Amazon : Star Trek: Picard

[Stephen]

It was the guy that played Gaius Baltar in Battlestar Galactica.

[Jaymoss]

Originally Posted by Stephen

It was the guy that played Gaius Baltar in Battlestar Galactica.

James Callis

Originally Posted by Pierre

At first I thought, is that Dr Bashir? I recognised him but couldn’t place him

Baltar

Also Bridget Jones’ best (gay) friend Tom, a role he camped up to the moon and back and clearly had far too much fun with

It’s good to have an actor of note involved when you’re canonising the backstory of legends like Picard - I’m glad that he gets to be Picard snr. even if we never get to see him on screen again.

[cimt]

I feel like we will see him again. It was mentioned that there is more to his backstory.

[GrimUpNorth]

Will stick with it, but found myself getting a bit bored during today's episode.

[General Maximus]

We are nearly at the end anyways

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

We are nearly at the end anyways

Don't think I'm a fan of the story running through the entire series, enjoyed it when it was wrapped up in an episode or at most continued from the last episode of one series to the first of the next. I liked how you could dip in and out without worrying about what happened last week. I'm sure I'm not alone!

[General Maximus]

I dont mind serialised stories because they give you chance to really sink your teeth into something. When they are done well they are fantastic (e.g. The Expanse and Reacher) but the problem i have noticed recently with streaming services is that somebody decides they want an 8 episode season, thinks of a start and a finish and then they have to work out how they fill the middle. Like you said, i think some of these stories could be put into 3 or 4 good episodes but instead they are stretched out. The Book of Boba Fett is a perfect example of this. I would rather them tell a quality story for as long (or as short) as it needs to be and then move onto the next story which naturally follows on and progresses the overall story arch.

[Pierre]

What an hour of quintessential Star Trek, that was.

[alanbjames]

I just cant get into this second series it seems to be all over the place to much happening at once.

[Stephen]

They've left a lot to fix and sort out for the last episode next week. So much will be brushed over quickly. Been mostly filler and wasted time.

[alanbjames]

I'm just hoping that the 3rd and final season will be better than this.

[Stephen]

Well it's got all the TNG cast so that's 1 thing but it was written and filmed along with this season so who knows.

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Well it's got all the TNG cast

that doesn't mean anything. I can't even begin to describe how much of a missed opportunity I think it has been to not have had more of Guinan/Whoopi Goldberg in this season. The story was literally screaming out for her and would have been a perfect excuse for her to spend some quality time with Picard and have a truly meaningful deep story arc. Instead we get all the drivel from the new wannabes. They (the writers and producers) know that if they bring all the TNG cast back early in season 3 and keep them, nobody will give two shits about the new cast they can happily retire to the background. I will go so far as to say that if any of them came into a scene and had dialogue that it would be met with fury because they will be taking away precious time from the TNG cast. In a perfect world hopefully there is an accident when they try to fix the timeline next week and the new cast get erased. It would be amazing if we can start season 3 off with a clean slate, the TNG cast and go out with a bang.

They have done their quirky story and cast changes for novelty, now it is time to bring it home and finish how it started.