Star Trek: Picard - re:View

Nerd Alert! It's Mike and Rich! They're here to talk about the new CBS All Access show, Star Trek Picard. A series that is certified fresh from Rotten Tomatoes based on a vague opening episode with little to no information. Do Mike and Rich hate it? Do they love it? Will they give it a fair shake? Who knows!?!?!! WHO CARES?!!?!?!?!?

[@Thanatos2k]

By having Jay man the cameras, they forced him to listen to them talk about Star Trek for an hour again. He cannot escape.

[@bogczarkrollevowski2509]

Jay needs to complain to the labor board due to work place abuse

[@croisaor2308]

Jay must be feeding the Star Trek writers their ideas to get back at them for years of endless trivia.

[@stochinblockin]

It's probable longer then that since this was edited to the final product.

[@astrayadventurer4450]

Mike is devious at torturing his coworkers

[@AlexFlockhart]

And they involved him with just enough passive aggressiveness that he couldn't mentally leave the room. Cruel.

[@GameMusic4All]

CBS called RLM to get Mike's input on Picard, but Jay answered the phone

[@deceptivelysmallman]

fantastic

[@Uvwaex]

"Lightning fast VCR repair, Jay here. Oh you need help rebooting your Star Trek franchise? Sure I can do that"

[@bengunn1980]

Lol

[@bencook-feltz7384]

hahahaha you think RLM is that important that CBS would call them.

[@frankmerker630]

Its a thing that some people call a joke

[@RWSCOTT]

Franchises don't die by being cancelled anymore, it's now a form of multi-generational mental torture where everything good is destroyed bit by bit until no one can remember what was good about them in the first place. The giant Borg cube is the ultimate form of JJ Abrams Mystery Box, filled w/the ashes of Trek.

[@cellsec7703]

I have seen every episode of every Trek series. I don't consider myself an expert on it but I think I understand it. I hated Discovery. It felt like a mashed together product rather than a piece of art created by inspired people who love the franchise. I am really liking Picard so far. The characters, acting, visuals, everything just feels right. And I actually feel like I am watching the Star Trek universe.

[@JCDenton3]

A mystery urn, if you will

[@SweetStrawberryShell]

Best comment

[@icemachine79]

@@cellsec7703 I think they got more of the surface-level elements correct and Patrick Stewart's acting is certainly better than what we got on DISCO. But it's still a fundamentally flawed product and the Romulus plot still isn't believable within the context of everything we learned in TNG. I'm finding it almost as bad as "Into Darkness" plot- and script-wise.

[@gazzarover]

The script was written by an edge lord teenager!!!!!!!

[@_bats_]

Rich's rant about ruining Star Trek in terms of shitting on the dream of humanity turning out ok hit really hard.

[@ImperatorMagus]

its depressing that EVERYTHING has to be grimdark

[@Mike-ks6qu]

Yeah a lot of people loved that about star trek. It always had these morality and hope lessons. Everything written today is dark and hopeless, it's getting old.

[@ElectricChaplain]

@@Mike-ks6qu Too many writers think dark instantly equals deep

[@Mike-ks6qu]

@@BoyBlunder66 valid point, but I would like to see that old fashioned star trek optimism again lol.

[@johndillinger5142]

i agree everybody wants to have a cry about everything thats wrong rather than looking for whats gd or trying to do something about it. cant even have optimism in sci fi

[@Leon-169]

Mike: “The writers know as much about Star Trek as Jay does.” Jay: “Yup!” Pure Gold

[@urban.drooid71]

guessing it was also Jay that spelled Romulan as Romulin? 9:43

[@shanecochran2491]

Jay chimes in lol. I know engage! 😂😂😂😂

[@cormoran2303]

It's spot on too, when they press Jay and he mentions Earl Grey but not how Picard likes it. In STP he now drinks decaf with milk.

[@Phelan666]

"Jay, you remember 'Vash'?" "No." "Okay, the writers don't remember that."

[@taurusteelpan]

I'm willing to put my money on Jay's knowledge than the writers.

[@extremejon]

"J. J. Abrams doesn't care about space" Damn. He went there.

[@johnnada2226]

J.J. Abrams went to space??? 😲

[@buggerlugz6753]

@@johnnada2226 - I wish he would. And never come back.

[@robc6391]

@@willmccormick947 You mean Frank Herbert's Dune? Oh, wait... Warhammer 40k? Dunno he was working on those LOL But seriously calling Star Wars greatest sci-fi franchise? More like well known, popular and mainstream (which usually disqualifies the greatest part immediately) but greatest? Just looking at movies - it has 9 main movies and 6 of those are disasters. That does not sound... well it doesn't sound great let alone greatest :D

[@robc6391]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Oh man I knew someone was going to make that comment LMFAO The thing is Dune is not a movie franchise (and I completely agree the Lynch movie is just abysmal). The books are beyond amazing and timeless. SW is JUST those 3 movies. The rest (be it other trilogies, or stuff like Rogue one without any characters or the animated series) is okay at best, beyond terrible at worst. So the point still stands. Star wars is not the greatest anything - unless we talk about corporate products made to sell toys (which is what most of the franchise, let's be honest, is about. Like the prequels).

[@greatestscott6599]

Awkward Mike Myers standing nearby.

[@davfree9732]

Kurtzman - “I spoke to JJ. He’s bringing back the Emperor who was exploded twice. That means we can find parts of Data in the explosion. He only exploded once.”

[@zolafuckass8606]

@Erik Lerström That's so stupid, it's entirely plausible. Picard vs Kahn. The fight we were...waiting for?

[@batcavedave2535]

First class comment sir. I pissed myself.

[@nolandavis1129]

Except it’s been established that you can manipulate the force to save one from death. There is no plausible way for Data’s parts to be salvaged. Especially not in a Romulan nebula.

[@JetScreamer_YT]

It's Lores dahj-er

[@rockyseverino9230]

Ok. Sadly this made sense to me for almost a whole second.

[@jschools1392]

“Jay do you know who the Cardassians are?” “Like Kim and Chloe?” “No......”

[@eatpoopoo]

Beware of fake Trekkies! I talked to one today that didn't recognize Obo and Quack! .jpg

[@Paul_Hardy]

Star Trek: Picard. Written by: Jay Bauman.

[@predalien1413]

Jay finally got his revenge.

[@matincatrat]

That hack!

[@ethanwilkins6033]

Jay Bauman can put his Jay into my lil Bussyman.

[@puttanesca621]

Jay might not know anything about Star Trek but I feel like a show written by him would be way way weirder than this.

[@silverschannel8578]

@@puttanesca621 It will probably be like TOS with a lot of body horror

[@bricostello428]

“Don’t discount anything that’s too stupid. So, OK, Romulans in biker costumes attack Picard and the little girl.” Best back-to-back sentences, ever.

[@Doc_Fun]

I feel like that first part summarizes the direction of star trek in the last decade. That and "So anyways, I started blasting..."

[@frankmerker630]

Time to insert a scene concept that belongs in Star Wars into Star Trek

[@cocharles563]

Federation can't detect a new tech that allows unauthorized persons to beam into their secured back yard... But that's not the whole plot of the movie like it would if this were a Mission impossible episode.

[@greytroll1632]

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever watched. I almost died laughing about the flamable martian atmosphere. Who writes this?!? Oh, yes, the STD writers...

[@lotuschorus]

As someone who doesnt know much about Star Trek, when Rich described the Abe Lincoln thing, I understood. And now I feel really bad for old Star Trek fans.

[@Jeremiah15100]

Same, broke my fucking heart to think about this beloved franchise being squeezed of all it has

[@Textra1]

Finally someone gets it. Thank you.

[@kevintipcorn6787]

The old Trek writers used to bitch about Rodenberry's insistence on that reality. They're all trained to think that interpersonal conflict is what drives stories. It makes them have to work harder and out of their comfort zone, and it is what made old Trek stand out. Since the last showrunners of the Rodenberry era to even know that stuff shuffled out and got replaced by sloppy hacks like Kurtzman, no one even pushes for it.

[@harrygibus]

@@kevintipcorn6787 "Oh Captain, my Captain"

[@aserta]

Star Trek is more than an idea, it's more than a TV show or trend. It represents a close knit groups ideals for the future of the Human race. A path for young people to be inspired to walk on. There are more stories about changed mentalities surrounding Star Trek than there's time to write about in a year. And yet, here we sit, helpless watching as a group of shitbirds, literally, the worst trash this planet has to offer in their bracket, the refuse of the writer's society, mistreat and abuse that legacy, that work. That life time passion people bled, sweat, and teared for. I'd have no qualms for sending these inebriated sewage parrots to the jail for what they did. Pass it under terrorist acts against established social legacies, i don't care. As far as i'm concerned, the systematic mutilation of a legacy in this manner is a crime. Like that scumbag Lucas did for the original 3, complete with not releasing Master prints to the library, for archive. Think about it, this would be like Random Joe, got a clue, walked in the Louvre and decided to paint some additions to any of the many established pieces of contemporary art found in there. The fuck do we send that guy to the jail, when we don't even care about what happens to a legacy piece like Star Trek, which now is getting in the protected age, as far as some countries would be concerned. Fuck JJA, and his posse of scum, little Napoleon Midas del culo that he is.

[@choclytgremlins]

"The writers know as much about Star Trek as Jay does." 1. Everything is so clear now. 2. That's an insult to Jay, because Jay also knows that he doesn't know a whole lot about Star Trek, and the writers don't know that about themselves.

[@GeorgeMonet]

Nah. The writers know that they don't know. But they don't care.

[@avalentova]

Jay knows he doesn't know Star Trak and so he never tried to write one in the first place. These morons on the other hand...

[@notgonnapay]

They know as much about Star Trek as Jay does, but Jay could probably write a better Star Trek show.

[@joedatius]

@@avalentova I personally don't think its even fair to blame writers. in most cases writers are just trying to get work, its the producers and license holders who are to blame

[@Barnesofthenorth]

The main thing I love about that is they actually prove that basically everything in the show is the stuff Jay, as a person who doesn't care about Star Trek, knows. And he actually seemed to know a bit more than the writers, so they could have taken him on as a consultant on Star Trek trivia and it would have been better.

[@CharcoChoc]

I love that, "Jay, do you know about Vahj?" "No" "The writers don't know about Vahj." It's conclusive, I love it.

[@caoimhinbenjamin9998]

Oh. Jay doesn't know about 'Vajj'? Surprising. Have I misspelled that?

[@fireflynovember]

@@caoimhinbenjamin9998 It's Vash

[@caoimhinbenjamin9998]

@@fireflynovember Great. Thanks for your very literal reply.

[@fireflynovember]

@@WunderbredSyndicate Only on Risa

[@caoimhinbenjamin9998]

@@WunderbredSyndicate Might be. I don't know much about Bag.

[@TheZoaric]

"The bi-annual Star Trek funeral" is the most depressingly accurate way to describe this.

[@matterbob5x]

@@adamlevine6700 Are you trolling or shilling?

[@aserta]

Most likely shilling troll. That or some form of brain damage from all the chemicals they snort these days.

[@tonymacaroni8447]

RLM: These damn Picards keep walking on my lawn

[@icemachine79]

@@adamlevine6700 That sounds like the member berries talking. Picard was just more of the same emotional gloss over nonsense Kurtzman always produces. You're only defending it because of the nostalgia factor which is ironic considering your silly accusations against Rich and Mike.

[@rantaidhentai9817]

@Adam Levine What drugs are you taking? Want some, might help me later when i watch rise skywalker.

[@stephenbeagle2239]

"I will never leave you" says the 90 year old man.

[@icemachine79]

@Dickum N Lickum the V: Emperor Of KZbin. The character, not the actor. Do you understand the difference?

[@TimThomason]

@Dickum N Lickum the V: Emperor Of KZbin. Born in 2305. Set in 2399. JLP is factually 93 to 94 years old.

[@TimThomason]

@@CountArtha No one has ever died of old age. There's no such thing. Picard has brain issues and a mechanical heart that has caused him near-fatal issues before. He might die earlier than most in the Star Trek universe.

[@TheOrangex88]

Calls the guy an idiot, gets proven he’s an even bigger one...the irony is so bad I think there’s lead in the air boys...

[@TimThomason]

@@sorryifoldcomment8596 I was responding to someone who said that Picard would die "of old age" at a later point by stating the fact (and you seem to agree) that there is no such actual cause of death. It's always liver failure or heart murmur or brain hemorrhage and ultimately heart failure and brain death. Picard is a man who allowed himself to go naturally bald around the age of 50. He's unlikely to hold back the many causes of death that McCoy apparently held back to reach age 137 (an impossible age according to modern science).

[@ponderance]

Rich’s comment on the Star Trek Lincoln moment is such an honest moment of longing it hurt to listen to. He is so right.

[@Alkatross]

Summed up at 20:50

[@Aaron-fy4wo]

I’ve never watched Star Trek and barely even know what it’s about, but that part still made me so sad lol

[@fleshworm]

Rlm missed that the writers were trying to do the same thing with the "horrible Romulan secret" being robot racism. But it's easy to miss cause everything is horrible in these new series, so it doesn't contrast like in the original.

[@queensinthesky]

It really struck me... I love Rich, I don't think I've ever seen him be that vulnerable honestly

[@EldritchPancake]

Rich: Do you know Cardassians? Jay: Uh, like Kim and Klohe and... Mike with his eyes closed, trying really hard to stop his mind from leaving his body

[@ProfesserLuigi]

Now he knows how Jay feels.

[@LadyTylerBioRodriguez]

*Jay look*

[@UltraBatshift]

this made me laugh out loud

[@Finalzero]

Imagine how great this show could be if they added some Cardassians like Garak or Duckard. But that would require someone who can actually write.

[@ohithur]

This comment is what taught me that he didn't say Kardashians lol.

[@patrickhaggerty7830]

Rich sounds lke he's either going to spontaneously cry OR laugh the entire time. You guys are awesome, thank you for what you do.

[@johansmallberries9874]

I love Rich, he sounds like the air being squeezed out a balloon end.

[@rosenyne]

So nobody remembers Jack Crusher? Dr. Beverly' Crusher's husband who died??? On TNG Picard outright said Jack was his best friend, and they both served together for years on the Stargazer. Picard felt guilty about his death because some situation happened on an away team mission where Picard had to make a command decision to leave Jack behind in order to save others. (Which perhaps explains why he distanced himself more from his crew later in life.) Even when Jack was still alive, Jean-Luc had a crush on Beverly, which made for some complicated, guilt- laced romantic tension throughout the TV show. I would argue Picard was much closer to Beverly than Data and knew her for a much longer period of time. Also, if the events of Nemesis are being referenced so much for the plot's sake with Data's sacrifice and B-4, I assume all the other lackluster TNG movies are also canon. That means that Picard is living in the same place where his brother and nephew were horribly burned to death in a fire (Generations.). Yet he's being haunted by dreams of Data...

[@somelittlellama4186]

"Jay, do you know Jack Crusher?" "I thought his name was Wesley"

[@buggerlugz6753]

Yeah......lets move any nice location to live in the explored universe. I know, that vineyard where Robert and Rene got incinerated.........perfect! Like Picard, a man capable of so much deep thought would do such a thing............

[@NonstopRam]

And he decided to have an interview on that property...

[@deathsdentist]

@@buggerlugz6753 I could see him going there specifically because of that bad event, to reclaim their memory and remember them as they lived, not as they died. What happened was a tragedy, but there can also be good to remember.

[@rosenyne]

@@deathsdentist Yes, I can see him living there to carry on the family business in their honor, but he should be dreaming of them every night, not Data lol

[@ElectricChaplain]

Writers: "let's make a political statement on our show about racism" Show: "racism still exists and is still used to justify atrocities, we're fucked give up" Writers: HELL YA!

[@richarddufault]

Watched Picard ep1 with my wife, who is not a Trek fan, and she was like "was Data his lover?"

[@theswagman1263]

But he was??

[@infidelmat]

well Data is fully functional and programmed in many pleasuring techniques. Like silverdaddies in slings.

[@Ripcookiethief]

I bet Data vibrates in all the right places.

[@infidelmat]

@@Ripcookiethief apparently even the most shriveled and calcified prostates are no match for that ultrasonic delight.

[@Semilion]

25:05 It kinda sounds like Mike did the same thing. "And then my wife... uh oh shit"

[@mrofftopic2802]

First 30 seconds: "Bianual Star Trek funeral..." I wonder if they like it.

[@Marinealver]

Seems more frequent than that.

[@CrankyMike]

LOL, certainly set the tone.

[@bioforce5]

-Maybe this is just the one that perfectly ends the series and they can finally put it gracefully to rest?- Edit: Oh noooooooooooooooo.......

[@davidgomez7882]

10 seconds*

[@RezValla]

can you imagine how much these guys bitched about ds9 when it was on. give them ten years and they’ll be singing Picard praises

[@spammymcspampants]

Seeing Rich get emotional about the Lincoln scene was actually kind of moving. I love that the idea of optimism can still inspire people.

[@MegaZeta]

Ironically revealing your wretched pessimism and proving you a hypocrite

[@WhaleCancerGaming]

@@MegaZeta You ok bud?

[@vanyadolly]

It's really sad to see the way Star Trek has gone. I think we need that optimisim now as much as we did in the 60s.

[@mrredherring2900]

Given how cynical he normally is, this was kinda moving.

[@AloisWeimar]

New Trek is missing triumphant secular humanism, hell we need that message now as much as ever.

[@starvalkyrie]

I learned so much about Trucker culture and tradition in this episode.

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

There is one critical error. The funeral pyre is fed with VHS not DVD.

[@jacksmith3148]

That's why they call it Star Truck, baby.

[@windmillCrack]

Truck Trek: The Next Gas Station

[@billhart3728]

Like a documentary

[@kyleriel4825]

I learned so much about Mike's Zuckerberg-esque Illuminati sweater.

[@Mysterialic]

Rich's frustration at their portrayal of racism is so pure & inspiring.

[@TheSqaull17]

right, i almost cried myself when he started to get teary eyed.

[@Jacob_Junge]

@Johnny Walker Then why do you consider anti-racism left wing?

[@BR-dy1ie]

Jacob Junge Because they’re the only ones still whining about racism constantly even though it’s essentially been eliminated in the western world

[@aquanecromancer5776]

@@BR-dy1ie Good meme

[@blottovonsozzlebooks1427]

@@BR-dy1ie Hahahahahaha OK buddy.

[@LORDORBY]

Some other thing which bothered me: I suspect that they shot everything in 16:9 and then some producer came by and said it must look more cinematic, crop it. The shot at San Francisco, every skyscraper is chopped off. The shot of the Eiffel Tower, the antenna is chopped off. Inside the archive, the banner is chopped off in nearly every scene.

[@genx-tv]

There's that. But also, who has a 21:9 TV anyways? Not many. I get the wider aspect ratio for cinema, but I rather have my TV shows fill up the whole screen. I actually thought my TV did something wrong when I saw the black bars top and bottom.

[@NikHem343]

@@genx-tv Well it allows for a wider picture. That is counterintuitive, because the black bars seem to HIDE a part of the screen, but actually it's a gain in width. In a film that's shot for 21:9 you couldn't just take away the black bars and show what's underneath. It would look weird and destroy composition.

[@KillahMate]

@@NikHem343 They should've done it 2:1, Netflix-style. S1 of Discovery was 2:1 and looked quite good that way, then S2 went all the way 21:9, and it's not like it's a problem, but 21:9 is I feel just unnecessarily wide for content that will never be shown on anything but a TV screen.

[@NecumNaTo]

GenX TV Even cinemas have 16:9 screens.

[@nicholasdawson5114]

So they probably shot it at 1.85:1 and changed to to 2.35:1 in post

[@alexhayden219]

Everyday of life must be extremely stressful for JJ and his friends. Earth's sun could go supernova literally any day now.

[@ianmckee4726]

Yet with enough warning that a rescue armada could be comissioned halfway across the galaxy.

[@Beavernator]

@Dottoman They are just shock merchants that prey on people who are already susceptible to panic... Same exact group yelled about Global Cooling and said an ice age was coming... Then Global Warming when that backfired... Now, it's Climate Change because it's the perfect strawman phrase (because OF COURSE climate changes)... The same old song and dance is tiresome ed at this point... Environmental CLEANNESS and filtering is what should be the focus... Literally can't control anything else...

[@icemachine79]

@Dottoman I agree. I think it's the height of hubris to declare "we're killing the planet". The planet will be just fine no matter what happens to the climate. The only real risk is our own safety and comfort in that new environment. Even if the worst-case scenarios by the most rabid activists came true, life would go on just as it did 65 million years ago by adapting to the changes.

[@3mpt7]

@Dottoman To simplify the problem, consider one of the most difficult challenges to working in a mine, or travelling in space, or in fact, any industrial, technological, or engineering activity in an enclosed space--inclusive of your mobile phone or your computer: how the frick do we get rid of the excess heat and other noxious waste? Short answer is: we can't. The long answer is: reduce the activity until whatever it is cools off and the dust settles down. Add the problem of 'how do I get fuel for said activities' and it becomes a vicious spiral. As someone who's not very healthy to begin with...it doesn't matter what you call it, or when: we're kind of screwed.

[@unusualbydefault]

The only way I can accept "Picard" as canon is the alternate "pathetic picard" Q timeline

[@GeorgeMonet]

The problem isn't just Picard being a completely different character, but Starfleet being completely different. I blame the subversive crap that was Deep Space 9 for paving the way to Picard.

[@lionheart6176]

At least thanks to parallels there is a alternate universe where this series never existed

[@KaiPhox]

This show, as well as Star Trek Disco, are set in the Kelvin timeline.

[@thechaosengine7109]

@@GeorgeMonet could you explain why DS9 was subversive crap?

[@seanbeadles7421]

I wouldn’t blame ds9 necessarily, but that later writers didn’t get why ds9 worked. Ds9 could have the occasional starfleet bad episode (there were always a couple a season) was because they had another show being always optimistic during their run. Currently, though, all running Star Trek shows are “dark” for many episodes.

[@travisperez4860]

Rich to Jay: "do you know Cardassian?" Jay: "Like Kim and Khloe?" Rich: _Hello darkness my old friend_ "no..."

[@dinosaurspy7096]

I've had this happen several times. Is no one watching DS9?

[@travisperez4860]

@Spit Dragon ill make sure to schedule a doctors appointment pronto

[@andysutcliffe3915]

Odo does a great kardashian neck trick

[@fourmoyle]

You can see Rich's pain about the loss of that optimistic future. My heart breaks.

[@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00]

This reminds me, a few weeks ago I decided to watch SW: The Rise of Skywalker, and there was that scene of Rey climbing the wreckage of the Death Star, she gets to the iconic room where Luke and Vader had their fight, and the familiar music sting plays... not a single heartstring was pulled within me, and that's when I realized my love of Star Wars was truly dead. I shed a few tears for the loss of that love as you do, but not much since it was more of the death of an elderly grandparent that had been slowly and steadily ravaged by dementia for decades rather than the sudden death of child.

[@jakepel3117]

Hollywood believes everything must be sacrificed on the alter of social justice. Everything.

[@commiedeer]

Indeed... it's a pain we can all relate to unfortunately as we watch Abrams and his bros slowly destroy Star Trek and Star Wars...

[@mittensfastpaw]

@@commiedeer Johnson set Star Wars on the path to Skywalker.

[@Borgkoenig]

"BELIEVABILITY IS EVERTHING. IT IS THE MOST ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF ANY STAR TREK STORY." (Roddenberry in "Writers/Directors Guide" of TNG. Yes, he used capital letters!!!)

[@MegaZeta]

This would be the writers' guide that said Data speaks formally because he was raised by a planet of East Asians, that Tasha Yar's childhood spent hiding from rape gangs turns her into a child at heart who's best friends with Wesley Crusher, that there should and would never be any stories about Klingons or Romulans at war or anything at all about Vulcans, that the Ferengi would be the defining villains of _The Next Generation..._ It wasn't exactly gospel even on that show.

[@3mpt7]

@@MegaZeta Good point about the TNG Writer's Guide not being gospel. However, let me dig up a copy of the 1967 Writer's Guide. 'CAN YOU FIND THE MAJOR STAR TREK ERROR IN THE FOLLOWING "TEASER" FROM A STORY OUTLINE? PLEASE CHECK ONE: Inaccurate Terminology; Scientifically Incorrect; Unbelievable; Concept Weak. ANSWER: UNBELIEVABLE. Simply because we've learned during a full season of making visual science fiction that believability of characters, their actions and reactions, is our greatest need and is the most important angle factor.' FYI, It's talking about why Captain Kirk is not allowed to hug random females on the bridge whilst commanding the Enterprise in the middle of a crisis--because a U.S. Navy Captain wouldn't!

[@djackson4657]

TNG is Berman Trek , Roddenberry had very little if anything to do with it.mHe had many health issues at that time.. Berman could only write about wars.

[@MinesAGuinness]

@Paul Johnson False obtuseness isn't clever. Quite obviously, their point is that Gene Roddenberry didn't always follow his own guideline. That wasn't difficult to follow.

[@hohhoch3617]

@@djackson4657 You say that like the majority of the TNG is about war... oh wait.

[@bordaz1]

17:45 Rich has NEVER made a better point than he does here, defending Gene Roddenberry's optimistic vision against this forgettable product of rank-and-file sci-fi writers who, believing they've done a service for everyone, have just kept us mired in shortsighted political thinking.

[@Barnesofthenorth]

Jup, the was part of what made Star Trek enjoyable to watch, that it was set in a time when humanity had got rid of racism and all the crap from the past and was working together, and more than that trying to work together with everybody else. So many times they fell into Romulan traps they knew might be traps because they refused to leave people to die no matter who they were, and in general always tried to avoid violence where they could. Now it's shoot first ask questions later to the point that I feel like modern writers got some 40k mixed up in their research for Star Trek. In the grim darkness of the future there is only war... and mass xenophobia.

[@jogymogy3691]

@@Barnesofthenorth It's more like Shoot and never ask questions :/

[@jasonfenton8250]

@Ralph's Place How is Star Trek not optimistic? They live in an egalitarian society without material want or any systemic discrimination.

[@lividsphincter4098]

"evaculated"

[@mckenzie.latham91]

I actually like the idea that even this Uptopia of star trek can have moments where starfleet and the federation do not live up to their own ideals all the time in factDS9 especially shows that when push comes to shove, having to give up some of your ideals to survive is sometimes the only way to do it, hence why DS9 is regarded as one of the better written shows.

[@Jay-ln1co]

"Do you know what the trouble is? The trouble is Earth. On Earth there is no poverty, no crime, no war. You look out the window of Starfleet Headquarters and you see paradise. It's easy to be a saint in paradise, but the Maquis do not live in paradise. Out there in the demilitarized zone all the problems haven't been solved yet. Out there, there are no saints, just people. Angry, scared, determined people who are going to do whatever it takes to survive, whether it meets with Federation approval or not." -Benjamin Sisko DS9 wasn't darker because Starfleet was a bunch of cunts, it was darker because it took place in the fringes of civilized space, away from the ideal society and the ability to just fly away at the end of the episode. Also, Garak is best character.

[@andrzejsugier]

Cardassians were the best DS9 characters overall. Garak, Gul-Dukat, and Damar to the lesser extent, were all great.

[@Direwolf13PS3]

@@andrzejsugier Odo was the best imo.

[@ryanm7263]

TNG was a ray of hope. DS9 was the darkness surrounding that ray of hope. ST:P is just hopeless.

[@JohnyG29]

DS9 was junk.

[@Kekkersboy]

@@ryanm7263 "Am I bothering you, captain?" "No, please Mr. Worf, come in." "It is over. Admiral Henry has called an end to any more hearings on this matter." "That's good." "Admiral Satie has left the Enterprise." "We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, it's all ancient history. And then, before you can blink an eye, suddenly, it threatens to start all over again." "I believed her. I-I HELPED her! I did not see what she was." "Mr. Worf, villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged." "I think, after yesterday, people will not be so ready to trust her." "Maybe. But she or someone like her will always be with us, waiting for the right climate in which to flourish - spreading fear in the name of righteousness. Vigilance, Mr. Worf. That is the price we have to continually pay." - Worf and Picard, discussing both the investigations and the misguidedness of Admiral Satie Racism and Xenophobia, Especially against the Romulans was a part of TNG from the outset. And showed that we must constantly fight against falling into that nature. Picard was one of the people in the federation fighting for peace and understanding, but there was a strong sentiment in the common citizen in starfleet, against them. What they are doing with the Federation not wanting to help the Romulans didn't get invented in this new show. It was always there.

[@FightaminC]

Just wait til they see the showrunners' attempt to compete with the Baby Yoda craze... Picard's adventures with Baby Data.

[@dhproductions4212]

My God, if there's a baby Data, it'll be proof that God is dead and we killed him.

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

YES! A tiny pasty body, with Brent Spiner's head digitally grafted on. "I didn't know androids pooped." "I am fully functional."

[@dodojesus4529]

Its going to happen

[@myopicmanatee6432]

Baby Q. Get it right.

[@macrussell78]

I legit hope they do this.

[@JT_WARCRIME]

Fun Fact: This review is 44 seconds longer than the actual episode.

[@kingpengvin87]

Fun fact it was also 200% more entertaining

[@MrKrtek00]

Fun fact: ... and it has much more entertainment and craftmanship in it.

[@Buttington_Headerson]

Wow you’re so good at math, you should get a job doing math or something

[@KIager]

And Picard was cheating, they're doing 17 minute "action" scenes. RLM is all killer, no filler.

[@SheezyBites]

It also somehow gets as much wrong about Star Trek

[@DevinParker]

It's so depressing. When I saw the first trailer for "Picard" I got very excited, thinking it was going to be about Jean-Luc being an ambassador and diplomat, like Spock did in the latter portion of his life. But that was before I knew the awful truth about Kurtzman.

[@silvussol8966]

@@Mademoiselle_Katie - Seven of Nine is in this? I mean, I saw Jerry Ryan, but aside from her face and name absolutely nothing about the character was Seven. Not even remotely recognizable aside from appearance... ...which pretty much sums up every character they brought back from classic Trek, now that I think about it.

[@alanaj5]

I could see Seven legitimately going rogue, but there should be some essence of her former self. Especially her intolerance to synthahol and alcohol.

[@aarondavis8943]

Kurtzman is actually Sauron in human form, and he delights in tormenting the Edain, who he despises. So it's a crossover.

[@saberiandream316]

I always knew Patrick Stewart was a bad fit. I didn't fall into the nostalgia trap. If they had brought back Ron Moore, then found a way to bring Michael Piller back from the dead, I would have given it a chance.

[@bendover2649]

I thought the exact same thing. I mean, what else can you do with a 90 year old man with a reputation for skilful diplomacy? Oh right, turn him into an action star according to Kurtzman.

[@Borgkoenig]

„I believe he means television, sir. That particular form of entertainment did not last much beyond the year 2040.“ (Data in the episode „The Neutral Zone“)

[@isodoubIet]

Tbf we are already seeing TV die, but news in video format is still very much alive.

[@Yusuke_Denton]

I can imagine news still existing, but something about the reporter and her interview style doesn't sit right. I want to think that kind of "gotcha" questioning with that presentation wouldn't be in fashion. It's not like they'd have to worry about ratings. Not to mention that she hates Romulans without justification.

[@rurarararagi3394]

Blame stupid Voyager, they had Neelix do a "cooking show" so the writers now think video content is canon now, when in reality watching a video show for them is probably in the same realm as a night serenade for us.

[@Borgkoenig]

That explains it. Neelix reinvented television. 🙂

[@ryanm7263]

@@Yusuke_Denton The 24th century reporter was behaving like a 21st century reporter, manipulative and underhanded, thereby shattering Roddenberry's vision of a more enlightened future for humanity. Just like Daj and her boyfriend in their scene together: they were bantering like a couple of narcissistic 21st century millennials, not conversing like two 24th century adults. "Girl, your replicator selection is so boring, like omigawd variety is the spice of life, hashtag tragic!" Fuck off.

[@juliusjud117]

One of the good things about the age of Star Trek that we live in is that whenever I listen to Mike and Rich talk about it, I'm immediately inspired to go back and watch the original shows.

[@fearanarchy]

*SHUT UP WESLEY!* Lol

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

I had last week off from work so I signed up for Paramount + and watched about 45 episodes of the various old Trek series. It was glorious.

[@Kasaaz]

Rich being the one explaining pronounciations to someone else is the greatest achievement of Picard.

[@DisgruntledDoomer]

I keep wondering why Mike doesn't just use subtitles, if he is so easily confused with names and words?

[@Kasaaz]

@@DisgruntledDoomer I just meant that Rich Evans is the one who gave us the words, "Folding Chable."

[@DisgruntledDoomer]

Yeah, I get the joke. But if Mike used subtitles, Rich wouldn't have to explain, etc.

[@jackkoffin1]

When Mike says "I wish they never made the Next Gen movies, I wish it just ended there," with the final scene of 'All Good Things..." He speaks for me as well. I never was completely happy with Generation, First Contact, Insurrection, or Nemesis. I think the decline of Star Trek really started there, culminating with the early cancelation of Enterprise. JJ swooped in like a necromancer to resurrect the corpse, but he filled it with the soul of a completely different type of franchise.

[@mellowyellow6572]

I quite liked First Contact, and Generations could’ve been done better if they cut out the TOS stuff and put the whole crew in the nexus.

[@dunnono00]

The Next Gen movies have always felt off. Generations was just awkward, like throwing together too much nonsense. First Contact was regarded as the "good one", like Next Gen's equivalent of Wrath of Khan, but when you get past the flashiness, you're left with a plothole filled story that made no sense. If the Borg could go back in time, why wouldn't they do that... like before they were engaged in battle? And why the moment of first contact? Just go 10 years before Best of Both Worlds. Who's going to stop them? Then they could actually assimilate the Federation instead of, I dunno, Earth's first warp vessel.

[@RappingNinja]

It’s so funny now how people long for the days of Rick Berman. In his heyday, fans often argued that he was destroying Trek. DS9 had too much war; Roddenberry would never! Voyager sucks, Enterprise sucks, blah blah blah… and now, people realize finally how much he kept things going in the right direction overall. When Enterprise ended, the anti-Bermanites got their wishes granted. They wanted new blood. And oh boy, they’ve sure got it now…

[@seamusthatsthedog4819]

@@RappingNinja It's going to be really fun eventually when things get so much worse people start longing for the Kurtzman days

[@bosz2076]

Could've watched at least 3 more hours of Mike and Rich analyzing Star Trek, it never gets old.

[@colinweldon9175]

Waiting for the moment Picard says "Reconfigure" and an Enterprise forms around his body before he punches Borg cubes into the sun.

[@robertban871]

wow! can we have transformers in this too? maybe the Decepticons are behind the whole thing

[@TheFinalCollapse]

Autobots! Roll out!

[@TheDCVTitan]

The Federation not helping the Romulans doesn't make sense. This is all happening post Dominon War, where the Romulans joining with the Federation and Klingons in an alliance is what saved the Alpha Quadrant.

[@alexanderscourtney]

Agreed. It’s like they said, no one writing this actually has much knowledge of the lore.

[@AnishChari]

Gem Hadar!

[@Yusuke_Denton]

Would've made more sense as the Cardassians. Probably lots of bad blood in the Federation.

[@aserta]

Can you imagine if they gave this writing assignment to people who actually know what the show is about? Maybe even RLM? As opposed to those mouth breathers who can't even read or write because they likely never finished 10th grade and became "writers" "cause it was cool".

[@casbyness]

Also (Mike and Rich forget to bring this up) there's the whole parallel between the Romulan supernova and the Klingon moon of Praxis. We've already danced this whole fandango before in Star Trek VI - Kirk even plays the bad guy for a while with his "let them die" comment. Star trek VI was literally built around the idea that humanity is better than Kirk's moment of weakness and the few bad eggs like Admiral Cartwright who tried to destroy the Klingons rather than save them. Now apparently the Federation has fallen further than those xenophobic bigots.

[@FlimFlix]

I wouldn't say Picard didn't care about Data at all. Id say by the end of the series (not nemesis) he at least considered him a comrade. The level of obsession he has with him here is bat shit crazy by the writers tho.

[@Jokoko2828]

It's fanfiction.net writer level obssession.

[@FlimFlix]

looking back at this rich and mike were pretty wrong about picard and data's relationship. not the obsession part but they were pretty close friends at the end of the series, they act as if picard could've cared less if data was alive or he considered him a nuisance

[@HisRoyalFreshness163]

@@FlimFlix Yes, and no. Yes they we're friends by the end, but no in that Picard still care for Data the least of the main cast.

[@browser1232]

@@FlimFlix Yes, they said he had no interaction with Data outside of work, completely ignoring the Shakespeare scenes and others and the way Picard went to bat for Data repeatedly even after Data stole his ship, and the movies which span a longer time than the TV shows did in Star Trek time. He risked his own life in First Contact to save Data with the excuse that he would do it for any of his crew, but I don't believe that. Not to mention the last episode of TNG shows Picard finally come to the poker game, implying his relationship got closer with everyone.

[@RappingNinja]

Those movies are really what made them become chums.

[@darkblood626]

I hate how we can't just have nice things anymore. Everything has to be deconstructed into a dystopia. Nihilism is seen as wisdom reserved for the mature, and pissant misanthropy is worn like a badge of honor.

[@tola6327]

It will never change until Hollywood stops having political tests for parts and you have people making movies with views that aren't to the left of Marx.

[@billhicks8]

@@tola6327 Another thing that would be great is people (fans and creators) either understanding who the fuck Marx was and what he actually said, or just shutting up about him forever so as not to dimly shoehorn his name into every conversation.

[@skatterpro]

@@tola6327 Yes, because actors write their own screenplays.. Quit the meth, conspiracy theories and bipolar political comments don't look good on anyone but Charlie Sheen.

[@folx2733]

@@tola6327 you're absolutely clueless if you think that neoliberal identity politics maniacs are even truly leftist, much less marxist

[@DanHowardMtl]

Amen brother. At least this is a solution to the Fermi Paradox.

[@jaycollins2036]

Final lines of the finale: “What is your name girl?” “Dodger Picard.”

[@613-shadow9]

very cool

[@obscure4847]

I clapped

[@RareHarmony]

Spoiler alert

[@flugelblarghen]

"Dodger" *looks at force ghost of Jean-Luc* "Dodger Picard"

[@dodojesus4529]

@@flugelblarghen *myzenial remnant....force ghost

[@ValseInstrumentalist]

"Jay, do you remember Vaash?" "...no?" "OK, then the writers don't remember that."

[@booyeah6459]

Loved it.

[@compwiz101]

Star Trek is hoping for a future where we overcome the terrible things that hold us back; today's issues are *usually* supposed to be reflected in a *different context*. Different planets, different cultures, aliens, etc. We see our problems reflected in a different context. I feel like Picard misses the mark because instead of that layer of abstraction, they just decided "HEY WHAT IF THE FEDERATION WERE ACTUALLY AMERICA?!" It's crude, it's awkward, it doesn't *work*, and it's depressing.

[@rosenyne]

Please go back and review the entire series when it's over and call it "Half in the Borg."

[@johnk.7523]

This. Yes please.

[@p1ssedoffchristof48]

Data was half in a borg

[@hoodglasses8237]

please don't

[@crispin5741]

Keeping up with the Cardassians. Coming this fall to CBS All Access.

[@jasonbowman9521]

I always thought that species needed a good masseuse for those tense neck muscles.

[@alanpennie8013]

I do hope so.

[@elenaandrei3507]

@Robodog it might be better than star trek picard

[@KamikazKid]

Now I'm just imagining real housewives of Cardassia, and it's just a bunch of catty cardassian ladies trying to poison, blow up, or transporter malfunction each other to an early grave over giant glasses of Kanar.

[@I_was_a_Bullfrog]

@@jasonbowman9521 look more like tendons, your point still stands though

[@ChrisParlett]

"The smudgy, disgusting fingerprints of J. J. Abrams and Alex Kurtzman." Yup!

[@Ektalon]

The smudgy, greasy, Cheeto-stained, cum-encrusted, disgusting fingerprints . . .

[@aserta]

Very likely, considering the very shady things around him and the fact that he has no talent at all, he's greased various palms. And mind you, in Hollywood, that's 99.9% sure, to be a very disgusting thing. Years from now, when it does surface, you'll finally know and be disgusted.

[@garywintle8023]

I'm glad Mike didn't ever suggest JJ direct any movies.

[@anthonymartensen3164]

You guys are dicks. JJ is a talented person and actually has made things people see unlike y'all

[@terminalpictures]

@@anthonymartensen3164 What kind of adult insists on being called "JJ"

[@samsschool3639]

"May I ask your name?" "Its Dawsh" "Dodge?" "Mhm, Dashj"

[@benjiwis5228]

Daaaghe?

[@wickidpissafilms]

The last scene in TNG "The Chase" when Picard and the Romulan General have that great little conversation... "Maybe we aren't dis-similar after all..in our hopes...in our fears...perhaps one day" PIcard says .."Yes Perhaps.." with that hope in his voice. That is an episode that defines the philosophy of Star Trek...a future of peace and striving for understanding, not this alternate Universe.

[@desther7975]

The spirit of Star Trek died with Gene Roddenberry, didn't it? We only had real Star Trek as far as TNG and DS9.

[@wickidpissafilms]

Meaning the Kurtzman/ JJ - alternate universe....this isn't the Roddenberry or the Piller/Berman days.. worlds we are comfortable in....this stuff is always so dark and mechanical...and lens-flarey

[@cursuspublicus4302]

@@desther7975 He died a couple seasons into TNG soooooo Ds9 and half of TNG must not be real

[@gantz22ify]

@@wickidpissafilms Uh, literally most of the old Star Trek world was the crew wandering around in space bumping into random aliens or special effects. If that makes you comfortable, then... you like wandering around Wal-Mart bumping into random people and special effects.

[@cursuspublicus4302]

@@gantz22ify Heyyy heyyyy at least it had solid science like the wizard named Q

[@Proudfcuk]

The passion in Rich's voice talking about his favourite episode killed me

[@getkawedbythecrow2524]

IGottaFinishThatPresentationSoon His distaste with this depiction of star treck is palpable.

[@letsjustsleepok3704]

I thought he was going to start tearing up, cause I about did.

[@GamenRyder]

I haven't really seen a lot of TOS, but I feel is disappointment and anguish. Just fucking leave star trek alone!

[@MrLtia1234]

GamenRyder said the entire internet.

[@jimbo6934]

Man, rich coming in with that Abraham Lincoln reference made me tear up. That’s the perfect description for Star Trek, and one of the many reasons I’ve loved the series since I was little watching it with my brother. They always acted like we did. My brother is white and I’m half black, but we never gave a crap about that, we always knew we were family. And the vision of the future where everyone was based on the ideal that were all marvelous in our own way, is the only future I want to believe in.

[@MrPing1000]

Me too, but fuck all that, EXPLOSIONS!!!

[@darrengordon-hill]

"Star Trek: There Is No Hope"

[@MinesAGuinness]

And there is the perfect illustration of why Americans are having a fundamental cultural problem with Star Trek Picard. You have forgotten what Lincoln experienced and represented at the time at which he made his great speech at Gettysburg and wheel, dealed, - sometimes lied, cajoled, bargained and threatened - recalcitrant and self-interested politicians until something remarkable was achieved. Your nation went through, as it is sometimes described, an ordeal by fire to reach the dream of an end to slavery and the notion of equal rights for all - and the country literally broke in two and set brother against brother in the bloodiest conflict you have ever known as a nation. Yet, when turned into monuments and speeches recited in civics class, your nation has done a remarkable job of transforming that reality into a more perfect image: also of papering over the inconvenient truth that 1876 was a truer conclusion to the process: a capitulation to the still simmering resentments and racism under the surface of the South; old adversaries in blue and gray now shaking hands at reunions and declaring themselves all Americans now - while back in Alabama, Jim Crow holds sway planting trees with strange fruit... It's not a unique problem to the USA - many places begin to romanticise their past as the experiences fade into nostalgia - but few do so well at making the darkest aspects of their society vanish into patriotic pride. Why does this suggest a cultural misunderstanding of 'Picard'? Note the topic of the very first episode: Dunkirk. That reference isn't made at all lightly, and means perhaps far more than some viewers realise. In the show itself, this perception is exemplified for us by the blank reaction of the holonet interviewer: she may know the name, the event, but not the significance. To Britons, French, Belgians and Poles who have connection to the evacuation of the beach at Dunkirk, it still today has a powerful resonance. The term 'the Dunkirk Spirit' (you might also hear 'the Spirit of the Blitz'), and to an American ear it might evoke the idea of patriotic pride in a rescue achieved in the nick of time, cheerful celebration of ingenuity. Nothing could be further from the truth. That moment was seared into the national psyche. The Dunkirk Spirit is a far more fatalistic attitude - one your Civil War ancestors knew quite well and often expressed themselves, to the effect of: now things are very bad, perhaps the worst they have ever been, and like as not they are going to get even worse. There is little likelihood or expectation of success or rescue. There is no real escape, there is no turning back, little chance of unexpected aid. So we carry on anyway, because what else is there to do? My grandfather was on that beach, suffering from a head injury, and saw men crying, gone mad with desperation, riding like maniacs through the streets on horseback. Men lined up at the beachheads, and naval officers ordered them to embark onto little boats left or right. If you went the opposite way to where you were sent, they shot them in the head with a revolver - and the next Tommy moved along. My grandfather survived, but he never forgot. Patrick Stewart's father was at Dunkirk, and the post-traumatic stress began to unravel him, until all Stewart knew was an abusive alcoholic. That is the reality of life, before they build the statues and have the ceremonies. So, it may not be the kind of Star Trek that you were expecting or used to, but I think that it is a valid and in some ways even more powerful one that perhaps is more necessary for an audience elsewhere that has become too comfortable and too complacent about the society represented, and about themselves. I hope that, while utterly depressing, this insight has been of use. Live long and prosper!

[@ShellShockerSporanox]

@@MinesAGuinness What exactly are you comparing to Dunkirk? What contemporary situation could possibly inspire that kind of fatalism? Hmm? I enjoyed your fatuous take on the postbellum American South. It's amazing. People like you learn all the wrong lessons.

[@MinesAGuinness]

@@ShellShockerSporanox I have to say that I am somewhat surprised that you have taken my commentary as some kind of political attack upon your person. My statement implied no such intent - it merely intended to inform as to the allusions made in a fictional TV show to an historical event with which some may not be fully conversant, as you yourself are not. My aim was purely to help. If you would like to tell us better what occurred at Dunkirk or the impact on survivors and upon collective memory, please continue. "What exactly are you comparing to Dunkirk? What contemporary situation could possibly inspire that kind of fatalism? Hmm?" Well, not a 'contemporary situation' at all - and I'm not comparing it to anything: the show is. It compares it to a fictional event of rescuing Romulans from an imminent supernova. To what else could you be referring, if not that imaginary disaster? Do try to keep up, and try to recall who is saying what. "I enjoyed your fatuous take on the postbellum American South..." Now, this is the moment when - after a statement of contention is made - you were supposed to detail your counterpoint. As it is, all we are left to ponder is the word 'fatuous' and the lack of context. Are you somehow attempting to argue that the Civil War did not have a traumatic effect upon the Union? Or that the Union did not discover reserves of determination beyond any that it had previously imagined? Or that the Union didn't face its 'ordeal by fire' by marching into the flames and out the other side? You may by arguing the well-expounded theory (made by Eric Foner and others) to the contrary that - far from survive the ordeal and reunited - that the Union was restored not renewed and hopeful, but compromised by the very forces that had rebelled and corrupted it, to reemerge as Jim Crow, and covered up in a facade of patriotic pomp and circumstance to paper over the divisions and to avoid facing them for another 100 years. I wasn't: but I offer it in case you were not able to vocalise your opinion and needed some help. Perhaps you didn't understand something, but were too embarrassed to ask a question? Perhaps the issue is that you come from a different perspective? Perhaps you wish to argue for the honor of the Southlands? Or you wanted to make a point that: 'The Civil War wasn't about slavery - it was about ethics in video-game journalism...'? If so, then do so. Don't leave us in suspense! "People like you..." People like who? Star Trek fans? I have absolutely no idea. I would be curious to hear you elaborate. Rather odd to hear use of such language that suggests that one group of people are 'all alike' in character. Surely, you are not upset that I do not express exactly the same ideas as you; expressing anger that people won't do what you tell them; or advocating that we should all think alike? That would veer dangerously into the sphere of snowflakery. I'm sure you would agree that this would be undesirable in a free society.

[@nickschmidt6863]

Mike with his written, physical pieces of paper always gets a good chuckle from me

[@RandomStuff-he7lu]

They should have had 74 cuts of Picard walking up the stairs in 9 seconds.

[@Reggie1408]

They already used 50 cuts in the dialogue scene which preceded that

[@reflectingh9997]

Remember when Liam Neeson jumped over that fence?

[@TheJonnyxv]

I really liked Rich's description of the Lincoln / Uhura scene and the hopeful feelings associated with it. It made me think of the story Nichelle Nichols tells about meeting Martin Luther King. It chokes me up, makes me feel proud to be a Star Trek fan. The people writing for Trek now have no idea how special that show was and the period of American history it came out of.

[@Ecselsiour]

"Earl Grey" ... "Decaf" Star Trek: Decaffeinated

[@wolflordbradley7353]

Which he never drunk. That bothered me so much.

[@kevinsmoon3257]

Wolf Lord Bradley drank*

[@angelarch5352]

@@kevinsmoon3257 dronk?

[@Berserkerkitten]

Drenk, surely.

[@loganstorm889]

Droken?

[@santiagoo.6172]

“Maybe it won’t suck” famous last words

[@mattiafioravanti8475]

9:19 "That sounds like the smudgy, disgusting fingerprints of JJ Abrams and Alex Kurtzman"

[@FlamingLiberalSA]

In fairness that one scene of 'Data' attacking Worf in the elevator was Lore posing as Data

[@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677]

So worf loses to the super soldier and lore in hand to hand combat? Anyone else?

[@bird9230]

But it still acts as proof of scenes where picard might have doubted deta.

[@martyjehovah]

Yes and the mere existence of Lore means Picard would be a fool to not constantly doubt Data every time they broke contact in a way that would give Lore an opportunity to impersonate him.

[@rutrwer8220]

mike likes to test people of their star trek knowledge

[@darrengordon-hill]

CORRECT

[@DudeGuy999]

JJ Abrams has the highest confirmed kills on sci fi series in the world

[@Najebanski]

I hate that Penis-nosed idiot.

[@mrchiefbs]

Jesse W wait what

[@maxamillisman]

If you could stop with the dog-whistle antisemitism that'd be great.

[@kubli365]

@@maxamillisman mfw a body part can now be culturally appropriated

[@maxamillisman]

@@kubli365 I was mostly talking about OP calling him JJ "Abraham".

[@madhippy3]

20:52 to 21:10 is heartbreaking. You hear Rich's childhood come out about how inspiring Star Trek's progressivism is. That we are so far passed hate we cannot even remember it. Then you hear how they have flipped all that upside down and all Rich can say is "fuck that" over and over again, with such pain that, literally, a part of his childhood might have been ruined by this.

[@mittensfastpaw]

It hurt me to watch it because it was so true. I wanted to cry.

[@socksleeve]

I swear it sounds like he starts to choke up a bit, it hurts

[@vitaminrstudios]

It’s a testament to how entertaining these guys are: I've seen maybe three full eps of TNG and have no interest in this new show but I'm still looking forward to their breakdown.

[@erentheca]

I partially disagree with Rich here. DS9 was leagues more faithful to the Roddenberrian vision than this Bad Robot crap is. DS9 took the principles of TOS and TNG and put them to the test against the philosophies of the various alien races they encountered. It was Roddenberry utopianism, but faced with adversity; utopianism, but not in a vacuum. DS9 did delve into various moral gray areas, but never did it openly shit on the Federation or its values. Indeed it passionately defended them. Even Sloan from Section 31, who personally exemplifies this sort of DS9 moral grayness, declared that the defense of the Federation AND ITS VALUES is why men like him were necessary.

[@MultiverseAsheville]

Jarl Knudsen What does Bad Robot have to do with anything? Bad Robot made three movies and hasn’t been involved with Trek since.

[@Citiprime]

Mike and Rich want a version of Star Trek that is basically TNG-esque, but the problem is that shit was basically burned out by 7 years of Voyager, and even there it was stale as fuck by the end. DS9 questions the nature of the Federation, reaffirms them, and arguably make the ideals of the Federation and Starfleet stronger by doing it.

[@TheSamgo]

@@Citiprime Thank you exactly my feeling, honestly if Ds9 would have been put today they both would shit on it

[@harrygibus]

@@NickPoeschek Couldn't disagree more Nick. The whole premise of the Federation is layer upon layer of contingency, one on top of another using logic, intelligence, and diplomacy so you're never in a position where you need to use Section 31. They just got lazy looking for justifications for more and more space battles. It was a bunch of unenlightened writers that grew up with Airwolf, Rambo, and The A-Team and steeped in first Gulf War propaganda which was itself nothing more than a justification for defense spending.

[@maurireyes1]

This is very true

[@SaxcatGamingCorner]

I thought Rich Evans was over in China trying to find a cure for that new virus.

[@thenamelessone6119]

He already did.

[@SaxcatGamingCorner]

@@thenamelessone6119 God bless Rich Evans, as we are not worthy of his greatness.

[@dwightk.schrute6743]

I thought he WAS the new virus?

[@thenamelessone6119]

@CYYLEE He aint never gonna find a cure for that one.

[@foursix32]

Rich Evans already has a cure. He just needs to laugh.

[@aaronhetman2248]

This is also post Dominion War, where the Romulan helped defeat the Dominion. The embargo was ended and relations with the Romulan Star Empire had never been better.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

The natural course of events after the Dominion War should have been peace and cordial relations between the Federation and Romulans. Then add in the fact that the Cardassians suffered greatly during the war their best course of action at the time would have been to join the Federation. That would mean the end of antagonistic relations between the 4 Great Powers in the Federation's part of the galaxy, something that fits nicely with the franchise's overall theme of peace, cooperation and tolerance. From their the next Star Trek show should have jumped ahead a few decades and given us the next Next Generation. Instead we got a prequel featuring a war, a bunch of time spent in the Mirror Universe, Section 31, and the Federation deciding to end that war by blowing up the Klingon homeworld. So not only did we as viewer get sent back to the past, that past was an ugly one completely devoid of the spirit of old Trek. Man fuck Alex Kurtzman.

[@cvwx7485]

Rich Evans: "I didn't hate it..." Put that review on the dvd box cover.

[@smradztoiek]

@@gnarlin4964 That's how you get them... You produce some utter shite, so that your next pustule of a show looks better in comparison.

[@__Andrew]

It's funny that Jay's lack of knowledge on Star Trek has now made him an expert on the writers of Star Trek.

[@Enkarashaddam]

But Mike and Rich are hardly demonstrating their knowledge about Star Trek here. At the end of Nemesis Data saved Picard by transporting him back to the Enterprise bridge before shooting a phaser into the Thaleron core, thus sacrificing himself to save Earth from Shinzon. That's why Picard was haunted. Picard's character at the end of TNG concluded with him finally sitting a poker table with his crew mates after 7 years of service -- so of course TNG Picard isn't the same person as post-Nemesis Picard. In fact if he wasn't haunted that would have been a huge step back in Picards character.

[@__Andrew]

@@Enkarashaddam ok

[@sonicaids]

If only he didnt zone out every time Mike talks about star trek, he would know a lot more.

[@shanenokes1170]

Exactly. They are projecting their own ignorance onto others. I've never checked their political affiliations, but after this I'm guessing they're MAGAts.

[@Apophis40K]

@@shanenokes1170 1. Why bring Politics in this and 2. What is it with Americans and there George W. Bush thinking of "if you are not on my side you are my enemy" is this because you only have 2 party's? I do not get it and it's fucking intolerant. And when I am already ranting what is it with Americans and there strange fixationnon race. "Poverty on the rise, blacks most effected" "let's help blacks then" what now help the poor why even bring race into this have you not learned anything from star trek and the parprasing Morgan Freeman "to stop racism you need to stop making race and issue" it should only be an issue if someone gets treaded differently because of there race. Sorry I may have other reacted but I was not prepered to reed this under a RLM video when I just want entertainment.

[@paragonrobbie9270]

I really just want a show with Mike and Rich rambling about random Star Trek episodes for an hour.

[@generyan4043]

Robbie Stanton make it a podcast!

[@KhushbuMel]

We all did. And it was splendid.

[@jacobketcham4566]

Commentary tracks of these two beautiful bastards talking over Next Gen episodes would please me to no end.

[@JaceFincham]

Please, no. They got numerous details wrong in this and showed clips completely out of context to spin their narrative.

[@hitomisalazar4073]

Like Rich, I loved that moment with Lincoln and Uhura. That for me was far more progressive and hopeful than the far more often referenced "First interracial kiss". Which in context of its episode is basically both of them being victims of sexual assault, as telepaths mind controlled them to do it against their wills.

[@PedanticTwit]

The NeoBorg will be visually indistinguishable from purely biological humanoids. Mark my words. These writers are going to crib from Battlestar Galactica and turn the Borg into Cylons. Because the original Borg design is like, nerdy. Also because this way they don't need to pay for costumes.

[@1337penguinman]

That and they're building a square Death Star.

[@seamus674]

Way to further ruin it for me...

[@PedanticTwit]

@@1337penguinman Well, of course. Squares and cubes are easier to draw than circles and spheres.

[@Martin-xd4jl]

...I mean it's possible they did crib it from Battlestar, but I think it's more likely both shows nicked the idea from Blade Runner.

[@JaceFincham]

@@AkuTenshiiZero it seems you have forgotten about the Borg Queen, if you think the villains "have to be sexy" only just now.

[@night1hal1]

Picard Staff: Rich - Ideas Man Jay - Lorekeeper Mike - Moral Support It all makes sense now.

[@Myrth1]

Oh I see what you've done here with Jay as lorekeeper

[@GeekOwtLowd]

That's it. They are actually part of the writers room, and they pretend not to be so they can "predict" everything.

[@MaxLoafin]

Star Trek: Picard was an inside job

[@alexhayden219]

The girl being essentially Picard and Data's daughter will be absolutely correct. Rich is the Star Trek oracle. And, yes. Data was Geordi's best friend, not Picard's.

[@nopenope1]

was it midnight edge? they showed leaks for the whole season. They say the first episode is like the leak says. So if the rest is true... it would even be dumber... so alphabet... ok I didn't what much of that clip, not because I do want to watch it on Amazon for free, but I couldn't handle it. Too painfull.

[@alexhayden219]

@@nopenope1 I didn't see the ME video on it. I'm just assuming Rich is right.

[@pogo1140]

Assume that Picard see's Data as his son. He just does not know how to express it so he calls him his friend.

[@icemachine79]

@@LTPottenger This is what happens when making a vanity project takes precedence over good writing. "The Final Frontier" suffered from the same problem. Bill Shatner wanted to tell his "searching for god" story and show everyone he was just as good of a director as Leonard Nimoy. We know how well _that_ turned out.

[@SupremeCommanderBaiser]

@They should have never given me internet Pika Pikard?

[@VanVelding]

"Maybe it won't suck." Rich, you were so innocent. We all were.

[@matthewamaya3967]

I let out a Rich Evans style “WHAT?!” when android girl jumped up 30 flights of stairs. What is this show?!

[@bencook-feltz7384]

A follow-up to a franchise that had Data jump down multiple stories while being shot with bullets by the girlfriend of Zephram Cochrane? I'm pretty sure Data would have been doing similar things on TNG if the budget had allowed.

[@icemachine79]

I didn't even notice. My brain had already given up trying to process all the schlock by that point.

[@keiichimorisato98]

Other than being cloned from a memory of data, she is completely human other than having a positronic brain like Data's. Yes, it is dumb.

[@reader111089]

@@bencook-feltz7384 Yeah a Data that was a giant hunk of future metal and plastic with a bunch of blinking lights inside it fell like 3 stories thudded into the ground and then tanked some bullets. Totally the same thing.

[@icemachine79]

@@bencook-feltz7384 Data didn't have a human body. They might have done similar things in TNG with the budget. But it wouldn't have been this stupid.

[@jessetobiason1184]

I love that poor Jay couldn’t escape Star Trek even when he’s not even in the video

[@philsong4350]

The "Picard" in Picard is just a continuation of the character "Picard" from the TNG movies (the overly emotional and irrational serial disobeyer of orders). Not to be confused with the real Picard from TNG (Larry). Larry will never return.

[@stargazerspark4499]

was really hoping for a thoughtful sequel in the tone and spirit of TNG, akin to the finale "All Good Things", alas, this is definitely not it.

[@kevinprendiville9429]

Damn shame. I liked Larry

[@matthewbowen5841]

God rest ye soul, Larry.

[@jackssmirkingrevenge9365]

larry, take him for what he is.. we will not see his like again

[@JMUDoc]

I'm honestly surprised there wasn't a WALL around the Federation.

[@gonzostrangelove6107]

"It's a mystery!" Abrams and Kutzman have made careers out of faux-meaning and using mystery as an excuse to never have to truly explain something or develop ideas. It's great sleight-of-hand, but devoid of substance. "Mystery Box", my ass; it's a cop-out. Rarely have I seen such successful hacks. Another common failing in modern screenwriting is a sort of excessive emotionality, saccharine sentimentality, an over-earnestness and tendency to irrational, knee-jerk behavior. Mike's reference to Picard's "I'll never leave you" is a perfect example; people don't behave this way IRL, and it seems especially out-of-place for the character, especially given his well-established skepticism (Yes, people change, especially in the wake of trauma, but seems _Picard_ of all people would be a bit more wary, needing more to go on--proof!). Characters express intense attachment with flimsy reasoning; the lack of time and effort destroys believability (I call this the "'Just Because' School of Writing"). The dialogue in several places also came across as unnatural and not "life-like", such as the exchanges between Picard and Dahj as well as Narek and Soji. I'm sick and tired of JJ "I don't know how space works" Abrams not knowing how space works. I'm also at my wits' end how the entire Bad Robot cabal seems to lack knowledge of or simply not care about the foundations and continuity of the fictional universes they are tasked with working in. And sorry, but I'm done with the whole "mysterious pre-teen/young adult girl with a mysterious past and ridonkulous combat abilities" trope. It's been done; let's move on. Lastly, a note to writers and producers: Not everything has to be dark and gritty, dammit. Good is a good thing! Happiness can be real and lasting, not just a thing to be shattered by the inevitable darkness. I agree with Rich; I miss when optimism was at the heart of _Trek_ . Hell even _DS9_ was never completely lacking in it! EDIT: I swear on my life this is not meant in a mean or even remotely misogynistic way, but am I the only one who can't shake how Dahj/Soji looks like Quentin Tarantino? It's so distracting.

[@DonYurik]

Completely agree with everything you said. But this are hacks that made it into the industry and they wont go away anyway soon. You can include Lindeloff among them.

[@ErebosGR]

Star Trek: Picard is basically Logan and Star Wars, all in one.

[@edwardcullen1739]

"... they've been such successful hacks." In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king... Also, agree with you on every point. Can't we have a teenage boy with mysterious super-powers for once? It's been 2 decades since Serenity/Firefly, can't they just let the wound heal??? Also, can we, just once, have a female character who uses brain, wit and a sharp tongue to get things done? Where's the Leias; the Holly Generos?

[@Wang_Monkey]

Well said that man.

[@Amandcr]

I wonder if the chaos and darkness in writing for movies and TV is a reflection on how confusing and angry the world can feel nowadays. Or maybe it's just being marketed to China.

[@Wisehowlgames]

I swear each thumbnail of these Star Trek Re:Views are just progressively more and more disappointed than the last. I can't wait for CBS to premiere Star Trek: Deep Space 10 and the Re:View is just a picture of Rich Evans wallowing on the floor with grief.

[@talon12020]

That would require them to remember that Sisko and DS9 ever existed in the first place.

[@chrisadraheim]

On the floor of a bouncy castle

[@vegaobscurax23]

Roflmao indeed

[@hiredn00bs]

"...thus making her Data and Picard's daughter" "You're probably right" 😂

[@DarkForce141]

"Whatever stupid thing you can think of"

[@sethcarnius3548]

@@mustavogaia2655 oh my God that's pure genius

[@finnmccool1591]

Definitely Daj =Data + Jean Luc

[@ViracochaFI]

I thought first it was Daesh...

[@djackson4657]

Intel inside

[@chrismoore2906]

As a truck driver I find this intro f****** hilarious.

[@desertflower3996]

They forgot to mention the tossing of coupons from Loves Stations into the funeral rig. It similar to various cultures burning symbolic paper money for the departed. 😜

[@cookiemonsterdayz]

There is one scene from Top Gear which comes to mind. Change gear , change gear, change gear, check mirrors, murder a prostitude, change gear, change.. murder...

[@Puppy_Puppington]

@@cookiemonsterdayzhigh wayyyyyy to the dangaaa zoooooooooeeeen

[@zmalitas]

I canceled all my Netflix, CBS, Disney plus.. Rich can predict everything before they even make it and its free!!

[@mustlovedragons8047]

More entertaining too.

[@davidkeys4284]

Rich is a smart man

[@zmalitas]

Dick the birthday boy even guessed the number of candles in his own cake!

[@ChristopherFreezeYT]

This re:View had a disturbing lack of "ship fists"

[@DinosaurFan88]

I believe you mean "spaceship hands", good sir.

[@dixieflatline9772]

"What do you know Jay?" is the greatest segment in history.

[@cadens.308]

RLM should turn it into a regular gameshow miniseries

[@PittsburghSonido]

Jay what do you know about TNG? Uhhh “Didnt he fuck the borg queen?”

[@PurposelessRabbitholes]

7 months late on this comment but I'd love to see you two discuss Deep Space 9

[@neonsmoviereviews7969]

I want to see them talk about all of Star Trek, even the animated stuff

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

Patience, grasshopper.

[@fiel81]

How about deep space 69?

[@johanjohansson3973]

They should go through all the series and movies (the re:view format, not Plinkett)

[@MrBenenator]

@@stonedskeptic4146 Eh, DS9 had good parts, but it was never as tightly plotted as the Babylon 5 series they copied from.

[@r.l.royalljr.3905]

Rich: "Dahj is Data and Picard's daughter!" Mike: "That's so incredibly stupid. That's totally what they're gonna do."

[@greytroll1632]

roflmao

[@TetsuDeinonychus]

Data is fully functional and anatomically correct...

[@zughoytim]

They have to stop this: Rich and Mike will not survive this process of decline and degradation of Star Trek...

[@Anotherjune369]

The space Lincoln comparison hurts my heart... that’s so spot on.

[@captured_agent5714]

Yup.

[@madeupfred]

@@johnwayne8494 well, I'm sorry, but you're incredibly stupid. Again, I apologize, but you are just not very bright, which is why you have thoughts like that.

[@madeupfred]

@@johnwayne8494 you completely lack any greater historical context, or even any social context older than 5 years, so it's hardly worth discussing this with you. Gene Roddenberry was born less than 10 years after Jim Crowe was first put to law. The filming of The Original Series predates the ratification of the 24th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act. Your bizarre modern interpretation of Roddenberry's actions, that he got some kind of perverse, illicit kick out of calling a black woman a negress, ignores the fact that there would have been absolutely zero negative repercussion for doing so. There was no need to "couch" racism in those days because racism was codified, if he wanted to call someone a hard-r n-word, he could just do so.

[@granudisimo]

DS9 Is gritty but because it's as Bashir puts it "Frontier medicine". When Sisko says my favourite line "It's easy to be a saint in paradise" , he still acknowledges the existence of paradise. Can't compare what Steven Behr and JJ did, the former just added nuance to the universe by showing the least privileged part of a "perfect" society populated by imperfect beings trying to survive in an imperfect universe, the latter just rewrote it as generic popcorn sci-fi that doesn't know how stars works.

[@granudisimo]

@@seanodeli7031 It's still the frontier (border would be a more accurate term if we step off the boundaries of Bashir's line) of the Federation, which precisely makes it the most important place, the frontier status being signified deeper by Bajor being the latest world to submit for membership, the wormhole literally the frontier/border between both galactic quadrants. What the wormhole did was turn the station into a customs office in said frontier/border. Tho you could argue the Dominion Wars, specially when Cardassia and the Breen joined forces with them, that makes both quadrants feel more like one.

[@hackintosh3899]

I now find myself constantly screaming out ABRAMS, the same way Kirk yelled Khan. I refuse to ever watch another Abrams and pals production. These guys destroy everything they touch.

[@johnnytentoes4485]

Well JJ abrams is making the dceu now, yuk!

[@hannibalburgers477]

@@johnnytentoes4485 Oh. Oh no. No, no no no no. God no, no no no no. no.

[@DubsBrown]

I think this a lot too, but how much writing credit does he usually get/give. Like if someone gave him a bulletproof script would he change it or would he execute it faithfully.

[@quaidrowan]

We really need one of these per episode. Also: the Romulan secret agency is the Tal Shiar. And for a precedent of the Federation helping a sworn enemy, I'm surprised they didn't discuss Star Trek 6. It was based on Chernobyl. At least the beginning part.

[@scotiancoast3648]

It wasn't based on Chernobyl it was based on the cold war. Chernobyl was a nuclear meltdown which wasn't referenced in the movie at all.

[@Muzer0]

@@scotiancoast3648 It was very obviously and deliberately paralleling Chernobyl, with the destruction of Praxis caused by inadequate safety procedures.

[@B-Dad]

They should have never given me internet Your name is SPOT ON👌👍✌️

[@JanMichalSzulew]

@@scotiancoast3648 Praxis explosion is Chernobyl meltdown. Chernobyl meltdown was one of the events that accelerated the end of the Cold War. Praxis explosion accelerated Klingon-Federation resolution

[@khfan4life365]

Oh, yeah, I remember the Tal Shiar. Did the writers forget about them? If the Romulans had that group, why should the Federation trust them or allow them to settle on Earth? The Romulans, from all their appearances, wanted to see the Federation fall. These writers didn’t watch any of the Treks and it shows.

[@cinemike8207]

I love Patrick Stewart and think that he is an acting treasure. He was my TV dad when I was a kid. I do find his comments about Star Trek needing to change in light of troubling current events interesting. While in general I think a lot of good science fiction reflects current events, Star Trek is unique in how it does that. Current issues can be explored on other planets and alien species that are encountered but humanity itself is supposed to have risen above the issues of today. In the Picard show, Starfleet and humanity is portrayed as having lost their way to a degree. Star Trek is intended to be a steadfast, optimistic view of our future in the face of dark times in the present. When the first Star Trek series started, we were facing a lot as a society. There was the fear of nuclear annihilation, assassinations of top political figures, the Vietnam war, there was civil unrest and a fight for rights. Star Trek was to remind everyone of our potential if we could come together and set aside our differences for a better tomorrow. So the fact that we are now in slightly difficult times gives even more reason to stay true to that original vision of a better future. That’s what Star Trek was supposed to be all about. Anyways, I can understand why Stewart would want to take it in a different direction but it’s a bit of a risky, thin line to walk. It’s difficult to challenge Roddenberry’s vision with out making it feel less like Star Trek. Update: I did enjoy episode 2 a little more. I certainly think it’s at least better than Discovery.

[@BennoYaKnow22]

It's sad but Patrick's just out of touch that's what happens with old age. Hes not all there. Hes been living in Hollywood to long.

[@danield.8233]

And then DS9 came and ruined the vision. It was still pretty awesome tho

[@JosephHutzulak]

I agree with your sentiment but I'm sorry we are not in darker times, while the threat of nuclear war was greatly exaggerated the truth was the USSR was an existential threat and the idea of another great war was still there and in parts of the US (Not all or even the majority) black people lived in apartheid conditions .

[@sublime8956]

Spot on! The whole concept of Star Trek was and always will be ahead of its time

[@yrobtsvt]

@@liammcnulty1987 i'm pretty sure if you look at sociological studies, happiness levels were higher 50 years ago than they are today. Anomie does a lot of damage even after you solve racism or whatever

[@romanmeneghinister1584]

Gotta defend DS9 a bit. It is darker then most of the other Star Trek shows, however, it still has so much life and joy. It analyzes themes of loss and trauma while also contrasting with themes of healing and growth. Like I love Sisko and Jake's relationship, it is so loving nice. I love the character growth and development. Watching Picard frustrated me because it felt like everyone involved didn't understand that there is a difference between acknowledging dark or traumatic things, and writing like that is all there is. Grimdark is an awful trend and I hate it. DS9 acknowledges some of the sadder things of life and the world, but it never forgets to remind people of the wonderful aspects of life. That fundamentally, things can be bad, but they will get better, because life is good. DS9 just feels alive to me, and I love it for it.

[@pittland44]

DS9 taught us all the message that the future wasn't going to be easy, but it was a future worth fighting for.

[@redzeppelin6]

Well said. I love DS9, even with how scary and dark things can get there was hope got a bright future. For as much pressure and how high of a death toll Sisko looks at he has plans for his future in a time of peace. We see how far people are willing to go for that peace. In The Pale Moonlight was fantastic.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

DS9 also showed that the optimistic view of star trek doesn’t survive any kind of realistic setting and or the moment a stronger alien force or outer entity threatens it as soon as the dominion come, star-fleet is literally faced with an enemy whose not only stronger then them, but then them and the romulans, the klingons and the federation itself all together. Which was an interesting thing, that when actually faced with an enemy who was superior, how long do starfleet and federation ideals last... turns out not that, well not very long.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

@Imperial Judesmen138 I would say they didn’t live up to those ideals as much as they thought they did, nor was the peaceful utopia so peaceful as we are told or shown... the original series and TNG have many episodes where they show the federation and humanities blind spots or faults and that they may not be as perfect as everyone thinks and or wants... But yeah the goal of those ideals is the thing to strive for and to fight for... and yes that’s the point, it’s not hopeless...Picard for example never once suggest it’s hopeless, if anything picard’s struggle and journey in the series is to fix what was made wrong and try and bring some of that idealism back... Now whether or not the series works in terms of writing (it has ups and downs) but to try and push this idea that Picard. You know what roddenberry’s oringal utopia is...it’s not a goal that we all can strive to, it’s a lie/tansay that makes us think that one day we can achieve this, but never shows or explains how we do that in reality so everyone just holds this idea with no idea how to bring it abut, what to do, and or how they’re going to put down millions f years of ingrained biological imperatives that contributes to our problems... I’m more insulted by the lie/fantasy then reality, it’s just a feel good tool to assure you “oh it will get better...somehow..." Well somehow doesn’t fix real life issues, optimism is great, when you have an actual plan, when you don't it’s just ignoring the real life shit that’s going to get us killed because you feel and hope things will magically somehow turn out all right.

[@johnk.7523]

DS9 is my favorite

[@WCanyon]

JJ Abrams hates space. Y'all were so right on that one.

[@Tentaculat]

The Federation: "When Romulus sends their people, they are not sending their best"

[@RobertJRoman]

Some, I assume, are good people...

[@DustinOffAClassic]

Woah.....you caught the subtle parallels, too? I thought I was alone! Do you also suspect that "FNN" was some kind of parody of "FOX"??

[@trickster721]

I like how they're deliberately leaving open an interpretation where Picard is a wealthy and successful maverick, sticking it to the face of corrupt international organizations, even as he's cruelly and unfairly targeted by the media. Keep it classy, Abrams.

[@capitalcitygoofball1987]

@@trickster721 Would be funny, but Picard's heart is bleeding more than when he got stabbed by that Nausicaan.

[@SaltyBob355]

DustinOffAClassic The subtlety nearly knocked me off the couch. Along with the parallel universe xenophobic Terran Empire. Captain Lorca: “make the empire glorious again”. Sheeez...

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

"Violent Hardons" is the name of my Klingon heavy metal band, playing speed thrash Star Trek music.

[@Trelane574]

"Today is a good day for eardrums to die."

[@arootube]

"Dad why do I have to listen to Klingon Operas?" "Alright fine, but at least try to listen to the trash metal renditions."

[@chriselathan]

Lol. The Cro-Mags song, “Changes” does this pretty damn well actually. The entire opening is taken from Star Trek

[@PinkPlume]

The fact that the thumbnail depicts Mike and Rich seemingly posing as the Picard facepalm meme, but it turns out that those facepalms occured organically multiple times throughout the video, is very telling.

[@fartquaviasdingle7876]

Yeah when rich talks about the meme, they don't even use him recreating it for a thumbnail, he jus fr did that multiple times, funny asf