greatly duplicated, from the starboard and aft view.

 

[Ryujin]

The "Search for Spock" ending was telegraphed a mile away, but that didn't lesson my enjoyment of the whole series. It's the sort of Trek that I've been missing.

 

[MarkB]

The "Search for Spock" ending was telegraphed a mile away, but that didn't lesson my enjoyment of the whole series. It's the sort of Trek that I've been missing.

I was fifty-fifty on whether it would be the brain-download or the magic visualise-the-repair tool that did the job.

 

[Ryujin]

I was fifty-fifty on whether it would be the brain-download or the magic visualise-the-repair tool that did the job.

I figured brain download, from the moment that they showed the "golem", but also considered the fact that since Sir Patrick had been so reluctant to reprise the character, perhaps he only agreed to do it if the ending was a final one.