Picard season 2 (spoilers maybe unmarked)

[Morrus]

“Well a double dumb ass on you!”

 

[Horwath]

I’ve got the best version on right now!

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Is that from Voyage home?

edit: now I saw your last post...yes it is

 

[Morrus]

I recognise this guy!

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I hate to disparage Riker, but something was lost when the Direction changed from Leah Thompson to Jonathan Frakes. It didn't go from "great" to "bad" or anything, but there was a noticeable dip.

 

[billd91]

I hate to disparage Riker, but something was lost when the Direction changed from Leah Thompson to Jonathan Frakes. It didn't go from "great" to "bad" or anything, but there was a noticeable dip.

Frakes is a very experienced director. I think the material for season 2 just isn’t as good as season 1. It’s more uneven.

 

[MarkB]

Frames is a very experienced director. I think the material for season 2 just isn’t as good as season 1. It’s more uneven.

Honestly, season 1 was pretty uneven too. I'd say season 2 is slightly better so far, purely because it doesn't keep switching to a tenuously-connected B plot.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Frames is a very experienced director. I think the material for season 2 just isn’t as good as season 1. It’s more uneven.

Frakes is good, sure. I just got the feeling that Thompson dud a better job with what she got. Maybe she had better stuff, it's hard to say, but I felt the show took a small hit when they switched off. Might not be Frakes' fault, if course. Who knows?

 

[CoreyHaim8myDog]

Twitches at having items deliberately placed in front of the screen

Yeah, that ain't right.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

All they had to do was have some reclusive Billionaire and his company be handling the space launch - then it sounds eccentric (as in completely unnecessary but why not...). I believe SpaceX handles 2/3rds of NASA's launches IRL - so why not have some eccentric Billionaire doing it?

I'm starting to think that at some phase in story development it was some sort of private space mission given that they now had Adam Soong make a "large donation" and become a trustee or whatever. That's just not how NASA missions work, and while I can imagine it being how they work in 10 or 20 years, it's not going to be how they work in 2024, and if somehow it is it's at the very least not going to be something people just casually remark on as normal in 2024. My guess is they initially had it be a private space mission to be topical and so that there would be fewer constraints on what they could do with it script, story, and technology-wise and then decided later that having a billionaire-funded private space mission be a transformational, landmark event that saved Earth from going Nazi was too "hurray for capitalism!" for the Star Trek franchise.

 

[Mort]

So Picard episode 7

There's a lot - probably too much, introduced this late.

But what makes me sad is the writers deciding yet again to "expose" the bright future of Star Trek as a bit of a facade. Namely their take that: apparently in the future, humanity still has no clue about mental illness and how to properly treat it.