Star Trek: Picard
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Once, long ago, I was excited for the Picard show, as we would finally get to see something past DS9 in the timeline.
Now, when I see 'they time travel to the 21st century', the only question is "Did they have to cut the budget to that degree since no one wants this show' or 'Are they delusional enough that they had to write fanfiction about how they stoppedHitler Trump'?
Now, when I see 'they time travel to the 21st century', the only question is "Did they have to cut the budget to that degree since no one wants this show' or 'Are they delusional enough that they had to write fanfiction about how they stopped
Oh great.. more time travel bullshit. Two shows where one gets plugged in and fucks up the canon line, and then gets sent 1000 years into the future, where it probably should have started in the first place. The other gets sent a couple hundred years back to present day cause we're watching futuristic shows so they can come back and lecture us on current day social and political bullshit. Just give us a fucking star trek based on 20 years after tng ffs.
Chris
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This is incredible.
Going back to 2021 allows them to fight MAGA and save tons of money on sets.
Sci fi shows always have those low budget episodes where it's time travel or holodeck or a dream or something to use some sort of cheap modern or period set. Star Trek did it at least once per season.
But doing it for a good chunk of the season??
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It's arguably not even Star Trek if they just tool around on Earth for the entire season with Stewart making like a geriatric Sam Beckett.
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Well to be fair, time travel is pretty Trek. Virtually every show has had time travel play a central role in an episode or a string of episodes.
Although I would say the quality of them hasn't been so hot since DS9 ended. Voyager did the 90s time travel thing to try to explain why our version of the 90s differs from the traditional 90s in Trek lore (ie, why isn't WW3 happening right now?), but their time travel episodes were kind of meh.
With Trek usually most of the joy is watching the characters react with wonder or horror at how things used to be in the past.
Although I would say the quality of them hasn't been so hot since DS9 ended. Voyager did the 90s time travel thing to try to explain why our version of the 90s differs from the traditional 90s in Trek lore (ie, why isn't WW3 happening right now?), but their time travel episodes were kind of meh.
With Trek usually most of the joy is watching the characters react with wonder or horror at how things used to be in the past.
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Yep. I mean, there are standard templates across Trek that are used time and again in each series.
Just off the top of my head - time travel, mirror universe, stranded on a planet with hostile environment/locals with the added injured crew member dynamic, prime directive dilemma, coming of age (Wesley/Kes), misunderstanding with an alien race leading to animosity and eventual friendship, time travel...
Then you have Discovery additions - crying, virtue signalling, bit more crying, LGBTQ awareness, plenty more crying.
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