I don't think any of the regulars objected to Geordi's holographic girlfriend, from what I remember. Although, I know there's a follow up episode where he meets the real life inspiration, and it goes about as well as you would expect, lol.
Yes. It was a little different in that Picard chose to hide and Kirk was more, just trying to make the best of a bad situation(he didnt choose to be there like Picard chose the Vinyard. But its meant to hit the same notes when he needs to be talked into leaving. For Kirk it was a second chance to do over reckless decisions in youth. (Showing Kirk having matured from even Star Trek Six) And for Picard it was to show how cynical and discouraged he'd become showing his "maturing"(getting more cynical) The Difference to me between Kirk and Picard is Picard talked Kirk into leaving heaven to return to earth for one last heroic go of it, where as Picard was a like a ghost haunting his brother's life who is set free from the haunting to move onto the afterlife.
That's interesting. I was thinking less of the vineyard, and more Riker and Troi's place.
Ive always found Picard's tango with the vinyard the second most fascinating thing about him. Like Clearly he was a bratty insufferable snot as a kid. As a teenager, as a young adult; as a significant other. Picard in almost everyway at least once in every TNG episode is depicted as a VERY difficult man personally to live with. Robert is never one portrayed or referred to as a man who exaggerates, and he spells out pretty clearly who Picard was as a kid, and Q makes Picard face up to who he was as a person a number of times. Like one thing Ive never understood is why Picard is always talked about like he's this great even temper and nice teamlsy guy in a way kirk never was when IN REALITY*Dramatic chord* The inverse is more true. Kirk was far more teamsly and even tempered. He was a cowboy for sure, but he was a cowboy with a possy. He cared so much about his crew he went down to the planets instead of sending someone else. It was unorthodox, but Kirk was a rural working man from a farm place.
Well how many fights have you been in or seen? Because they rarely ever look like they do in movies or in tv shows, the closest genre that gets things right is horror becuase they're morality plays and they need to make it real enough to make the audience uncomfortable, but that aside. Kirk did get in a lot of fist fights(he's a cowboy) and that used to be a fairly common way people settled things. Its why so many of the fights are portrayed as fair or honorable duels. Gotta reach the audiences where they live with what they know or they wont tune in.
That's interesting. Most of the episodes I've seen haven't dealt with Jack Crusher.
They talk around it in TNG a lot.
That's it! That makes so much sense(I havenst seen season 3 yet, im not ready for it to be over) Patrick Stewart played this so well. His eccentricity is my favorite thing about him as a captain. He has a way of feeling like dispite being a starfleet officer, he's still a provincial farmer from the french country side. He's just trying to do his job, or play his piccolo and all these hectic situations keep coming up. I can just picture him at the end of the day collapsing into his bed taking a deep sigh and saying. "What the fuck is it about mondays, this shit all seems to happen every week." I think my favorite Picard episodes are Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel., and The one where he meets Vash. Going to the pleasure planet of Rhysa to read. I felt seen.
I like the technical point he made about the focus especially. I think the biggest issue with modern trek vs older trek is the lack of faith in the possibility of getting a next season, so they rush the arcs with a lot of melodrama in every scene. I wish Paramount would just pick up the shows for 5-7 seasons and let the writers, directors and actors make their shows.
I miss the 26 episode per season format but I realize that's just never coming back. Also, as much as I love DS9, I think massive, multi-episode/season-long arcs should be the exception rather than the norm in Star Trek.
I really miss it. I believe we could have it back, but they'd have to go back to relying on solid writing and dedicated actors. And dial back the special effects. I dont think any network would be willing to do that these days. I'll always prefer arcs over episodic though. But I think there can be a balance.
