Star Trek: Picard

[Drunk Monk]

e7 had riker/troi nostalgia and a elrond (aka romulan swordsman) vs narissa (aka romulan hottie) battle.  that's about it really.  the series dwells on picard getting old, ala logan, or even what kirk managed to give nods to in wrath of khan.  picard is played as quite old now, more liver spots, a tad doddering. troi and riker have aged considerably too.  i suppose fans of tng have aged right along with them and this is what chabon is trying to say.  picard's new crew is mediocre at best - rios is a wannabe han solo, raffi is for the stoner trekkies and agnes is for the nerd trekkies.  

the real light here is soji.  she's the best character, but the story revolves around her.  

next week promises space battles and the reappearance of 7of9.  

still not fully...engaged.  but still watching.

[Drunk Monk]

e8. Ultimately I'm not really that into this. I was falling asleep in this ep. And it was a major reveal about what the whole story arc is. It's okay but not mind blowing.  7of9 returns and that's cool.  There's too many holograms and the hologram concept never quite worked for me after Voyager.  The fight scenes are weak, one shot = one move, and shot darkly.  If you're going to go to the trouble to have swords in ST, you might as well get a good choreographer.  I do like the Romulan ninjas and the synth, but that's about it.

But I'll still watch.  Maybe Chabon has a trick up his sleeve.  I wasn't that into Disco until it get twisty.

[Drunk Monk]

e9 - the penultimate ep of s1. finally it all comes out.  it's not bad, not as mind blowing as disco, kinda like a long drawn out movie concept, but they could've gotten here in half the time if they just kicked it into warp drive.  'i canna do it. i dinna have the powa!'  well, that's not quite the case but it came around okay in the end and i'm excited for the finale.

[Drunk Monk]

I follow sirpatstew's gram and these are great

Star Trek's Patrick Stewart Is Reading Shakespeare Online for Fans During Coronavirus Pandemic
By JAMIE LOVETT - March 23, 2020 10:33 am EDT

[/url]

Much of the world is finding itself stuck at home in self-quarantine amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Star Trek: Picard star Patrick Stewart is trying to do something small to help lift people's spirits. Before he was Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Stewart was best known as a Shakespearian actor. He returned to those roots on Saturday when he posted a video to Twitter of himself reciting Shakespeare's Sonnet 116. Stewart received a strong response to the video. He returned to Twitter on Sunday to apply some wisdom from his mother to the current crisis. "I was delighted by the response to yesterday's posting of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, and it has led me to undertake what follows…" he tweeted.
"When I was a child in the 1940s, my mother would cut up slices of fruit for me (there wasn't much) and as she put it in front of me she would say, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." How about, “A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away”? So...here we go: Sonnet 1."

From there, he goes on to recite Sonnet 1 and it seems he plans to keep on reciting the sonnets for as long as this quarantine continues. You can watch below:

Patrick Stewart

✔@SirPatStew

 · Mar 22, 2020


1. I was delighted by the response to yesterday's posting of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, and it has led me to undertake what follows...

Patrick Stewart

✔@SirPatStew


2. When I was a child in the 1940s, my mother would cut up slices of fruit for me (there wasn't much) and as she put it in front of me she would say, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." How about, “A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away”? So...here we go: Sonnet 1.

[img=458x0]https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1241871191503187971/pu/img/_RwjlI3l2ay00nM2?format=jpg&name=medium[/img]


28.6K
4:37 PM - Mar 22, 2020
Twitter Ads info and privacy

7,537 people are talking about this

[url=https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/status/1241871592700993536]



This week, Star Trek: Picard will release its first season finale. The episode will resolve the issue of a fleet of 218 Romulan warbirds heading towards the planet where Data's children and their community of synthetics reside.
0COMMENTS
Ahead of the show's premiere, ComicBook.com spoke to Stewart about how his return to the role of Jean-Luc Picard compares to his return as Professor X in Logan. “I am reluctant to make comparisons because when I cited Logan it was still a very, very fresh experience for me,” Stewart said, “and I only used it to enforce to the people I was talking to – Alex [Kurtzman] and Michael [Chabon] and Akiva [Goldsman] – that it was very important that our starting off point was not the day that I walked off the Enterprise say, but other things, more complicated things, things that he is perhaps badly responsible for, not doing his job properly, not being effective, and also letting pride control his actions and self-regard control his actions, which is very un-Picard-like but is truthful in this situation.”

Bill Shatner is also tweeting Capt's Logs about being quarentined on his twitter.  When I read those, I can't help but hear them in his voice.

[Drunk Monk]

A 7of9 series? Resisting that would be futile.  She's the best part of Picard.

• [/url]
  
  
• / startrek
  

•  
  
  

Star Trek: Picard Showrunner Pitched a Seven of Nine Spinoff

By JAMIE LOVETT - March 15, 2020 12:29 pm EDT

[url=https://comicbook.com/category/star-trek-picard/]Star Trek: Picard brought by Star Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan as the ex-Borg Seven of Nine. In the show's most recent episode, "Broken Pieces," Seven returns to aid the Romulan warrior Elnor aboard the Artifact. The pairing seems to have resonated with Star Trek fans. Showrunner Michael Chabon says he half-jokingly pitched a spinoff series featuring the duo. A fan asked Chabon whether he'd consider a Seven and Elnor spinoff series with the Doctor or Kathryn Janeway along for guidance. Chabon revealed that he never considered adding Janeway to the mix, but that he did pitch a similar idea to his colleagues.

"Minus the Janeway, I pitched this very idea half in jest, half in earnest, to my partners many times as we were making the show this season," Chabon writes. "I've never found relationship between Janeway and Seven to be quite as compelling as I understand that many other fans of VOY do."

Both Ryan and Janeway actor Kate Mulgrew have expressed ambivalence towards the idea of ever reuniting for new Star Trek: Voyager adventures.

“Would I love to reunite with some of those characters? Sure, I think that'd be great,” Ryan told ComicBook.com. “I don't necessarily need to do a Voyager show again. I think that I've done that. But I'm not a writer. I can't really tell you anything.

“I'm having a great time on Picard. It’s a very happy set. It’s a very relaxed set, which has been great. I didn't have a phenomenal overall experience shooting Voyager. I don't look back on that as a super fun four years for me, unfortunately, so to be revisiting this character in a more pleasant work experience is great.”

When asked if she'd return for a Janeway series like Star Trek: Picard, Mulgrew stated, “I don’t know. It surprised me when Patrick came out on the stage—I was there that day—and announced it. It surprised me that he wanted to. But I think he knows it will probably have a shot at being quite a hit. And there’s no one who likes to work as much as Patrick Stewart. And for him it will probably be very successful. Picard was beloved. Yeah, it’ll be interesting. I don’t know what to say about Janeway. Seven years is a long time to play a character. I’m not sure that she would enjoy resuscitation. She was a very, very vibrant person, while she was.

[Drunk Monk]

Season 1 finale gave me the feels.  At first, I liked how it played out, but then there was a deux ex machina (not the one I predicted at first, another one, actually a lot of those to resolve the meta-story-arc), and I was bummed that they recanted it (it was spoiled because Season 2 is already in the works), but then, it went back in a very TNG way, and I got the feels again. It ends with Picard quoting Shakespeare, which although a bit cliche, worked quite well.

Overall, the series was engaging, although a little longwinded. Unlike DISCO, it doesn't go boldy where no one has gone before.  Instead, it's a lot of nostalgia, a few choice Easter eggs, a lot of reflection.  There's some social commentary metaphors, but not too heavy-handed and overt, somewhat ambiguous actually.  

The standouts were Isa Brionnes (Soji) and 7of9.  7 has really matured, which was fascinating.  The romulan swordsman Elrond or Elwhatev was disappointing in the end, poorly cast and executed.

Recommended for DOOM trekkies.  I'll tune in to S2 when it happens.

[Drunk Monk]

Upon reflection, I did like where this went ultimately, although if you choose to watch it, you can be selective.  There are more than a few dead-end story arcs, like Raffi's kid, that just fill time.

Here is DM's cherrypicked Picard guide:
e1
e3
e4
e5
e7
e9
e10

So yeah, 70% of the series.  If you want less, just go e1, e4, e9, e10.

[Drunk Monk]

the season finale has really hung with me which is the mark of good work or my own obssessive mind. also there's been an insane amount of promotion around this with cbs access pitching new subscribers.   

in retrospect, it's where chabon was going with this all along.  he probably started with the idea and worked backwards.  the failing is that the idea isn't quite worth 10 eps.  and it's a flawed finale - it's poetically sound but highly illogical.  maybe that's another reason why it sticks in my head - i keep trying to resolve it. perhaps that's a key to chabon's writing style.

i was extolling the virtues of isa briones.  i just learned she sang 'blue skies' in the finale, which worked really well on many levels (the song figures prominently in st: insurrection).  there's a 'making of' vid of this, but it's a major spoiler (even though y'all have probably figured out where picard goes), so i'm just posting the audio here:



turns out isa was the youngest person yet to be cast in hamilton.  she was just 19 and was on the national tour as peggy and maria.  she just turned 21 in january.  she's an ingenue to watch.

[Drunk Monk]

Out of curiousity, I went back for the premiere ep of TNG. It's a two-parter and introduces Q.  Q always bothered me. He should've been connected to Trelene, the Squire of Gothos. If they did that simple thing, I would've accepted him. But no. He was just this annoying all powerful being. 

The first ep is so rough. No one has found their character yet. I couldn't make it through the part 1 of the premeire.

[Greg]

I think that's why I never got into the series. Too much Q. Although, I did dip in for some of the Borg shenanigans.

[Drunk Monk]

Agreed. The Borg was a great metaphor. TNG was all about the Borg and Worf for me.  

Later, I got into Troi but that was only because she reminded me of a good friend, one of our Jedi Nite Krew.  She was also an empathic brunette with a slight accent (from Turkey) and she was a very talented talkdown artist - the force was definitely with her.  I solemnized her wedding to another JNK member, but they eventually divorced (Beyond the cfs here, I solemnized a total of 4 weddings including Ms. Bailey's 2nd one - two ended in divorce so I'm at 50%).  I tried to dub her 'Troi' but the JNK weren't really Trekkies.  They were Jedi obvs.

[Drunk Monk]

[Greg]

The perfect pandemic teaser trailer....

[Drunk Monk]

[Drunk Monk]

Well that’s a spoiler right there...

'Star Trek: Picard' Season 2 Adds Annie Wersching as Borg Queen
“Star Trek: Picard” Season 2 will see Jean-Luc squaring off against an old adversary: the Borg Queen.
Variety has confirmed that Annie Wersching will play the Borg Queen in the second season of the Paramount Plus series. Wersching will now be the third actress to take on the role after Alice Krige played the leader of the Borg Collective in the film “Star Trek: First Contact” and in “Star Trek: Voyager” series finale. Susanna Thompson also played the character in multiple episodes of “Voyager.”
Exactly how the Borg Queen will factor into Season 2 is unknown, but chances are it will involve some manner of time travel. An early trailer for the new season, which also gave fans a tease of John de Lancie returning as Q, hinted that time would be a major theme of the next installment of the series.
Wersching’s recent TV credits include “Bosch,” “Runaways,” “The Rookie,” and “Timeless.” She is also known for her roles on shows like “The Vampire Diaries,” “24,” and “General Hospital.”
She is repped by Innovative Artists.
“Picard” stars Patrick Stewart, reprising the iconic role of the Starfleet captain that he made famous in “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” The first season of the series was released in 2020. Fellow “TNG” alums Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, and Marina Sirtis also appeared in Season 1 along with “Voyager” alum Jeri Ryan. Jonathan Del Arco also reprised the role of Hugh, the former Borg drone, whom he played in multiple episodes of “TNG.”
Produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment, “Star Trek: Picard” is executive produced by Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, Terry Matalas, Stewart, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Doug Aarniokoski and Dylan Massin. Aaron Baiers and Kirsten Beyer serve as co-executive producers, while Goldsman and Matalas serve as co-showrunners for Season 2.