Star Trek: Picard - Amazon Prime [** POSSIBLE SPOILERS **]

Along with the viewscreen windows and overly polished deck-floors, the whole “pew-pew” nature of the Secret Hideout phaser is just grating. I know compression Phasers became a thing towards the end of the TNG era, but what they’ve been doing in this Discovery family of Trek shows just feels like a mindless apeing of the JJ-verse Phaser. Another reason I enjoy Lower Decks is that all of those 2009 movie ascetics have been ignored in favor of the likes TNG-style beem Phasers.

The whole Pew-Pew of effect of these new live-action Trek shows also feels like the weapony has no real impact or punch to them. TNG phasers were presented with the impression that it would melt a hole through you if you got in its way.

Phasers aren't lasers, phasers are beams of fictional particles

He's right though?

Lasers also exist in the Star Trek universe as weapons so it's not a distinction without a difference.

I dialled back the pedantic as much as I could.

This one always springs to mind, there's something about the way Worf says lasers.

Lasers and phasers are totally different.

Lasers are a concentrated form of a targeted light beam.

We have Lasers now. They are used for lots of things like targeting cancel cells.

There has been some experimental laser weapons I think but they are very bulky still.

You are all wrong about phasers by the way.

A phaser is a beam of subatomic particles that are called rapid nadion which can be controlled through superconducting materials so that they can be set at different levels where it just knocks someone out or kills them or vaporises them.

Hand phasers are powered by rechargeable sarium krellide cells and they use nadions that are then discharged as a phaser beam.

Yep I agree. It was like something out of that game Mass Effect not Star Trek.

Prime and/or Paramount themselves went to town over here in Oslo with marketing for Picard. Since Monday all of the bustops and metro stops have Picard adverts all over.

I wish I had taken some pictures, but down in the city center they had one Metro station completely plastered with Picard adverts, wall-to-wall. It even included some admirable yet incredibly cringe-worthy Metro info-signs that included awful puns such as:

"If you are a Borg, avoid vending machines" (With infograph of an assimilated stickman malfunctioning beside a vending machine)

"Remember to set your Phaser to Stun before entering the Space Vessel" (With infograph of a TOS phaser)

"10% off Puddings for Federation Members" (With infograph of a pudding)

They were....less than good....puns...

What bamboozled me the most is that adverts invited me to watch Picard "now". So later in the day I loaded up Prime, and there was still only Season 1...it feels like they timed it wrong.

Interestingly, Paramount+ is also in Norway and although I have been digitally advertised to about Discovery Season 4...that show never got a physical advert campaign like this. The last time I saw anything like this here was for the 2009 movie.

The adverts weren't localized at all (all in English). I'm going to guess Prime are using the same across a chunk of Europe.

Please do take some pictures for us all in here of it if you get the chance.

All I care about is if they stopped his friend calling him "Jay-Ell" every. F*cking. second f*cking. word. EVERY time made my eye twitch.