Okay, so I'm placing my bet. Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell said they wanted a SNW/LD crossover, and it's happening. Kate Mulgrew said not to count out a live-action Janeway comeback. I think they know ahead of time this stuff is in the pipeline, so I think Admiral Janeway on the Dauntless is gonna pop up in Picard to tie Prodigy in. Has to be Picard, it's the only live-action show in the post-TNG timeline.
I haven't kept completely up to date, but isn't Prodigy set like way into the future and in a galaxy that has never heard of the federation? How are they going to tie that to Picard? Unless, it's when Prodigy (is that ship's name) embarked?
I mean, they did specifically name drop Janeway near the end of PIC season two when they were foreshadowing the whole Captain Seven thing...
I'm hoping PIC S3 is a lot chirpier than the first two, current Trek has a weird obsession with death - DISCO has become disaster porn in space - and it's stamped itself on PIC too. Given the theme was evolving as a person, and VOY gave us the misery the Q found themselves in, could we have had the Q finally having found a way to evolve beyond the Trek universe? A joyous bon voyage as Q and Picard hug, Picard at ease with his capacity to love, and Q about to boldly cause havoc where no one had caused havoc before? No, no, no, has to be death. Q, get pushing the metaphorical daises instead of smelling them. Are all the entire writing teams locked in a room that is decorated with Kill 'Em All album covers, with the Cure's Disintegration piped into it on repeat, and paid in Hot Topic vouchers or something? Next live action series may as well have Ghost's 'Pro Memoria' as its theme tune.
Dan Murell did a really good review of Picard season two which is picking up steam on YT. A lot of the criticisms we’ve seen, but he’s not a “Chud” so he can’t be as easily dismissed. I’ll post a summary later when I get some time.
Looked up the video. I can't take anyone seriously who says a television show "hurt me personally". Get a fucking life, fer crissakes.
The only sequels that have bummed me out have been "Return Of The Living Dead 2" and "Poltergeist 3" cuz the bad treatment of the actors behind the scenes comes through on screen. I just never watched them again, and delete them from my personal canon. I didn't go through a fucking mourning period over it.
Since @Federal Farmer considers unreadable background details to be canon, here's another fun fact: Picard once served under Captain Uhura.
Honestly the TNG crew should have just gone out with a bang with ‘First Contact’. Everything else since then has been awful, excluding Worf on DS9. Although it sounds fun to revisit beloved characters I don’t see how they are going stretch this out over ten episodes. Would rather just get the cast together for a 1-2 hour reunion special and call it good. The Picard show feels like an old man’s vanity project and nothing like what TNG was. If they toss Raffi out of the airlock in the first episode that might compel me to watch the upcoming season.
They already had a perfect ending with All Good Things. Yep, we knew they were going the movie route; started off okay, got great - and then it went pear shaped. Went out with a whimper with Nemesis. And then, it rightly died. They only were able to get Patrick back by indulging his vanity - letting him play Patrick Stewart rather than muster the wherewithal required to play Jean Luc Picard again. And now, nearly 20 years later, we're getting the reunion no one was asking for. And people defend this trash - for shame. Trek's main function has been racking in the dough for Paramount. But goodness, how low do you have to set the bar to let them pull such a fast one over you? The dumb is off the charts. I mean, S2 - they offed Q without any explanation - a funny development considering his immortality gig. But no it's cool. They had huggles at the end - I CRIED so fuck your nit picking, bastard!
It was shown on multiple occasions that members of the continuum could be stripped of their powers and made mortal. And given the massive paradox created by Q's last "gift" to Picard and how it effected the events surrounding that new transwarp conduit, it seems safe to assume that the conduit is connected to Q's fate somehow and Q intentionally put Picard and Seven in a situation where they could respond to whoever's behind it since Q knew he couldn't do it himself.
TNG desperately needed a Raffi, that's one of the things that kept it from being as great as DS9 or TNG. Someone had to be willing to challenge Picard or put him in his place now and then, but other than Q and very occasionally Guinan, nobody ever was.
Lily is basically taking over Guinan's part in First Contact. I don't know why they just didn't have Guinan instead. I mean yeah you want someone from the 21st century to kind of be a stand in for the audience, but still.
If Picard has served any good service to the franchise other than pretending C/7 never existed, it's made a good lightening rod from all the spittle & vitriol that Discovery's been putting up with from day one. It's also setting the decades long debate on whether Voyager or Enterprise did the most damage to the franchise and which of the two is the worse entry in the franchise. I mean, they're still hovering at the bottom for sure but not like the very ass end anymore
IIRC, '95 or so was a pretty busy year for Whooped so it's possible she may not have been available for a few shoot.
Wait, is the idea that Picard is now the worst entry in the franchise? It may be that I'm a TNG fanboy, but as disappointed as I might be with aspects of Picard, anything this side of Patrick Stewart reading the phone book would be better than Enterprise.
Yeah, I'm getting in on that confusion. Picard season 1 may not be Wrath Of Khan or First Contact, but it fixed the damage of Nemesis, and that's all it had to do for me. And the nitpickers can cry and pee over season 2, but it topped season 1.