[Closed] Picard - Amazon 24th Jan (Spoilers)

Yeah was perfectly watchable, no issues for me. Way better than the other one that i watched for 6 mins.

They are uploading one episode a week?

That sucks

What a crap way to watch tv

Well that wasn’t bad at all fat better than the other excuse of Star Trek that is Discovery.

I find it hard to like Discovery, it's all a bit "nudge, look, there's Spock, we put that in for the fans, and wait till you see who else turns up"

I'm hoping Picard is just loads of Patrick Stewart being Patrick Stewart, but we'll see tonight (hopefully, if the wifey in charge agrees)

I enjoyed it.  Although, I enjoyed Discovery too!

I’m hoping Picard is just loads of Patrick Stewart being Patrick Stewart

As it is, so far it's enjoyable but with a fairly generic plot (shades of Firefly/Serenity) with a bit of conspiracy stuff chucked in. I hope there is some substance to this show & it's not just Patrick Stewart running around (although to his credit he is VERY sprightly for a 79 year old!!) saving the galaxy from baddies.

I quite like it.   Very Patrick Stewart at the start with grammatical and historical references, a hint a Picards Churchwellian passion in the interview.

I wonder whether theres a younger / american audiences that doesnt understand Patrick Stewarts Shakespearian idiosychrosies and have already turned their nose up at it

American schools are much better than U.K. schools for teaching Shakespear.

I don’t really do Star Trek since the Shatner days, but I really liked that. Looking forward to the rest of the series,

Drac that they might be, but the English way comes as a mystery / can be alien to them in the main, in my experience anyway and many dont understand how we communicate based on our historical references.

I image - in the majority - they see and celebrate Patrick Stewart as very “English” but dont quite “get” why.

IMHO of course.

How do you do that fancy pants spoiler thing?

How do you do that fancy pants spoiler thing?

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I thought it was decent. Hopefully he doesn't pick up too many hangers on during his journeys.

Billion times better than that cosplay Discovery

Thumbs up from me.

I enjoyed that, I like the way they made Data look old and podgy 😄

I am still hoping Captain Wesley Crusher makes an apperance & gets told to shut up. 1st episode was good enough for me.

Yep definitely enough there to get me back next week . The whole romulus star and mars thing ? how much of that stuff was in Nemesis ? Its ages since i have seen it and cant remember to much from it , i just remember not liking it very much .

First episode enough to keep me intrigued. Liked how the first scene was similar to final scene of Next Gen. I got distracted by mobile interweb browsing far less than most things we watch on Prime Video.

Doesn't have the soap feel of the old star trek. I guess thats not going to be easy without a ship or space station.

The producers have said it is more of a long film. Might have to watch Nemesis again to catch up.

For Wesley fans, he is hosting a new washup tv series called ready room. There's a working link in this review:

https://trekmovie.com/2020/01/23/review-star-trek-picard-series-premiere-remembrance/

An excellent first episode! 🙂

I used to love The Next Generation when I was a kid and they broadcast the series on BBC 2 in the nineties. I bought all the series box sets on DVD when I was at uni and watched it through again then (mid noughties) but sold them all a good few years ago.
Last Christmas the wife bought me the complete Blu Ray remastered box set and I watched them all again over the course of 6 months and there were some great episodes and memories. However, overall I didn't think the series had aged well so wasn't sure what to expect going into this new series but so far so good. Looking forward to next week's episode.

I always thought they should have taken the piss out of everything and made it a sitcom like Roseanne and showcase the private times leading up to Picard and Crusher getting divorced.

The data/b-4 storyline was from nemesis (the song in picards dream is the one data sung at troi riker wedding)

Romulus supernova was only mentioned in the reboot movie, with Eric Bana

I really enjoyed the first episode. Although it could've been spread over two episodes, it felt like there was a lot of story to get through.

I loved the line about the romulans " not romulans lives...lives". It was quite dusty in here....

I'm looking forward to detective Picard solving the mystery. How long until he gets a ship?

However, overall I didn’t think the series had aged well

I think that Picard,The Borg and 7 of 9 were the only thing it had going for it tbh.

Loving the 'imagination' type work that goes into creating the future  and  Stewart really is a joy to watch

It's Star Trek Jim, but not as we know it

My missus is apparently 'a massive Star Trek' fan. To be fair she did drag me arond the ST convention in Vegas and actually scared a couple of the 'actors' away with so much trekky BS

but 'Oh look, thats Seven of Nine from Deep Space Nine' now has me wondering on her fanboi claim....

I enjoyed thta. Obvisouly setting up the longer story arcs but well done.

The cube at the end was a bit unexpected, and Harry Treadaway is too significant an actor to be a throwaway character, so we'll see how it develops.

I enjoyed Discovery; and the theme music was much better.

FFS no HDR version!

answers to above spolers:

1. Yes, because that's what it is

2. It was explained in the first episode, which apparently gets fleshed out more as it goes on

I liked it, a few good easter eggs for the fans (nerds......me) but not too Trekkie'ish to put the wife off

I think that Picard,The Borg and 7 of 9 were the only thing it had going for it tbh.

I doubt it, because 7 of 9 was not in that series

I thought the first episode was ok. Not awesome, but alright. I watched the original Shatner, Nimoy, etc. stuff when I was a kid and was never amazed by it. Watched the occasional episode of the later series, but was never into it. Discovery was disappointing, had some good bits, but too childish overall. This was better than that.

They've got to write a Q episode, they've just got to!

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They’ve got to write a Q episode, they’ve just got to!

please no

They’ve got to write a Q episode

Might be tricksy to explain why John De Lancie has aged 20 years in the last 20 years...

"They’ve got to write a Q episode, they’ve just got to! "

no, just no.

Enjoyed that. Like the whole idea of Picard championing the oppressed synthetics – very Bladerunner 2049.

*geek*

Interesting that the Romulans seem to have reverted to, smaller, nippier-looking ships.

Seems congruent with all those instances during the Dominion War in DS9 where we saw their giant, hulking warbirds getting carved-up by packs of smaller Jem’Hadar fighters.

Hopefully this is a sign that the writing team are at least trying to be consistent with the “history”.

Edit: of course, it might also just be a reflection of their straightened circumstances.

*geek*

Might be tricksy to explain why John De Lancie has aged 20 years in the last 20 years…

He's been made mortal for a period by the rest of the Q Continuum as a punishment for being naughty (again)

Interesting that the Romulans seem to have reverted to, smaller, nippier-looking ships.

Seems congruent with all those instances during the Dominion War in DS9 where we saw their giant, hulking warbirds getting carved-up by packs of smaller Jem’Hadar fighters.

Hopefully this is a sign that the writing team are at least trying to be consistent with the “history”.

Filed under "Overthinking"

considering DS9 was Star Trek for excitable teenagers, I really hope the Picard writing team have filed everything connected with it in the ****ing bin 😂

Ep 2 continues to build on the good work.

Of particular note was Irish Romulan Orly Brady calling someone a 'cheeky ****er'

Some discomfort from me for the real f-bomb later on; I'm not sure Gene Roddenberry would have approved

No spoilers yet please. (I know it says "spoilers" in the title but you can at least wait a day or use the [spoiler] tag.)

Some discomfort from me for the real f-bomb later on; I’m not sure Gene Roddenberry would have approved

They already broke the seal with that in Discovery.

(Ooh, I've worked out how to post BBcode tags without the forum parsing it! Harpy daze.)

Of particular note was Irish Romulan Orly Brady calling someone a ‘cheeky ****er’

Some discomfort from me for the real f-bomb later on;

Likewise, I glanced over my laptop ate the first one as I bought I must have misheard, but the proper one....   Well F Bombs and Patrick Stewart should not be in the same program IMO.