Voyager had Neelix! Are we really claiming it was better than DS9
That just makes it worse! They took the plot device from DS9 without giving the series anything beyond a 2-second shot of the Defiant and a vague allusion to Odo in returnI mean the entire plot hinged on villains introduced in DS9 (until they sort of forgot about them after episode 8 ) so it wasn't a COMPLETE shut out.
On reflection, Season Two was a monumental waste of time. The creation of that stupid faction of the Borg, Q's death, Picard's retcon of his family history and his romance with Laris (sorry but her appearance as a different but same character in the past completely killed any affection I might have had for the character), and Rios's silly conclusion - all terrible storylines.Rios falling in love with that lady and deciding to stay in the past (just a decade or so before the start of a third world war that kills BILLIONS and he literally knew was coming) was honestly such a choice. What a ridiculous season of television!
I really don't know what they think they were doing there, for the most part. There are things I enjoyed, but looking at it as a whole and particularly with hindsight having seen s3 it really was quite a huge waste wasn't itOn reflection, Season Two was a monumental waste of time. The creation of that stupid faction of the Borg, Q's death, Picard's retcon of his family history and his romance with Laris (sorry but her appearance as a different but same character in the past completely killed any affection I might have had for the character), and Rios's silly conclusion - all terrible storylines.
After watching this season of Picard it has made me realise how bad everything that came before it was.
You made the point earlier in the thread but imagine if we'd had a season without any Brent Spiner, or Borg stuff. It would've given things this season so much more impact!I also forgot about Brent Spiner's appearance as an ancestor of Soong and that storyline with his daughter. It was beginning to test my patience but at least he restored my faith in Season 3.
It is a bit weird! I think the difference is that Terry Matalas was fully in charge for s3, whereas in s2 he was co-showrunner (with Akiva Goldsman) but apparently didn't have much involvement in planning out the story for the season as he was focusing on s3. He did write the first two episodes of s2, which were probably the best ones (ie before they went to the other universe/back in time).It's weird that S2 and S3 were essentially filmed at the same time, it's not like someone realised S2 was a bit crap and decided to go in a different direction.
I do appreciate Stewart's perspective on doing something different (but certainly not on what ultimately made the TNG movies largely disappointing - that Picard should somehow become an action hero) - though he contradicted himself by accepting a story set in space with characters out of uniform and behaving in a very unfamiliar way and having Brent Spiner feature in a fairly large capacity.You made the point earlier in the thread but imagine if we'd had a season without any Brent Spiner, or Borg stuff. It would've given things this season so much more impact!
I wasn't looking for anything romantic but some sort of scene that recognised that they had sired a child when they were once an item would have helped.
Didn't we all?Be honest you wanted a Beverly and the ghost candle scene didn't you
It’s about Seven of Nine. It’s about Jack Crusher. It’s about the La Forge sisters. It’s about what else is going on in the galaxy with the Deep Space Nine characters and the rest of the Voyager characters… Honestly, some of these [TNG characters], I’m not ready to say goodbye to. I think in a lot of ways, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, they’ve never been better. They are at the top of their game and I want to see more.
The largest-ever collection of iconic Star Trek digital archive works will be made available for free for the first time through a new web portal bridging the legacies of all three major eras of Roddenberry's Star Trek, with help from stars William Shatner (Star Trek) and John DeLancie (Star Trek: The Next Generation), as well as showrunner, writer and EP Terry Matalas (Star Trek: Picard).
This combined documentary and exploratory online experience brings the legacy and history of the starship Enterprise to life through meticulous recreations of the filming sets used for production as well as the aforementioned "in-universe" life size, functional immersive virtual interiors. The recreations were produced for the Gene Roddenberry Estate, and overseen by veteran Star Trek artists including Denise and Michael Okuda, who authored The Star Trek Encyclopedia, as well as Daren Dochterman, Doug Drexler and Dave Blass.
I knew about the archive of Majel's voice, but it's great that they're finally doing something with it (as per her wishes when she was alive). There's also this really cool video, which is based on one of William Shatner's novels:[Majel] voiced the Enterprise computer for decades. In 2008, before she left us, she meticulously recorded her voice phonetically, with the intent to preserve it for some future technology to bring it back to life. We waited 15 years, and today I am so proud to have her voice, just as I remember it, welcoming visitors to the Roddenberry Archive portal."