#picard: season 3

[bevcrushes]

no one: me: actually it makes perfect sense that beverly would say "maybe we should be afraid" at the end of attached because when they were confessing things around the fire, jean-luc clearly said that while he had feelings for her and he worried about how he'd handle having her on the enterprise, he'd eventually realized he didn't have them anymore. now, maybe he was fucking lying to avoid her rejection and he never stopped loving her, but in any case, he did tell her that he wasn't in love with her anymore. and maybe her responding with "and now we're friends ◡̈" was partly because she didn't know what to do with this revelation. you can hear her working things out as he's telling her all this and it had to have been a lot to process. it's not like she came out and said "yes i always loved you too even when jack was alive" or even "yes i love you right now" so by the time they got through everything and realized how much they enjoyed the intimacy they'd shared, it was really quite a pivot for jean-luc to be like "WELL ACTUALLY i do love you and think we should explore this" ???? like he just made a show of being like "i'm over it" and now he's like "jk i am hella not over it" like sir please give her some time to process. i've watched that end scene 151068 times and i think i've always missed what she's really saiyng. my shipper heart has always focused on her rejection of him. i've always seen it as rejection because that seems to be how HE saw it or what it felt like. but i don't think that was what she meant by it. i don't think she meant "no we shouldn't do this" i think she meant exactly what she said - we should be afraid of it. we should be afraid and...do it anyway. she does get up and leave, yes, but i don't think it's because she wants to cut him off and close him out. i think she just recognized that after being so connected, so literally in each other's heads, they need space. and the point of that space isn't to rebuild walls to keep each other out, it's to reinforce the safety of the new space they're now in together. so, i don't think she was ever rejecting him or saying they should not explore their feelings. i think she just had more perspective and realism, and, in many ways, it foreshadows what's to come and how it does end for them. if you take attached in the context of what happens in picard, what transpires in the 20 years when she leaves and goes off and has jack without telling him, and you think back to this conversation, it really hits different. because you realize that while it always felt like jean-luc was the one who didn't admit he loved her for so long, he wasn't the one to pull back and say "on second thought maybe not." beverly was the careful one, she was the one who had doubt, she was the one who was thinking, "will this ruin everything? is it worth the risk?" and i think that makes her decisions later so much more interesting and complex and, in a lot of ways, more in character and even reasonable than they seemed at first. it's consistent with this sense that she really knew jean-luc a lot better than he knew her—or himself. and that it wasn't that she had conditions for loving him or being loved by him; she just always saw him as a human when he was trying to be a hero.

[mariusslonelysoul]

Watching tng really reinforces just how obsessive and codependant the tos triunvirate is. Picard and beverly clearly have history, but unless she has business there, she's never on the bridge, and riker never beams down with picard, is always one or the other on the bridge. Even deanna, despite being picard's other support, does her thing. Meanwhile, jim was dragging bones and spock, the two most senior officers after him and scotty, on every new, unknown and potentially dangerous planet. Like, we been knew but it's fun to have the confirmation

[cannibalspicnic]

[homewrecking-lore]

[spockvarietyhour]

[regionalpancake]

why does this promo photo look like the two guys on a bus meme??

[beverlycrushes]

[foodcu-be]

mother is MOTHERING

[quasi-normalcy]

You know...I've been thinking about what bugs me about this image. And I mean, obviously, I'm an obsessive fan of Star Trek, and a rather passive fan of Star Wars, but the thing is...I didn't want either of these things. What I wanted was exactly what both the sequel trilogy and Star Trek: Picard initially promised: to see what happens next in the story; what has become of the universe; what other characters are out there to tell stories about. The idea of seeing all of my favourite characters trapped forever in their own Greatest Hits album was honestly not part of the appeal at all; that's what DVDs are for. Now, there's certainly a subset of fans--maybe the majority--who actually do just want to see the same stuff rehashed (that old "transformative versus curatorial fandom" binary), but I rather resent having them presume to speak for all of us.

[trekkie-polls]

To be fair you can love someone AND find them annoying. I’m not even sure Q would take it as an insult if he won - more like an acknowledgement of his hard work.

Although more likely there’s someone on this list who you just really don’t like. And if that’s the case please try not to be mean spirited about it. You’re entitled to not like them, that’s your prerogative. Likewise it’s the prerogative of others to disagree.

[scarywardrobe]

[baylardian-1]

did a lil redraw of this old biddy for funzies :3 it was the first piece i'd drawn after we named them! i love them so much 😭

it's a feat to me how little they've changed since then, like a few tweaks here and there, but for the most part im proud of how locked in we were with ideas for these three. <3

here's the old post: X

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#320

"having just finished a rewatch of Deep Space 9, I’m irritated all over again with Picard season 3. They lift the Changelings and (imo) use red eyes as a red-herring implying Pah-Wraiths, Worf comes back (!) and not a single other DS9 character is mentioned let alone someone brought back?? Not even a cursory “if there was more time, I’d reach out to Doctor Bashir” or “it’s a shame Odo is incommunicado [for reasons]” or “I was reading Captain Sisko’s logs” just something! Drove me absolutely batty. Not to say Trek properties can’t use villains/species from other properties, etc, heck, DS9 was basically built off doing just that. But Picard s3 was a nostalgia fest for the 90s shows — except DS9, and I am petty enough to say it felt deliberate.

I will say though that the number of times Janeway was mentioned, I fully expected we’d see her, if only very briefly, and then we just… didn’t and that was also weird. The season was a mess."

[andromedaexile]

I made this diagram in MS Paint out of frustration, hope it helps!

[stellarred]

"Five times. Five times Jean-Luc and the shrieking, petulant Dr. Beverly Crusher tried to make it work between them. FIVE TIMES! And each attempt another pathetic failure...Why does Jean-Luc do this to himself? To US?"

"Why her and not me? I know everything, and yet, even I can't understand it."

"Know thyself, Jean-Luc.

Know me."

[regionalpancake]

Star Trek: Picard Season 3 is 99.9% Saffi free and I will die mad about it