# Star Trek: Picard discussion thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2019, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529 "2019-06-14T22:58:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/241 "2020-01-27T16:21:00Z")
It’s on Amazon Prime here. Suck it, Yanks! ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/242 "2020-01-27T16:28:45Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > So is the only way to watch this to subscribe to CBS All Access? Seems like it from what I can tell. I’m loathe to pay even more for TV at this point - I already pay for cable, Netflix, Hulu, etc etc. Wait until the series is complete, then get a 7 (or 30?) day trial thru amazon or elsewhere. I have mine thru Amazon - and it comes in handy for other shows as well. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/243 "2020-01-27T16:30:09Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > So Jean Luc **did** make Admiral. So he ignored Jim Kirk’s advice. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/244 "2020-01-27T16:47:47Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > It’s on Amazon Prime here. Suck it, Yanks! Same here. It’s not on PrimeVideo in the US? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/245 "2020-01-27T16:49:00Z")
It is. Amazon Prime strikes again! ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/246 "2020-01-27T18:23:48Z")
Not for me it’s not. I have Amazon Prime, it wants me to subscribe to CBS on demand to watch Picard. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/247 "2020-01-29T15:10:17Z")
Easter Eggs for ep 1. The writers put in a lot of little details for fans of TNG Obviously there are spoilers. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MyA_Etw30mM/maxresdefault.jpg "Star Trek: PICARD- Every Easter Egg in Episode One") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyA_Etw30mM) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/248 "2020-01-29T15:25:44Z")
It’s on regular cable here in Canada. (CTV SciFi, who also carry Discovery.) ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/249 "2020-01-29T15:35:42Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > It’s on regular cable here in Canada. (CTV SciFi, who also carry Discovery.) And Crave, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/250 "2020-01-29T16:26:29Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > It’s on regular cable here in Canada. (CTV SciFi, who also carry Discovery.) I see on my SciFi broadcast that the channel is in free preview (Shaw Cable, Calgary). I’m not sure if SciFi is in my package of channels and the free preview could go away before the end of Picard’s run. If you’re watching on SciFi you might want to check that out. I do have Crave, so I’m set for the whole run. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/251 "2020-01-29T16:36:56Z")
CTV SciFi is definitely part of our package…has been since it was Space. (If it isn’t in yours, though, it’ll definitely go away by the time Picard ends…it ends at the end of the month, I’m pretty sure.) ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/252 "2020-01-30T17:46:54Z")
Dudes that episode was mostly fantastic. I’m SO IN the Star Trek Online commercial almost had me booting up my old account…but then I remembered i was always terribly confused even when i was playing. A revisit would be a nightmare. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/253 "2020-01-31T00:24:17Z")
After the CBS All Access site thwarted my attempts to watch it, I saw it on YT under the title: Star Trek: Picard | Free Series Premiere Episode | CBS All Access ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/254 "2020-01-31T02:57:05Z")
New one on this week as we speak, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/255 "2020-01-31T17:29:53Z")
Very much a fan of the Irish-Romulan housekeeper/ex-spy. I really didn’t expect the phrase “cheeky feckers” to ever feature in Star Trek. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/256 "2020-02-01T00:00:39Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Very much a fan of the Irish-Romulan housekeeper/ex-spy. I really didn’t expect the phrase “cheeky feckers” to ever feature in Star Trek. Or “fucking hubris” either. ---
**Author:** ![Scoobysnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/257 "2020-02-01T08:21:37Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > Or “fucking hubris” either. That kind of pulled me out of the episode. I wasn’t surprised to hear “shit” earlier in the episode, since they had used it in several of the movies, but that was new to me. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/258 "2020-02-01T08:39:32Z")
One thing that bugs me. Data and Lore were the only successful positronic brain Android’s in the TNG world. Then B4 gets created. Androids are unique and difficult to successfully build. Trek Picard is set 20 years later. Now there’s a lot of Androids? It seems unlikely the Technology could shift that quickly. I guess we have to accept the premise. Still seems unlikely. [SPOILER] Androids work on the Mars Federation shipyard until they revolt. They were then banned in the Federation. All this happens between TNG time and Trek Picard? [/SPOILER] ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/259 "2020-02-01T09:16:46Z")
What set Data/Lore apart wasn’t their bodies, it was their sentience, and I don’t thing the androids on Mars were supposed to be sentient. It certainly didn’t look like they had positronic brains. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529/260 "2020-02-01T09:18:53Z")
B4 was built before Data and Lore, and there was also Juliana Tainer. It’s been made pretty clear that the synths on Mars are very primitive compared to Data and Lore, and Agnes Jurati states more than once that Bruce Maddox was never able to duplicate Soong’s work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-discussion-thread/835529.md?page=14)