Having rewatched TNG during lockdown, its actually surprising that people believe this (I did as well). He is quite trigger happy. The Picard speeches we all roll our eyes over are almost always after the crises is concluded. The few times they aren’t, its when he want to avoid a fight he knows he will win regardless.
The Mirror Universe and the Confederation Universe here in Picard Season 2 are brutal because they are civilizations that reward brutality.
And yet somehow, amid all this brutality, the same people were born and survived to adulthood
and are the same basic people - yet have KEY positions in all the right places.
I’m enjoying the season so far, but it feels a little like Star Trek going the way of The Force Awakens – the first season of Picard had some issues and wasn’t necessarily embraced by the fandom, so they’re course-correcting by bringing in Q and mashing up two of the most reliable Trek tropes, time travel and the mirror universe. I don’t mind a fun romp, but this show (seems to) have bigger ambitions than that, and it’ll be interesting to see if they can bring out bigger themes amid the fish-out-of-water plot. I’m not sure if all this newly hinted-at backstory for Picard is going to land successfully, but we’ll see.
That’s why this kind of parallel universe story is inherently silly, and should not be taken seriously.
Yeah, it just doesn’t work for me, I suppose. It might just be the flavour of the whole thing about fascists trying to one-up each other
Well, because Q has engineered it that way. Otherwise, there’d be no way his little pet Jean-Luc could fix everything. I don’t think we’re supposed to regard Seven being president as just a big coincidence.
In show - Q changed ‘1 thing’ in 2024 that caused all this.
So far I think the first two episodes are a HUGE improvement from S1. Sure, the mirror stuff has been done before, but it seems clear that the bulk of the season is going to be time travel back to the 21st century, which has also been done before, but not so much that there’s not plenty of potentially good stories to mine (unlike the mirror stuff). Still not a great Star Trek show, IMO, but S1 was among the worst Star Trek ever, and so far this season is roughly middling, IMO – better than most ENT and VOY and almost as good as the “pretty good” episodes of TNG and DS9. I haven’t seen Discovery so I can’t compare those.
Seriously hoping this doesn’t turn out to be about the election.
Not so much Voyager, but the Q in TNG wasn’t anywhere near this bad.
Oh God, no. That’s so stupid it just might be true.
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In Encounter at Far-point, the mystery that the crew had to solve was that the place was made out of a living creature who the locals had enslaved. Or be destroyed for being a “savage, child like race”
In Q-Who: he sent them to face the Borg
In The finale, he made Picard flow through three time periods to solve an anomaly.
In none of the cases was the answer obvious or easy, and thats the point.
Picard nearly had a fit in each episode trying to get an answer out of him.
I remember that episode very well and the situation was straightforward. Picard was arrogant, and Q said “Ha ha, I am going to send you to face something you can’t handle.” Then they faced a terrifying adversary they couldn’t handle, Picard admitted he was beaten, and Q saved them. It was pretty clear to me what was happening.
In the cases of Encounter and Farpoint and All Good Things, the problems were more difficult to sort out, sure. But even then, the dialogue wasn’t this… well, it’s like “Lost” turned into words. Lines don’t necessarily even seem to MEAN anything, not in the sense that they’re cryptic, but in the sense that they are nothing at all. Mind you, it’s not just Q, this is a problem that pollutes the entire show, though Episode 2 thankfully had some actual events that people had to deal with like actual people.
Whats worse is here and the great one where Q lost his powers…the crew have this GOD at their disposal and they’re like “no thanks”. JFC. I know the Feds are all about arrogance and self-determination and 'figuring out the mystery themselves"…but…
I have this image of the Ships Historian running up to the Bridge trailing a huge long piece of paper…"(pant pant)…Q…Q is here?? I have so many questions (pant pant)…where is he?"
Picard: (pats officer on head) We sent him on its way. Its ok though. The myssssterrrry is still out there for us to discover and solve!"
(Theoretical physicist runs onto bridge)
There was also an alternate timeline Q episode where Picard is sent back to his college days to sleep with some old girlfriend. It involved him getting stabbed in the heart. Again.
Thus far, that was better than this.
That was a really good episode, from what I remember.
Having alternate universes that have copies of people in the “real” universe is something sci Fi has done forever and Trek has done for 50 years. Either you are on board with it or you aren’t but thing mad about it, to me, makes as much sense as the fact that they handwaved away the realities of momentum in space travel with “inertial dampeners”.
Tapestry.
Was the Borg queen always an over-the-top, evil, what-I-imagine-Cruela-Deville-is-like wannabe? Pity she didn’t have a mustache to twirl.