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Aegon Spengler said:
I wanted to see them do a show where they elect a new president of the federation after the dominion war, and the campaigning is done on a bunch of the devastated worlds. So we would get to bounce around the federation and see some consequences from the war, and also get to explore strange new worlds etc
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A Federation political campaign? That kind of storyline would not have interested me.
 
RedBeard_ said:
It would not have been about him being the "best of all time." It would have highlighted both his strengths and his weaknesses as an android. I agree that would have been an interesting concept, but it didn't come to fruition because they expended his youth on making blockbuster films.
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In my opinion, his strengths and weakness highlights were for TNG. In this new show, Data has ascended into intellectual and emotional realms that Kirk and Picard could only dream about! That is how I am writing the show. I don't know what they were thinking with the movies. What were they thinking? They never made sense to me.

Aegon Spengler said:
I wanted to see them do a show where they elect a new president of the federation after the dominion war, and the campaigning is done on a bunch of the devastated worlds. So we would get to bounce around the federation and see some consequences from the war, and also get to explore strange new worlds etc
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An era of trust anxiety and restoration, the Federation must rediscover its purpose and its way forward into the future. Starfleet High Command taps Captain Data to lead the initiative. That could be the primary theme of the new show.
 
Aegon Spengler said:
It could have been pretty crazy. They have never really shown the Federation like that. What would you have preferred?
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Not politics. We watch Star Trek mainly for scientific subjects and action sequences in space. Making a Star Trek show solely about politics would not interest me one bit.
 
Very interadesting. The Popcast has been on the same as page as me as far crticism of Discovery/Picard and being mixed on SNW, but they are gllowing about picard S3.

The new showrunner worked on DS9, Voyageur and Enterprise, and is a huge fan (Did 12 Monkeys too). I'll be highly skeptical, but this has my attention.
 
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/star_trek_picard/s03

Rotten Tomatoes season 3 reviews. Critics and audiences seem to agree. My friend who has seen the entire season, says the show actually gets better episode by episode. He says Paramount better be giving the new showrunner a big check, a long contract, and let him make whatever trek he wants to. The showrunner, Terry Metalas, got his start in Hollywood on Voyager as a production assistant, then as Brannon Braga's assistant. He most recently created and showran 12 Monkies on Scfi.
SEASON 3
STAR TREK: PICARD
Critics Consensus
Finally getting the band back together, Picard's final season boldly goes where the previous generation had gone before -- and is all the better for it.

100%
TOMATOMETER
Critic Ratings: 25
90%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 247
 
First episode was very good, definite and noticeable change in the tone.
There is part of me that feels sad watching this show though. Picard is looking and sounding older and older every minute he's on screen.
 
SmilinDesperado said:
First episode was very good, definite and noticeable change in the tone.
There is part of me that feels sad watching this show though. Picard is looking and sounding older and older every minute he's on screen.
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He's 83 this year. Hopefully he has a few more years left in him, but he can only do so much before it becomes Last of the Summer Picard, and his stunt double is going down a hill in a tin bath.
 
Francis Rossi said:
He's 83 this year. Hopefully he has a few more years left in him, but he can only do so much before it becomes Last of the Summer Picard, and his stunt double is going down a hill in a tin bath.
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My dude was looking like he just turned 112 in this last episode. Even his voice was a rough.
He seems to be in good mental health, I hope he takes it easy after this.
 
From time to time you hear people say that George Lucas has squandered the whole Star wars franchise and I'm going to have to say the same for Star Trek.
 
First episode was alright. Feels more like Trek. There's little things I could nitpick but it's a vast improvement. In this episode/season so far it's the little things that add up, like the red alert light being a modern light, the machine gun sounding phasers, shit like that that takes me out of it a little bit as does the dark, dreary atmosphere but they might be headed the right direction. The ship design almost seems like a step back from models/CGI of more than two decades ago but the nebula and space stuff looks great. On the plus side Picard feels more like himself and Riker is spot on.

We'll see, I'll keep with it unless it goes off the rails. I'm not as high on it as the reviews I've seen but hopefully it picks up, it's at least competent so far and feels like more like Star Trek. You can tell whoever is making this has a better understanding of Trek but is still imitating more than knowing. With all that said,

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SmilinDesperado said:
First episode was very good, definite and noticeable change in the tone.
There is part of me that feels sad watching this show though. Picard is looking and sounding older and older every minute he's on screen.
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Due to covid, they ended up having to shoot season 2 and 3 back to back. Patrick only got one week off before returning to film, and season 2 took nearly a year to film, due to it being made in the middle of the height of covid restrictions. He started losing his voice towards the end of season 2, and it's still weak in the first few episodes of season 3. He is supposed to be playing a character who is about to hit his 100th Bday.
 
SmilinDesperado said:
My dude was looking like he just turned 112 in this last episode. Even his voice was a rough.
He seems to be in good mental health, I hope he takes it easy after this.
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They filmed seasons 2 and 3 back to back, so pretty much 18 months of non stop work.
 
sverre054 said:
Due to covid, they ended up having to shoot season 2 and 3 back to back. Patrick only got one week off before returning to film, and season 2 took nearly a year to film, due to it being made in the middle of the height of covid restrictions. He started losing his voice towards the end of season 2, and it's still weak in the first few episodes of season 3. He is supposed to be playing a character who is about to hit his 100th Bday.
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Ah good info, thanks. That's interesting that they shot it back to back and with a different show runner.
 
Did they go from a Woke awareness infomercial to an actual star trek show with just a little woke in it. If so I might watch again.
 
But why is season 3 supposedly so much more like proper Star Trek if they filmed it back to back. Did they hire a new showrunner in the one week inbetween. What changed ?
 
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