Here's a mirror of the teaser: https://streamable.com/ad5re Honestly just that little teaser makes me pretty stoked for this
What does it mean "you commanded the greatest rescue in history"? What does that refer to? And I wish they would get over this thing about the vineyards and wine. What the hell is this supposed to be? Falcon Crest?
I didn't think he had any role in the Abramsverse movie disaster? IIRC, the prequel comic(graphic novel) to the first Abramsverse movie which I was told is considered "canon", Data was commanding the Enterprise-E and Picard nowhere to be found.
If you put aside the autism and paid attention you'll know from the teaser that he's an Admiral.....and what do Admirals do? They command fleets Of course I don't blame you for not knowing this because your military knowledge is laughable at best
The teaser does say "greatest rescue armada in history:, so being and Admiral does most likely involve him with the destruction of Romulus.
Since the character descriptions include a Romulan who is fiercely devoted to Picard, that's probably a good guess.
At the end of the teaser, a few notes of the TNG theme are played, they sound like they are playing on flute. Nice little reference to Picard's Ressican flute.
The destruction of Romulus, most of what's known about the Picard series does have something to do with Picard not liking with what happened during or after that. The vineyard is showing us the Picard has left Starfleet, or retired from it. Fans know his family has a vineyard, so it's an easy way of showing us he has retired or no longer in Starfleet.
Still want to know what the tall structures are. Also makes it look like it could have the JJ design look to the series.
I thought it was all pretty self-explanatory, but I guess you need to break out the puppets for some people.
Doing a Picard thing without vineyards, wine, and a flute is like doing King Arthur without Excalibur, the holy grail, and a cheating wife. Or Mario without a mustache and overalls. When you deal with iconic characters, you're not telling just another story, you become the custodian of folklore, and there's certain notes you have to have.
I don't know how much if anything they're going to keep of the ST09 prequel comic, but in that, they intimate pretty strongly that Nero was right, and the Vulcans really did drag their feet giving Spock the Red Matter so Romulus would die, and that Starfleet gave a wink and a whistle to the whole thing. Picard and Spock were pawns to the whole thing, and both left embittered.
Let me guess: REFUGEE CRISIS. And the Federation did not handle it...adequately. Yes, it's pretty much where we'd expect a retired Picard to be. Especially since "All Good Things" prefigured it.
This little teaser gives me hope, vineyard, check, TNG theme, check, flute, check, I guess they know they can't fuck this up or hell will rain down on them. If they fuck this up it will be like that scene at the end of Unforgiven when Clint finally loses it.
Okay, one little small gripe, Kirk told Picard never to give up the chair, but in the 09' comic he was already an Admiral so I guess they're going with that.
IIRC, this is set 20 years after Nemesis, so it happened 5 after that film. Methinks there will be some details in the premiere to explain this. A quick Google flail says that Nemesis happened in 2379, and that the future parts of JJTrek in 2386, so it ain't Romulus. Methinks that whatever happened, it gave Picard a case of PTSD and he was forced to retire to his vineyard. You like football, right? Everybody I know who likes football is very big on "tradition." Not only about who won what games when, but in what they expect teams and players to do when they win a game, how they enter the field, etc., etc., etc. Same thing here. Imagine, if you will, that your father was incredibly successful with his farm. By this I mean that he made millions of dollars each year, and the Kitchens family farm was known around the world for its signature crop (tomatoes, for example). So much so that restaurants which had an exclusive contract for that signature crop could charge a premium for dishes made with it because people preferred those over dishes made with products from some other farm. After your father died, would your attitude be, "Bah, burn it all down and turn it into a Mega-Walmart" or would you want to honor your father's hard work by continuing the farm? Keep in mind, that you could still do the other things that you want to in life (head football coach, become President, etc.) while running the farm. And if, by some chance, everything else in your life went horribly wrong (such that you were no longer coach or become President) you'd still have the family farm and could live comfortably doing that. The Picard family winery is like that, and it gives Picard's character depth. The same way being a farmer gave Russell Crowe's character depth in Gladiator. Remember the scenes where he'd reach down and grab some dirt? He was grounding himself, reminding himself of who he was and why he was there. Well, that ran for 9 years, so if this matches that, it'll be the most successful series in the Trek franchise (assuming Discovery doesn't beat it.)
Why is anyone engaging with @Dayton3 , he clearly doesn't like Star Trek, no matter how many times he claims he does?
I have a copy of the prequel comic and I didn't gather that at all. If anything it seems to me more along the lines of Spock overpromised the Romulans on his ability to prevent the Supernova blast wave from destroying Romulus and thus the Romulans hesitated on proceeding with an evacuation of the planet.
Well technically it is a ranch and not a farm. Cattle and poultry mainly. And despite tradition my dad sold the oil drilling rights to the ranch decades ago.
Everybody gives it up sooner or later. I think Kirk's advice was really "keep doing it as long as you can."
