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I think my favorite part about this episode is any amount of excessive silliness or criticism of being too fan-servicey is completely obliterated by the very next episode which deals with the trauma and horror of war head on. It didn't feel like whiplash either, which I think speaks to the fact that even though episode 7 was silly there were still very serious emotional beats like Boimler convincing Pike to have a birthday party so he can hang out with the people that love him.

I am upset they are cancelling Discovery, it had flaws but it is an awesome show with some amazing moments and a very diverse cast.

Seriously fuck discord

Ughh I am getting so tired of Discovery haters acting like their biased opinion reflects a broader consensus on the show. Discovery is flawed but great and did an amazing job of bringing star trek to life again.

The dodge car product placement was really obnoxious, like REALLY obnoxious.

Especially this late into climate change, big gas guzzling sportscars are unethical to promote as cool fullstop.

I mean, some of them are inconsistent but they are all good and all of them are very much in the spirit of star trek.

If every life is sacred than a billionaire dying is an extremely sacred moment given the amount of lives saved by that billionaire no longer existing.

The carbon footprint of billionaires alone (especially including the amount of air travel they do) is astounding.

The joke in the court felt kinda cringe, though I otherwise really like Spock in SNW

It isn't just you!

Yeah as much as there was silly, stupid action in PIC season 2, the emotional character arcs behind it all felt genuine and interesting. In an ironic sense it is fitting that none of the material of Se2 got carried over to Se3 except that Picard had completed an emotional arc that would allow him to save the day in the penultimate moment of Se3.

I also think Se2 makes it more interesting to watch TNG because you can see Picard from a totally different angle at a much later age in a way more vulnerable position and sort of compare the two.

meh, I don't trust IMDb ratings on trek, a certain section of angry star trek "fans" seem like they review bomb star trek shows pretty hard

Ughh, well saving for a bit later, I wonder when those spoilers will occur on screen? Next episode?

While I am not as harsh on Picard S1 and S2 as other people, I still have complaints about how silly it sometimes got (the vastly differing degrees of caring about messing up the timeline by changing details in S2 was confusing, sometimes a small change was bad, other times characters just made big changes..).

What I will say about Picard as a whole though, especially in S1 and S2, is that how Picard's character grows and changes felt really well done. ::: spoiler spoiler Picard's mother committing suicide and him feeling responsible in a way, while also remembering his dad as this kind of villain as a way to wall off his emotional trauma and that then impacting him for the rest of his life felt very believable to me. :::

As a whole I definitely enjoyed Picard, it makes it more fun to watch TNG with the retrospective knowledge of who Picard becomes and what Picard isn't talking about all those years on TNG.

I would love to read an article about this, that would be a cool article, connecting the vibes of usenet startrek to fediverse star trek!

Sorry, I didn't mean to insinuate you specifically were, I meant it more as a general point in response to discussions I see about star trek tech.

I think my problem with wesley is that he got such a preferential seat on the bridge of a massive ship that probably countless other people had worked their whole careers to get on. It feels unfair to all those people to put a kid on the bridge instead of an adult in the middle of their career.

Wesley as a character is fine! I know Whil Wheaton had a weird interaction with the fediverse and in my hazy memory of it I don't really blame people's reactions, but in his ready room show for star trek he honestly has been great. He seems like he really loves star trek.

The one thing is, "shut up wesley!" became an internet meme, and understandably I don't think Wheaton finds that meme that funny after a couple of decades of hearing it. When the kneejerk reaction fans greet you with is to tell your character to shut up... when your character wasn't a villain... but just kind of an awkward kid who really was never characterized as anything other than someone who just wanted people to like him... it just feels like punching down for no reason.

This is one of the not so insignificant reasons I really like S3 of Picard, Gates McFadden and Beverly Crusher feel like they were validated on so many levels in a way TNG unfortunately never quite did directly.

Some people call S3 of Picard too fan servicey but idk, TNG as a whole has been meaningfully improved for me because now when I have to watch a TNG episode and some weird sexist, cringey scene comes up like this

I can just imagine Crusher ::: spoiler spoiler carpet bombing the borg cube :::

until the cringey scene ends

I kind of love the galactic barrier in how weird and obviously differing from our reality it is, scifi shows don't need to make their universes behave the way ours does.

I realllllly loved the discovery episode where they went out the galactic barrier, it was just so damn weird.

As long as the characters behave with a scientific frame of mind, it doesn't really matter if the physics of star trek is absurd. It doesn't matter if the calculations do or don't add up for some fantasy tech in star trek, it matters how characters interact with the unknown and approach trying to understand problems (where the heart of science really lives). The 4th season of Discovery did an amazing job with this in my opinion, it was cool to see the crew sent to meet with 10-C stumbling through the logic of trying to figure out a way to make contact (or even WHAT 10-C was before they found them).

give me a slice of cheese and you can believe anything you want

I mean, just depends on the universal translator settings whether everything gets translated to "engage" right :P ?