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A crappy plot:
"Let's shit on Data!" |
My first question about
Star Trek: Picard was to ask if the show would feature any
interesting aliens. I soon learned that
Picard is
NOT really a star trek in the sense that I was hoping for: an adventure in space, going where we have never been before. There are recycled
Borg and
Romulans and some spaceships, but as far as I can tell, the entire season's story arc could just as easily have all taken place in a CBS studio. Yawn.
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| Minding my Ps and Qs |
PDQ. Star Trek fans recognize the scene to the left on this page. The first episode of
Star Trek: The Next Generation was when I learned to dislike
Captain Picard. The bloated "
Encounter at Farpoint" provided plenty of opportunity for
J-L Picard to give pompous speeches.
Make it so Please say it ain't so.
engage Disengage.
Danger: Thin Plot 90% of everything is crap.
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Wishing that an interesting alien might
show up and save this steaming pile. 💩 |
I only watched the season finale of
Picard. While trying to ignore the silly swords, I had time to wonder what I had missed in the first 9 episodes of the season. Watching
episode 10, I was bored and waiting impatiently for something to happen. I was surprised to learn later that episode 10 was supposedly the second half of a two part episode. 🤷
Mind Transfer
We learn that technology exists to transfer a mind into a computerized virtual reality or into a synthetic body. This could have made for an interesting half-hour
Twilight Zone episode, but right before the "thrilling" conclusion, they stuck in one last pompous J-L speech. Ew.
Captain's Privy
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The "science" of Star Trek: no matter how advanced
future medical science might be, Hollywood
script writers can always find a lethal
disease to fill a plot hole. |
When Picard died, it was easy to predict that he would be re-instantiated in an artificial body. In a disgusting example of class privilege (in Roddenberry's supposedly
post-scarcity & classless future) Picard got a second life while poor
Data simply got erased. Sucks to be Data. 🙁
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