The marketing machine for the new season of “Star Trek: Picard” works overtime, with Patrick Stewart and the cast that interviews on television and the press, plus poster campaigns have been spotted Los Angeles international airport and the Metro in New York.
It’s been almost two years (actually 706 days, only 24 days less than two years) since Jean-Luc Picard was last in action in Ugh, the slightly disappointing finale of Season 1 of “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2”. However, it is important to remember that while the first season ended with the ridiculous notion that Jean-Luc was now synthetic, it is also worth noting that the first season of this Star Trek spin-off show contained some equally brilliant episodes. with exceptional imagination and original writing. (If you’re wondering how to watch the new season, check out our streaming guide for Star Trek: Picard.)
Let’s face it, Santiago Cabrera, who plays Cristobal Rios, stole almost every scene he was in. And all the work with the hologram was ingenious. Moreover, we saw Seven take revenge in Stardust City Rag (S01, E05) and Soji confronts Romulan’s Rubik’s cube in Rubik’s The Impossible Box (S02, E06).
One of the most creative elements in the history of last season was the many holograms of Rios (Image credit: Paramount Plus)
But… you may remember the end of the season, where Jean-Luc Picard’s mind was transferred to the body of an artificial giant, the anomaly of the parietal lobe in his fragile 94-year-old body is no longer a problem. So, technically, he could have jumped those stairs that we saw him almost collapse after climbing the first episode in one go.
Every element of it is potentially improved: super speed, super power, super intelligence… but no, the absurd solution to the ridiculous situation in which the writers found themselves was… “I knew you wouldn’t want to adapt to something new, but not after 94 years in the same body, “says Sung, conveniently explaining this huge problem.
Will this be discussed in the new season? He is a little elephant in every room where Picard is.
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When asked about this, executive producer – not only Picard, but also Discovery and Strange New Worlds – Akiva Goldsman told Space.com at a recent press conference: “So it’s interesting because, you know. .. we even in … turning it synthetic … in … at the end of the first season, we were pretty clear in saying that he, you know, there’s nothing improved here, that essentially you’re this that was, you just won’t die exactly that genetic misfortune you carry with you.
“And we really play it that way, there are no super-secret great things that happened to Picard, and what Picard is able to do is somehow related to his new body… we did it to do something of a rainbow of resurrection, but it wasn’t really about creating, we don’t insist with this idea of this kind of hybridization of Picard as synthetic. “
To make it easier to catch up, here are the links to every review of an episode we’ve done since Season 1.
Episode № 1 – Memory
Episode № 2 – Maps and Legends
Episode № 3 – The end is the beginning
Episode № 4 – Absolute candor
Episode № 5 – Rag from Stardust City
Episode № 6 – The Impossible Box
Episode № 7 – Nepente
Episode № 8 – Broken Pieces
Episode # 9 – Et in Arcadia Ego, part 1
Episode # 10 – Et in Arcadia Ego, part 2
The first 11 episodes of Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 are now available on Paramount Plus in the US and CTV Sci-Fi or Crave TV in Canada. Countries outside of North America can watch the science fiction channel Pluto TV. Season 2 of “Star Trek: Picard” begins on March 3, and the premiere season of “Strange New Worlds” begins on May 5.
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