Picard 3x01- 'The Next Generation' ~~ { ** Spoilers Within ** }

I think that might be Raffi’s grand-kid. Her son had gotten together with a Romulan girl and I think we see her pregant there in S1. However she appeared to be astranged to her son at the time.

Is there really a need to spoiler things in the episode thread?

That was actually kind of good, imagine if this was how season one started? Picard knowing Seven aside. The CGI was a but ropey but things kind of made sense but that could all disappear in a few episodes. Having the old crew as guest stars should mean they won't have to tread water so they get screen time every episode.

Garret gets to be the hero of Narendra III and hence the Red Lady because no one outside of the Romulan Empire, and possibly Guinan, knows she was dead at the time and Callisto and Yar were responsible for the outcome of the battle.

EDIT: I have just seen elsewhere they still don't know what a refit is.

The Federation is the California of the Alpha Quadrant. Civilians can own "military style assault weapons" (nonsense term by the way) but they have to be modified in ridiculous ways to make them annoying to use.

How long will they drag out the mystery of where the son got his accent from?

Downton Abbey and Outlander.

In case wondering where seen before.

Little breakdown of the ending credit sequence

Not bad. Though similar quality to season 2 ep 1 and we know where that went.

Captain Shaw doesn't seem that believable. Can't see how someone with such piss poor people skills could make it into the captain's chair. Trying to do a Jellico without displaying the things that made Jellico indispensable as a captain despite some leadership skills being a bit off.

The writers of Picard seem to have no concept of how big space is. From Earth to edge of Federation space is months worth of travel even at warp 9.99. Not something you do while the captain is taking a nap.

That kid has to be Picard's son, he inherited his British accent.

I’m not seeing a problem with Shaw. It’s clear from his own words that he runs a tight ship and has his orders for a pre determined mission. That changes when a retired admiral and a semi retired captain show up. Worse, the admiral was at one time a Borg and attached to the collective and instrumental in s devastating attack on the federation. Disjointed didn’t like it trust Picard so I’m not surprised with Shaw here. To make matters worse the two new arrivals look to take the ship off mission for a sorties looking reason that you could also say looked shady and, worse still, his first officer is buddies with the pair and is pitching in to help smooth over the holes in their plan. I’m all this there has been no communication from Starfleet to expect any guests or be mediated for any decision from the planned mission. Even if there was a covert mission involved I’m sure the Titan would have been ordered to the edge of federation space to do the guys off. No need to tell Shaw exactly why he was transporting these guests.

he seems like a proper captain to me, albeit with some anti Borg bias which is entirely understandable. We don’t know what he’s like day to day on the titan and as it turns it, he was right to be dismissive of epicardium and Riker because his first officer then mutinies and takes them where they want to go anyway. Personally as a regular federation officer who has likely lost at least friends if not even family to the Borg, I think he’s spot on really.

Maybe not epicardium but if the tables were turned and Riker was captain dealing with s similar situation I wouldn’t see him acting much different and I’m certain Picard would have also arrived at the same Irvine though with not diplomacy.

let’s face it, shady characters showing up to go off mission followed by a mutiny is a disaster in any starship. No matter what they’re noticed, Picard, Riker and 7 are the bad guys here.

you know it’s down to bad writing but I think in normal circumstances tge security chief would have had a very healthy interest in Picard & Riker’s movements and actions and been ordered to wake the captain at the first sign of trouble. If Shaw is guilty of anything it’s incompetence for not doing sobering like this. Otherwise I still think he was spot on.

Shaw is definitely a D1ckhead, but from his perspective.....trouble tends to follow Picard and Riker around. Wound you want them on your new shiny ship?

Chemistry between Riker and Picard is good.

Sone real good theory threads on reddit about who the bad guys are this season. .

Also questions are asked as to whether they were really in 10 forward bar or a hologram version of it? Something to so with the end credits?

I like WWII naval stuff and it occasionally crops up that there are captains who are the absolute best at getting new ships fitted out, through basic sea trials, and ready for line duty that you would absolutely not ever in a million years let into combat. If you've ever seen Band of Brothers Captain Soble was like an army equivalent, great at training bad at everything else, although the series played it up a lot. Being charitable to Shaw, and the writers, he could be this kind of officer.

I’ve a feeling that Raffi’s handler is Worf. Just that bit with them calling her a warrior. Pretty hsm fisted I thought and the Worf I know would have gutted her with a bathlet in short order after meeting her but that’s my theory anyway. At least they have her dog soldering kind of useful now rather than just being surly all the time like previously.

That was the alternate timeline/history/whatever La Sirena.

The Titan's bridge was the Stargazer's too, wasn't it?

Actually even the dates make sense, S2 of TNG was filmed 34 years ago!