Star Trek: Picard - Amazon Prime [ POSSIBLE SPOILERS ]

AMKC · 27-06-2021 8:45pm

I really hope if they do that that the films are not just about action and explosions then. Yes Picard was a bit more of that in the movies than the series but still better than the recent JJ Trek movies. By the way Film 4 are having a Star Trek Marathon from 6.20pm on Friday on. The first 4 movies on the first night and then 5 on on Saturday from 11am on.

pixelburp · 27-06-2021 9:06pm

AMKC wrote: »

I really hope if they do that that the films are not just about action and explosions then. Yes Picard was a bit more of that in the movies than the series but still better than the recent JJ Trek movies. By the way Film 4 are having a Star Trek Marathon from 6.20pm on Friday on. The first 4 movies on the first night and then 5 on on Saturday from 11am on.

Eh, I dunno. Gimme a choice between '09 Trek and Nemesis, and while the reboot was trash, it was still trash with good action and pacing. But that's very much deciding on degrees of badness at the same time for me

breezy1985 · 15-07-2021 5:12pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117527683#Comment_117527683

At least the people involved in 09 had their hearts in it. Nemesis reminds me of Star Trek XII : So Very Tired

FutureGuy · 17-07-2021 8:20am

"It would be hard to do worse" - Gabriel Lorca

Slydice · 03-09-2021 1:55am

Seeing a bunch of headline about it and I'm like.. OK.. that's fine.. but I don't really know who she is.

I'm guessing the headline part of it must be the Borg Queen as a character returning.. which sounds fair as a headline generator for me 🙂

Anyway.. new actress for Borg Queen announced: Annie Wershing.

She'll have a fair mountain to climb to live up to Alice Krige.. who is still out there and working in TV so I'm not sure what the deal is..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Krige

Be cool if she could do a cameo at some point. I can't see any reason not to have multiple.. if not multitudes of Queens.

If I remember correctly, it was mentioned that their species made good candidates for Queens (so.. probably could have King.. Queens 😁 either)

No note about that on memory alpha: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Species_125

https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1433538284546789377

CastorTroy · 03-09-2021 9:35am

I first knew her from 24 and lately from Bosch with the likes of Timeless and Runaways in between.

pixelburp · 03-09-2021 11:07am

Huh. Wonder if this will as the Queen returned, or if it'll be more Lacutus / First Contact flashbacks.

Evade · 03-09-2021 2:30pm

I just noticed all the cars in the tweet Slydice linked. Why?

CastorTroy · 04-09-2021 1:42pm

Because it's a long road getting from there to here?

Slydice · 06-09-2021 2:13am

That's a good question.

I had a quick check there as I couldn't remember seeing ground cars much in Star Trek.

Couldn't see any indication in the Opening of the Motion Picture.. the Golden Gate Bridge is glassed over 🙂

but..

I remembered Into Darkness got pretty ground-level so I checked the crash scene and sure enough ground-cars.. so.. I wouldn't pin it to a time travel episode.. I wouldn't exclude it either though.

Khan crossing a road about 3:10 into this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMwTbrA7v1I

Evade · 06-09-2021 9:47am

Yeah, the JJ verse has them but the main timeline didn't really until now, Picard wasn't even sure what the were called in the Big Goodbye. Just another instance of lack of imagination or care I suppose.

pixelburp · 06-09-2021 10:17am

Eh, I dunno. I doubt the marketing and design company/department used would have been given enough of a brief on "Star Trek", or enough time TBH, to fashion something conceptually appropriate. From my (very) brief time working in the hellscape known as marketing design, the team were probably given a brief, and about 3 hours to come up with something for publicity. The account manager probably shot down about a half dozen variants, they OK'ed the highway design 'cos it looked cool, and out it went. Plenty to hang Kurtzman over, but I"d not hold him or anyone in his radius to account for that kind of thig.

Evade · 06-09-2021 10:58am

Not giving a department adequate time to do their job well is a lack of care about what you're making. It's not like whoever makes the promotional image has to wait on any of the rest of the production to do their job.

pixelburp · 06-09-2021 11:27am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117852673#Comment_117852673

Welcome to marketing design departments; the adage that you have to pick two from it being good, fast or cheap doesn't apply here, and I'd not assume that the production team have any visibility or say in the marketing material made by (likely) an outsourced company. Marketing is its own entity these days in Hollywood. I'm not saying it's not sloppy, but this wouldn't be the first time a piece of promotional artwork failed to capture the tone of a final product. It's not unique to Trek.

pixelburp · 09-09-2021 8:30am

A full trailer is out; and guys - it looks like it's going full The Voyage Home.

https://youtu.be/xkEC1FIGqXQ

Agent Coulson · 09-09-2021 8:38am

Great to see Orla Brady is back for season 2.

FutureGuy · 09-09-2021 9:50am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117866457#Comment_117866457

Yeah she is great. Seems to have more of a role this season too.

Greyjoy · 09-09-2021 9:58am

Trailer left me kinda underwhelmed. I'm getting more of a Voyager "Future's End" rather than "ST IV Voyage Home" feel from this and I can't quite determine why. I think the time travel aspect, especially to a 21st Century setting, is a very lazy money saving ploy. For me the most interesting aspect of Picard is seeing how the characters & Federation have fared in the future beyond the tv series. This just dumps all that potential for a time travel story.

TheValeyard · 09-09-2021 9:59am

Cars in Star Trek?

Ah wait, 21st century.

Drexel_3 · 09-09-2021 10:01am

I gotta say I enjoyed the first season and that trailer has me excited about season two now!

Reminds me of the voyager episode where they went back in time to LA

StevenToast · 09-09-2021 10:03am

Can Q go back in time and stop this dogsh1t from ever being made...also while hes at it make sure Discovery never sees the light of day....

Evade · 09-09-2021 11:27am

I have to be honest, I never liked the time travel to the current time to save the whales plot in the Voyage Home and this looks worse. If they at least make the choice between the Dark Federation and the one we know a hard one like if the DF is secure from all outside threats in exchange for a lack of personal freedom there could be an interesting Yesterday's Enterprise type dilemma but I think that's asking too much of the current staff.

Slydice · 09-09-2021 5:17pm

Looking forward to this. The trapped Borg Queen shot was cool!

TheValeyard · 09-09-2021 7:27pm

So, would a Dark Federation have allied with the Romulans rather than Vulcan?

Evade · 09-09-2021 7:51pm

It looks like they're leaning more towards Human a supremacist state like the Terran Empire in Enterprise. Given the timeframe it looks like the change could be altering how or even if the events of WWIII unfold.

Depending on the exact date Picard an co. travel back to there could be 3 other Starfleet officers running around San Francisco at that time

TheValeyard · 09-09-2021 9:00pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117869688#Comment_117869688

Three that we know of....

flazio · 09-09-2021 9:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117866746#Comment_117866746

Enterprise E and the Cerritos both had buggies.

TheValeyard · 09-09-2021 9:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117869912#Comment_117869912

Why not a hover buggy? I never understood that scene. Unless the planet had some magic anti hover mode minerals

Evade · 09-09-2021 9:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117869992#Comment_117869992

It's weird alright. It can't even have been about budget because there's a very similar sequence later on in a hovering vehicle. A throw away line would have done a lot to justify it, it's not like Starfleet hasn't ever looked back to solve technical issues, the TR-116 being a prime example.

09-09-2021 9:53pm

That looks real bad.

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