Star Trek: Picard

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E8 borgify. New st word. I like the new Guinan better than the TNG one. I’m done for tonight tho. That’s enough Picard. I’ll finish this over the weekend and move on.

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E9: Sword fight! And my fav line of the season - 'we need a universe of sevens!' Finally some action. 

E10: Did that work? Sort of. It reminded me a lot of the finale of S1, which redeemed a lot of the ridiculousness leading up to it with a solid moment of serious feels. This finale had a parallel moment, not quite as moving, but clearly the intention of the series and the moral of the story. The tying of up loose ends was ok. Rios' storyline ends here. I was totally right about the Disney death. The 7 Raffi relationship is consummated with a kiss, although I wasn't feeling it. And Kore's fate - oh man, so cheesey, but I guess that was a play to be made. 

It leaves with no cliffhanger, but S3 is on the way and will allegedly be the final season. And given how the feels played out in the finales of S1&2, I can guess where this will go. 

Moving on...

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S3e1 No I haven’t resubscribed… yet. P+ released the first ep for free on YouTube.

Here - although some of this won’t make sense if you haven’t been following it: 


Yeah, you’d think I wouldn’t fall for that ol’ first one’s free ploy again after all these years. You’d think that.

I’m going to wait until more eps come out then maybe resubscribe…

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Resubscribed! A birthday present.
S2 reintroduced my fav character from TNG. There was some serious Bat’leth action which totally counts as a sword fight. He reappeared exactly where I anticipated he would. 
And s3 is doing a lot of wrath of khan homages. The Easter egging is ridiculous - watched a screencrush YT vid that counted 91 ee just in s3e1 and damn, that reviewer put my trekkiness to shame.

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E3: Worf is killin it. He's actually the biggest character of all if you measure how many episodes he's been in. And this new permutation of Worf as a pacifist is hysterical. Chamomile tea with sugar? That's an even better line that 'Earl Grey decaffeinated..hot!'

Will and Jean-Luc turning on each other in mid combat was too sudden after they've been so chummy for the past episodes. 

The starship battles are great. The Shrike (enemy ship) is awesome.

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E4: Stacy gave me a new AppleTV for my birthday. It’s 4K. Wow. Starship battles just leveled up.

The crew escapes certain disaster with a cliche one in a million chance, but that’s cool. It’s Star Trek. Some good moments in between, revelations on Picard’s character. And the asshole Captain of the Titan reveals why he hates Picard (Locutis actually). 

Star Trek 2023 is lit.

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E5: not to drop spoilers but…

















RO!

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This ep was fire. The whole TNG cast is back, along with some of their spawn. Even the one who died in this show is back but it’s ST so that’s fair game. More fascinating were a ton of crazy Easter eggs to the movies like what became of the original Enterprise, the Klingon ship Kirk stole and Kirk’s body. And then there’s Section 31! Great stuff. 

Star Trek 2023 is fire. Full phaser fire. Set to kill.

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Tuvok! No wait. Not. Seven outs the changling with some obscure Easter eggs. This ep segues to the loss of the Titan, and I got confused as to who was where when (might’ve passed out for a few minutes but I’ve had a hard week - might have to rewatch how they got to the end again). Close to the reveal about Jack. The Crusher/LaForge relationship doesn’t quite work for me. The Data/Lore is amusing if only to show how quickly Spiner can flip back and forth between the two. 

This ep started strong, then got a bit muddled, and ended on another feckin cliffhanger…

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I had to go back for the previous ep because as I watched the latest one, the previous ep review totally lost me. Maybe I fell asleep. Maybe I fried those memories at Lucidity. Whatev. I went back and it made more sense.

The latest ep brought all of TNG together and had an epic psychic battle between Data & Lore. A sweet Tasha memory but it was Spot ftw! Ended in another cliffhanger but the fate of the villainess was good.

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Today is Frontier Day, another Trekkie holiday and the date for the climax of the changeling conspiracy against Star Fleet on Picard. The ultimate villain reveal should not have come as a surprise but I haven’t been thinking to hard about this show, just enjoying it for what it is, so it was a twist I should’ve predicted.

I was wearing my ST : Disco shirt by auspicious coincidence today and the penultimate ep of this final season of Picard delivered. So many feels. I wasn’t a big fan of ST : TNG but grew to respect it over the years. This ep was a shining tribute to TNG so much so that it made me a tad misty. The best ep of this entire series and one of the strongest ST eps ever. 

I’m ready for the finale ep of the final season. They’re doing a theatrical release of it next week but I think the nearest outlet is SF and I’m not up for the trek (no pun intended). 

Make it so.

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Swords are fun