"Swords are fun!"
Well. We didn't see any more references to deep space nine, no Pah Wraiths, Dukat or The Sisko. And Jerati was missing completely.
It makes me wonder if that storyline will ever again be referenced, it seemed to be a major part of the final episode of season two. Jurati was to be guarding something. But it never happened, at least not here.
Or maybe this episode, and the previous nine all took place in another alternate universe? No Soji or Elnor. No Jurati. And it seems to me that even with Rios staying in 21st century LA, that his holograms would still be on La Sirena, driving Raffi nuts. But none of them showed up either. Too bad, those characters should have been part of this. And last week the Excelsior was blown up, and isn't that where Elnor was posted? I didn't even think about that until after I watched this.
No, this was a next-generation-only hootenanny. Next generation, and, whatever happens after that. And in that way, as much as I enjoyed this season, it was kind of a disservice to those characters that were part of the first two seasons.
Also, we forget that the first season was loosely based upon the 2008 Comic book mini series, "Countdown". And what else was based upon that? The 2009 Kelvin timeline franchise.
Picard's Romulan housekeeper, that's also where she came from. But she wasn't in this, either.
So maybe it was a good thing that this show put away the countdown timeline, which has dominated Trek films and shows since 2009.
And we got back to honoring the next generation. I don't like the idea of "Easter eggs". I don't think references to earlier shows should be hidden within these new shows. They should be blatant. Any references to best of both worlds should be a blatant reference. Or any references to Data's cat, Spot. Or anything else, Captain Kirk's remains, which were sequestered at that Daytrom institute/Section 31 museum? Of course, along with Picard's bones. Or Professor Moriarity.
We don't need to hide these things as "references", they can be blatant, they can become a part of the story.
So I am still trying to absorb what has happened here. This episode had more of an emotional impact on me than any other kind of impact.
And this is the way any Star Trek show should actually be. It should hit us on an emotional level, to be effective.
This was supposed to be the last episode of Picard. Of Picard, maybe. But Star Trek just keeps going on. And I eagerly await, whatever they are going to be doing after this.
Since I absolutely included no spoilers at all, I am going to go ahead and mark this back to no spoilers. Spoilers are things like plot points, A quote given without context should not spoil anybody's experience. Thank you.
Well. We didn't see any more references to deep space nine, no Pah Wraiths, Dukat or The Sisko. And Jerati was missing completely.
It makes me wonder if that storyline will ever again be referenced, it seemed to be a major part of the final episode of season two. Jurati was to be guarding something. But it never happened, at least not here.
Or maybe this episode, and the previous nine all took place in another alternate universe? No Soji or Elnor. No Jurati. And it seems to me that even with Rios staying in 21st century LA, that his holograms would still be on La Sirena, driving Raffi nuts. But none of them showed up either. Too bad, those characters should have been part of this. And last week the Excelsior was blown up, and isn't that where Elnor was posted? I didn't even think about that until after I watched this.
No, this was a next-generation-only hootenanny. Next generation, and, whatever happens after that. And in that way, as much as I enjoyed this season, it was kind of a disservice to those characters that were part of the first two seasons.
Also, we forget that the first season was loosely based upon the 2008 Comic book mini series, "Countdown". And what else was based upon that? The 2009 Kelvin timeline franchise.
Picard's Romulan housekeeper, that's also where she came from. But she wasn't in this, either.
So maybe it was a good thing that this show put away the countdown timeline, which has dominated Trek films and shows since 2009.
And we got back to honoring the next generation. I don't like the idea of "Easter eggs". I don't think references to earlier shows should be hidden within these new shows. They should be blatant. Any references to best of both worlds should be a blatant reference. Or any references to Data's cat, Spot. Or anything else, Captain Kirk's remains, which were sequestered at that Daytrom institute/Section 31 museum? Of course, along with Picard's bones. Or Professor Moriarity.
We don't need to hide these things as "references", they can be blatant, they can become a part of the story.
So I am still trying to absorb what has happened here. This episode had more of an emotional impact on me than any other kind of impact.
And this is the way any Star Trek show should actually be. It should hit us on an emotional level, to be effective.
This was supposed to be the last episode of Picard. Of Picard, maybe. But Star Trek just keeps going on. And I eagerly await, whatever they are going to be doing after this.
Since I absolutely included no spoilers at all, I am going to go ahead and mark this back to no spoilers. Spoilers are things like plot points, A quote given without context should not spoil anybody's experience. Thank you.