Star Trek: Picard [message #91582] |
Wed, 18 March 2020 19:07 ![Go to next message Go to next message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/down.png) |
Leot55
Messages: 226 Registered: June 2017
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I think we've got some Star Trek fans here, so is anyone else watching this show? It's amazing how little Patrick Stewart seems to have aged over the years and Jean-Luc Picard is one of my favorite characters borne from the franchise. Though he isn't quite the same. It's nice to see some of the old cast members too. A couple of episodes were slow, but the last two have been especially good. But I'm not sure where we're going and the season is supposed to end soon.
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Re: Star Trek: Picard [message #91585 is a reply to message #91582] |
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Wayne Parham
Messages: 18752 Registered: January 2001
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I like Patrick Stewart and I liked the character Jean-Luc Picard. But who wouldn't? He was almost inhumanly altruistic and wise. He and his whole crew almost always did the right thing, and acted better than every other creature in the universe, even those that were immortal.
That made the Next Generation series less enjoyable for me. I loved Jean-Luc. I loved Data. I loved Deanna Troi. But again, they were all impossibly good: Perfectly altruistic, perfectly wise, always acting the way we would like to believe they should.
That's why I liked the original series best. And for the same reason, I really liked "Star Trek: Enterprise." In each of those series, the crew acted like humans, with character flaws and realistic reactions. They still almost always "won" in the end, but we Americans like our heroes to win in the end. At least they suffered some setbacks as a result of their own mistakes or the mistakes of their (our) culture. That made them much more believable series for me.
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Re: Star Trek: Picard [message #93094 is a reply to message #91582] |
Sun, 07 February 2021 22:25 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/up.png) |
penguin89
Messages: 34 Registered: December 2020
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I found the show to be pretty underwhelming. I was hoping for something that would revitalize the franchise, but instead it felt like a story that didn't need to be told in the Star Trek universe. I probably won't watch the next season.
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