Star Trek: Picard

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Is anyone else really excited about this?! Once baby is in bed, I'm binge-watching!

Do i need to have watched earlier Trek stuff to get this as i havent warched since the early ones with Nimoy et al?

This is all my geek dreams come true. 2nd episode was even better. The look on his face when the receptionist said "Good to see you up and about"!

A tiny bit of me wants Michelle Yeoh or a descendent to pop up but i guess they can't cross threads with Discovery.

Scene set for a big blast off and Data recovery!

"This facility has gone 5843 days without an assimilation" nice.

Loved that sign too!
Not convinced by the swearing - it doesn’t seem to fit - there’s no need to throw the f-word in there.

Loved it. Can’t help but think run you’re in a Borg cube!

RaininSummer I think you’ll miss a few of the references and cameos, but if you’re good at picking up things without having it spelled out for you I think there’s still a solid story unfolding to be enjoyed. (Unlike DP, who needed the Borg to be explained to him, and also why I LOL’d so hard in the first episode that he’d named his dog “Number 1” .)

Dyrne, ty. May give it a go then.

I see Jean Luc with a large hound dog like a red setter or even an Irish Wolfhound.

It’s starting to get more interesting

Where have I seen Narek the Romulan from?

I wonder if Number 1 the dog was called that because he cocks his leg like Ryker sitting down?

I swear that episode was only 10 minutes long!

I swear that episode was only 10 minutes long!

Same here, very impatient for the next episode now!

@sweetkitty Narek is the posh boy with the weed habit out of Attack The Block. Also in A Street Cat Named Bob. At least I think he is, I haven't googled to check!

I am completely wrong! Well, not completely - Attack The Block posh boy is Narek's twin brother. (Harry and Luke Treadaway.)

The look on his face when the receptionist said "Good to see you up and about"

Yes!!!

Also love that in the second episode he seems less "fragile" than in the first episode? Oh god, just loving all of it.

I was the opposite - felt that the episode was too long - both of them.

And the Narek guy seems to be channelling Eddie Redmayne with his voice inflections and mannerisms (once seen you cannot unsee!).

Still, we'll see.

@WeaselsKingHenry I googled him straight after, Penny Dreadful and The Crown

Narek looks very similar to Spock in Discovery ( which is also due back soon). I recognise Rizzo from something too.

I can't wait to see him assemble a crew and say "Engage" next week. Watching Stewart act is so enthralling - he makes other actors look like they're acting whereas he just is the person he's portraying. His pauses and expressions are delicious.

I totally love him, it's rare that actors are nice people too but his politics and actions regularly make me pleased he exists.

He is a lovely guy in real life. A friend went to see him in his solo Christmas Carol and got to go backstage to meet him. It was pouring with rain and anyway they were given a lift by him in his car and said he was such a gentleman asking what they did etc and how were they enjoying their visit to the city. No more than a decent human being but they were pretty awestruck and he made them feel comfortable.

The Borg terrify me and that sign about so many days without assimilation means there probably has been an assimilation. And the badges! Ugh real sense of nuclear contamination but a Borg version.

I loved the second episode too.

I really like Laris and Zhaban.

I'm really enjoying it all. Looking forward to the next episode.

Just watched the second episode. Soooo many questions about the Romulan double agents.

I’m enjoying watching too. It’s better than STDIS so far if only because they show everyday life - that’s what sci-fi is about IMO not space battles only. I’m especially loving an Irish Romulan!!!

Orla Brady is brilliant. I love her character.

I'm not 100 % loving that they time after time have to do this storyline where the Federation is corrupt bla bla. Part of the joy of Trek IMO is imagining a future where we work together, there's no hunger, no money, everyone has a chance etc. Why are they so obsessed with making this future so fragile and un-cemented, as if it's only one terrorist attack away from falling apart.

banivani in fairness, something I absolutely loved from episode 2 was that the female Admiral effectively told Picard “You can’t just waltz back in here after flipping us the bird, and expect us to drop everything and assign you expensive resources for a half-baked plan based off some sketchy intel” BUT she still followed up on it and assigned someone to look into it (even if said person looks to be the bad guy).

Completely realistic and a breath of fresh air away from the twin cliches of 1) Giving the main character everything they want and need even if they’ve been out of the loop for years; and 2) having the boss be completely antagonistic towards the main characters theories to the extent where they refuse to even do basic checks to see if it could have a glimmer of truth.

This doesn’t appear to be going down the Discovery route of “everyone is bad”; they still show the Federation as a positive force for good, but like any agency vulnerable to infiltration.

And in fairness the old series’ certainly had their fair share of the Federation telling the Captains one thing, only for the Captains to completely ignore them and go off and do their own thing

Just found this. I loved TNG and Picard was always my captain. Am loving the series but one problem with a series like this is that I am impatiently waiting for old characters and references. Which is annoying me. But it's really gripping so far. And season 2 has been commissioned already....

Dyrne yes, I might be jumping the gun and should withhold judgment until I've seen some more episodes, but in fairness Picard said that Starfleet wasn't Starfleet any more (or was it the Federation that wasn't the Federation any more?). IMO they've barely explored the utopia before dismantling it. But I'm an Ursula Le Guin fan - she had so much imagination and really created worlds and ways of living that are different from Earth and humans, whereas Star Trek has always been a bit (as my husband says) capitalism in space.