06-05-2022, 22:15
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: Star Trek: Picard
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Originally Posted by Chris
They really couldn’t have. The bare bones of this season are the ‘fix the past’ plot, which is a Star Trek staple but in this case most akin to Star Trek IV, a feature length story which itself has a 2 hour running time (ie a fraction more than 2 episodes). There was, however, a heck of a lot more going on here. The Picard backstory, the Guinean backstory, the Soong/Khan backstory, the Borg alliance story, the Q mortality/Picard relationship story … each one of these was an episode’s worth. They’ve been wrapped up in a single, serialised adventure which perhaps obscures the fact a little; back in the 1980s and 90s each of these topics might have been given a self-contained 40 minute episode where it really would have been rushed.
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We're going to have to disagree. I sincerely believe it's not done the franchise any favours.
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