Picard Season 3

[Hussar]

I gotta admit- I like my Trek to be more episodic. Or at least only two or three episode long arcs.

 

[Stalker0]

Sure, but it's only Picard and Discovery that make them their central identity.

Oh and enterprise having to save earth from that temporal cold war....

 

[Maxperson]

yeah, but without Raffi.
I really hoped that she was going to get killed and not Shaw.

Seven, Jack, LaForge sisters, all great characters for new season.

Maybe they could sneak in Rafiki to take her place.

 

[Maxperson]

Fair enough. In the grand Star Trek tradition it gets a lot better after the first season or two, but OTOH even at its best it mostly wastes the interesting premise so I can understand people's not wanting to watch it.

I stuck with it until the reset button season. Then I had a few choice words for wasting my time watching Not Voyager for an entire season and stopped watching.

 

[Maxperson]

I gotta admit- I like my Trek to be more episodic. Or at least only two or three episode long arcs.

Yeah. That's why I've bought into Strange New Worlds hook, line and sinker. Discovery I still watch pretty much only because I've already put so much time into it.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

This is what happens when you over-serialize. All the stakes have to be maximized.

Is "over-serialised" a thing? Serialised storytelling has been around for longer than episodic storytelling, and I don't see anything inherently wrong with it. Nor is there anything wrong with planet of the week episodic stories. Doorstop epics and short story anthologies can both be great.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I've only just got round to watching the final episode, so a few things people might have missed:

President Anton Chekov is presumably a homage to the late Anton Yelchin. A connection to the Kelvin timeline. Walter Koenig and Tim Russ tie the show to TOS and Voyager, I wonder if there are references to DS9 and Enterprise in that episode I didn't pick up on?

Talking of the Kelvin timeline, Jack Crusher is the exact same character as Kelvin timeline Kirk. I blame Q.

 

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[Micah Sweet]

Is "over-serialised" a thing? Serialised storytelling has been around for longer than episodic storytelling, and I don't see anything inherently wrong with it. Nor is there anything wrong with planet of the week episodic stories. Doorstop epics and short story anthologies can both be great.

If you make the whole show (or season) about one story, it's very tempting to make the stakes high, which means every episode becomes about the main story, which combined with a lower episode count cuts into time for other stories, characterization for more than couple people, and anything resembling decent worldbuilding. Discovery, with its laser-focus on one character and one plot, is my example.

 

[Morrus]

President Anton Chekov is presumably a homage to the late Anton Yelchin. A connection to the Kelvin timeline. Walter Koenig and Tim Russ tie the show to TOS and Voyager, I wonder if there are references to DS9 and Enterprise in that episode I didn't pick up on?

And he's Chekov's son, apparently. Voiced by Koenig.