Just trying to appear more human

Tea. Earl Grey. Decaf.

LMAO.....

Logically. :D

Brent Spiner turns 70 next month.

Data got old.

Incredible actor. Much respect for Spiner. By all I've seen, he seems to have an awesome sense of humor and a good guy in general.

Just thought it was funny seeing chubby cheeks Android...

I'm really wanting to watch this. Once all episodes are released CBS will get some of my money.

Well, I got CBS All Access for this. I really liked the first episode. Too bad I can't stream them all at one like Netflix. :(

I guess I can now watch Star Trek Discovery.

Do yourself a favor and just watch Season 2.

I tried to watch season 1 but just never got hooked. Is season 2 actually decent?

Yes, because it's less about the Discovery assholes and more about Pike, Spock and the Enterprise.

If they don't create a Pike/Spock focused Star Trek somebody at CBS should be stabbed in the face.

Ya I can get into this looks solid but so did the first episode of Twilight Zone.

Well, I can't just not watch it since I have CBS All Access now.

Warning: spoilers from ep. 1.
 

This is pretty cool. I caught some of this but definitely not even close to all.

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My mind just exploded.

Deanna Troi's mom is also the voice for the Enterprise-D........

How did you not know that?

Also Nurse Chapel and Number One from the original pilot!

And the computer voice on TOS, DS9, TAS, and Voyager. I think they used her in a couple of ENT episodes, too.


You do know she was married to Roddenberry, right?

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She played her part very well when she was Troi's mom.

How I'm picturing notorious as he reads this thread

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lol


I enjoyed this first episode quite a bit. Been a while since I saw TNG, so for the first half of it I thought they were trying to bring back Lal (which would have been cool too). I love all the callbacks to prior series. High hopes for this one. So far tons better than Discovery.

The ending was a very cool twist....

Well, this guy didn't seem to care much for it.... LMAO

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Wow, almost a 3 minute intro to the review? lol


Not sure if I'm supposed to take the review seriously. Did find it funny though.

Red Letter Media ripped it a bit.

I think they are tired of mindless action in Star Trek.

Yeah, seems to be a theme that a lot of people want the Utopia days of TNG back. While I like both the lighter and darker tones, I do agree that the action sequences were over the top and not well justified. Still, I enjoyed the show and think they were overly nitpicky on stuff like Picard's dreaming of Data and the fan service (like the Picard Day banner). I'm guessing they felt like they needed a bit of fan service after the last few years of heavily criticized shows/movies.

The actress who plays the Romulan refugee at Picard's vinery caught my eye. Her name is Orla Brady and she's sneaky hot....


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For a limited time, the first episode of Picard is currently airing on YouTube.

I watched it last night and thought it was fantastic.

It looks like Cinema, not a TV show. The storyline and performances were note perfect.

I can’t wait to binge the entire series.

I too watched it on Youtube and enjoyed it. My only nitpick is the scene with Picard and the scientist at the end; a few lines of dialog explaining why the science works the way it does would have been helpful.

It's also streaming for free on the app. I watched it before I created an account.

I thought it was okay. I get the nostalgia appeal, and as I was 13 when TNG began, it's 'my' Star trek series, along with DS9. But it felt like it was lacking something, which I can't really quantify. I am interested to see the origin of and the direction that they take The Artifact, and I did like the introduction of the Zhat Vash. Wonder what their big secret is. So I'll definitely keep watching, even if I wasn't initially blown away.

Never thought I'd see Droid shaming in Star Trek. Weird...

I thought that was actually a really cool concept and I'm curious to see if it's revealed who exactly reprogrammed those Synthetics to attack the Mars base.

The obvious answer would be The Romulans but maybe the Borg are involved as well.

Since Patrick Stewart said that Picard is his Logan, my money's on one more confrontation with the Borg...

They definitely upped the visual style.

The Nex Generation series was always shot very flat and static.

Just wouldn’t work in today’s TV era.

The second episode was definitely a drop off. The plot development seems forced, convoluted and slow.

And dropping f-bombs in Star Trek just seems..... wrong. Just a sign of the times, I guess.

Enjoying it so far, particularly any scene with Picard in it. Patrick Stewart can still carry a show.

One of the best episodes of TNG ('The Measure of a Man') addressed the rights of artificial intelligence (which Trek has done from time to time in its different iterations). Bruce Maddox was also in the episode, who I'm sure we'll see soon enough here.

Red Letter Media did not like it at all.

Just watched the 1st episode on youtube. All I can say is Patrick Stewart looks old and feeble.

He'll be 80 years old in July

I figured he was up there but he really seemed to have shown it since I last saw him in a movie.

They're deliberately making him look more feeble than he actually is, since he doesn't come off that way in interviews/appearances.

I just wish his voice weren't so old-sounding. The way he delivered lines with conviction in TNG was one of the best parts of the show. :(

The show is great otherwise. Like a combo of Star Trek and Blade Runner

Do women run Starfleet now?

Engage.

The third episode was very good. Nice to see Hugh again.

Gonna wait til late March so I can binge watch it all.

Better be a hell of a payoff, cause so far it's three hours of setup.

This show is ****ing amazing.

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So one thing I love about this show....I was quite worried I wouldn't care about the supporting cast, but damn if they didn't make me care about them.

They're all pretty great.

Romulan Legolas inparticular is ****ing awesome. If he has to sacrifice himself for Picard at some point, there will be tears.

I watched the first four episodes. I was wary, but it has been enjoyable. It reminds me of those Picard episodes of TNG. It has a certain flair and a certain sense of humor about it that I enjoy.

I was really, really enjoying this show, and then Jean-Luc tore down the ROMULANS ONLY sign and sat his old ass down in their bigoted bar and stared every ****ing Romulan down without so much as a lip quiver.

ROFL

And then he was actually gonna fence one of the Romulans - and looked like he was going to hold his own - and then Romulan Legolas came in outta nowhere.

This is the best possible version of Star Trek so far. It's like someone took all the best stuff from DS9 and TNG and threw it in a big pot together and added just a tiny dash of Abrams.

What the **** Paramount was doing wasting time with Discovery and JJ's stupid movies is beyond me.

THIS is Star Trek.

Also, Jean-Luc's outfits are just the best. Particularly liked how he pointed out how absurd that 24th century suit was, too.

You're wrong about Discovery, amigo.

Mount's time as Pike and the conclusion of Lorca's arc makes up for the bullshit.

Jeri Ryan is just forever hot

Perfectly balanced episode.

Just when I thought they were about to go overboard with the humor they darkened the tone sufficiently.

The moment between Picard and Seven got my nerd tears flowing.

Yes. That was a great scene.

Frakes did a fantastic job on that episode.

I see some people complaining that "this isn't Star Trek" because it's darker than TNG

it's no darker than DS9 was, apart from the set lightning

stupids

That rocked. Best episode so far.

Did you catch that sign in the dysfunctional Borg cube that said something like 'This Workplace Has Gone XXX,XXX Days Without An Assimilation'?

That was fantastic.

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Anyone else catch these Easter Eggs?

Quark seems to have either left DS9 or has franchised his bar.

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Picard's barber is also now on Freecloud!

Icheb didn’t have a cortical node, he donated it to Seven to save her life in one of the Voyager episodes. Good bit of writing that made that scene all the more affecting.

Whoa.

I had no idea that was even a former character.

That's the other thing that's great about this show. I went and looked up Maddox's Memory Alpha entry....perfect tie in.

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Kind of weird for me of all people to be the dissenting voice, but every week I keep waiting for this show to get good, and afterwards I'm always left thinking 'well, that was okay, I guess.'. And if we're propping it up against the Kelvin timeline treks, then maybe it is 'good' by that measure. But put it against something like Altered Carbon on Netflix, which I just binged as a refresher for season 2, and it's not even close. The worst episode of AC (not that there was a bad one really...) is better than any Picard episode. And against something like The Expanse, and, well, it's like Picard is the JV show and The Expanse is the Varsity. So I guess Picard is just a let-down for me so far. Maybe I expected too much.

Not a surprise at all...

lol

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Christ, I didn't know there were going to be spoilers. I watched the interview at the beginning then skipped ahead to Seven shooting some chick. I can only assume that either the uploader has never seen In the Pale Moonlight, or the chick that got shot was named Optimism.

Not to mention pretty much the entire second half of DS9 in general. No hippies in space there, and if there had been, they would have died bloody.

Sisko = greatest star fleet captain ever. Does the right thing until it's time to not do the right thing.

He kinda was the space hippie when it came to the Maquis.

Who were right about everything.

LMAO Yeah, they were, weren't they?

Eddington was lowkey the best non principal character arc on the show as it pertained to the realities of the Federation.

Yep. I also liked how he really got under Sisko's skin, and Sisko basically ran with it. Eddington's Javert comparison really wasn't very far off.

Fun fact - it was after that episode that I went to see Les Miserables in the theater for the first time.

Really, that was the worst weakness of Sisko in he held the grudge against Eddington because he betrayed him in a way that made Sisko look like a clown and because he (at least indirectly) implicated Kassidy with the Maquis.

But really when you step back.. Sisko's arc to that point logically should have led him to at least sympathizing with the Maquis' motivations (but not their methods when they started firing on Starfleet ships) given his Cal Hudson defecting early on and how the Federation handled Bajor... though that last part is a bit of headcanon since we didn't learn about Sisko's bosses bitching about him not shirking his status as the Emissary until long after the Maquis were wiped out.

One thing that some Trek fans misunderstand about Sisko contaminating those Cardassian worlds is that they don't seem to realize that he is only playing up his role as Javert because he knows Eddington has a desire to sacrifice himself as a noble martyr. Some fans howl "Sisko tried to commit genocide" but I think it was just a risky gamble that took advantage of his understanding Eddington's psychology.



Random DS9 hottake since I'm doing a rewatch: Far Beyond the Stars kinda sucks.

"Racism is bad" isn't a new topic for Trek, and it's usually handled in a hamfisted manner. Here it's typically on the nose, but it's message is kind of undercut by placing the story in the late 40s /early 50s. The message becomes "racism was bad...in 1948."

It was fun seeing the characters out of make-up, but it's pretty obvious that some members of the cast are only good at playing their regular roles.

The "Trek is all a story by some unknown sci-fi writer named Benny Russel" is insultingly bad. It's a ripoff of St. Elsewhere's ending to begin with, it pisses on the other series, and it completely comes out of left field. Just bad all around. Did you know that their were discussions about having the series finale end with Benny leaving the Paramount studio?

Just watched the 5th episode.

Really enjoyed seeing 7-of-9 (Jeri Ryan). Damn, she looks great. How does she maintain her hotness when every other chick form Star Trek has declined into various states of non-hotness?

Because she was hotter than any of them to begin with.

Usually smoking hot models retain hotness into their 50s if they don't get fat.

We've all seen the recent Yasmine Bleeth pics, right?


She's hit Kelly Lebrock levels of chonk.


I can barely jerk off to her now.

Mildy scared to see a pic of Jolene Blalock now.

LMAO

It appears that she's sucked the lifeforce from her pup

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Why am I suddenly thinking of the Grinch's dog trying to pull the over-full sleigh?