Star Trek: Picard 2 Electric Boogaloo
Aug. 5th, 2018 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
... or whatever they actually call it, anyway.
Hurrah, my best beloved actor is going to be playing one of my best beloved characters again! Which is especially nice to hear because I've had a hell week and am going to have another hell week starting tomorrow. I'm especially glad he's coming back to the roll now that he's done playing Charles forever.
Fingers crossed this makes it to local Netflix like Discovery, otherwise I will have to return to my pirating ways. (These days I have a rule where I don't illegally download any new shows, although I keep stealing the ones I was already watching before I instituted the rule and cannot otherwise get in a timely and legal fashion without signing up for pay TV packages I can't afford and don't want. This is still a stupid number of shows, because Australian TV distribution is often ridiculous.)
I have already spotted a few instances of 'TNG is the worst Trek and Picard is the worst Captain'. Which is .... definitely an opinion that people are allowed to have on the internet? Also a few rounds of 'I hope Q is not in this because I hate him' which actually surprised me more. Do people not at least appreciate the funny hats???
I do not much care what Picard is doing in the new show, but it will be nice to get back to the 24th century main timeline again. (Or maybe we'll get into the early 25th? No word yet on how long after TNG this is set.) And I really hope Q does turn up andflirt with bother him again.
Hurrah, my best beloved actor is going to be playing one of my best beloved characters again! Which is especially nice to hear because I've had a hell week and am going to have another hell week starting tomorrow. I'm especially glad he's coming back to the roll now that he's done playing Charles forever.
Fingers crossed this makes it to local Netflix like Discovery, otherwise I will have to return to my pirating ways. (These days I have a rule where I don't illegally download any new shows, although I keep stealing the ones I was already watching before I instituted the rule and cannot otherwise get in a timely and legal fashion without signing up for pay TV packages I can't afford and don't want. This is still a stupid number of shows, because Australian TV distribution is often ridiculous.)
I have already spotted a few instances of 'TNG is the worst Trek and Picard is the worst Captain'. Which is .... definitely an opinion that people are allowed to have on the internet? Also a few rounds of 'I hope Q is not in this because I hate him' which actually surprised me more. Do people not at least appreciate the funny hats???
I do not much care what Picard is doing in the new show, but it will be nice to get back to the 24th century main timeline again. (Or maybe we'll get into the early 25th? No word yet on how long after TNG this is set.) And I really hope Q does turn up and
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Date: 2018-08-05 01:11 am (UTC)My pirating rule for non-Australian media is that if it's on SBS, ABC iView, Netflix or Stan I watch it there, otherwise fuck it, I'm downloading.
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Date: 2018-08-05 04:29 am (UTC)(I tried Foxtel Now, too. It ... wasn't good.)
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Date: 2018-08-05 11:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-08-05 01:16 am (UTC)Noooooooo! They are wrong on the internet!!!
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Date: 2018-08-05 11:11 pm (UTC)I have so far managed to restrain myself from responding to any of these comments with 'you do realise that Enterprise exists and so does Captain Archer, right?'
(While Picard is my fave, I can just about understand people who prefer Kirk and Sisko and Janeway. But Archer? Really???)
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Date: 2018-08-05 11:13 pm (UTC)I liked him! He wasn’t the worst. (Maybe there is no worst?)
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Date: 2018-08-06 11:19 pm (UTC)I feel like the actual worst Starfleet captain is probably some guest star who existed soley to be a jerk and move the plot along.
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Date: 2018-08-05 11:14 pm (UTC)I mean, Enterprise exists. And while I can understand people LIKING Voyager more than TNG because they prefer the premise or the ensemble or whatever, I would find it difficult to construct an argument that it's an objectively better show.
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Date: 2018-08-05 11:20 pm (UTC)As for Enterprise, all I can say is that the Temporal Cold War was a terrible, plot-eating tumor on the face of ST, but at least it provides a nice, 100% canonical handwave every time continuity fails to add up. And I'd take cute dog Porthos over cute kid Wesley any day of the week. At least he doesn't save the day ever. (But then I'd take Spot over Porthos, because cats. Sooo....)
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Date: 2018-08-06 11:23 pm (UTC)Spot and Livingston are definitely the best Star Trek pets. (Whenever there's a scene in Picard's ready room I am distracted looking for his excellent lionfish, but he's usually not in the tank/behind a rock.)
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Date: 2018-08-07 11:46 am (UTC)https://alterego7.bandcamp.com/track/ps-qs
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