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Vigo:
Picard didn't properly backup his Data. ;D

It's just the ending of Nemesis, which is a bad enough movie nobody can feel spoiled by the ending being revealed. Watch these.

Howard_Casto:
I watched episode 2. Dear god, did they have a budget of $500 for each episode.... $499 of which Kurtzman spent needlessly putting holograms and floating displays (which are completely impractical) everywhere. Picard goes to Star Fleet, which is obviously the front of a real life convention center now, via these fancy transporter gates to physically open a MANUAL DOOR at the entrance with frikkin 20th century gas door closers at the top. Yes what should be the most modern building on the planet doesn't even have the technology we have in grocery stores today. Oh but they have frikkin holograms of the enterprise d projected on the ceiling so I guess that makes it the future. Oh and hologram communications from discovery and their weird "are they solid or not" properties make an appearance.

They really aren't getting the TNG aesthetic on the show....sets had a physicality to them back then, partially due to the budget, but also because I liked to believe people of the future would learn to appreciate things for their timeless function/form rather than be obsessed with the bleeding edge tech of the day. I'm sure you could project translucent view screens into the air even back then, but the thing is translucent view screens are kind of bad at letting you, you know, VIEW THINGS. We have similar tech available right now, but we rarely use it for that reason. Remember when windows xp added translucent windows support? Remember how quickly that fad died?

The story is getting slightly muddled in Kurtzmanisms as well. I'm hoping once they get off Earth... IF they get off Earth, things will turn around as they'll most likely be on sets instead of real world locations most of the time.

Howard_Casto:
You know, I'm trying to stay positive, but I think ep 3 was intentionally designed to make my head explode. The kurtzman-verse is busting up canon left and right. So Raffi is jealous of Picard's chateau like he paid for it. He didn't.... money doesn't exist on earth and if she's living in a hobble then it's by choice because the federation will provide a nice home to anyone that needs one. Then we get two people smoking... except humans don't smoke in the future. As a matter of fact Gene Roddenberry himself refused to do tobacco ads on TOS or allow the cast to do so as he explicitly states that humanity has given up all it's vices by the 23rd century. This was up-held on every single solitary show in the franchise. Oh and the frikkin vape pen was a nice touch.... do we want to write the frikkin year of 2020 in magic marker over every frame of the show, because with such a reference they basically have already. We've also got a emh on the new ship.... weren't synths banned? EMH programs have been more than proven to be sentient due to the doctor on Voyager so they are synthetic life as well. So those were the only Romulans to ever be assimilated.... except..... nope.... there was an episode of Voyager where the crew encountered a colony of de-assimilated borg. One of them was Romulan. I would say that it's no big deal... that Hue just didn't know, except it seems that this is going to be an important plot point later.

I just don't get this show. There are a ton of nerdy references, but there are also a ton of plot-holes. It's almost like it was written by committee or something. It's almost as if they didn't have a consultant that has watched every single solitary episode of every series multiple times, because at this point you do need that. Some of the worst episodes in the history of the franchise were bad mostly because the people writing it weren't properly versed in the source material, nor were their scripts vetted to make sure they fit with canon.

Oh well... they are finally in space so hopefully things will get better.

pbj:
No vices? Sure, you'll live longer. But will you really want to?

shponglefan:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 30, 2020, 01:51:30 pm ---They really aren't getting the TNG aesthetic on the show....sets had a physicality to them back then, partially due to the budget, but also because I liked to believe people of the future would learn to appreciate things for their timeless function/form rather than be obsessed with the bleeding edge tech of the day.
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In fairness they initially had 3D holograms in TNG, but didn't continue with them for budget reasons.

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