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Huh. I don't mind about what's canon-accurate, but I thought maybe if he was supposed to be there, I could understand why they did that. I feel like his mere presence breaks the conceit of the show.

Thinking about it now, my first thought was, you know, this isn't a D&D campaign, Mr. Chabon sir, if you haven't prepared for that encounter you really can just make the character not do that. No railroading required. But then if a DM invalidated my PC's moment of awesome like that in a...

So was it established canon that Kirk joined the Enterprise around this time and worked his way up? Is that why he's here? Or did the SNW people actually think it was a good idea? I like Jack way too much to agree. Even if he'd be the best of all possible Kirks, I'd still rather have him where...

Huh. I just realized that in each season of Picard, exactly one (1) lead character voluntarily plugs themselves into the Borg Collective as a major inflection point in a character arc. That's three nickels. I didn't think about Jurati at first, and just figured Matalas might have felt the same...

Sorry. I knew that was going to sound like an asshole nitpick but I posted it anyway. I guess I'm one of those people 😭

I agree with the premise that a show about Kirk would be just a less interesting SNW. That said, the phrasing here is weird. Having or being a spinoff doesn't make either show less new. SNW is a spinoff, just like Legacy would be a spinoff, each following the adventures of a crew and ship we met...

Ah, fair enough.

Oh, right!

Hundo P. Re: Laris

Welp there we go. Option 2, ship of Theseus. Cool. (And at no point did I not want to consider LD canon, to be clear. I was just leaving the to-me realistic possibility on the table that Picard was ignoring it. The Luna Class Titan is canon, but if Picard contradicted that, I'd call it a...

"That's the ticket then, get our collective nose 'n the door there an' drop the old drawbridge, and we'll be into their bits and bobs before they know it. If they've got eyes on that spot, we'll have to deal with the cameras first. I can make my own cover for about 15 seconds, but if the vent is...

Shaw says 20 years. Around 2379, Picard retired, Worf took his command and Riker moved on to his own. The E is eight years old at this time, the D having been lost in 2371. After an unspecified number of years, Worf's ship was destroyed and succeeded by a ship of the same name, and he went into...

Yeah, the idea that they're dropping that line with no context not aware of the time he said the opposite thing that other time this exact thing happened to him is bonkers. This is like people objecting to the idea of Picard warming to the idea of children. Yes, it's different from the other...

Yeah, I'd say we only had it in the first season with episodes 2 and 8. Episodes 1 and 6 involved a new species, but in a very standard TNG morality play way, where the society is exactly like all of the other ones they encounter except fill in the blank, to the point that 6 is the only episode...

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The 2009 movies would have made infinitely more sense as a normal-ass reboot and caused many fewer headaches that way, but we know they wanted to respect Trek's tradition of a huge single timeline as well as entice fans who wouldn't be interested in a no-stakes spinoff. I think the result was...

Not unfair. I don't think I ever cringed exactly but I did have a lot of eye-rolling. I think I turned a blind eye to it because I'd heard that Michael Dorn had been behind some of the developments in his character, which was enough to justify goofy samurai dad for me.

There are layers to that, damn. I love it.