Patrick Stewart to return as Picard

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Episode 2… bloody brilliant. God I hate weekly drops. Just let us binge the whole thing already.

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FourWheelDrift said:

carl_w said:

Patrick Stewart is playing a character 10 years older than him, but none of the other actors are (otherwise Riker would be in his 80s). It's all a bit odd.

Jonathan Frakes is 70, he could well be playing a Riker who's 80, they live longer in the future. He also has a young daughter (with Troi) that they would have had in their mid-60s. Future-stuff.

Rikers cannon age is 65/66. Picard around 96.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/William_T._Ri...

You can lose yourself in Memory Alpha, be careful!

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carl_w said:

W201_190e said:

Rikers cannon age is 65/66. Picard around 96.

So Picard is supposed to be 30 years older than Riker in TNG?

Yep, Riker is around 30 at the start of TNG and Picard is meant to be 60ish.

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Both episodes appear to be terrible image quality on my OLED LGC1. I get some weird background blurry effects, especially in dark scenes. Anyone else? It’s not my TV or the internet connection. As other stuff plays fine.

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C5_Steve said:

W201_190e said:

Both episodes appear to be terrible image quality on my OLED LGC1. I get some weird background blurry effects, especially in dark scenes. Anyone else? It’s not my TV or the internet connection. As other stuff plays fine.

Nope looked great on my Samsung. I think Ep 3 was oversaturated on Paramount+ for a few hours when it dropped but they corrected it (might have just been the US).

I don’t know, it looks pretty over saturated on my C1. But it’s never really coped that well with 1080p content anyway (which sadly is all we will get in the UK from Picard till the physical release). I do sometimes wish I never bothered with OLED.

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Episode 3 was good but not quite as good as the first 2. This was the pattern with S1 and S2….

I thought Riker was a bit overdramatised at the end.

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EP4 is a 10/10.

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Acorn1 said:

WTF! Ep 5 is not free with Prime you have to watch it via Paramount!

Why would they have the first 4 ep on Prime in the first place.

Relax, it drops on Prime at midnight tonight.

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MiniMan64 said:

How many episodes in the series?

10.

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markiii said:

He's doing it better than frakes that's for sure

Really? I thought Frakes was the stand out so far this season.

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Some familiar faces, and vessels in episode 6.

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TriumphStag3.0V8 said:

Excellent episode. I am warming up to Shaw.

All the Easter eggs in this episode were much appreciated, as was Shaw's monologue in the previous episode about Picard and Riker's not so heroic activities in the past

Anyway - at the museum, when they saw the Defiant, I immediately thought "cloaking device gets fitted to the Titan", I didn't expect them to take the one from Kirk's commandeered bird of prey. I would have thought the Defiant's cloak would have been a better bet as more modern. Mind you, I half expected them to take the Defiant (especially with Worf there). I guess the Defiant's cloak had to be given back at the end of the Dominion war?.

The cloaking device on the Defiant was destroyed along with the original Defiant about 5/6 episodes from the end of DS9. The Defiant here is its replacement. It’s unknown if it had a cloak.

https://youtu.be/E-aelI7fAF4

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Carl_Manchester said:

dxg said:

Ever noticed how dark so many streaming shows are?

If you have a HDR telly, its probably caused by that. I believe the Amazon Prime stream is 1080p HDR. There are a bunch of shows that stream in HDR but are not 4k.

These new generation tellies (2023 onwards) are supposed to give us more brightness to fix that problem.

It's why, mostly, I prefer to play a 1080p bluray disc rather than the 4k. Unless, its a blokes night in and I can watch the film in near darkness and all the family are in bed then 4k bluray can really blow your socks off.

Yep, we don’t get Picard in 4k over here. Nothing on Paramount Plus is in 4k over here actually. And yes, the Amazon version of Picard is also 1080p. My OLED (LGC1) doesn’t cope that well with 1080p. Hopefully it’s released in 4k Bluray…

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highway said:

Wonderful episode. Clearly written by people who understand and respect the source material. I can hear Kirk shouting “Are you not entertained!”

I certainly was entertained.

Yes, Episode 6 is the best of Star Trek in around 25 years.

This season has been absolutely phenomenal.

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Episode 7 seems unavailable if I’m not subscribed to Paramount Plus!

Edit. Just realised it’s on at 1am due to BST.

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Phenomenal episode.

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We are definitely seeing the TNG Enterprise D either in ep9 or ep10. You may remember it crashed in Generations. However a blink and you miss it confirmation in S2 has made it cannon that the Enterprise was recovered and put on display in the Starfleet museum. Stands to reason that’s what’s in the hanger bay

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AdamV12V said:

There isnt gonna be a series 4???

Picard will end this season, there may be a pick up series from this if there is enough interest, which there seems to be.

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robemcdonald said:

That and the fact the cast have been talking about the rebuilt set at various events.

Yeah I’m pretty sure Levar Burton broke his NDA when he revealed that!

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Acorn1 said:

Wow!

Stonking episode and season!

I look forward to S4

S3 is the last one.

Episode 9 was another absolutely brilliant episode. The last 10 minutes was like meeting an old friend. Absolutely it was fan service but I don’t care, it was so perfectly done.