Patrick Stewart is back and sad in the first teaser for Star Trek: Picard
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It was just a few days ago that we learned that CBS All Access’ Jean-Luc Picard-based spin-off show would be called—unsurprisingly—Star Trek: Picard, and now the streaming service has dropped the very first teaser for the series. The show takes place 18 years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis and the end of Star Trek: The Next Generation (which saw Picard living at his family’s vineyard), and this teaser suggests that this won’t be one of those happy good-time follow-up shows. Specifically, it involves an unidentified woman questioning Picard about an event 15 years ago where “the unimaginable happened” and he lost his faith in himself, the people, and Starfleet itself.
The series is “coming soon,” and in addition to the returning Patrick Stewart, it will star Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Harry Treadaway, Isa Briones.
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Hope it’s just Picard tasting wine while a carousel of guest stars come around and taste wine with him.
Man, I’d actually be interested in watching that.
I was really only half-kidding too. Long talks about Trek themes like religion, politics, and philosophy. Sci-Fi My Dinner with Andre.
“Weeell, having had my third glass of red, it’s time for me to go Number One. No offense, Will.”“None taken, Captain.”
I don’t know how long a Nagus’s retirement/lifespan normally is, but Wallace Shawn literally already has a part to play in this.
Odd… this replicator is specifically programmed to ignore orders to produce Merlot…
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Yes. This. Maybe he runs a B&B on the winery and the bulk of the show is Picard and guests sitting on the porch sipping wine and chatting while a couple of big fluffy dogs mill around and get rubbed a lot for being good boys.
I will pay REAL MONEY to watch this.
And in the finale he wakes up on the Enterprise bridge and tells Counselor Troi… “I had the strangest dream…”
“Counselor Troi, have you ever thought about wearing more sweaters? MAKE IT SO!”
“There’s a war coming, Charles…”“And what pairs with war?”“A nice Bordeaux, I suppose.”“Make it so!”
Only if they’re all in bathtubs wearing lobster costumes.
Like Dinner for Five, but everyone needs to be in character.
That would have been awesome.
Vash drops by and steals half his inventory, shrugs, and beams away…
Maybe something like “The Trip” with Picard and Q.
And they pass the time comparing Kirk impressions.
“There are some beautiful Kardassian whites coming out these days.”“That’s great, Picard, but like I was saying, something has been destroying planets in the far reaches of space and the frequency is only increasing – ”“Their Rieslings are a little aggressive, but once you get used to them the depth of flavour is very rewarding.”
Ridiculous sci-fi shit should be happening in the background of every shot, but Picard never takes notice
I was hoping for a half-hour show based upon Picard traveling the universe with his companion Commander Gandalf the Grey, getting drunk and posting pictures of their exploits to whatever is the equivalent to the web in the future.
When I saw this promo, a part of me wanted to snarkily respond, “an old man retired from Starfleet working a wine vineyard in France. Finally, a show that actually gets what Star Trek is all about!”But I love and miss the Jean Luc character too much to harbour any animosity towards this show. They could have him reading the phone book, and I’d tune in.
Aw man…they’re totally gonna Last Jedi Picard, aren’t they? Sad face.
That would be awful. Chabon said it would be optimistic:https://www.cnet.com/news/star-trek-discovery-captain-picard-is-the-hero-we-need-says-writer-michael-chabon/
I trust Chabon with Picard.
Can’t wait for him to destroy the original Starfleet Temple… It’s a Love’s travel stop outside Cedar Rapids, IA.
Oh yeah the one near Center Point! It has it coming.
Speaking as someone who loves Picard more than any character, in anything – like, I can straight up trace huge parts of who I am back to watching him in TNG as a kid – I’d be absolutely delighted if this show handled him as well as TLJ handled Luke.
Yeah, I really want to see him milk something.
Honestly? Yes. I love TLJ infinitely more than TFA, and would love a slightly regretful and introspective Picard get buoyed up by a fresh faced young’un, who inspired him to get back in the saddle, so to speak, and proceed to kick ass and take names again. 😀
You mean make a great, inspiring show rather than just retread the past?
Last Jedi Stan’s are creepy.
Last Jedi tantrum throwers are pathetic
Who is throwing a tantrum?
Your religion is weird, and like true zealots you all have a persecution complex.
Who’s being a Stan? And you’re projecting again.
Can’t wait to buy a bottle of Chateau Picard.
It’s velvety with a hint of Earl Grey.
Try the Make It Sauvignon Blanc.
Pretty sure the unidentified voice is Gina Torres, but this is very much a teaser rather than a trailer, and I wouldn’t assume she’s actually a character in the series. I’m guessing that they haven’t filmed a whole lot, and that we won’t see any episodes until next January.
Sounded like Michelle Hurd’s voice to me.
She’s a cast member, so that would make more sense. I don’t really know her voice.I’m much more familiar with Torres’s voice, and this VO reminds me a lot of her voice work for Destiny 2.
I’ve seen every episode of SVU way too many times, so I’ve heard her voice a decent amount, though she’s only in the early seasons, so it could possibly be someone else’s voice. Sounds like her to me, but a little softer, maybe.
It sounded like Sonequa Martin-Green to me which makes no sense as far as the the plot of Star Trek Discovery goes but still doesn’t surprise me knowing Hollywood’s love of bizarre cross-promotion
My first thought was Alfre Woodard from First Contact.
I’m really digging the somber, self-reflective mood of this as it really works for this character. Picard was always the diplomat and probably reflective of the captains, so having this kind of an approach works as a story with his old age. Especially since he is so principled that you can almost sense that that base will always be there.Now that they are doing this, I’m really hoping they find a way to return to DS9 in some manner. It feels like a great environment to do a similar story like this in.
“Wine, Cabernet, Hot”
Shouldn’t that be “Wine, Cabernet, Room Temperature.”?
It should really be wine, cabernet, european cellar temperature. – i.e., red wine should be served at no more than 58 degrees.
“european cellar temperature. – i.e., red wine should be served at no more than 58 degrees.”
In Europe a cellar that is 58 degrees is known as a ‘sauna’
EDITED TO ADD: I just realized you were making a metric/imperial system joke. Yes. I meant no more than 15 degrees. Well then even colder. I was going by New York Cellar. I just hate the room temperature thing. It shouldn’t feel like it just came out of the refrigerator (although in the summer time, I will put i ice in it sometimes), but it shouldn’t be 70 degrees either.
Star Trek VinyardsWe Boldly Grow where no Grape has Grown Before.Yeah, this is pretty bad.
The Wine Directive prohibits Starfleet personnel and spacecraft from interfering in the normal development of any grapes.
gonna invert the neutron flow of grapeschannel grapes through the main deflectorcreate a subspace field shaped like a grape
No wine before its prime.
I hope he has a vineyard near Starfleet HQ in San Francisco so we can get some of Chateau Picard’s famous “5-year Mission.”
To Boldly and Fruitily Go Well With an Aged Gruyere.
“the unimaginable happened”If it involves Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis, a malfunctioning warp core, and a priest with a bag of Cheetos, then I’ve imagined it.
Question for anyone who’s watched Discovery: Is it anything like the Star Trek of yore? The reason I liked TNG was because it was constantly exploring new ideas and places and getting into the moral and ethical quandaries that arose. It wasn’t just serialized “who’s gonna die this week” dramatics*, which is what I’ve gotten the impression Discovery mostly consists of.*Note that I have no problem with such dramatics, which is why I watched Game of Thrones and numerous other such shows, but there’s plenty of that available these days and very little of what made Star Trek so wonderful to begin with.
Discovery has a bunch of things going for it, but ideas is not its strong suit.It is much more adventure than scifi, and it follows the post-Lost writing approach of “Momentum!!!” without a lot to ultimately show for it.
Discover was a bitter disappointment. It’s basically the the first two reboot movies in TV series form. Action, action, action, ‘splosions, more action. No ideas, no problems resolved through careful thought and consideration, no consideration of and compromise with alien ideals. Just more generic sci-fi action schlock.
Yeah, I made it through a full episode and a half before I turned it off and walked away.
Nah
In defence of Discovery, I think the exploration of ideas in older iterations of Trek was partly a product of the episodic (rather than serialized) format, and the large number of episodes per season. Writers would come in with the nugget of an idea, and then express it through the metaphoric medium of Trek, in standalone episodes. Some of those stories were quite good, but shows like Black Mirror and the revived Twilight Zone offer their own medium for telling those kinds of metaphor-heavy stories. Disco is more character-driven in its story telling, and I don’t think that’s inherently a bad thing. But one thing I do miss, from TNG in particular, is their approach to problem solving. It isn’t dramatically compelling on paper, but the way the characters bounced ideas off each other and debated options (around a boardroom table, most of the time) was a lot of fun, and it was a good demonstration of the ideal of team work.Disco’s cast has really good chemistry, but the decision making debates are predominantly 1v1. They did introduce a boardroom setting in S2, and had some of the TNG style planning sessions, but they haven’t really committed to it in the way that TNG did. And the differing perspectives of the characters aren’t as well defined.
The Orville is much more like TNG than ST:Discovery is.
If you’re really looking for that old TNG/Voyager Trek ethos, might I suggest you devote your viewing time to The Orville instead? Season 1 was kinda rocky, but season 2 really sanded down the rougher edges of McFaralane’s comedy. And they do the at-times heavy handed morality of 90s Star Trek SO WELL that at times i forget I’m not watching a Star Trek show. They really go all in on the not-so-subtle morality shtick and while some may find that off-putting I’m finding it pleasantly nostalgic.I like Discovery well enough, but it’s not so much a Trek show as a space sci-fu show with familiar names.
The first season was OK. The second season is better. It is definitely Star Trek. If you want to compare first seasons, the first season of ST:D was much better than the first season of any of the post TOS shows.
The first season of Deep Space Nine is leaps and bounds better than the first season of Discovery, in large part because Deep Space Nine’s first season mostly avoided an obsessive rehashing of previous Star Trek concepts, instead using what it took from the rest of the franchise in creative new ways. That didn’t always work, but what did work in Deep Space Nine’s early stories was far more interesting than most of Discovery’s “lore”-obsessed stories about Klingon wars, mirror universe shenanigans and Spock’s family. It built what was needed for Deep Space Nine to find its own voice, something Discovery has yet to find for itself after two seasons, which is presumably why that show has ended both its seasons with a show-concept-revising cliffhanger.
No it does not.
Discovery has its virtues, but if you want the closest thing to TNG going right now you should check out The Orville. Again, I like both shows for different reasons, but Orville feels much more like Star Trek of yore to me.
The Orville is definitely the show you want if you’re more obsessed with Star Trek: The Next Generation than you are interested in Star Trek (not necessarily a bad thing), as The Orville is a series-length parody of specific episodes of Next Generation, albeit with a deferential attitude toward what it’s parodying that, in my opinion, works against the effectiveness of the parody. It knows its audience, I guess.Speaking for myself, I can’t sustain interest in a show that doesn’t aspire to be anything more than a satirical pastiche of a previous one, no matter how much unnecessary information has clung to my brain from the latter. The best parody series on TV are more than that, or at the very least, they’re more willing to acknowledge the deficiencies of whatever show or genre they aim to parody.
I respectfully disagree both with your assessment of the show and what it aspires to be. Orville shares some obvious similarities with TNG, and some obvious differences. For example, the endings to some of the episodes are much darker than TNG ever allowed itself to be. For another, Orville tells stories based around flaws in members of the crew. TNG was basically pretty perfect people in a pretty perfect future (A “Pegasus” or two notwithstanding). I love both shows, in some ways because of their similarities but there are differences I enjoy too.But, differing opinions is what makes the world go round……….
A big problem with Discovery is that, so far, it’s far too obsessed with “the Star Trek of yore”. (Other problems include pacing, plotting and writing.)If you want endless revisiting of “lore”, of stuff derived from previous Star Trek series—Klingon wars, mirror universe escapades, Spock’s family issues, the failed pilot “The Cage”—over and above a creative approach to the setting, it’s the show for you.Otherwise, I’d stick with the usual rule for Star Trek shows and wait until it shakes off its early-seasons doldrums.
Both seasons of Discovery feature episodes that flirt with what you call “the Star Trek of yore,” but really it’s been a very different show so far. Maybe that will change in the next season, which, taking place in the far future, will at least not be saddled with expectations that weighed down what has been a prequel series. But yes, it’s a serialized drama, not so much a “who’s gonna die this week,” like Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead, more a “how are they going to get out of this” story, like Agents of SHIELD (but with somewhat higher production values and somewhat poorer writing).
If it’s new ideas and moral and ethical issues you’re looking for, then I’m sorry to say DISCO isn’t gonna satisfy you. It’s pretty much just a space action show, very handsomely mounted, starring possibly the best lead actor since Patrick Stewart. And as space action shows go, it’s definitely smarter and less cheesy than, say, Andromeda.
I mean, here’s a mild spoiler: it’s 2nd season finale features a shifting-gravity fight scene, where people punching each other go all over the walls and ceiling. I’d argue that’s not antithetical with Trek, except that there’s a distinct sense that this is what gets the production team off; this is what they’re most proud to show off. Spectacle, not ideas.
I don’t mind the idea of Star Trek having decent action scenes (instead of people repeatedly ducking behind rocks while firing phasers at each other) but, to me, it’s not really Star Trek if that’s the focus. Exploration and ethical quandaries are where it’s at.TNG’s setup of “everyone on the ship is pretty much perfect” is probably a little too idealistic for the modern era, but you could give them a bit more in the way of flaws without having to make it the core of the show. But either way, I want my exploration and ethical quandaries!
Each series is different, and so is Disco. But there’s enough Trek in there for me.
The most Star Trek it gets is, IMHO, in the first episode; you can tell Bryan Fuller worked on that script. While perhaps arguably in plot it gets more Trek-like at points later on, it never captures the spirit and feeling as well as it teases at first.I will say that Discovery is a more Trek-like big action movie than most of the big Trek action movies.
Discovery is a very watchable sci-fi show, but it’s not Star Trek, not really.
Q turns all of the wine into craft gin.
Q!!! That fuking hipster!
Q would!
“Why did you leave Starfleet, Admiral?”
Am I the only one suddenly hoping this will be a Star Trek/The Prisoner crossover?
Not really; there wouldn’t be any mystery, since we already know that Riker is Number One.
Well played, and also great username.
I had the same thought, lol.
“I AM NOT AN ADMIRAL! I AM A FREE MAN!”
Because running a vineyard seems pretty relaxing and fantastic.
his answer is obviously going to be ‘i got a 750k per year job working for space raytheon making sure the proton torpedo contract is secure.’
Damn you! Now I need to hear Patrick Stewart tell someone, “Be seeing you” in a portentous way.
To be fair, we do have McKellen doing so, which is almost as good (albeit in a lousy remake).
Cripes. I haven’t seen this yet obviously, and Emoji Movie aside, shouldn’t discount Sir Patrick’s career choices, but I’m feeling some serious fatigue over the current “your childhood hero became a miserable shell and/or failure” trend. Luke Skywalker, Sarah Connor, Indiana Jones, Laurie Strode, now Jean-Luc Picard and soon the Ghostbusters… is it impossible to assume that these classic characters quietly retired, content with their accomplishments, legacy, and well-deserved rest? Or, like the legends of yore, simply never got old and diminished? Given that the point of these projects is to monetize our nostalgia, yes, that is impossible. Contentment is boring to watch and immortality is impossible without recasting, which kinda defeats the whole purpose (unless you’re James Bond). The only way to bring aging performers back to classic roles in projects that still have conflict seems to be to either undo their previous victories or assume they’ve experienced no evolution as a character no matter how much time has passed.This is why legends shouldn’t have postscripts. No matter the intent, it can only diminish the legend.
This is the paradox of loving a story and its characters: for your love to live on, so must their suffering and struggle.
>I’m feeling some serious fatigue over the current “your childhood hero became a miserable shell and/or failure” trend. Agree with this fully; it’s so exploitative and creatively bankrupt. Hollywood has realized that they can release shameless nostalgia porn and get away with it if they spend the entire time tearing classic characters down instead of just trotting them out for one last adventure like they used to. Just leave the character alone, I don’t need my expectations subverted by finding out that elderly Picard ends up a disillusioned washed up loser living alone somewhere. It’s not bold and risk taking, it’s the laziest thing you could possibly do with the character.
I agree as well. But I’m holding out some form of hope that this show can pull it off. I mean Michael Chabon is a staff writer on it. With Star Trek beyond the hero trotting out for a final adventure there’s the possibility of morality tales and exploration of what it means to be a living sentient being. Also, it makes sense that he’s working on the family vinyard. That’s what Picard was always planning on doing. The whole defeated depressed Picard makes little sense though. I kind of wish they just forgot about the outcome of the movies. On the flip side I don’t have any faith in the exec producers on this show.
As long as Alex Kurtzman is involved, I think there’s little hope of any quality in the show not being complete squandered or crushed.
How many franchises does that asshole have to tank before they stop giving him work?
Thank you! That’s my thought exactly. He and Orzi are absolutely awful. Everything they touch turns to crap.
eh, michael chabon in an amazing writer- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is still one of my all time favorite books.
but if someone said to me ‘hey, dont worry that this will be a bleak and depressing character study of a flawed and broken man because good old mike chabon is writing on it!’ i would immediately question if they’d ever read any of his books…..
Fair. My biggest concern is that the show turns into an Alex Kurtzman clusterfuck of boom-boom-run-run mysterious big bad with no pathos or character. So my point, though I in no way articulated it well in my previous comment, was that at least a competent writer is on the show. From what I’ve read of his interviews he at least appears to be a Star Trek fan. So, maybe, he fundamentally understands what made people like the series in the first place.
the one good thing is that stewart himself is enough of a name that he probably has some decent veto power if he feels something is way off the rails. the bad thing is that A. he’s that old school english ‘a job is a job’ era of actor and B. hails originally from the shakespeare ‘everyone gets sad and dies at the end’ theatrical background so he might be totally cool with a total downer show of sadness.
i will say, given his flair for comedy in recent years, i would have liked something potentially a little funny and perhaps playing a bit against expectation. an older picard trying to enjoy his retirement and catch up with old friends occasionally getting dragged back into starfleet issues with an eye roll but still a sense of duty and gravitas could have been a fun take
In this series Picard has the ability to make women’s clothes fall off with his mind. They’ll try to put them back on, but he’s already seen everything.
Michael Chabon is known for ironic and deconstructionist fiction that treats pop culture as an object to be dissected.I’d argue that’s exactly what a new Star Trek show doesn’t need.
The whole thing has such a “well actually” vibe to it. Well actually, if Laurie Strode had lived through all of that she would be fucked up for life and probably some sort of paranoid shut-in. (pushes up glasses)Well yeah, maybe, but that doesn’t mean we need a movie about the real-life mental health effects of traumatic experiences on fictional characters.
Yeah, it’s definitely the cancerous outgrowth of the “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” essay-writing movement. People seem to forget that Niven wrote that piece with his tongue firmly in his cheek, and that it was originally published in Knight, a magazine mostly known for photos of starlets’ breasts and articles such as “FREE LOVE CLUBS FOR SEX-HUNGRY YOUTH!” It wasn’t meant to be a battle cry for a new brand of ultra-depressing science fiction.
Can we see it before lamenting that it diminishes a show that ended 20 years ago? Do you realize that lots of people hated TNG when it came out because it wasn’t TOS?
I acknowledged that I hadn’t seen it yet, and at least inferred that “ST:Picard” has potential to be interesting and good. I can’t imagine it being worse than “ST: Nemesis,” at any rate. Regardless, its premise posits that Jean-Luc left Starfleet in shame or disgrace shortly after the last time we saw him on screen as a hero. That much I know without having seen an episode, and it’s a part of the trend that I decried above. It doesn’t have to be bad for it to rankle me. Contrary to popular opinion, I enjoyed both “The Force Awakens” and “The Last Jedi,” yet I’m still royally bummed that they dictate that the feel good place we left Luke, Leia, Han, and the galaxy at the end of “Return of the Jedi” must have been very short-lived.
I think you’re giving too much weight to canon. A subsequent sucky movie doesn’t have to diminish your enjoyment of the previous installments, IMO.I would be disappointed in ST: Picard if they betray the Picard character for plot purposes, but I’ll still love TNG Picard. The movies didn’t diminish that, even though they took Picard in new, dumb directions.I didn’t like TFA and haven’t seen TLJ. A lot of what I liked about ANH and ESB was the gritty, lived-in universe. All Star Wars movies since then have made that universe dumber and more cartoony. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when they blew up a bigger, dumber Death Star that was being run by a bigger, dumber Empire in TFA.I understand your apprehension. I’m mostly objecting to the idea of preemptively being bummed about something, particularly with so little basis. What’s the point?
In fairness, the first season of TNG pretty much sucked
It certainly had its issues. I’d rather watch a lot of season 1 TNG episodes that a lot of TOS episodes, though. I wish someone would do a fan edit of most TOS episodes to cut down the run time and remove slow, unnecessary nonsense.
Quality aside, I don’t think Indy belongs on that list. I would, however, add Han Solo and, one of the earliest offenders, Jim Phelps.
At least Han was still Han in TFA (though a Han without a happy ending). What they did to Phelps was a total betrayal of the character. It also made no sense. If Jim Phelps wanted $10 million, he could steal that every day of the week and twice on Sundays, and no one would ever know.
I include Indy because I think there’s something just as depressing about seeing a septuagenarian going through the heroic motions as if they’re the exact same person we last saw in action some 20 years ago. It implies a lack of growth in the character, and necessitates their ensuing adventures to be lamer just so their frail bodies can survive them. Honestly, I think the one-eyed Indy we see in “Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” is a more fitting and happier end for the character. Hanging out in a museum filled with his accomplishments, reflecting on and sharing his lifetime of experiences with younger generations. One might call that sad, but he looks pretty content to me.
Of course, better still is the ride into the sunset at the end of “Last Crusade”, the action adventure film, visual version of “and they lived happily ever after”. I mean, that’s really all you need, isn’t it?
Kinda sorta yes. I’m also reminded of modern Doctor Who which, while not the worst, nevertheless spends rather a lot more time on “the Doctor is a tortured guilt-ridden emotional wreck constantly second-guessing him/herself and engaging in angsty monologues about whether he/she’s a hero or not” shenanigans (and monologues. Oh, the monologues) than I particularly care for. Contrast with old Doctor Who, where he was mostly a pretty cheerful cosmic hobo bumming around the universe.
It’s not a promising sign to me that every other Star Trek show has been named after the ship (or station) where the characters’ adventures happen, while this one is named after a single character.It speaks to a greater interest in initial brand recognition than in a sustainable concept for a show that can continue to hold the interests of a wide audience over time.
I think it’s more that our (I grew up in the eighties/nineties, so TNG is forever my jam) generation has money to spend on advertisers’ goods and services, and the millennial generation we spawned has no such money, so TV will continue to pander to our needs and desires.
I think JO JO’s Bizarre adventure does it the way your looking for. Not that i think either is best but in Jo Jo joseph jostar is a creative prick who gets by with charisma and tricks later he ages and his grandson sees him as still a douche but hes just as silly but smarter to make up for his lack of physical body. they keep going till hes a aged man and he still develops but is just as fun and charming. He didnt become grumpy but just old and forgetful like a real old person might. he’s still sweat and clever doesnt get involved in fights but still hangs around and is a joy to see. No sad takes on how ageing is bad and the young are great ect. good old times are in the past now were harsh and hateful etc.
It’s a trend that can be emotionally draining; I remember trying to read ‘Closing Time’, the follow-up to ‘Catch-22′, and being unable to get more than a few pages in because an old, bitter Yossarian was too heart-breaking after his hopeful flight at the end of the original novel. But that said, one of the best examples of the trope I’ve seen featured Patrick Stewart: ‘Logan’, which had some absolutely beautiful, if sad, moments with Professor X reflecting on his past.
“Logan” is a fantastic example that it can be done in a satisfying way. Part of that is because it really is the logical endpoint for Logan the character as portrayed across all the previous X-Men films. Maybe not so much the most logical endpoint for Xavier, but the other part is that 20th Fox’s X-verse is practically a multiverse in all but name (didn’t he also die in X3?), so you can assemble your own canon if you think “Logan” is too much of a downer. Also Patrick Stewart acted the hell out of it and earned every bit of pathos, which I’m sure he’ll do the same for ST:P.
Somewhere along the line I forgot that the idea the premise would be that Picard had retired to travel the galaxy pursuing his interest in space archeology but every week he would get wrangled into solving a local mystery was just a joke from Twitter, and now I’m incredibly disappointed that it’s not real.
Jean-Luc Fletcher? 10/10 Would Watch.
Like all things, archaeology is improved by putting “space” in front of it.
To quote Khan, “Admiral? Admiral.” I mean, not like that’s any huge surprise or anything. Heck, they made Janeway one. Arguably, Picard should have already been one by at least the second or third TNG movie. But I’ll go ahead and mention it since nobody else has.
Ahd-mee-reel?
I mean, Kirk DID tell him to not let anyone take him out of that Captain’s chair…
There’s a rumor circulating online that the show will reveal that Midichlorians gave Picard his uncanny powers of diplomacy.
Because if there’s one thing we wanted a Picard show to be, it’s sad.
Well, the fact that he’s running his family winery after his brother and nephew died in a fire 25 years ago… Yeah, kinda sad.
Because if there’s one thing we wanted a Picard show to be, it’s sad.
Picard is a barely successful vintner and his family vinyard has a raft of problems, it turns out he was much better at running starships. Q is a wine critic.
My interest in NuTrek ended with Insurrection. The idea of Brian Fuller as a show runner for Discovery briefly revived it, but his leaving means I’m still not interested.
I might be interested in this if Fuller were involved, or I hadn’t seen Insurrection.
You guys tell me how it is once it comes out, ‘K?
Does anyone have hope for this show?
Timing for the trailer is pretty good since today is actually the 25th anniversary of All Good Things…
My favourite thing about that episode was that they came up with completely new uniforms for the future era scenes. It really helped sell the idea that this was farther down the timeline in a way that putting a white stripe in Data’s hair couldn’t, and it made sense since Starfleet is constantly redesigning their uniforms. I’m sure we won’t be getting those uniforms for this show, but I do hope we get something different from the ones last seen in Nemesis.
There’s some leaked footage of the new uniforms in Picard. Here’s a good article about them. They’re very reminiscent of the Voyager uniforms.
Thanks! I like that they’re subtly different but still feel like they come from the same era. I kinda wish they’d go back to gold as the command colour, but I get how confusing that would be for people after nearly 30 years of it being red.
My theory: The unimaginable event that caused Picard to leave was Troi going crazy and raining photon torpedoes down on a civilian population from her ship, the USS Drogon.
I mean, we’ve already seen one unimaginable event in which Picard (as Locutus) blows up a substantial portion of Star Fleet, which would have included many of his colleagues and former shipmates. The recently released Picard “autobiography” gets into this.
I’m just happy there’s so much Star Trek being produced or in development, and that each show seems to be taking its own approach. I’m also glad they’re looking forward, finally, after doing nothing but prequels and reboots since Nemesis.
I guess.
I’m upset with this tone, I want it like the original TNG, remember when Picard had a relaxing vacation on his family vineyard and totally got along with his brother?
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Well this seems pretty grim. Obviously I expected a show starring a 78 year old was going to be more of a drama than an adventure, but I had at least hoped Picard had been enjoying his life. Doesn’t anyone deserve a happy ending?
“The end is only the beginning.”… inspired.And is Picard wearing a fucking tie? Of all the useless items of clothing that should be relegated to the past, it’s ties. Babylon 5 knew this.
In an attempt to revisit picard.ytmnd.com I learned that YTMND is no longer up!
I just got goosebumps watching this trailer. I cannot tell you how excited I am to watch this show. JLP was the best written Captain with the best actor of the entire franchise, imo. I’m going to stay away from the naysayers on this and enjoy the fact that I’m seeing JLP in action again.