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Picard is back...
August 07, 2018, 06:26 PM
Lord VaalicPicard is back...
Patrick Stewart is coming back for a new Star Trek series.
Sucky part is its on the new CBS pay channel
Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day August 07, 2018, 06:30 PM
RHINOWSOMight be the greatest thing since sliced bread but I'll never know - not paying for broadcast TV for a single show, when I already pay for CBS via cable.
August 07, 2018, 06:40 PM
RogueJSKI love Picard, but I'm not ponying up for yet another streaming service. Especially for just one show.
August 07, 2018, 07:10 PM
egregoreWould he be playing a starship captain, or some kind of elder statesman role? He's 78 years old. I know in Star Trek's time humans lived longer, and he does look pretty good for his age, but come on, that's old to be a believable captain.
August 07, 2018, 07:17 PM
RogueJSKNo details along those lines yet. But yeah, he's well past due for making Admiral.
August 07, 2018, 07:26 PM
DSgrousethe virtue signalling of the last show makes me sure i will skip this one.
August 07, 2018, 08:05 PM
Hound DogI've been hoping for them to continue the REAL Star Trek story onward (hear that, JJ?) ever since they cancelled Voyager, but I will NOT watch a pay channel.
At least it's not another stupid prequel series. . .
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August 07, 2018, 08:18 PM
FenrisWait a few years until they get a few seasons in the can.
Sign up.
Binge watch.
Cancel.
Repeat.
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The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. August 07, 2018, 11:34 PM
MitchbSCI fear this will be a worse SJW mess than ST:TNG by covering all our current "modern problems" in their parallel future universe.
They don't think it be like it is, but it do. August 08, 2018, 02:16 AM
gw3971quote:
Originally posted by egregore:
Would he be playing a starship captain, or some kind of elder statesman role? He's 78 years old. I know in Star Trek's time humans lived longer, and he does look pretty good for his age, but come on, that's old to be a believable captain.
He mentioned in the announcement that he might not be a starship captain. He also said that it would take place about twenty years after the last film. Elder statesman sounds about right.
August 08, 2018, 07:23 AM
SIG4EVAI will watch it purely to see him.
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August 08, 2018, 08:27 AM
Fenrisquote:
Originally posted by MitchbSC:
I fear this will be a worse SJW mess than ST:TNG by covering all our current "modern problems" in their parallel future universe.
Maybe Picard will be transitioning.
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC
The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. August 08, 2018, 09:03 AM
Otto PilotReally? We're complaining about social issues in TNG when the original series had the first interracial kiss on TV? It also had at least one episode right off the top of my head that was about nothing BUT race and another one that was thinly veiled as "don't destroy nature just for the sake of profit".
As I said, those are just off the top of my head.
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August 08, 2018, 09:37 AM
FenrisComplaining or commenting, you be the judge. Also there is a bit of a difference between an interacial kiss and the thought of seeing a transitioning Picard in drag.
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC
The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. August 08, 2018, 04:09 PM
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August 08, 2018, 04:31 PM
RAMIUSquote:
Originally posted by Otto Pilot:
Really? We're complaining about social issues in TNG when the original series had the first interracial kiss on TV? It also had at least one episode right off the top of my head that was about nothing BUT race and another one that was thinly veiled as "don't destroy nature just for the sake of profit".
As I said, those are just off the top of my head.
I try to forget about those ultra preachy episodes...as well as any featuring Wesley, Worf's son, and Troy's mom. Some were just Stupid.
I believe the preachy ones were from when Roddenberry was in charge?
August 08, 2018, 05:15 PM
ScreamingCockatooThe one where they got the cryogenically preserved people from a capsule really turned me off.
They whole, no want for wealth or need for money.
Bullshit. People do manual labor for FREE?
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August 08, 2018, 05:18 PM
m1009Eh. Not a big Picard fan, and Patrick Stewart has lost any sort of support I ever had for him with all his weird roles he’s played the last few years. Always thought he was a bit too much of a goody 2 shoes as a starship captain.
August 08, 2018, 06:01 PM
flesheatingvirusI’m in.
Discovery is decent, so I’m more optimistic than usual for another new Stat Trek series.
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August 09, 2018, 08:33 AM
RogueJSKquote:
Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:
The one where they got the cryogenically preserved people from a capsule really turned me off.
They whole, no want for wealth or need for money.
Bullshit. People do manual labor for FREE?
That's one of the great unresolved contradictions in the Star Trek universe.
The shows reference Roddenberry's "puppies and rainbows and no desire for payment" ideals, while at the same time making references to Starfleet personnel receiving compensation in the form of things like transporter credits, replicator credits, holodeck credits, etc. And it's clearly shown that Starfleet members receive some sort of payment, even if it's just to allow them to deal with traders and merchants outside of Starfleet, such as all the Starfleet personnel gambling and buying drinks at Quark's bar on DS9, going on vacations to alien resort worlds, etc.