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

I would assume we'd see inside the other ships at some point. It'd be kind of crap to have them retiring the F and only see the outside of the ship on a viewscreen. There'd have to be a BSG style ceremony on board, right?

Yeah. Any show needs to be VERY careful about modern references (Not even just popculture references that Dreamworks use SO heavily. Out of date even before it airs). I remember "The Good Place" Kameela Jamil's character was constantly name dropping and regularly name dropping Musk. Then the whole thing with the diver and Musk calling him a "paedo guy" on Twitter and the next season she name dropped him again along with the line "What was I thinking???!!!" or something similar. (And please, this is just an observation. The Twitter chat is over there)

Don't remember Abrams on Discovery, was he? Huh. But yeah, they could still expand further afield (And maybe they have. I'm not particularly obsessive about Trek and certainly not about the Extended Universe). They could have science ships named "Curie" or "Lovelace" or "Feynman" or even the likes of "Webb" or "Hubble" or "Kepler". Have them as deep exploration ships. A progression from their Space Telescope days.

So it's safer to reference fiction. Nog was mentioned in Discovery (A nice nod to the late Aron Eisenberg).

I bet they regret naming the inventor of the revolutionary fusion drive Solomon Epstein though.

They don't say who it's named after. Up to the viewer/reader I suppose.

In the books the Dewalt is called the Connaught (sadly spelled that way)

An American show naming a ship after a Japanese WWII one was an interesting choice alright.

Tomorrow is it not?

What do you mean by hype ?

Usually my suggested videos and one or two of my subscriptions on YouTube have <Star Trek series> is out soon here's an inane breakdown of what we know so far in the week or two leading up to it but I haven't seen any of that yet.

When is it out on Amazon ?

Jesus, still at that nonsense of a day late release. Time to get onto the American cousin to send me a VHS this evening.

Have you seen the episode ?

Also season 3 really just seems to be aimed at people who will already know what Star Trek is on and when.

No point advertising a show that is probably not gonna pick up anyone new so late in the day.

Plus season 2 was absolutely crap which dampens enthusiasm for this.

The push for season 2 did seem like a bit of a gambit. When the early S2 episodes appeared to show Picard as being good Trek (Oh what early hopeful days they were) I had wondered if Prime had pushed so hard because they knew they had something good on their hands. But in a few short weeks, the adverts were gone and the truth had been revealed.

I'm thinking they could still try to push S3 as the TNG sequel they've been trying to frame it as (and what many thought Picard would be when it was announced) and get new viewers this way. We've got Worf on the posters in regular Klingon makeup, (and not the wierd pale-skinned "Uruk-hai" Klingon-style from Discovery) just to underline how *TNG* this one is going to be. You could potentially attract viewers who remember TNG/DS9, but haven't bothered with the New-Trek so far.

But yea, by now you kind of already know what you are going to watch. I'm still living in a tenitive hope that the positive reporting has some truth to it, and that this will be some good Trek. I don't need a masterpiece, I don't need something to match the likes of Best of Both Worlds or All Good Things, but 10 episodes of alright, watchable, somewhat enjoyable Trek. If they can manage that I'll be somewhat happy.

By the looks of it there is no point trying to grab people who haven't bothered with new Trek because this seems very much to be a new Trek show. Maybe not but the trailers certainly look like it.