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Well F Bombs and Patrick Stewart should not be in the same program
You've clearly never seen the film "Logan". Some Olympic class swearing by the Mr Stewart in that.
"I never really cared for Science Fiction, I never really got it"
Sublime from JLP.
are you kidding me?!!!! Make sure you NEVER watch American Dad. You will be traumatised 😂😂😂😂Well F Bombs and Patrick Stewart should not be in the same program IMO.
Some discomfort from me for the real f-bomb later on; I’m not sure Gene Roddenberry would have approved
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?
Patrick Stewart said he wanted to channel some of the grittiness of Logan, and it's not as if people won't swear in the future.
Oh, and please not Q.
considering DS9 was Star Trek for excitable teenagers, I really hope the Picard writing team have filed everything connected with it in the **** bin 😂
I liked it. Certainly preferred to a lot of Next Generation.
Well F Bombs and Patrick Stewart should not be in the same program
Does this count?
Just finished episode 2. I am in. Hopefully it keeps building.
I like it, it's good enough that not being able to binge-watch is frustrating.
I’m not a fan of Star Trek at all but gave this a go and I’m really enjoying it. Patrick Stewart comes from my home town and grew up not far from my old house. Hides his accent well 😀
Why the **** has a Romulan got an Irish accent? Though I do like her character 🙂
Why the **** has a Romulan got an Irish accent?
Maybe she picked up the language from somebody Irish? You're right though, Romulans should obviously speak English with an American/English/Someother accent. That'd be OK.
Well, she is is the first Irish Romulan in the history of Star Trek. And yes, they should all have a quintessential English accent.
Well F Bombs and Patrick Stewart should not be in the same program
Is this the first thing you’ve seen him in?
The euphemism "f-bomb" is surely a bigger obscenity than any swearing one could imagine!
This is going to get confusing with Romulans altering their appearance to be human and knowing if a character is Romulan or Vulcan or a Romulan pretending to be Vulcan!
Well, she is is the first Irish Romulan in the history of Star Trek. And yes, they should all have a quintessential English accent.
Apart from all the other ones from previous series with American accents...
Of course if you really want an acceptable, in-universe explanation maybe it's just her preferred universal translator setting...
Some discomfort from me for the real f-bomb later on; I’m not sure Gene Roddenberry would have approved
Hmmm, Gene was known for wanting to push as many 'boundaries' as possible, so I think he'd have loved to see an Romulan dropping the F-bomb...
It's worth remembering that Roddenberry has actually been gone for almost 30 years now, if you think ST is meant to be a polite, safe, network telly friendly, franchise that's mostly the fault of Rick Berman who was in the driving seat for almost 15 years and by many accounts wasn't much of a progressive thinker.
This is going to get confusing with Romulans altering their appearance to be human and knowing if a character is Romulan or Vulcan or a Romulan pretending to be Vulcan!
As long as they don't start doing subtle time jumps at the same time (like Westworld). My brain can just about cope with not knowing if a character is human or not OR with subtle time jumps but not both - I really don't want to have to check on the Internet to find out what actually happened in an episode I just watched.
That one was good. I'm liking it...enough to be annoyed I've to wait a week.
Anyone else realise who Huw was and which TNG storyline he was from ?
It's alright innit. Could watch Sir Pat do anything TBH, and I like the slower pace and serial drama structure - as opposed to the typical, stale Star Trek format of self-contained little adventures.
Still been a bit ripe in places though, some of the supporting cast are a bit wooden. And dare I say it's got a bit boring in places, perhaps because the dishy Romulan lad is annoying and that side of the plot has been a bit too expositional.
Anyway, happy to continue with it for now.
DS9 was Star Trek for excitable teenagers,
Best Star Trek evs.
When anyone talks of Star Trek, it's funny how often Enterprise comes up.
ie never.
Like the pace and spaciousness of the plot. Rather than try and cram all the characters in the first episode and screen time in each subsequent they come and go naturally.
Anyone else realise who Huw was and which TNG storyline he was from ?
Yep, he spread 'individuality' to the borg was cool to see him back
Also
considering DS9 was Star Trek for excitable teenagers, I really hope the Picard writing team have filed everything connected with it in the **** bin 😂
You should be sent to Rura Penthe to contemplate just how wrong you are
Dr whatsherface was the worst actor I've ever seen, until the bloke in the last scene.
Also ep2.. gold hard hats? Raheeeeeeely?
Hang on, I missed the Huw reference, was he the one with the scars?
Yes
I really enjoyed this episode, but I do find Mr smoothy pants Narek and Soji a bit tiresome.
Getting a bit more interesting now...
I would like to see the humble Tailor make an appearance as an ex member of the Obsidian Order would make a good foil for Raffi, that and his dead pan delivery
This is rapidly turning into Star Trek: Firefly. I'm in.
Also, best opening line from any character ever.
I would like to see the humble Tailor make an appearance as an ex member of the Obsidian Order
Please $deity.
Exposition over action and none the worse for it.
Loving it.
Also, best opening line from any character ever.
+1
I would like to see the humble Tailor make an appearance as an ex member of the Obsidian Order
Oh yes
While we're at it could we find Bashir & Obrien finally shacked up in the culmination of the greatest romance in trekdom ?
Anyway, Seven...
Yes! Seven...
Loving it thus far. Hitting the mark and that lad, he's a ruthless one.
Hating & loving the unable to binge-watch nature of this series.
Seven...Best reason to tune in next week Eva!
Not really ruthless just doing what he has trained to do...
Exposition over action and none the worse for it.
Loving it.
While I'm enjoying it, I can't help but feel the pacing is somewhat off. There was a reasonable amount of scene setting in episodes 1 and 2, but episode 3 felt a bit slow and episode 4 didn't really move the story on much, Picard is finally in space, but most of the episode is spent on a detour to pick up a Romulan ninja elf with abandonment issues, and we get seven at the very end...
But what other elements of the story were developed this week? Not much that I could see. It is worth noting that there are only ten episodes in this series and it's feeling a bit like they're pissing about TBH, they should have caught up with Maddox this week, perhaps even learned about the existence of the "reclamation zone" cube and possibly engaged in a bit of espionage to learn its location...
Oh and I'm going to throw a wild guess at a future 'twist' out there now, that fella Rios... Hologram, passing as a human.
The ship that got hijacked by Borg was given a bit more story...
Have to agree, it's a bit slow at the moment. I don't want a long 14 hour epic movie cut into 14 hour long chunks.
I want 14 episodes but done bits linking together to make an overall plot.
I'm trying to stay with it but the dialogue is pretty ropey and blatantly expositional, and the pacing is all over the shop.
I like that they've tried to do something different with star trek but it's not quite working for me.
So have the Romulans always been crypto Israelis? Or is that a new thing? Finding it a bit distracting.
Got bored about 20min into epi 4, binned it...I tried, but it's to slow.
Just watched 5 , plenty of seven for RD
Got bored about 20min into epi 4, binned it…I tried, but it’s to slow.
After the initial excitement/nostalgia wore off, i'm starting to agree with you. I find the whole "synthetic/biffing a romulan dude/chosen one/destroyer/sliding in a borg hallway in our socks" storyline insufferable