Patrick Stewart to return as Picard

Patrick Stewart to return as Picard

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robemcdonald

8,809 posts

197 months

Friday 31st March 2023
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mk1coopers said:
No, but most seem to have lost the ability in the present to use spoiler tabs tongue out
If only there were some way of not reading this thread before watching the episode.

pquinn

7,167 posts

47 months

Friday 31st March 2023
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21st Century Man said:
A bit like firing at stuff and missing. A 1990's smart missile could do better.
The wonderful high tech torpedoes that travel at a nice steady speed in a nice straight line and if they miss they miss. Even in the 60s (or the 40s) stuff worked better than that.

Best to ignore that stuff, if you get too hung up on details none of it works.

mk1coopers

1,212 posts

153 months

Friday 31st March 2023
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Most people are quite good at using spoiler tabs, nice to visit the thread and have the choice of opening them or not

I thought this episode filled in a lot of the missing pieces, it’s certainly building well, nice to see Tuvac, as others have said I fully expect the older non connected ships to save the day and prove Geordie was right

robemcdonald

8,809 posts

197 months

Friday 31st March 2023
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mk1coopers said:
Most people are quite good at using spoiler tabs, nice to visit the thread and have the choice of opening them or not

I thought this episode filled in a lot of the missing pieces, it’s certainly building well, nice to see Tuvac, as others have said I fully expect the older non connected ships to save the day and prove Geordie was right
So any time anyone posts anything that discusses episodes of the show that this thread is about they have to use spoiler tags?

How convenient….

Alternatively if you’re not up to date steer clear until you are.

Acorn1

653 posts

21 months

Friday 31st March 2023
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Another good Ep.

mk1coopers

1,212 posts

153 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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robemcdonald said:
So any time anyone posts anything that discusses episodes of the show that this thread is about they have to use spoiler tags?

How convenient….

Alternatively if you’re not up to date steer clear until you are.
Yes, I agree, very convenient for the small effort it takes to put a couple of tags into a line of text, from posts you can see some people are able to access the episodes before others, however you carry on as you are and I’ll do the same, the tongue out seems to have been lost on you in the original post, it was lighthearted, you seem to have taken it as an instruction, it wasn’t.

robemcdonald

8,809 posts

197 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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mk1coopers said:
robemcdonald said:
So any time anyone posts anything that discusses episodes of the show that this thread is about they have to use spoiler tags?

How convenient….

Alternatively if you’re not up to date steer clear until you are.
Yes, I agree, very convenient for the small effort it takes to put a couple of tags into a line of text, from posts you can see some people are able to access the episodes before others, however you carry on as you are and I’ll do the same, the tongue out seems to have been lost on you in the original post, it was lighthearted, you seem to have taken it as an instruction, it wasn’t.
Excellent we have an accord.

We should probably leave it now before one of pistonheads self appointed Oscar Wilde style rapier wits makes the hilarious and equally predictable “sexual tension” remarks that remains as unfunny today as it always has in the past.



smn159

12,712 posts

218 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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I'd be in favour of dropping the spoiler tags TBH. Seems bizarre that we have a thread dedicated to discussing a programme, but that any discussion of a recently aired programme must be in spoiler tags. I can understand if it hasn't aired in the UK yet, but otherwise surely it's Ok to freely discuss?

Maybe stick 'Spoiler alert' or something in the title to avoid people who haven't watched it but want to read a discussion on it

Great episode by the way.

mk1coopers

1,212 posts

153 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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robemcdonald said:
Excellent we have an accord.

We should probably leave it now before one of pistonheads self appointed Oscar Wilde style rapier wits makes the hilarious and equally predictable “sexual tension” remarks that remains as unfunny today as it always has in the past.
thumbup

ChocolateFrog

25,471 posts

174 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Caught up with Ep7 this morning.

Thought my 19 month old had gone a bit quiet. Turns out they were transfixed in terror at the Gunter Von Hagens skinned discombobulated face sequence.

Scarred for life biglaugh

HD Adam

5,154 posts

185 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Not sure if we're still doing spoiler tags or not so.......

Do Vulcan's ears get bigger as they age?

Original Tuvok



Picard Tuvok




It reminded me of Spitting Image Spock








DodgyGeezer

40,541 posts

191 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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HD Adam said:
Not sure if we're still doing spoiler tags or not so.......

Do Vulcan's ears get bigger as they age?

Original Tuvok



Picard Tuvok




It reminded me of Spitting Image Spock



hehe

rofl

ZedLeg

12,278 posts

109 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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HD Adam said:
Not sure if we're still doing spoiler tags or not so.......

Do Vulcan's ears get bigger as they age?

Original Tuvok



Picard Tuvok




It reminded me of Spitting Image Spock



I guess, ours do.

Do they say anything about his Bendii Syndrome? I’m not sure what the timeline is vs Voyager.

ThunderSpook

3,617 posts

212 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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HD Adam said:
Not sure if we're still doing spoiler tags or not so.......

Do Vulcan's ears get bigger as they age?

Original Tuvok



Picard Tuvok




It reminded me of Spitting Image Spock



Spoiler

Yeah, but that’s not him remember. Maybe they got it wrong.

Lucas Ayde

3,566 posts

169 months

Sunday 2nd April 2023
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Thought it was decent enough but not not one of the stronger eps this season. possibly as a result of having to be another 'bottle episode' due to lack of budget. Nice to see some answers about Vadic and her crew, though.

From the reviews coming from people who have seen the whole season in advance , it ramps up for the last 3 episodes.

C5_Steve

3,126 posts

104 months

Monday 3rd April 2023
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Another very strong epsidode, thoughts:

Tuvok - This was a great little reveal, proper chilling after they lulled us into a false sense of security with the Voyager theme an then his sly little smile when caught out. Great acting Tim Russ has said he's in two episodes so I expect either the real Tuvok or the Chovok to be back

The Vadic origin story - Very dark. Asks so many questions, we know Odo was experienced on but that was half explained away as they didn't know he was a life form. For the Federation to have been doing this during the war is shocking. In the timeline this was also before war was officially declared so kind of makes it even worse. Nice little touch with Picard thinking the Federation had provide the cure as well, history written by the victors and all that.

Jack - I am dying to know whats going on here, we also had a little tidbit from Data about the neuromodic syndrome diagnoses being in question now which is very interesting. I'm not a fan of retconning Picard himself at this stage but maybe something tied to All Good Things and the storyline there would be interesting.,

I've heard Ep8 is amazing as is the end to the series, I'm not sure I'm ready to say goodbye to this series and I can see myself reqatching the whole thing again straight away. It's been pretty flawless so far.

ThomW

1,103 posts

29 months

Monday 3rd April 2023
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C5_Steve said:
I've heard Ep8 is amazing as is the end to the series.
There are 10 Episodes

DodgyGeezer

40,541 posts

191 months

Monday 3rd April 2023
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let's be honest though - we'd all love to see this thumbup



(sadly this was an April Fools frown

ZedLeg

12,278 posts

109 months

Monday 3rd April 2023
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DodgyGeezer said:
let's be honest though - we'd all love to see this thumbup



(sadly this was an April Fools frown
I would watch the st out of that. An old Irishman wandering round space being mildly racist to Cardassians laugh

C5_Steve

3,126 posts

104 months

Monday 3rd April 2023
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ThomW said:
C5_Steve said:
I've heard Ep8 is amazing as is the end to the series.
There are 10 Episodes
Yeah I know i didn't word that very well. Alot of people have said 8 is their favourite episode of the series, but all three episodes are excellent.

Would love an O'Brian return, perhaps Geordie looks for someone to reach out to to help......