Star Trek: Picard Episodes 4 and 5 - re:View

Mike rambles out of control while Rich is miserable.

[@JaceValm]

This feels like an hour-long therapy session where both patients think the other one is the therapist.

[@skypiratecaptain]

im glad mike finally got to make his star trek podcast that he's always wanted to do.

[@valleyford6006]

That is SO accurate hahaha

[@SmorgasLord]

hahaha

[@intboom]

Have you ever watched Hannibal? :P

[@brokengames9020]

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[@cartmanofsp]

I'll never watch this but I love watching two middle aged men talk about how much they hate it

[@michaelp2952]

One day this will be you

[@cartmanofsp]

@@michaelp2952 and i can't wait for that day

[@gabbyprincip1575]

@@michaelp2952 No need to remind me of my inescapable future

[@obsidianorder1]

Just pretend every time they say 'starfleet' they mean 'space force', and every time they say 'Romulan' they mean 'chromulan', and every time they say 'borg' they mean 'korg'. Yeah, I'll have a pint of 'korg', please. Under these conditions it gets at least a 5/10 from me. Which is always better than Emerdale (-20000).

[@MegaManXPoweredUp]

I've never seen any Star Trek at all, but I look forward to every review.

[@Clovis_the_Cat]

Rich yelling "Captain Picard isn't here, Mike!" has the same feeling of desperation as someone yelling at a widow that her husband died in that car wreck 10 years ago.

[@dekai7992]

That is so ... painful. And so true.

[@leastmachine8693]

"Where do you think we are?" - Zach Braff

[@Funr1r]

God, I had the exact same thought!

[@scottfitzpatrick1939]

omg the sads have filled me

[@aarondavis8943]

"Do you remember the time when..."

[@hastekulvaati9681]

I think the Rich Evans here is NOTHING like the Rich Evans from the original show. I get that the writers wanted a darker more gritty Rich Evans but it just doesn't suit the character. It doesn't help matters that they rendered him in cheap CG.

[@matthewcooksey9945]

This deserves more love

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

Everyone is so nostalgic for supposedly "classic" Rich Evans, but this is a Rich Evans for a new generation! We couldn't just keep the old Rich Evans to appeal to middle aged manbabies, we need a Rich Evans more in tune with modern sensibilities.

[@Pauly421]

This Rich Evans swears randomly takes drugs and gouges peoples eyes out, it's what reflects the current political climate and therefore transcends the original philosophy of Rich Evans.

[@misterwishart]

Rich Evans is the key to all this....

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

He died of diabetes and AIDS, what were they supposed to do?

[@anenemystand5582]

Fun fact, rich Evans isnt a human. He's actually an angel sent to earth with the mission of helping Mike move on from Star Trek. As you can see he's having a hard time.

[@VashdaCrash]

It's hard to fight love with love, even for angels.

[@Ektalon]

An enemy stand Like It’s A Wonderful Life! With Mike as a grumpy, hard-drinking George, and Rich as Clarence with Diabeetus!

[@dshvd2410]

@@frogsgottalent1106 what the hell are you on about

[@gabrielhersey5546]

An enemy stand true story

[@difficultbastard]

@@frogsgottalent1106 I've seen the videos where he talks about feminism. I had to face facts and realise that the actor behind one of my favourite characters in my favourite tv shows, is a clueless old man.

[@Heretic1373]

"Picard is going to be an in-depth, slower-paced character study on Picard where we completely ignore all of Picard’s character traits so we can have a scene where a ninja beheads a former Romulan senator who now is a helpless, scuzzy bandit in a no-humans bar." The best description of the series.

[@dizzydalek1627]

I've seen worse shows

[@cpmartins]

@@dizzydalek1627 I've also seen worse character-rapes

[@SlartiMarvinbartfast]

@@dizzydalek1627 As have I, but I don't recall a show which so effectively rips apart, stomps on and discards an established universe and characters.

[@Stormfin]

"A HELPLESS scuzzy bandit."

[@dizzydalek1627]

@@SlartiMarvinbartfast True but why does it matter? The old shows still exist. Don't be afraid to have fun!

[@VikCain]

Star Trek: re: view may be the best show with Star Trek in the title in years.

[@buttholeofdeath-eaterofwor4995]

Q on l I l

[@MegaGasek]

The best Star Trek show right now is the Orville but you already knew that... Oh, wait! I see what you did there... With STAR TREK in the title. Well played, well played!

[@DreamwalkerFilms]

Time for me to harp about Star Trek: Continues, which is literally the anti-Discovery, anti-Picard, and anti-nuTrek in every way

[@miguellampiris8546]

What do you mean "might"?

[@thomasbayer1843]

The Star Trek we've been waiting for!

[@striderleigh478]

The fact that pop-up ads exist in the Trek-universe does more to depress and convince me that the positive future it once painted is truly dead.

[@aaarsix]

Strider Leigh exactly!

[@GSNRecords]

There is no happiness and joy in Alex Kurtzman's heart. It's physically impossible for him to conceptualize an equal society because he's a fucking asshole.

[@redfog29]

Even if I agree, it ain't the first time we see those, in DS9 S4E24 there is a hilarous scene where Quark put some annoying pop up ads for his bar in DS9's main systems x)

[@livelongnprosper4051]

Picard isn’t Star Trek don’t worry

[@JosephDavies]

@@redfog29 You're right, but the difference is the tone of the show surrounding it. In DS9 it was treated as a disgusting aberration that should be remedied. In Picard, it was treated as an ordinary experience that only the sheltered characters were unfamiliar with. Both are played for laughs, but in DS9 the joke was how much of a greedy scoundrel Quark is for doing it. In Picard the joke is on the characters who are too innocent to be able to handle the invasion of privacy and personal space. Finally, in DS9, it was explicitly something done by a hack into a secure system by a sometimes-criminal. In Picard, there was no indication that this was in any way a bypass of La Sirena's security but is instead unblockable and required no initiation by the recipient. That alone is a terrifying vision of the future. Sadly, I doubt the writer(s) involved in this scene considered _any_ of this, and instead were wholly convinced it was an absolutely hilarious joke that will keep non-sci-fi fans engaged by being "relatable".

[@johnjohanson622]

"Seven of Nine's quest to find her humanity ends with her being a violent psychopath" damn the roast is excellent

[@leonardorossi998]

I'd say her quest was successful :P

[@AmstradExin]

Honestly, if Ryker met her, he would have screwed all that borg shit out of her!

[@capuchinseven]

Which is rubbish because her reaction wasn't that of a psychopath (who probably wouldn't have felt any emotion at all for the violent death of their adopted child), it was violent and came from a place of revenge (a very human trait) but not that of a psychopath.

[@Greener221]

Not that surprising, given that she’s a Voyager crew member.

[@beyondlimitationsvideo]

@@capuchinseven True, true. But for decades, STAR TREK had a very enlightened message about violence and revenge - it was depicted in a way more sophisticated way and not like KILL BILL in space.

[@SM-wm7ik]

"Mike rambles out of control while Rich is miserable." Is it Thursday already?

[@Kaanfight]

Yes. And what a glorious Thursday it is!

[@Activated_Complex]

Picard rambles out of control while the steadily diminishing audience is miserable. Is it 2020 already?

[@cartmanofsp]

Activated Complex an unmitigated disaster

[@gwolfe333]

I thought that was most days.

[@meatrace]

This doubles as the channel description.

[@tmbbcck]

My favorite RLM character arc is watching Mike slowly devolve into Mr. Plinkett. We're watching the origin story, folks.

[@haplo19]

Too real.

[@rafaelpalmamungioli4235]

Soon he'll trap Rich Evans in his basement

[@Iamafishproductions]

You either die a Rich Evans or live long enough to become Mr. Plinkett.

[@thedumbdog1964]

All I have are AAAARHGG thoughts

[@louisbrantmeyer8786]

T YES!!!

[@amisner2k]

It felt like Mike was interrogating Rich the entire time while Rich was trying his best to convey to Mike the truth, which is of course that there are four lights.

[@myrv_the_ocelot]

😅😅😅

[@leviwitherow5204]

The progression of these thumbnails is amazing.

[@jamesgrose510]

Episodes 6 and 7: Their heads and shoulders are lasers Season 1 Post-Mortem: White space with soft red outline

[@danang5]

cant wait for the thumbnail of review of the last episode of star trek picard

[@AnimatedASMR]

The slow erosion of choosing to look inside the Ark of the Covenant.

[@darrengordon-hill]

@@juice6521 Full red thumbnail!!

[@alessandrobuffa123]

So powerful

[@boltvanderhuge1273]

"You don't understand our ingenuity, our self sufficiency" two seconds later "why didn't you do a better job helping us?" That's great writing right there.

[@R3GARnator]

Seriously, most fanfic writers are better than that.

[@adiahaalexander9359]

Yeah I caught that

[@VisserGoedHart]

It's like "America shouldn't be playing world police" while at the same time when shit goes down "why isn't America doing something!"

[@Calekoflight]

Sadly, real people talk like that. They massively contradict themselves in their very next sentence and don't even realize it.

[@jordimelis4463]

You might be right but building a narrative around that is retarded and makes no sense.

[@boredmonkee]

The next reView is just going to be Rich smothering Mike with a pillow, then breaking through a window and running into the distance

[@inblackestnight9256]

Are you comparing Rich to Barney Gumble? Either way yes, I think it may come to that.

[@boredmonkee]

@@inblackestnight9256 well I guess Rich definitely doesn't have that "mute native American" vibe so......yes

[@rrson648]

If it comes to that it will be far more comapssionate like "of mice and men" where rich compassionately says "tell me about the romulans, george" while mike stares off into the distance, just b4 rich mercifully puts a bullet in the back of his head.

[@jeffyang7072]

"I used to think my life was a tragedy, but now I realize it's ENDLESS TRASH!" - Rich Evans.

[@somewhatdweeb5194]

GalvanInk - No, Jay has the Native American vibe. He’s got a little bit of Native American in him. But that’s only when he’s at the manhole.

[@BlokeOzzie]

I'm enjoying watching Star Trek: Dementia.

[@Aiijuin]

It’s like watching a Star Trek: Logan Patrick Stewart.

[@CosmicGemHoarder]

The next re:View of this show is gonna start with Rich tied to the chair.

[@Mithrantirs]

And obvious signs around the eyes, that imply devices were used to keep his eyelids open.

[@MKDumas1981]

I think the skin stretching machine from Insurrection could be modified to do the job.

[@thexgp84]

Or suspended in mid-air, Obi-Wan style.

[@charlesjmouse]

There... Are... Four... Lights!

[@420bengalfan]

rich and mike are masochists

[@JazzHands]

Rich: *exasperated* “we are the only people who care!” The people: we care. We all care just as much as you. Please don’t stop these reviews. It makes me feel sane to see these godawful episodes ripped apart. Ichep actor drama was interesting too.

[@scotteous]

100% agree

[@jackburton1455]

Its messed up that Star Wars fans have a one up over Trekkers due to a good, solid T.V series. What a wierd time to be a geek.

[@Dadecorban]

"Let them die" Kirk - Undiscovered Country

[@fiddledotgoth]

I choked on my toast a little when he said "Ok so lets move on to the next episode..."; I love these reviews but it's baking my noodle that we would miss all this if they hadn't made that God-awful Picard series (thankfully I ignored some stupid friends advice to watch it)...

[@icemachine79]

@@fiddledotgoth Good call. I wish I could unwatch the first 3 episodes. Well, 3.5 episodes. I fast-forwarded through most of the last half of the 4th and couldn't bring myself to watch the 5th.

[@Possiblyabandaid]

"This is what grief looks like." Man, this is hard to watch. Just can't look away.

[@HyoushinKitsune]

I expected Rich to plead for people to donate to their Kickstarter, so they can afford the operation that will expunge all of the Star Trek knowledge from Mike's brain. "He said it would be such a relief."

[@MillywiggZ]

The Caretaker will come back and produce an album about this show.

[@disruptive_innovator]

yes ☹

[@pete_lind]

Next on CBS , Star Trek : Riker , Star Trek : Deanna Troy ... Star Trek : that random guy in red shirt , in original series .

[@wilmabaird1299]

Very cool

[@DeSinc]

I've just stopped watching the show and am watching these as a total substitute

[@zelaird5906]

you get more information out of these than you do watching the show

[@Nedula007]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@yourlocalpunkposer8107]

I want to get off Mr Kurtzman's Wild Ride

[@EnderProGaming]

Didn't know DeSinc watched Star Trek! :D

[@Pharmerlynda]

I never watched the show and just started watching these...

[@calleX]

"I expected Seven of Nine to work at the Daystrom Institute, you know using her intellect." *Laughter* " Oh Rich" "She is a vigilante warrior now, in space"

[@thedoc4114]

“Let me tell you bouta a guy named Alex kurtsman”

[@Inignot12]

This show is aging Mike another 10 years in 1 season

[@DatCameraMON]

Is that Mike's superpower? Is it like Teletpathic Communication with Animals?

[@namelessjedi2242]

Bad news especially since he’s apparently wearing a Logan’s Run sweatshirt.

[@DonnaCPunk]

Nameless Jedi Mike would've been dead years ago in the Logans Run universe.

[@gabbyprincip1575]

More like 30

[@gabbyprincip1575]

@@SHISHINOBI-LEO pain and misery are the only things he can still feel

[@HexIsme]

"Will anybody talk to me about Star Trek: Picard?" Here we observe the wild Mike in his natural habitat, letting loose his mating call while sitting alone in the dark.

[@4747474747bigal]

"The blonde android lady has a nice character arc which ends in a quiet peaceful life." "The one from Star Trek?" "No, Dragonball Z."

[@zamnodorszk7898]

My teenage crush...

[@hacooray525]

shout out to krilin, my man knows what's good

[@Daniel-uy1sv]

@Space Vatnik and got with 18

[@JM-mh1pp]

@@hacooray525 Ah Krillin, giving hope to short guys all around the world

[@gmckart]

Star Trek Picard is an extremely expensive way to make more re:View

[@jozinek876]

In that case, we should praise it :D

[@Maladjester]

I laughed for a good five minutes. Thanks man. =D

[@iron_Will]

Mike and Rich trying to convince themselves that "I'M not the one with dementia, HE'S the one with dementia!"

[@JarrettHouston]

Well since neither of them can remember even the simplest of names and places, they definitely both have it. Mike can't even remember anything although he has made NOTES.

[@spinningspin6053]

Malarkey!

[@r2dezki]

Mike seemed like an old confused grampa in the video, which is saddening. He clearly failed his sanity check while watching the new episodes.

[@Krathify]

Oi

[@NextGen_Pants]

Everytime they say Soji I keep thinking "Tabuchi"

[@KasumiKenshirou]

In Japanese, (soji) 双児 means "twins".

[@MariaIsabellaZNN]

Oh wow that is sooo clever, because she has an identical twin sister, get it? What will be the big bad guys name, Richard Tator?

[@Football__Junkie]

It’s the Shoji Tabuchi Show!!!!

[@frozenbean]

His NASA violin would be a good prop in a Star Trek show.

[@banjopink4409]

​@@KasumiKenshirou Got anything for Daaahjjj?

[@jarmarmarn4323]

I wish we could have seen Mike's face when he first saw the "an unmitigated disaster" clip and an ocean of editing possibilities opened up before him

[@1monki]

But on the positive side, Roddenberry should be spinning in his grave fast enough to be a sustainable source of electricity.

[@Motokosgun]

under-rated comment

[@robertrichards4718]

A source of unlimited power!

[@matterbob5x]

Lol

[@RussianBot-xu7wl]

Just clamp a couple cables on his nips and watch'em go

[@spudastic]

ba~dum tsk On my green space cymbals

[@CristianLopez-xi4rt]

How Ironic... I keep watching these Re:Views and I don’t even watch the series. I guess this is more entertainment than the Picard series.

[@AdmiralRamirez7]

Same

[@gwem1979]

If you like star trek then Picard is sodding awful. I watch it because I haven’t quite given up on the star trek franchise but get no enjoyment out of it. But these reviews are far more entertaining

[@marichjern3447]

The katharsis feels a litte more earned after suffering through those episodes ... ... but maaaan have 4 and 5 been shite.

[@ShinyShinyIsAlwaysBeingSerious]

Same, I have watched exactly one episode of Star Trek in my life and still love to watch these old fucks mourn.

[@hermannabt8361]

The reviews have better character development than the show.

[@HauntedXXXPancake]

"Will Q be Data's Cat ?!" Kurtzman (taking notes): "Brilliant, brilliant stuff ..."

[@2OldGeeksTalking]

I wonder what Q would think of humanity in PICARD's timeline now?

[@GeorgeMonet]

"We've all been the scarecrow" becomes "we've all been Data's cat."

[@Andrew-fq7pu]

Kurtzman would like that. He likes ideas he can steal from other work. He'll be thinking it's like the cat from Captain Marvel. I wonder if he's trying to get Mads for his Clarice show.

[@VanVelding]

"Why did Picard start a fight?" You guys aren't stupid enough to figure it out: they're trying to deconstruct TNG's moral opposition to injustices by showing the stupidest version of it failing in their grimdark reimagining.

[@GuacamoleKun]

Ding ding ding. And "why is it the Federation's responsibility to save the Romulans?" the answer is because the Federation has the most power, therefore they are the only ones who can do anything because everyone is a pawn unless they are all-powerful. (And therefore nothing is your fault or your responsibility. Except if you're PICARD, THE BIG BAD STRAIGHT WHITE FEDERATION MAN WITH A VINEYARD.)

[@KneelB4Bacon]

Yup. This is the JJ-verse. Dumb, blunt and obvious. Roddenberry's original idea was for a utopian universe, where problems like poverty, racism and sexism no longer existed and conflict only came from other races. While this was a good idea in general, he also didn't want conflict between the main characters, which leads to very boring characters that have no flaws or problems to overcome. Writers complained about the "Roddenberry Box" all through season 1 of TNG. At the other extreme, we have the JJ-verse, where conflict comes from EVERYWHERE, including problems that shouldn't exist in a utopian universe, like poverty, racism and sexism. They turned Star Trek into dumb, violent action schlock.

[@haraldhimmel5687]

@@KneelB4Bacon Thats part of what makes DS9 so good. They really tried hard to honor Roddenberry's vision while not being restricted to it and ultimately ended up putting said utopia to the test by focussing on the federation being in conflict with other races that totally are not following said paradigms. Including all the "real world issues" and moral dilemmas such an interaction would cause. New Trek: Something went boom and thats why people are savages now.

[@BoleDaPole]

Exactly, white people are expected to save others.

[@TheMrlitemaster]

every re:View episode goes like this now Mike: Why? Rich: Stop thinking.

[@joemcginnis5214]

They captured the spirit of Next Gen perfectly. I always loved when Picard would fly off the handle Or when they would throw diplomacy out the window and start chopping off heads.

[@2OldGeeksTalking]

Your exactly right, do they do any research on the character they are writing?

[@j.m.s_3285]

@@2OldGeeksTalking all forms of franchise entertainment are now empty vessels into which freshman Hollywood can pour it's virtue signaling identity politics. Even Sesame Street.

[@Plur307]

@@2OldGeeksTalking I am pretty sure these writers never watched a single episode of TNG. Just like the writers of the latest Star Wars trilogy apparently never watched Star Wars.

[@TeraAtomic]

It was Elnor who cut the guys head off and Picard flipped and scolded him for taking a life.

[@beyondlimitationsvideo]

@@Plur307 the maybe even bigger problem: They might have watched it but then ignorantly decide to throw almost everyting out the window although they should know that they will piss off millions of fans.

[@megapixzel]

these star trek reviews are like reverse BOTW. in botw mike just dunks on rich the whole episode. but in review its like rich exasperatedly trying to keep his senile grandpa from choking to death on applesauce while rambling about fragging his commanding officer in vietnam

[@Mr.Ian_20XX]

megapixzel Breath of the Wild is what I kept reading at first.

[@RanMouri82]

@@Mr.Ian_20XX Same! Link rides in on his DLC motorcycle.

[@matthewjoyner1595]

“Captain Picard isn’t here, Mike!!!” Really sums up the show nicely.

[@Zer0Hour17]

The title of Mike's biography, "Will anyone talk to me about Star Trek?"

[@Stevarooni]

Subtitle: "This is Subway, sir. What kind of cheese did you want?"

[@jamesgrose510]

I'd love to talk to Mike about Star Trek.

[@MLdoktor]

I believe Mike started RLM with the aim of getting 1 m subs so he could use it to talk about Star Trek. Everything else was just a means to an end.

[@marine5166]

LMAO! Good play sir

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

And he would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling commenters!

[@ydoomenaud]

Monkey paw in full effect

[@arootube]

I mean, didn't it all start with TNG movie reviews?

[@MrSunshine1079]

It's great getting older. Watching all the things you grew up with die. Aliens, Predator, Terminator, Star Wars, Star Trek, comic books... It's fantastic.

[@mrkeogh]

Who among us *doesn't* enjoy seeing their childhood memories raped for $$$???

[@alexdougherty4905]

Living the dream.

[@paleosteveo3501]

Dont forget Jurassic Park

[@MegaZeta]

I mean, sure, but that list also suggests you wasted your life

[@aldunlop4622]

@@MegaZetawhy is there also some negative prick like you chiming in, your comment makes zero.

[@zetetick395]

Why do I get the feeling that Jay is as far away from this room as is physically possible?

[@Terkzorr]

You can hear him laughing in the end when Rich is leaving, so they still forced him to sit behind the camera listening to them talking about Star Trek and will continue to do so with their future re:Views. :)

[@reizak8966]

@@Terkzorr I feel like that's almost worse. 😂

[@marlene9620]

Jay was drinking the all time

[@an_oracle]

He's literally right off camera

[@654jimbob654]

Jay's tied up in a chair just out of frame.

[@vinesauce]

Thank you for the catharsis.

[@teecee1827]

So Vinny, still on board of Picard?

[@jax3636]

After hearing your thoughts on stream I already knew you'd be ready and waiting for when RLM talked about it lmao

[@lucasnadamas9317]

Fucking binyot is here too?

[@scurvyking]

I can't wait to see if Vozsh-Ozh gets back from the Shosh Obozh mission on the Dojzh Clo-Shosh planet.

[@ndz9818]

Took the words right out of my mouth

[@SimpleTon294]

Feels like they use a random name generator for the names and a random plot generator for the rest.

[@Prodmullefc]

Can't wait to see if Rich ever learns any of the actual names lel

[@BungieStudios]

Relax there, Sean Connery. It's nothing to fosh abozh.

[@cjcarella7935]

"Captain Picard isn't here, Mike." Priceless.

[@SnakebitSTI]

That delivery had similar energy to “he’s dead, Jim”...

[@luckyspurs]

Not even watched the video yet and I can hear and see Rich saying it.

[@scottwallace5239]

No he isnt, the picard here, is a soy drinking feminist ally who let's every female in his life talk down to him and order him about and just takes it because he doesn't want to be a toxic male unlike the determined,capable and strong willed captain he used to be that wanted people to adhere to rank

[@MusicoftheDamned]

@@luckyspurs The despair occurs at 47:52 for anyone wondering.

[@chillpillsfornil]

@@scottwallace5239 What the...are you real? Did you actually read what you wrote?

[@tipoomaster]

"That eyeball thing was graphic and weird" *proceeds to show that clip 51 times*

[@tomfoolery7797]

It's both cruel and unusual.

[@rebornkusabi7264]

I'm a filthy bitch who owns A Serbian Film and Martyrs on BluRay and the Criterion DVD of Salo, 120 Days of Sodom. So I can firmly be honest by saying... that fucking shit doesn't belong in Star Trek. They directly go into WHY that scene doesn't belong, explicitly afterwards. I think a couple of you missed that lol

[@tskinner01oh17]

@thematic if you don't like this, why are you watching it?

[@SnifflyWhale]

The best eye ripping out scene I've ever seen was in the Channel 4 series Utopia. It's an effectively done scene with tension, buildup, payoff etc. and it works because it fits with the theme of the show, and demonstrates the ruthlessness of the main antagonists of the series, who will rip out someone's eye and then [attempt to] kill them to establish that they don't have the information they're looking for. Graphically ripping out Icheb's eye and then killing him doesn't work the way the same thing did in Utopia because it feels so out of place. It's a graphic detail that makes no sense in a series that also makes no sense, done for no reason at all.

[@andrewabrams1535]

@thematic oh your one of those guys

[@yellowpete79]

As Mike sat in the dark studio, he realised Rich Evans had been dead for 54 years. So who had he been talking to about Star trek picard?

[@horacioa.bacaamenabar3245]

👏👏👏

[@herbertschulz4904]

yellowpete79 jay. Hes been Talking to jay

[@thehabit5904]

Have you seen the episode of BOTW with the canadians where it shows mike has been talking to himself this whole time?

[@whodatninja439]

i want a cut of this review where Rich is removed, so it's just Mike talking to nothing

[@humanbeing2730]

Just an echo of a lost soul

[@Johnny-rx4hs]

Plot twist: all of this is just Q punking Picard in his old age.

[@averbalin]

he never got out of that goddamned court room!

[@ShmuckTheUnfunny]

Q is gonna be so disappointed after finding that Picard and the Federation backslid into narcissistic meta shit that's being tacked on by 21st century producers.

[@TheTurnipKing]

That's not a plot twist, that's just a retread of All Good Things.

[@MilesTailsProwerfan9]

Better yet, Picard is in a coma and Q is keeping him entertained with this world.

[@jorgamund07]

@@TheTurnipKing That's why they'll do it.

[@ralphengland8559]

"No Soji, resistance is NOT futile!" that needs to be a line.

[@heyyoitsmebrian]

soji tibuchi?

[@KRay60]

oh my god they're gonna do it

[@FredCracklin]

Have they done "existence is futile" yet, because I can see that being done before a space genocide?

[@splitsecond190]

Very boring these two new star trek, before there was a new story each episodes now it is just filling between ep 1 and final ep of the season.

[@ErebosGR]

Picard: "Disengage."

[@mathewking4959]

“Captain Picard isn’t here, Mike!” Is the funniest RLM moment of all time

[@TheUltimateRiku]

And the saddest

[@MacIntoshMann]

timestamp? edit: nvm, the escalation that leads up to it starts around 47:00 and the moment itself is 47:51

[@mathewking4959]

Thanks.

[@Akiss]

Mike's inconsolable grief reminds me of those nature documentaries where the elephant mom can't believe her calf is dead, and keeps nudging it hoping it'll spring back to life.

[@kleanthisxanthopoulos9670]

That almost made me cry

[@Vaultboy101]

At this point the mother Elephant is gently nudging a pile of sun bleached bones.

[@NPC45100]

An hour long episode about Star Trek??? "Edited by Mike Stoklasa" Ah, I see.

[@RustyMuck]

I'm looking forward to the three-hour video detailing the season finale, most of which will be endless trashing of Alex Kurtsman because it reminds Mike of that one episode of _Star Trek: The Next Generation_

[@esotericVideos]

Jay is never going to edit one of these. Think of poor Jay having to research to pull up examples of Trek violence, whereas Mike simply has every trek moment memorized.

[@joetoaster447]

When Mike has pages of Star Trek critiques stapled together you know you're in for a good time

[@AllenAndrews]

When it cut back to Mike I thought he had taken out a chart or graph or something.. like there's enough to talk about to require visual aid but it's still all so dull.

[@brycelindsay4414]

To be fair regarding Picard and children....... After "The Inner Light" Picard did soften towards children quite a bit due to living through a life as a father and grandfather.

[@FutureDeep]

That and his family dying probably made him look for people to shape into a foster family.

[@ThrasybulusofAttica]

I agree I don't think him liking children is a problem. My problem is that I find it very jarring that out of no where and with no explanation he just loves this random kid with no real explanation that he does, then in the same scene he leaves the child for atleast 14 years. I just didn't really get the point of the scene. Why not just have him be normal Picard, what is the need for 1 random scene of him without a kid

[@taopilot2669]

And in the episode "Disaster", Picard bonded with those three children who worked with him to help escape the turbolift.

[@FORZION]

I mean he had a whole movie where he wanted a huge family

[@tedvdw1975]

Exactly my thoughts when they discussed that.

[@opsimathics]

I keep telling myself "how much further worse can it get" and Kurtzman has yet to disappoint

[@torsten89]

"I totally expected her to be working at the Daystrom institute, you know using her intellect." "Oh Rich, hahahaha, let me tell you about a man named Alex Kurtzman" 😂😂😂😂

[@IncredibleGoliath]

Generally, when Mike has to struggle to remember the details of a Star Trek episode... that's a bad sign.

[@zizoumonk10]

Freebase?

[@claudiolluberes111]

@@zizoumonk10 Freestyle?

[@flatflatspin9855]

:-) Generally...? Hee hee.

[@t.c.bramblett617]

I'm pretty sure that in this case it's the shitty plot and not the dementia. But it can't be helping the dementia.

[@L4nd0C4lr1s14n]

The beat scene of graphic violence I think Star Trek ever did revolved around Nog losing his leg. It’s bitter, tumultuous and tragic, but slowly he regains his station and confidence and recovers. It was handled in a very Star Trek manner. A realistic look at how someone even in a distant fantastical future like Star Trek may suffer and be slowed down by such an event, but ultimately can come back from it.

[@sungleong]

It's only a paper moon is my favourite DS9 episode. This nuTrek writers can never write something like that

[@marcbraun5342]

It's only a paper moon is excelent and hard to watch at the same time. The late Aron Eisenberg sold that so well at the end, it's heartbreaking and makes an already great character even more memorable...

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

If you had told me during season 3 of DS9 that by season 7 a hologram of a 1950s Vegas lounge singer was going to become a major character I wouldn't have believed you. I would also be certain that if it *did* happened I'd absolutely hate it. Somehow it happened and it worked really well, especially in episodes like "It's Only a Paper Moon".

[@marcbraun5342]

@@BiggieTrismegistus That's the overall magic behind DS9's writing and the execution, they took all the parts that should be bad on paper, a stationary place, the Cardassians and the Ferengi as one of the main species instead of "cool" ones like Klingons, Borg and Romulans and so on, even the focus on war as a huge junk of the series isn't something I would want to watch, in Star Trek even less so, but they executed everything so well, it's like they set themself this as a challenge and succeded.

[@isodoubIet]

"The Borg cube will have a cockpit" Oh my god that's so stupid, they'll do it for sure.

[@thunderfeet]

isodoublet I thought they already had borgs driving a Borg cube on voyager.

[@matthewbaumann630]

@@thunderfeet They did?

[@wocket42]

Will there be a joystick?

[@adamfrisk956]

@@wocket42 There will be a wheel and a gear switch

[@steelytemplar]

@@wocket42 You mean, the "Manual Steering Column"? :D

[@talonkarrde2733]

I love how normally in the background there is a picture of the movie or show they are talking about and now it's just a burning trashcan... 😂😂😂

[@Kladyos]

A literal dumpster fire!

[@shanemczane6725]

I wondered if there was always a trash fire there for a second...and then I realized

[@R3GARnator]

It's the closest Simile to Star Trek: Picard.

[@icemachine79]

STD was definitely the dumpster fire. Picard is the burnt-out wreckage from that fire raining down on the head of a confused and borderline-senile Patrick Stewart while he dramatically reads excerpts from "50 Shades of Grey".

[@greatfrito]

These make the existence of Star Trek: Picard almost worth it.

[@talon12020]

Almost.

[@SBezmy]

It's a shame Rich has lost all patience for star trek nitpicking, since that is the highest intellectual pursuit for all of us old star trek fans. Rich, if you're reading this: get your act together, nitpicking microscopic details in sci fi is what we're here for, and the only reason why we're not hanging ourselves in disgust at the collapse of all we hold dear! Damn it, man :D

[@ScratchNSniffff]

These reviews are the only reason I'm watching the show

[@PaulDozierZZoMBiE13]

@@ScratchNSniffff For what it's worth, these RLM videos are just as good even if you haven't seen the actual show. I'm laughing my ass off while they explain this nonsense, without the pain of experiencing the ruination of Star Trek and Jean-Luc Picard. (A.K.A. "The Kurtsmanning")

[@Tchoukis]

I kind of can't bring myself to watch them all at once because I can't get past the way Picard makes such a mockery of Strar Trek

[@PhantomSavage]

I think, honest to God, Patrick Stewart REALLY wanted to do a violent space dramedy with Tarantino, who originally expressed interest in directing his own... version of a Star Trek film, and when it didn't turn out CBS pitched Stewart on a "Darker, more violent Star Trek" and he went for it because the man is old, bored, and just wants to have fun. Problem is... Alex Kurtzman is NOT Quentin Tarantino. And while a Tarantino style Star Trek film would still be a tonal opposite of the Star Trek universe's morals and values, it would still at least have the intelligence to be self-aware. Alex Kurtzman writes a super violent and dark Star Trek alright, but it is NOT self aware of its conflicting themes and writing... worse yet, it actually takes itself seriously.

[@iloveanimation99]

I could see that

[@richardwicks4190]

The problem with the current versions of Star Trek is that anybody with even a modicum of intelligence is constantly asking "WTF?" It's like watching that stupid Prometheus film. It was gorgeous, well directed... and written by Damon Lindelhof. That film was so bad that any film I consider seeing I first check to see if Lindelhof is even CONNECTED with the film - if he is, I'm out. We have a plague of terrible writers in Hollyweird, and he's one of the worst. He cannot make a coherent logical storyline. I'm sick of bad writers. All this money is dumped into directors, good actors, and sets, and amazing special effects, and they get the biggest morons to write the stupidest of scripts and they end up making a terrible experience, over, and over, and over again. Why is it so impossible to get writers that are competent?

[@kinagrill]

Why not just go with 'clone of pickard ends up transported to 'Prime universe' so he can be part of the Discovery and JJ lenseflare-verse.

[@RaptorJesus]

That's the saddest part about all this. I could see this, written by Tarrantino, being *PHENOMENAL* . Because he'd pull off some weird, wacky shit, giving little hints that *this isn't the mainline universe* until just flat-out demonstrating it at the end. Or something like that. *Anything* but this anti Star Trek *garbage* that we got. And I say this as someone who isn't even that big a Star Trek fan.

[@kinagrill]

@@RaptorJesus Oh and then do a cut to show what Picard in the main universe was doing! Perhaps he was sitting peacefully enjoying an afternoon at the rebuild vinyard estate? Or perhaps he saved many a Romulan and is a revered person, having died a few years after from the totalled up stress on his body? Like with how the Enterprise C was the lynchpin for peace with the Klingons, Picard's actions and his well-known captainhood of the Enterprise D.... it'd make a nice symmetry to it all. The Enterprise being an almost fated vessel to achieve great things.

[@ChrisParlett]

"How does it feel to see... down in flames... yada yada..." You know the rest. I only watch Star Track now to give context to RLM.

[@MiqelDotCom]

That's both horribly sad and hilariously true. Same here.

[@Neitenth]

These reviews don't need context. I skipped this, Discovery, every DC movie after Man Of Steel, everything Star Wars after The Force Awakens, (and more!) and I still love those RLM videos.

[@bluefish5]

Hard same. :(

[@cuekalamos]

there isn't enough actual writing in this show to need context, all the context you need is that there needs to be a decapitation

[@NGEvangeliman]

I enjoy RLM more when i HAVENT seen the media in question.

[@E100Omega123]

"Hey remember Icheb?" Yeah that naive, yet plucky, kid who looks up to seven like a sister. What's he up to? "We wrote him getting harvested for parts. ENJOY YOUR NEW *STAR* *TREK* SHOW"

[@adamfrisk956]

The world.... is changing

[@Vaultboy101]

@@adamfrisk956 Oh the times they are a-changin.

[@dshvd2410]

Star Trek is literally snuff film now

[@JasonAguirre]

It was pretty horrific and would never have flown if it weren't a subscription service, but to be fair that is what people seem to enjoy these days. To understand why they did it, just look at the popularity of Game of Thrones and such. People seem to get off on it. As far as in universe, they had to convey how truly horrible this was. If it was as glossed over as torture in TNG or others of it's era, no one would even blink. They would just say, oh that kid from voyager died. Wait why is Seven crazy now?

[@RyoMassaki]

? "We wrote him getting harvested for parts, because THE ACTOR said something on twitter we didn't like."

[@dbsommers1]

I want to hear them say, "I'd rather watch an entire Star Trek movie built around them saving a whale," then realize the writers used to be so good, they actually did that and it was damn fun.

[@Football__Junkie]

dbsommers1 “Dialysis? My god. What is this? The dark ages.” - Bones, ST IV

[@zognarreg]

Spock, spocking out the punk rocker is my favorite part. But there are so many great scenes that it WAS fun!

[@JasonStevens]

Across the bay? In alameda? But where is alameda?

[@613-shadow9]

Nuclear wessals

[@jimd385]

613-Shadow ....double dumb ass on you

[@donweatherwax9318]

27:17 really sums it up "Oh, Rich... let me tell you about a man named Alex Kurtzman..."

[@pixelflow]

Whelp, they finally broke Mike's brain. He's actually becoming plinkett.

[@Flood520]

Plinkett is more coherent at this point.

[@marlene9620]

Sad truth

[@dangerwarg9682]

The stupid is contagious! D:

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Plinkett is not a man, Plinkett is a state of mind.

[@gammafighter]

I legit can't tell the difference between when Mike is intentionally babbling inanely and when he's actually recapping the story.

[@ushim7]

Wait there's a story?

[@TheCyborgMC]

I remember when Star Trek used to genuinely inspire me to learn and love science. It was what used to make Star Trek unique - it's focus on using the mind and solving problems. It's all action now. Admittedly it can sometimes be entertaining, but it's been homogenized with everything else out there. I mourn the unique nature of what used to be Star Trek

[@ironclad6471]

CBS Execs: "Game of Thrones was really big, and we all know it was because of the fucking and the violence, how can we make Star Trek like Game of Thrones? How about some fucking, can we put fucking in there? No? Okay well just have people say the word fuck then. Also put in a lot more violence and some torture. That should do the trick."

[@puipui2949]

This isn't a direct quote, but rather an original thought, so you won't get any upvotes. Discussion doesn't actually happen in this comment section. Just quotes allowed, all that eventually get stolen with people using them irl like THEY were the one who thought it. You made a good comment, in all seriousness. Sucks that no one cares to discuss

[@TheCyborgMC]

@@puipui2949 Ha! Yeah, intuitively - this is something I've always known. But every now and then, I get lulled into laying my thoughts bare - expecting feedback and conversation. I'll learn my lesson one day.

[@diibadaa9502]

...but in Discovery they say "I like science!" and "This is the power of math!"

[@matthewcollins4773]

@@puipui2949 Are you going through the entire comment section making small variations on the same ironically non-original post at every point? Yes, everyone knows that direct quotes get upvotes, it's the "this is something we recognise" memetic quality, that allows people to feel like part of a community with shared responses and shared appreciation. It's normal and harmless and really doesn't need continuous lamentation.

[@JMonty0100]

Who was that “Romulans Only” sign for? Wasn’t it at a Romulan Refugee colony with only Romulans? Someone in the writers room probably got some high-fives for that and no one thought it through

[@JMonty0100]

“I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards!” - Garth Marenghi

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

Picard is one of the stupidest shows I've ever seen. It's also downright hateful of Star Trek, its fans, everyone who worked on the franchise prior to 2009, common sense and decency. Discovery is the same way.

[@rars0n]

"How did we get here?" Mike took the very first opportunity he saw to steer the boat directly into the biggest iceberg.

[@skullcrest]

who else watches ever single star trek vid without having seen STD OR Picard

[@pisscvre69]

I love that the abbreviation is STD, a fitting name

[@Rynax-]

Yup! Right here. I will never recognize this recent garbage as canon. I just like to watch Mike and Rich rip it into pieces.

[@robertban871]

i have no interest to watch em, but its interesting to see how far the franchise has strayed from what it once was

[@jinvid]

Same here. I’ve been enjoying watching Mike and Rich’s dissections of the shitty new Kurtzman Treks.

[@amazingkris]

@@pisscvre69 It never even occurred to me that it was STD. Now STD is with me forever, like it or not. Even long after STD is gone, the damage it did is irreparable.

[@TheZealo]

"I need a romulan ninja assassin killer" "Dammit ninja assassin killer, you can't kill people" Wat

[@tzengtm]

"I need an assassin, but like, not the kind that kills people"

[@pr3sidentspence]

[@alanpennie8013]

@@tzengtm Not without orders you could say.

[@BenWengerMan]

It is abundantly clear what the goal of these videos is. Mike is forcing Rich to do them, and then throughout the video he proceeds to bait Rich and try to get him to go into a classic Rich Evans rant. At 12:28 you can see the smirk on Mike's face as his plan comes to fruition.

[@Adammonroemusic]

Listening to these reviews and not watching Picard makes me feel like Neo dodging bullets in the Matrix.

[@StoryboardMindset]

Me too buddy!

[@stirnersretrowave5094]

Whoa!

[@30noir]

Yeah but if you don't watch them you're missing out on all the great stuff in the episodes like... umm... hmm... give me a minute...

[@GeorgeMonet]

And if you don't even watch these reviews is that when you transcend from dodging bullets to stopping bullets?

[@kenneth83DK]

Mean while the rest of us pre JJ Trek fans keep watching every new Picard episode like a Catholic munk whipping his back to blood.

[@ryanmooreedits]

"Captain Picard isn't here Mike." And Im kinda sad now.

[@thegraymansnocturneshow9446]

Watching the first 3 episodes or so, I thought maybe Patrick Stewart has forgotten how to act him by playing a B-role on American Dad for too long.

[@ChocorocK]

@@thegraymansnocturneshow9446 Well, he did signed up for the Emojo movie.

[@bellboy64]

I'm not as a big a fan of Star Trek as most but this was seriously depressing to watch. It's tragic. Mike is like he's at the bedside of someone he loves that has severe brain damage. They aren't them anymore, they aren't there, they are a ghost that looks like someone you knew and you're torn about whether you can bear to pull the plug or not. The only difference is you don't have Alex Kurtzman and company trying to convince you it's a "good" thing.

[@Andrew-fq7pu]

Kurtzman would be demanding you acknowledge that his running them over in his van, crushing their spine and leaving them in a permanent, vegetative state is an improvement. Then he'd hang around the ward late at night playing Buck from Kill Bill.

[@jozinek876]

Yeh, Star Trek is like Rich and Mike's beloved who's been getting raped and beaten by terrible writers.

[@Zeikxx]

My favorite part of all these re:Views on Star Trek: Picard have these horrorable predictions for what would happen and yet, their predictions are all better than what actually happens.

[@jinvid]

When Mike and Rich can’t figure out what the hell is going on in Star Trek, you know you got problems.

[@startrekmike]

I don't really have much love for Picard as a show but I can't believe anyone has any trouble understanding it. It is a pretty easy show to follow even if it isn't terribly well made.

[@pvtspartan]

Women

[@duncanlutz3698]

He's trying to figure out why the two are connected... best I can think? The writers are trying to say that Mars was building ships to help with the relocation. But when it goes tits up, they no longer have the ships to spare. Mike is saying this is fucking retarded. He can't fathom the leap in logic here. You wouldn't build ships specifically for this, you'd just reassign existing ships. And since its a temporary assignment, you really wouldn't bother creating more ships to replace the ones temporarily helping Romulans. So why the hell would these two events be connected? Unless the writers are stupid, and assume we are too.

[@alanpennie8013]

@@startrekmike Indeed.

[@pudding7876]

After watching RLM for a while.,my first impressions have certainly changed. Rich is the everyman, Jay is the cynical one, and Mike is definitely hopeful and optimistic beneath that facade of contrarianism. I see your joy peeking through Mike! 😂

[@wjlasloThe2nd]

What's Jack?

[@KillahMate]

wjlasloThe2nd Jack doesn't exist, we imagined him.

[@olovambrosiuspersson3957]

"She should be working at the Daystrom institute, using her intellect" "Let me tell you about a man named Alex Kurtzman"

[@puipui2949]

I love how literally just QUOTES from this review gets more upvotes than actual discussion. All you said was two quotes lmao

[@olovambrosiuspersson3957]

@@puipui2949 Hey man, I just made the comment because I thought the quotes were hilarious (I greatly dislike Alex Kurtzman's style of storytelling). I can't really help if people give my comments likes.

[@Brent_Mosey]

Burrito

[@HauntedXXXPancake]

@@puipui2949 Did that feel good ? I bet you looked real smug after you pressed enter on this high-IQ observation. It's called 'The Comment section', not 'The discussion Forum'.

[@puipui2949]

@@HauntedXXXPancake OK. I'll comment at your ABSOLUTE BUTTHURT at my comment. Stay mad. Wanna start a discussion about it?

[@cola98765]

"Synths"... "synths" everywhere. I believe the director misheard "android"... Next thing we know they'll start calling Data a "robot"

[@katofdarkcrest]

Well Klutzman ripped off most of the plot from Mass Effect probably thinking they were mostly the same thing having never seen an episode of real Star Trek in his life

[@thejoeyb1785]

Why do I find comfort in listening to these two, middle-aged men, ramble about a show that I'll never watch?

[@archlich4489]

You're not alone!

[@jackburton1455]

Because there's nothing better on youtube.

[@hugorneto]

There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for Picard's complete change of personality. It's called Dementia.

[@zizoumonk10]

Hugo it’s called Irumodic Syndrome

[@ErebosGR]

The writers probably mixed up Professor X and Picard.

[@BYToady]

The final episode will have Riker turning off the holodeck after Picard dies of old age in his holodeck retirement home.

[@bigevil1001]

BYToady Why would Riker torture Picard like that?

[@holdencole5740]

Which I’m sure the RLM fellas are plenty familiar with.

[@shinkaiatsuya950]

Based on the thumbnail they must have loved it episodes 4 and 5, they are beaming with joy.

[@pyropoyo]

The lasers are from pure hype of how much they love the new Picard show the blood is because they are old, and their bodies are weak

[@shinkaiatsuya950]

@@pyropoyo maybe for stunts like those they should hire stunt doubles.

[@pyropoyo]

@@shinkaiatsuya950 I don't think that's possible, it'd be too obvious. No one alive resembles Rich Evan's sculpted beauty.

[@shinkaiatsuya950]

@@pyropoyo That's why for the stunt double we pull off a Gemini Man. We have the technology.

[@stephenshelton4267]

The "Romulans Only" sign reminds me of those hand-written "No Boys Allowed" signs pre-teen girls put on their bedroom doors in sitcoms. Also it was nice for the Romulans to write that sign in Earth English so that a visiting Andorian or Betazoid would also know to stay out... or does the 25th century Universal Translator project translated images into the mind like a TARDIS?

[@BungieStudios]

20:33

[@stephenshelton4267]

@@sorryifoldcomment8596 To be fair, I have caught things like that on quality Star Trek, but finding a bad thing in quality Star Trek is like finding a good thing in kurtzman trek.

[@KneelB4Bacon]

I agree. Kurtzman is incapable of doing deep, social commentary. Everything in the JJ-verse is dumb, blunt and obvious.

[@Poppenheimer69]

TARDIS? More like RE-TARDIS. Ha!

[@AR19167]

I know this comment is old but bringing up the TARDIS only reminded me of how Doctor Who's Series 11 and 12 has fallen itself in some ways similar to Discovery and Picard as well. It'd be interesting if RLM would ever visit that franchise to watch but that would take a long time to cover given there's the classics and NuWho.

[@Diogenes-totes]

I'm so glad I can watch this hurt you instead of me being hurt from it.

[@kevintipcorn6787]

I like how Mike had more accurate predictions about Datas daughter's emotional turmoil creating the Borg 2-3 years before the show started in "Red Letter Media Talks About Alien: Covenant - SPOILERS". The show is actively destroying his mind as it destroys Trek.

[@mutinyontheark]

Reminder that up to episode 5, the on-screen body count in Picard is 30. 30 kills. *Original Series Theme plays*

[@TheSuperQuail]

"Nobody wants Muppets. People want decapitations and eyeballs ripping out." Mike should watch the Dark Crystal series.

[@jscorprew]

“Disturbing, graphic and pointless” I think that sums up this show.

[@Sirgreggumsofswillsbury]

Man, what a depressing realization.

[@MyRickyjoe]

Poor Icheb... they gave him the Luke Skywalker treatment and then some.

[@malcolmfenech1749]

That's a bit harsh, I like re:View.

[@Ekybob_Plays]

@@malcolmfenech1749 it's *why* I like re:View.

[@filmmisanthrope0]

I love that Mike and Rich's dedication and love for Star Trek makes them hate watch Picard. If that's not true fandom, I dont know what is.

[@AkamuSlayer]

These guys have really sold out. Yet another episode where they can't help but name drop the famous celebrity Rich Evans from the Ellen Show.

[@HappynessIsMandatory]

Spock travelled back in time into the Star Trek 2009 movie, that’s why he’s not around.

[@patrickblanchette4337]

HappynessIsMandatory To be honest, his is the better fate

[@deadturret4049]

Technically spock was still around roughly up until romulus was destroyed. The way I interpreted it is that the Federation quashed Picard's evacuation plan, forcing Spock, who at that point no longer had a starfleet commission, to use the last ditch red matter plan. It honestly might be the only thing in S1 that is actually consistent with older star trek media.

[@foxgamer01]

"Is Picard still going to become Locutus? Is [Soji] going to become Locutus? Is Locutus going to become Q? Is Q going to become Data's cat? Is Riker going to become Troi?" Hilarious moment. XD

[@Andrew-fq7pu]

If Riker becomes Troi, he'll have to be called Ma'am. Or maybe Caitlyn.

[@dunningkruger5823]

... BURRITO

[@RantingSpidermanTV]

I swear to god, Mike is somehow going to find a way to randomly bring up Star Trek again.

[@jvcg1335]

We need "star trek: galaxy" to happen

[@jpetras16]

And I'm ready for the ride. This is the most interesting series I've seen in years!

[@greenmedic88]

"When I first heard Seven of Nine was going to be on the show, I totally expected her to be working at the Daystrom Institute. You know; using her intellect." Oh, Rich. You completely forgot what show you were watching.

[@hendrong]

Not forgot. It was the denial stage of grief working.

[@JasonAguirre]

Well whose to say she wasn't at some point, but a lot of officers obviously disagreed with Starfleet's behavior. We've already seen seven characters who left Starfleet so far and I think Riker and Troi will have had similar reasons for leaving. It sounds like the rangers she was with are a cool organization and I would actually love to see that as a show.

[@Gunnar001]

Jason Aguirre Desperately trying to defend this dumpster fire. How embarrassing.

[@JasonAguirre]

@@Gunnar001 Well if you enjoy watching these two then I see where our tastes diverge.

[@crafoo]

That would have been a pretty cool use of her character. But yes, not possible in this show. Incidentally, lacking the forearm strength to keep two prop rifles steady while single-handing them in a slow-motion shot looks REALLY stupid.

[@IT_GOON]

It really does show where their heads are. Jean-Luc (the character) is French. So the show writers have him dress up in costume and do an accent...as a Frenchman with a horrible French accent. Job done guys!

[@chrissullivan6403]

Also, I believe it’s Star Trek canon that France was taken over by Britain in WW3 (hence why Picard and his family have English accents), so French has been a dead language/accent for generations.

[@aaronwebb1548]

@@chrissullivan6403 This is also canon in Futurama and The Outer Worlds.

[@BoleDaPole]

That's actually Patrick Stewards best attempt at a French accent, he did the same thing when auditioning for TNG and they made him keep the British accent because the French one was so damn bad.

[@djmarmon]

Interesting the Romulans have a term for their "day of destruction" and didn't already assume it was the day their sun exploded

[@overweightactor]

Burrito

[@ChocorocK]

Amazing still that a space age civilization still take stock of prophetic shit.

[@sirclownsalot5800]

Asstaco

[@CruelestChris]

@@ChocorocK Eh, worked for the Bajorans.

[@jakubmike5657]

@@CruelestChris Please...Bajorans...bajorans are nothing. Federation should have just stayed out of this. Cardassians did galaxy a favour by controlling Bajor. Group of religious fanatics with tech at level 0 who just constantly whine for federation to help them while at the same time saying that they want independence and federation should stay out of their bussines.

[@TriclopsRabbit]

Never in my life did i think i would ever be voluntarily watching two middle age guys talk about star trek for hours

[@prolamer7]

Welcome to the time when this is 100x better than stuff they claim to be new ST

[@stranglewankhitman4936]

My theory is: when Picard mind-melded with Sarek to help control his Vulcan Alzheimer's, he caught it from him, and now he's gone fully senile. That's why his personality changed so much between the show and the movies, and why he's so impulsive and self-contradictory now. And why he's so obsessed with a select few tropes from the show, like Earl Grey tea and the vineyard. That's all he remembers and clings on to.

[@gusngregg5127]

Are you talking about Picard or Kurtzman?

[@duanebarry2817]

Another theory I've heard is that Picard never actually left the Nexus and everything since Generations has been his created reality in which he made himself an action hero. It doesn't why he has aged unless he decided to be an old man now.

[@MS-ho9wq]

This is the best thing I've ever heard. I want to see it.

[@DragonZXDragster]

Those are possibilities. But more or less is a cop out for the poor writing of the story around Picard himself.

[@xPadge112x]

Someone noted he poured milk in his earl grey. Bro i think that is a poetic hint at what star trek has become.

[@RudiRaichura]

This might be my favourite piece of RLM...and I have seen alot. "This is what grief looks like." Rich's best line and he is the one that uttered "A-T-S-T...A-T-S-T!!!

[@RudiRaichura]

@BK Beatty not sure I remember! 😂