#STPIC

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek: Picard // S02E01: The Star Gazer

[paulidin]

Wow! #Picard season 3 felt like a gift specifically for me and it was well timed for this old man's birthday.

[punkbxt]

the people in charge of nutrek dont care about the ideals and premise of star trek and star trek: picard is its biggest tell. its a story that would have been much better if they hadnt brought back legacy characters but also would have been much better had it not been written at all because nobody wants more space cops

the moment picard decided to wash his hands clean of the romulan android situation was the moment i knew that oh this isnt the picard everyone has come to know and love. at his core who he is someone that would not let anyone die if he could help it. like thats his thing if he has the power to help he will!! and yeah sure thats shown in pic too but he literally was like ‘fuck you federation im not gonna help u ignore the romulans cries for help’ when he fr coulda just asked for forgiveness after helping with the power he had as a respected captain or whatever he is. something EVERY oldtrek captain has done time and time again

and yes! characters and their ideals change over time but not fucking like THAT

pic takes a tragedy, a genocide, and takes the romulans, a species that has for the most part always been the enemies of the federation and makes them easy prey. it makes them evil except for those that defected or disguised themselves (look up white passing and what it was actually for and why its a thing). and to put it into more understandable words:

lets say the federation is usamerica (bc for all intents and purposes thats literally what it represents) and that the romulans represent people of color and jews. pic serves for us on a platter that the genocide was just another thing that happened and “its okay they died anyways. romulans have never been on the side of the federation and never wanted to be anyways so no loss” this is what the federation believes

pic has been severely affected by white supremacist and antisemitic ideology and like while yeah science fiction is used to discuss and challenge the oppression we experience today, youd think a franchise that has always preached about diversity inclusion and acceptance would finally get over mass genocide of a “lesser” race as a form of storytelling. its uncomfortable and not in a way in which it makes you think but in a way that shows that even hundreds of years in the future vitriol prevails and it fucking sucks. its harmful towards people of color and jews when even in science fiction we cant escape that someone out there wants us dead

we’ve had enough of white supremacy and antisemitism taking a lil seat at the table to cause ruckus there are 100% other things that could have created and interesting dilema. the federation is literally on some cristobal colon shit n the more nutrek that gets made the less star trek holds up the ideals of diversity inclusion acceptance and love that it preached from its inception. we are instead given a narrative that yeah no matter how long you fight no matter how hard you fight you will NEVER win because systemic racism always wins in the end. its a tired and weak narrative and just goes to show if you dont have any other engaging stories to tell just stop telling the stories and stop ruining characters by making them do things they absolutely wouldnt even stand for

we r stuck with characters that suck up to other characters just because of their legacy and the writing when everyone deserves to be way more mad at picard. sidenote all of the genuine progress that has been made in television with diversity and representation has gone like 20 steps back when it comes to portraying people of color bc not ONE from the main crew passes the paper bag test (again ive only seen season one) which further goes to show white supremacist ideals subtly shining through

the point of star trek is that there will be a better more welcoming loving kinder future than the present and the past. and yeah theyve never been good at portraying that exactly because hope cannot exist without despair. but if you do not learn the mistakes of the past you are bound to repeat them and clearly these writers have not been studying the source material

hope this helps idk man i just b saying shit sometimes sorry if some stuff is repetitive

[therodentqueen]

full disclosure: "Best" refers to IMDB rating, but also my personal opinion if I don't agree with IMDB (although these are all among the top 5 episodes of each series). There is no Threshhold because it. because. it uh. pretty much sucks. I'm so sorry I know you love it! but this is for actual Good Episodes.

[as-i-watch]

Im laughing at the diference in Luffy and Katakuri as opponents bc

Katakuri: serious, stpic, intimidating

Luffy: excited puppy, feral kid, sunshine boy about to do mischief

[biblioflyer]

Misremembering Remembrance, Picard s1e1 rewatch.

This is part of a series of essays in which I rewatch Star Trek Picard and explore the fandom accusation that it made the Federation into a darker, more dystopian place.

Straight out of the gate, I have to confess I remembered season one being gloomier than I think it actually is. Picard, the character, moves from the depths of melancholy to something resembling the purposefulness and wonder that we are accustomed to within practically the space of one episode. 

The gloominess doesn’t feel oppressive though. It's beautifully done. I’m sure it was too over the top or too insincere for some, but to me Picard’s interactions with Data in his dreams are hauntingly poignant. In retrospect I now believe that Data was intended to symbolize that sense of wonder and idealism that Picard has lost but is still rattling around inside somewhere. 

There’s some reasonable amount of growling to do about Data being reset back to his emotionally muted and childlike persona, ignoring the development of emotions that started with Generations. However, to be fair after Generations the films kept contriving reasons to have Data lose his emotions so he could be the character audiences were nostalgic for. So for the Data of Picard’s dreams to be emotionally muted and childlike rather than to be a version of him that would be closer to a more holistic and complex being as Picard would have remembered him last is in keeping with the heavy emphasis on nostalgia in both the films and in STPIC.

Returning to the symbolism, these versions of Data are dreams not memories, as such this isn’t really Data.* I think for Picard the character this is also not just a fond recollection of Data, but Data is symbolic of that which Picard is yearning for: a return to Picard’s Edenic Federation and life in Starfleet and all that represents. A return to unselfconscious wonder, to exploration, to new worlds, and a journey towards new discoveries that never ends.

*Author’s note, some part of me is trying to remember if there’s more to this than just dreams and that it has something to do with Data’s leftover neurons and Soji / Dahj but out of a desire not to taint the authenticity of this rewatch, I’m avoiding looking this up.

Dahj Asha’s arrival into Picard’s life also represents a path to renewed purpose and redemption. Picard could not save the Romulans, but here is an opportunity to salve his survivor’s guilt over both Data’s sacrifice and his failure to move the Federation to help the Romulans in the form of this girl.

[spaacedusty]

“Mon Capitaine, how I’ve missed you~”

[sincerely-gisselle]

11.10.2019 🍂 from a pretty modeled picture to the messy studying reality! So happy that tomorrow is a holiday and I don’t have to be from 8 am until 10 pm at school. Hope you’re having a productive day! ✅

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[batgirlii]

The more time passes the more i realize that star trek: picard is just really really bad

[kolanski]

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek: Picard // S02E02: Penance

[batgirlii]

In the galaxy?? Shouldn't it be in the alpha quadrant? I don't think janeway was picking up plant samples from every plant on every planet and the gamma quadrant was still largely unexplored.

Same thing in picard, it was apparently against "galactic treaty" to create synthetic life. Which makes absolutely no sense at all.

This is completely absurd. I know that I shouldn’t take it too seriously in this show about time travel and spore drives but this is such a stretch. I just don’t like it when it really feels like the Discovery writers haven’t thought it through because it’s just a MacGuffin used for the next part of the plot. 

[tal-shaya]

I was not entirely candid with you.

[ginvera]

117/∞ pictures of Sophie Turner

[heroic-endeavors]

🔪 a hateful text.

[txt] i didn need any skinny ass bitch to be ruinging my plans [txt] fuk u and that stpic lookin keyblase. //The only way for Xemnas to even thing to send a hateful text would be in drunk. And then there would be so many typing errors. He'd probably only send something like this during the bad turn verse.

[beeapocalypse]

houston uses emojis when he texts and you can’t tell me otherwise