STAR TREK: PICARD
 

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Is this going to be pay per view?

Don't know yet, it's going to be on CBS & Space? Canadian sci-fi channel.
https://www.cbs.com/all-access/
https://www.space.ca/show/star-trek-picard/

Thanks

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Hmm? I never found Picard himself that interesting. Probably the most interesting thing to happen to him was being assimilated by the Borg and escaping to be human again. I don't have much interest in the south of France or its vineyards either. ;)

I think Patrick Stewart was by far the best actor who every worked on any Star Trek TV show. However I'm not sure a show about him is going to succeed. Hopefully they build a strong ensemble cast.

Don't forget this...

https://spaceninja.com/content/image...e-4-lights.png

That was a great episode!

Still didn't make Picard that much more interesting - he was just an officer who refused to crack under attempted brainwashing & torture while imprisoned by an enemy.

(Kirk would have made his tormentors self destruct by confusing them with counter-questions, taken out all his guards with karate chops to the neck, then went and slept with their women before escaping!) ;)

Maybe if they made Mr. Worf his roommate? That would be cool.

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Whaaaat. Picard was the best. Loved him. One of the best all-time Star Trek characters.

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See also: The Drumhead.

Actually, lots of people in today's society should watch The Drumhead.

Agreed

And agreed again:p


I'm on season 7 of re-watching STTNG, I've really enjoyed it, lots of great writing and acting:yup: Then it's onto DSN.

I don't hate him or anything, just never found him so interesting as to warrant his own series.

Of course, context is everything - what will the show be about? Being the head of Star Fleet? Becoming a diplomat for alien negotiations? Being head of a subversive group to protect Earth from a Borg resurgence? Or a soap opera about being retired on a French vineyard in the 24th century?

On the same note, I probably wouldn't want to see a series just about Kirk either - I'd much rather see Kirk with a crew on the bridge of the Enterprise (but in an actual prequel - not some splinter, off-shoot, concurrent-but-alternate counter continuity! Gotta get in my jabs at Abrams' reboot!) ;)

The French vineyard soap opera idea sounds good to me. That's what STTNG and DSN had over the original show, more in depth character building and a continuation of the relationships between the crew. I don't care if it's ST original or STTNG or whatever, but when the show is about ship battles and phaser fights, I tune out. Hopefully ST Picard would be split between his life in France on his families vineyard and his time as a professor teaching classes to cadets at Star Fleet Academy.
I'd rather see a prequel series with Captain Pike in command of the early days of the Enterprise. I think Capt Kirk and the crew should be laid to rest on their laurels. They deserve them, so rebooting them is like digging them out of the grave. Abrams-grave digger!

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This is probably better for the TOS thread - but according to current canon continuity, there was another 5-year mission by Kirk and crew that took place after the V-ger incident (yet to be explored by any TV series or movie).

According to the ST timeline is was almost 11 years between the events in TMP and Wrath of Khan even though in reality the films were only 3 years apart.

So another long mission involving the original crew that took place after the first one is still up for grabs! Maybe some future film maker or TV producer will resurrect the crew for the 2nd mission (and hopefully not make it some kind of splinter continuity where the characters call up the actors who played their older selves, but in another dimension to ask advice of how they handled the situation in their own movie!) ;)

I'm not sure, but I thought I read that this will be on CBS All Access. I think that's a pay channel. :(

Will see. :yup:

New artwork..
https://i.imgur.com/ufac29z.jpg

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That artwork looks great! I'd be real interested in seeing this, but I don't pay to watch TV. Oh well maybe it will come out on DVD someday.

It's heading to Amazon Prime UK, you can start your free trial month right after Picard's season ending watch it and cancel your subscription.

STAR TREK: PICARD Official Teaser (2020)
https://youtu.be/YhBBXHwEsIo

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The earlier trailer didn't hook me ... but this one does. <3

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I really want to buy one of those. I hope they come out with it real Soong.

Star Trek: Picard - Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvKBeOKvblI

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None of these videos are available for me.

Klingons may be jamming transmissions locally.

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Set phasers to localized copyright infringement.

The one just above your comment isn't available for me here in Pittsburgh. Harrumph.

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Okay, so... a clarification?

To watch this upcoming series (starts January 23, in eleven days), one must separately subscribe to CBS All-Access, which is separate from just having access to CBS, correct? Or is the All-Access a sort of on-demand thing?

Do we know if the series will be shown one episode a week, or will it be binge-able right on January 23?

If I remember correctly from the discussion about "Star Trek: Discovery", which was also on CBS All Access, CBS All Access is a subscription service. It is NOT free, or part of CBS On Demand. And I think the episodes air one episode per week, not all at once. You would have to wait, probably 10-12 weeks, until the entire season has aired, before you could binge-watch the whole season.

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THERE. ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8806524...f_=tt_eps_sn_1



Episode # 1.01 24 Jan. 2020


Episode #1.10 26 Mar. 2020


CBS all acces : $ 5,99 a month..


You can start a free trial (7 days) on the 27th of march and binge it.:)

The first episode of Star Trek: Picard is available all day today on Pluto TV.

Unless they start pulling the first episodes early. We've seen channels do this through Comcast's On Demand. You want to binge-watch a series, and only the current season is available as part of your service. If you want earlier episodes, you have to BUY them separately. I could see All-Access doing this, so that if you wait till they're all available, the first two or three are no longer available.

I think the thing to do might be to just pay for a single month (six bucks) perhaps at the end of this month, and then take your time to watch it through March, as those final episodes are still becoming available.

ALSO... why did some of the earlier trailers posted here have Amazon Prime logos on them?? Just for those who subscribe through Amazon Channels or something?

Don't know what the deal is between cbs and amazon but amazon has the first episode on their site for free:shrug::
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Picard/dp/B07S5HX14T

I think that's part of the a la carte channel options offered via Amazon Video. You can also add on premium channels such as HBO, Starz, and Showtime that way for a flat monthly fee for each (on top of a Prime subscription). If/when we finally cut the cable cord, this is how we'll add a few channels that we like to watch.

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So that first freebie episode is meant as a hook, I'm sure.

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HEY! CBS All-Access is giving folks a free month trial with coupon code GIFT. Since the season finale for Picard drops on Thursday, that means you can stream the whole season for free:

https://ew.com/tv/star-trek-picard-e...s-free-online/

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Or, apparently, code ALL (which seems to pop up automatically when you go to their site to register):

https://www.cbs.com/all-access
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How cool, nice timing by cbs with everyone stuck in the house atm.
Now you can binge it after all, enjoy Austruck, thanks for sharing!

Has anyone actually seen this? It is a staggeringly awful television series. An insult to TNG and Star Trek in general.


I could go on a big rant about why it's so bad but I honestly can't be bothered - it would take too long. Instead I'll just say what I enjoyed about the show:


It was great to see Riker and Troi again; Johnathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis are brilliant as always. The last couple of episodes had some good moments. Jeri Ryan still looks hot for a 50 year old Borg. That's about it. Everything else ranges on a spectrum from mediocre to dreadful to bizarre.


If you haven't seen it I would recommend spending ten hours doing something more fun like lobotomizing yourself or cutting your hair with a chainsaw.

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I've seen the first episode. It was okay. I'll probably give it a chance.

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I saw the first two-ish episodes but wasn't engaged to stay past my free trial of CBS All Access to finish it. I'm not sure what I didn't like about it -- possibly just that we are expected to have this urgency about this female character (I've forgotten her name already), and I just never felt that urgency. I felt impatient at seeing other characters again. And the pacing felt "off," for some reason.

My trial expired. I don't feel sad.

I'm a huge Star Trek fan, well not the latest movies, but I love the canon stuff. I haven't seen Picard yet but plan on it. Too bad it's not being more well received. I can't image what the problem with it is? But I heard a lot of complaints about Discovery. which I haven't seen either. I'm currently re-watching Voyager...I'm on season 7 right now.

Interesting... they had a little TNG All-Borg marathon on BBC channel last night (only Borg episodes shown in sequence - neat idea).

Despite the commercials, I stayed up late and watched the first episode with the Borg (I think it was called "Q Who"), followed by the two part episode "The Best of Both Worlds" where Picard is turned into Locutis. More Borg episodes followed throughout the night, but 3:00 am was my limit!

It's interesting how the Borg radically changed from their first appearance on Q Who to later episodes. On Q Who, Q tells Picard that the Borg are only interested in the raw materials from the Enterprise..and we see them cutting a slice out of the saucer section. Of course later the Borg are all about assimilating people.

Yes! I was a bit befuddled in the first episode that there was no talk of assimilation.

Even Guinan (the Enterprise's only source of info on the Borg outside of Q) seems to elude to the fact that the Borg just decimated her people to get resources. (I guess retroactively we must assume she either meant "assimilated" or she was unaware that her people were assimilated.)

It would have been neat if they culminated the marathon with the "First Contact" motion picture, but they didn't. Maybe someone will put out an All-Borg box set containing First Contact + relevant Voyager episodes.

Were the Borg ever mentioned or hinted at on "Enterprise" even though it was a prequel?

Also... why do most Borg look like former earthlings? Have they ever depicted Klingon Borg? Andorian, Tellerite, Ferrengi or Vulcan (etc.) Borg? How about some Gorn Borg?

All take a more real world approach and say that the writers decided to change the Borg's nature to create more drama. I have all the ST series on DVD and there's lots of interviews with the writers and they will talk about the direction the show was going and how they wanted to change things.
I should now that! I'm not sure but I do think that somehow the Borg were included on an episode of Enterprise. I'll be re watching that in a matter of weeks.

That's a really good question! You're right Borg almost always look like assimilated humans.

Didn't want to start a new thread... but did you happen to catch the new space suits worn by the astronauts on the SpaceEx mission on the news today? (Lift-off scrubbed for bad weather, btw.)

They look like something out of a really cheap sci-fi movie! ;)

https://img.republicworld.com/republ...tr=w-812,h-464

I guess "form follows function" ...but they are kinda dorky looking!

We make fun of how corny they made stuff look in 50's & 60's sci-fi movies... but maybe they were actually predictors of the future! :)

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Ha! they are kind of dorky looking and is that Bill Clinton on the left:p

Yep, and Nathan Lane on the right! ;)

That went over my head, but I'll take your word for it that it was funny:p

The first celebrity to come to mind that the astronaught on the right looks a little bit like is actor Nathan Lane...

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20160520151139

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Ah...I see now! Ha:) and he does look like him.

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LOL!

There are DVD sets that have been released that focus on different areas of Star Trek. One of the sets is a Borg Collective set.




Personally, I prefer the Q Collective and the Time Travel Collective.

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See? The Picard show is so dull that now we're talking about everything ELSE in the Trek universe EXCEPT the Picard show. :D

I think the episode is called Regeneration. It's pretty good actually.


The premise is that scientists in the Arctic discover some of the wreckage from the Borg sphere in First Contact that was destroyed and one of the Borg thaws out, wakes up and goes about his business of assimilation. They steal a ship and escape earth. Archer and co. are ordered to hunt them down.


I won't spoil anymore but I recommend it. They wrote it in such a way so that it doesn't breach canon (this is back when writers actually cared about that) and the ending ties it in with TNG era Borg in a pretty clever way.

So...I just finished watching all of the 1st season of Picard. I liked it as an, on-going drama/sci fi mini series...but I wouldn't really call it Star Trek, at least not the Star Trek that I'm use to.

It was kinda fun to see some old favorites (emphasizes on old:cool:), Patrick Stewart of course is the main lead as Picard. We also see Riker & Troi Johnathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis in one episode. And Seven of Nine aka Jerry Ryan has a reacquiring role as the former Borg drone...the last episode seemed to set up her as a regular for the upcoming season 2.

Brent Spiner, the dead Data manages to make it back onto the screen. Then there's my favorite Hugh the Borg that Picard freed from the collective, Jonathan Del Arco is the actor and he is in a couple of episodes.

There's some really silly/stupid stuff that would make Gene Rodenberry spit blood wine:eek: Seems in the future Humans will still be smoking and doing drugs by vaping narcotics...oh and doing a lot of f bombs and just generally being antagonist and hostile...very un-Star Trek like.

I still haven't seen "Picard" because it's not on a channel that I get, but at least your review doesn't make me regret missing it.