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Yeah, I hadn't gone birdwatching for all of the STO ships that made it into Picard, but that's really nice. Not only are they (IMO) really some of the nicest ship designs out there, but they fill a much needed hole that Picard S1 drew a lot of focus to. I feel like inventing new 25th C...

No, I mean instead of a history video. Like those things at the old west history museums where people reenact Mark Twain or whatever.

Built different I guess. In the world of Trek it just doesn't seem like that weird of a thing for me. Like even if he genuinely thought of Picard as something other than the other Picard he didn't know, which is, again, already a huge assumption. I imagine kids interact with holographic Leah...

I dunno, it's the future and there's lots of gay people. I was more confused by the way people were fawning over Soji in S1, which I admit did clearly establish that it was a strange and surprising thing that synths could be completely human-like. You know, we have perfectly lifelike human...

I ran out of characters. But to go back where we started.... The idea that anyone in Starfleet would care about the philosophical wiggle is a bit of an ask, especially considering that the far bigger hurdle at the end of Picard S1 is that regardless of whether he's a copy or a katra/paste...

If you're looking for a loose rationalization, that works as well as any. There are a whole host of weird things going on with everyone's bodies in Star Trek and Kirk is not even top tens material. Barclay turned into a spider. If the logic held, they'd have to send everyone's bodies to Daystrom...

I can't tell the sound apart from the TNG medical tricorder or find any TOS clips that use it. If there's a TOS sound effect in there, it's purely for the member berries and anyone involved would say it's a coincidence in-universe, but I just can't even find it. I ran into an article talking...

I still insist that if you think positronic Picard doesn't count as Picard, then the same logic still applies to the transporter, because it is still exactly the same handwave.

100% agreed. Especially about those lucky Veridians, probably think it's normal the way we think it's normal to have a giant moon that's as big in the sky as the sun and makes it easier to find your way around at night once a month. I can't think of any possible reason for keeping his body in a...

I remember this being a thing people got upset about at the time. The real explanation is of course that it would have been awkward and less meaningful for the movie to change locations suddenly to show Picard at a grave in Iowa or whatnot. I'd also assume that Kirk already got a funeral in...

Either possibility seems valid. I've been assuming time travel, but LD has done a lot of wild holodeck stuff. Still leaning towards time travel because, for the show to be a part of SNW and in live action, it seems like the presence of Boimler and Mariner has to be something that happens from...

God I hope the inclusion of the Reliant class means we never see another Miranda class ship used to fill in a fleet in a battle. I feel bad for the one that got called in in First Contact to fight the Borg cube. (Then again, at this point, it's tradition, and I should actually be hoping to see...

By contrast, I know exactly why you're having such a hard time understanding, which is because you've flat out failed to read both of my posts now and are more interested in arguing with the wall. I hope you find someone to disagree with you on this, so that the two of you can have the argument...

Blue text? I don't get it. Let me try and make the least ambiguous possible phrasing of my post: The original Titan, which came from a post-TNG novel series, appears in Picard's set dressing. However, Lower Decks already made the ship canon first. Would you say that the reference in Picard is...

The Titan (no A) on Shaw's ready room wall would have a word with you methinks. Unless that doesn't count since LD canonized it first.

Yeah, at some point logic and reason had to take a backseat to getting the entire TNG bridge crew (including the Enterprise D itself) back together to save the day, while giving everyone a new thing (except poor Troi, whose only new thing was getting to be competent, and still managed to screw...

Well, I reject completely the idea that "video" ever meant VHS tapes except in the practical sense that that's how it was distributed. I mean Betamax was also video and not VHS long before DVD was in the picture. "Direct to consumer" kinda seems like an equally awkward and less direct way to say...

True. Even the change in Data's mannerisms is consistent with Spiner still being tired of playing Data, by turning him into a role Spiner would probably find more appealing.

I feel like he could have been more definitive and the next person would have scooted around it all the same, like he did with Data's death.

I called direct-to-DVD movies "direct to video" because that's what the V means and the phrase was still an accurate description, but people insisted on correcting me as if someone was releasing videotapes in the age of DVD and there was room for confusion. Now in the present, I think I'll refer...