Is Star Trek: Picard's Holiday Lesson turning into a series issue?

Star Trek: Picard, a new Trek Franchise series broadcast on CBS All Access, hit the season finale 1 point and the fifth of 10 episodes, "Stardust City Rag." The context of this launch story looks like a great place to explore where the show has come and go, so, film / TV editor Tasha Robinson and comic editor Susana Polo sit down to discuss their Trek fandom, and whether Picard starve or starve to death.

Tasha: Time to be specific, Susana: I was totally ready for that Star Trek: Discovery at first, when we were in the discovery phase about the characters. But by the middle of the first season, the characters and the story both began to be directed in ways that seemed to waste a lot of the show's power. And with "Stardust City Rag," I'm worried Picard is heading to the same spot, for the first time this season.

I am very happy PicardMinority comparison and character focus – this story deals with galaxy issues and major Federation scanning problems, but at the end of the day, it's about an old man who doesn't have many friends left, trying to solve a problem he's the only one seeing. It was as if we were following a straight line straight, somewhere between the traditional Trek science fiction, and the story of a noir investigator, with one person wandering in a dangerous way that would save a potential victim.

But the "Stardust City Rag" took it off in a random way, and it started to fill in Trek clichés: a war veteran who knows it's bad because he's sexist, a hugely controversial moral argument and "Hey, we don't know this character!" Reveal the character we already knew And for the first time, I'm obsessed with the show.

But before we get too big on the “Stardust City Rag,” you would like Picard so far?

Villain Bjayzl, clad in a turquoise vest and a high collar, looked down at the former Borg Seven of Nine, dressed in black.

Susana: I really enjoy it. After all the episodes, my Star Trek friends and I enter Discord to shout about the origins of the Borg and the loyal Romulans. The show strikes a stunningly beautiful place to feed our curiosity The Next Generation and rewriting the character of Picard to fit modern concerns.

Our first review of the show revealed that Star Trek was recently forced to come out of its original Cold War talks, and I think the show's new food cartoon show would hit me a lot, with my friends Kids "only 90s to remember this year". We were brought up in “girl power,” Captain Planet, and space commerce, began in the years of the War on Terror brinksmanship, and began to age at a time so that the capitalist kings disappeared from the effects of the economic downturn. We now look at the full-scale inequality and bigotry clinging to the political and cultural sphere, while billions take up the space race, with the unpleasant consequences of unpopular climate change being achieved.

Therefore PicardRestarting has become a refugee problem, caused by climate change (well, space The weather, however), and was stopped by a vicious "terrorist attack" that kept the Federation from participating in the politics of solidarity and the banning of some kind of "man," well. I think we all shot in our seats and were thrilled when our Space Dad took it back.

As the season nears its middle, I think it's becoming more and more focused on those themes, but I'm not ashamed to say that it has caught my attention with its world-building revelations and bizarre attacks. "Stardust City Rag" is the mid-season-Netflix-padding-episode episode right now, as it is full of Angie and Raffi and Agnes's bet. There are so many sites! But I liked it the same way, for being a bad adaptation of Star Trek: Very cheesy, a little stubborn, and full of characters pretending to be something, in fantasy costumes.

Tasha: I think your Space & # 39; s Outraaaaaageous French ak-sund and the excessive slaver character in "Stardust City Rag" are a hoot, and it's nice to see Patrick Stewart really embrace his inner hammer. But as you said, PicardThe themes seemed timely and weighty, and so much has happened in this story that we don't need the filler story to reduce the pressure. It annoys me that we spent the whole episode on Romulans loyalty to Romanians and Picard taking on his own pet Romulaninja, so the show would totally pull him into the next episode. Established by Elnor as a very large giraffe, only when he turns his naïveté and inability to turn into a running gag, he feels an awful lot of writers not talking about the place of the character or the purpose of the story.

Star Trek: Picard series hero Picard, wearing a beret and an eye, stands next to the former Borg Seven of Nine, with his arms folded behind him. Picard's fiancée of the Romulan ninja ally Elnor, in a dark brown jacket, stands next to them looking unconscious.

Susana: How do you say this episode gave the Seventeenth Stage and its history about the burning of a woman, only for her to pull out the party eventually? The "Stardust City Rag" has a great pot-and-butter power for something involving all members of the single cast, and I think it suffers from coming on the heels of another quest case (taking the Romulan Honoyal-Nun Kid).

Wearing funny costumes to put on a slideshow and put someone in a safe place with the help of a guest star attraction would be best suited for a season break for the Main Drama game. If the show doesn't return to the main episode in its next episode, then I too can start worrying.

Tasha: Apart from teasing Elnor shortly after introducing her, the "Stardust City Rag" also feels like being set aside for Picard himself. He gets to play this busy actor, but he's actually not in charge of the job. He rides. And how much was given to her Picard it sounds like it's about the difficulties he faces as he tries to do the right thing when it can be easy to get down and do nothing, I think focusing on him is a huge mistake.

You are absolutely right with the great Picard themes (refugees, immigrants, solitude, climate change, climate change) all seem to fit right now. But the other thing that seems fast and important is the emotional toll. Jean-Luc Picard in this series feels like a direct channel for all the people on the line who have a vague sense of politeness, and everyone who needs the sympathy and commitment of others in the “I have a mine” position. The first four episodes are very moving because they highlight the despair of a person who sees his institutions fail morally, morally, and emotionally. It sounds like the show is covering some kind of catharsis around that theme, and moving the focus away from it sounds like a mistake.

Susana: Star Trek has been comfortably leading between serious themes and critical diversity, but the apartment is predicting a season-long story. Star Trek: Picard it is the first time that Picard himself has retained one narrative arc longer than three episodes or a movie. I think I wonder if Star Trek's genius – which I love so much and I think is an integral part of the overall franchise – has a place for our modern television channels without feeling like a drag.

Discovery looks like this has been solved by cultivating some of its sole content and silk content in the Trek Shorts program, but that doesn't help much with mid-season shows. I love Q, and am over the moon to see John De Lancie Picard season 2, but he made a good point. I wonder how you can imitate him in the long-term arc without the madness.

Tasha: It is also a name for trying to address current issues, from the racial and ethnic conflicts of the 1960s original Trek to the poorly regarded The Next Generation episodes that cover everything from rape to abortion to sexual identity. And they are often handled with these excellent news pieces. This is one of my biggest objections to "Stardust City Rag" – the main source here is that seven of the eight have reason to kill his old friend Bjayzl, who watched his seventh "son" in order to steal Borg's entries. The question of whether lethal violence is justified, and whether retaliation saves the soul, is it worth introducing politics like any other Picard. But the way it is played here, with Picard's simple speech and many, many awkward climaxes and finally "Meh, we go to hell with everything he has just made" has affected me as a compelling solution. You liked this episode, though, so … changed my mind?

Susana: Star Trek may never have pushed the envelope as it was in the original series, but much of the disinterest in the 90s Trek movies is at least a modern view. The most interesting thing about Star Trek is that it is a harmonious mandine adventure – show a utopia that allows for narrative friction. That utopia has always been, and always will be, limited by whatever modern myopia its writers have. Star Trek is and so on will fall in love with itself during the decade, and viewers are there and so on we will have to stop believing to cover the ways the exhibition highlights the exact status of the Regular-Ass Non-Starfleet Officer Life in the Federation.

Which brings me to why I enjoy this episode: Whenever Star Trek tries to show the "wet seedlings" of Federation Space – that is, when Star Trek tries to become Star Wars – it turns out to be completely funny. As soon as I knew this was a bad episode of The Town Planet, I put on my “science fiction” hat and put on my “swords” hat It didn’t really make sense for me to watch Seven Selections in this episode through an ancient Star Trek moral lens: You’re a real awake person here in the world, in a world with more difficult options than Picard ever did. He is just going to get rid of this woman (his ex-boyfriend?) Who betrays him to torture and kill his son (and you know, dozens of other people of his nationality). It certainly made more sense to me than Agnes did to Maddox.

A large, bald, gray-haired alien stands in a bright barrel behind the star's captain, Rios, disguised in a dark green dress and a bright red dress, with a red hat with large red feathers.

Tasha: But that's it! This has been a really cool Laser Swords episode, where everyone wears their favorite dresses (Rios is a pimp 1970 & # 39; s)! And goes Full Doof Cosplay … of course Seven will take out the killer who abused his son until he kills him, not chastising him and leaving him to do it again! So why have we spent so much time with Space Counseling him for doing what we knew he was going to do, and how the narrative stopped us all from what we wanted to do? I just don't like stories where a certain character we like is set up to be a narcissist in a fight against sweetness. It's as if they worked Dwayne Johnson on the Fast & Furious movies to stop and try to teach everyone about respecting speed limits!

All that aside, we never even talked about the B-episode, with Raffi trying to fix the fence with his supportive son Gabriel, and he was hit hard. There is a lot of power in that setup, and so do I hated how we played – Raffi escorts him to a fertility clinic, without warning, and throws all his belongings into his lap, and expects him to respond properly? Wrong move. (Send the book in advance! Pass it on to her a bit! Don't cut her off!) And she replies that she's a poisonous snake because she spent most of her childhood trying to save the whole planet's value, instead of reading her bedtime stories? Boo-frickin & # 39; s-hoo. And then he pulls his pregnant Vulcan wife quietly in front of her and holds her there like property, and makes no effort to add a little perspective to the field of ridiculous emotions playing in front of her? Why was that? Did you find anything in that small building?

Susana: Nope, it was bad, and it was the first time that we even knew Raffi had a baby? Send the book ahead of time! Don't wait!

Also, Dwayne Johnson appeared on Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tsunkatse" as the ninth-ranked opponent, so he'll actually be a good buyback here if not for the fact that his character might be in the Delta Quadrant.

Tasha: Let's save it Fast & Furious 27: Years in Space, Trek's last major event. However! I spent a lot of time in this conversation discussing Star Trek: Picard, the show I was very impressed with in your bag. And I know exactly why: We recently reached the mark at the place where the creators arrive to determine if they are moving ahead with the building at the speed they set, or to hit the brakes to leave as much as possible to try and get people to the complex 2.

"Stardust City Rag" sounds like a sharp mistake (as Theoretical Scoldy Dwayne Johnson would want) and has unnecessarily frustrated me with the next steps of what could be a powerhouse Rogue One Trek News: A short, strong, engaging, and inspiring story with a true story. (I don't want it to end the same way Rogue One, but you wouldn't tell me that Rios doesn't remind you of Cassian Andor at least.) You liked this episode better than me – hope you Picard all unselected? Are you okay with so many variations like this as we enter the second half of the year?

Susana: We found sincere People. We found seven of the nine shoot two pairs at a time. I did crazy. Did we ever see Soji and his Romulan boy in this episode? You have a beautiful building, Star Trek: Picard. Get back to it!