Contents – Culture – Captain Picard should have been able to give birth in good faith

It is not possible to write a series, a novel, a movie, a poem or a portfolio that everyone likes. It’s good, it’s common, but it’s still true, it’s one that comes to mind. intellectual property (intellectual product) like Star Trek, although a thousand times more. Fans of all generations of Star Trek have felt at home since 1966 and can have a direct debate about which captain was the best (Picard, Nana) and which series was the most timeless (Deep Space 9) and with what good mandatory will live their lives. (Seven of nine). Anyone who wants to please the Trekkies and put their series together as JJ Abrams in the latest Star Wars movie

that is, before each scene, think about whether the fans will be happy for him, he wanders through a very swampy terrain.

Rights holder ViacomCBS is one of the giants of the entertainment industry. He plays in the league in which AT&T-Warner, Comcast-NBC, Disney or Sony. They have an unimaginable amount of money and influence, and they take care of your most valuable intellectual property (like Star Trek or Mission Impossible) as if your future depended on them, because that’s how it is somewhere.

Our franchise, called Space Chariots, has been mined since 1966.

• seven series
• an animated series
• 13 movies
• little million books and comics,
• and two animated series and two more live-action and at least one movie are in the works.

any vibration could have a positive or negative effect on the parent company’s actions, so Paramount and then CBSViacom tried very carefully to adapt the universe, which has not appeared on television since 2005, to the needs of the time without a blow for the faithful followers. , but critics should not regret. In 2017, his Discovery series (USA: CBS All Access, Europe: Neflix), breaking with tradition, did not put a captain at the center of the story, but a first officer, and in addition to how he should look A series in 2017 dissected themes that in 1966 the original Star Trek (permanent Asian character! permanent black character, more woman!), who was then progressive, could not have dreamed of.

Fans had to understand that Discovery had to deal with 2017/18, that is, modern series, and if we only start from the visual side, there is an Expansion on the way that opened a new front in the science fiction history of TV if the ugliest you shoot, nobody will care about your story. What stripped the god of gratitude otherwise is the open-eyed naivety and idealism that typically characterizes the Trek series, its characters are more nuanced and complex than the one-dimensional Kirk or Archer, and the writers didn’t even want to take nobody’s Picard.

Then the series got a second season that was darker and more consistent than the first, and also got a “regular” captain in the image of Captain Pike, the central thread with artificial intelligence (ie, once Skynet wakes up , used to be bad for us) in the end, however, he wrote to the writers in a corner that, until the first part of Picard, he was convinced that they moved in a forced orbit, while it was only necessary to make sacrifices to build the universe. Artificial intelligence vs. Humanity has always been a central theme in Star Trek, but mainly moral (what we consider life and way of life), apart from Borg, almost only the creatures of the new generation of Star Trek: the next generation nanotechnology represented a real threat to us.

Picard (USA: CBS All Access, Europe: Amazon) is heading in a different direction again, pushing “regular” fans to the brink of despair in the early parts: Picard is upset with Starfleet and the Federation because they have betrayed and murdered thousands. caused, Picard remained in a lie he had not forgiven since. When a girl named Dahj appears from scratch on her property, where she has fled from two Romulans and spends her days in the company of her dog, her blood shines and she discovers in the Starfleet database that the girl has Data’s daughter. and even a brother. And by the time you get that far, mysterious assassins will fall on them, and Dahj will have that. Picard stumbles and begins to investigate the other android, who is working on a deactivated Borg cube inhabited by Romulans and doesn’t know that he is just an android.

During the season, there will only be one ship, but not the Enterprise or the crew, but not the Starfleet, the things we last saw in the Holodeck will happen, old faces (Seven of Nine, Riker, Troi) and new ones will emerge. conflicts, and one day it will end, after a particular emotional climax, catharsis, something, ANYTHING that should have triggered an emotional reaction from the man, yawns one and moves on to the next series, then sits down in front of the device for the second season. Well, let’s keep in mind that the joint scenes from the Riker-Troi-Picard trio or between Data and Picard are much better than anything the series has produced anyway in Season 1, plus, with one exception, they could have been omitted without problems. of the episodes

I don’t have a clear idea where Picard went, and why, I don’t even know why Michael Chabon’s showrunner was fired, who had already fixed the second and third turns on CBS All Access before the first season came out. But I, as a viewer, don’t even have to deal with it. On the other hand, Picard and Patrick Stewart, the iconic star of the Star Trek universe, whose talent and brilliance have not worn down over the years, are written by writers in a story of no more than double and have fun for ten parts. . but very ugly

No need to unpack the secondary characters, IA researcher dr. Jurati’s story stops with his own tragic little roller coaster, as is the traumatic story of Captain Rios, and even Raffi, Picard’s former wing assistant (?), Just needs the captain to rub under his nose to drink for you, your animal. . Soji, the other android girl, gets all the essential discoveries without Picard, and has already become a clear protagonist of the season ending double, while Picard has slowly retreated into the background.

Well, it may be that I am insensitive and do not associate this slow retreat with the deadly disease of Picard, but since it was possible to know the two more seasons, and in the ninth part they also explain that he will survive death Android, the way to transmit consciousness is presented by the son of the creator of Data), so there was no risk. The super AI offered to the main enemy looked like a lame snake, as if the money for the last episode had run out around the 32nd minute, leaving just $ 23 56 cents remaining, which was no more woody than one of the Xena scenes. But I swear I would have overlooked even this if the first season wasn’t filled with such illogical nonsense as the Romulan woman crashing into Starfleet, the unnecessary murder of the Maddox gourd, the scenes in which Picard is humiliated to the dust of the Starfleet, the size of the Romulan fleet (but where were these ships in blood?), A banya that lived in the Borg cube of divination,

It was an opportunity in this series, and there is, but there should be a story and a writer to write it. It’s not enough to drag the least-viewed artists from the district’s Galaxy Guardian Tradition Club alongside a great actor and pour them a wheelbarrow, with just a double grace still coming out of it. At most, a bitch with beautiful calligraphic writing drawn in the newspaper, but still pathetic.