andraste: The reason half the internet imagines me as Patrick Stewart. (Default)
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... 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 and flirt with bother him again.

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Date: 2018-08-05 01:11 am (UTC)
lilacsigil: Hoshi Sato, text: only connect (Hoshi Sato)
From: [personal profile] lilacsigil
Yes, it's so exciting!

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)
lizbee: A white, slim teenage ballerina (TV: Abigail)
From: [personal profile] lizbee
These days, same! It helps that my TV has a native SBS app which is actually quite good -- their range is amazing.

(I tried Foxtel Now, too. It ... wasn't good.)

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Date: 2018-08-05 01:16 am (UTC)
st_aurafina: close up of Kira, from DS9 (Star Trek: DS9 Kira)
From: [personal profile] st_aurafina
'TNG is the worst Trek and Picard is the worst Captain'.

Noooooooo! They are wrong on the internet!!!

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Date: 2018-08-05 11:13 pm (UTC)
st_aurafina: Rainbow DNA (Default)
From: [personal profile] st_aurafina
Now you’re wrong on the internet!

I liked him! He wasn’t the worst. (Maybe there is no worst?)

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Date: 2018-08-05 04:30 am (UTC)
lizbee: (Star Trek: Kat's insignia)
From: [personal profile] lizbee
I WOKE UP TO THIS AND I'M SO EXCITED. I love Picard, and I'm keen for the 24th century, and maybe I can finally get the Picard-Seven of Nine awkward Borg tension party of my dreams.

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Date: 2018-08-05 11:17 pm (UTC)
lizbee: (Star Trek: Janeway)
From: [personal profile] lizbee
I hate myself for having this thought, but I suspect we're more likely to see Jeri Ryan than Kate Mulgrew, if we get any other-series cameos at all. I keep thinking of Carrie Fisher talking about losing weight to do the Star Wars sequels, "They wanted me, but only about 60% of me."

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Date: 2018-08-05 07:59 am (UTC)
conuly: (Default)
From: [personal profile] conuly
I have literally never heard "TNG is the worst Trek and Picard is the worst captain" before. Never in my life.

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Date: 2018-08-05 11:20 pm (UTC)
conuly: (Default)
From: [personal profile] conuly
I will say this in Voyager's defense: it may not have as many great, shining episodes as TNG, but it doesn't have nearly as many utterly unwatchable clunkers either, Threshold notwithstanding. It's like the instant mashed potatoes of the ST world - bland and smooth, and you know what you're getting every time.

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: 2018-08-07 01:03 am (UTC)
conuly: (Default)
From: [personal profile] conuly
Oh, I agree. They utterly, utterly wasted the whole "forced to work together" plot, and they fucked over Seska's obvious storyline too. She could have had this great arc where nobody trusts her, neither side, but nooooo - Cardassians like to backstab people, so let's have her backstab everybody for the evulz!!!!!111

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Date: 2018-08-09 12:54 am (UTC)
conuly: (Default)
From: [personal profile] conuly
To be fair to Dukat, he was crazy long before Ziyal's death. He just was more functional.

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Date: 2018-08-07 11:46 am (UTC)
greenygal: (Default)
From: [personal profile] greenygal
I tried to send this earlier, but I'm not sure if it went through, so I'm just leaving the link here; it's a Picard & Q filk:
https://alterego7.bandcamp.com/track/ps-qs

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Date: 2018-08-13 02:35 am (UTC)
greenygal: (Default)
From: [personal profile] greenygal
I actually laughed out loud the first time I listened to the song and heard Q’s response: “I’d take it back if I could—Wait, no I wouldn’t!”

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