That sounds fucking awful. Why must these faggots insist that the stupid fucking reboot movies are canon and work that dumb bullshit into the series? Christ, just retcon everything and pretend the reboots never existed.
Yeah, back in the late 00s/very early 10s there were even a few attempts and plans to start off new series/franchises using the webisode format. I memba reading some shit about a Crossed webisode series in the works and am rather thankful that never came to pass, and the format has mostly died off now. Seriously it is just the most blatant excuse for producers to be ultra cheap and ultra lazy in maintaining control of a franchise there is.
Romulus being gone doesn't really bug me, but I'm not sure why that would have such a large impact on Picard. Did he have some special connection with the Romulans that I'm not remembering? (I'm not counting Nemesis because it was horse shit.)
Well when you set aside the Borg, the Romulans were pretty much the main enemy group of the TNG era* due to number of appearances and impact on the show, and given he was the main diplomacy fapper of the Star Trek Captains, its plausible he would put a great deal of emotional stock in to turning the federation's greatest rival and enemy into an ally, and having these efforts blown out the water thanks to a superdupernova and the late delivery of cosmic menstruation would probably piss him off more than when Wesley Crusher threw a Picard family themed BBQ for his birthday.
Now that I think about it, they're going to use it as an excuse to wedge Sarek into the show to tie it in with Discovery. Picard mind-melded with Sarek and had some residual katra or something going on and there were some hints in the show and spin-off media that he went on to have a diplomatic career post-Enterprise and picked up Spock's efforts. So yeah, get ready for more Spock and a tenuous connection to Michael Burnham.
Maybe not personally impactful things, but you had several episodes where you could see the potential of a Federation/Romulan alliance. Take for instance the Romulan commander or whatever in the episode The Chase who privately confessed to Picard how he was actually pleased that almost all the species in Trek have a common ancestor (unlike the Klingons and Cardassians who reed at that). There's also The Defector with Jarok, who, after the birth of his daughter, feared that another war with the Federation would destroy the Romulan Empire. He commited suicide in the end, knowing that his own child will consider him an enemy of the Empire, but it brought Picard hope that there were more Romulans out there who wanted peace with the Federation. And I know you don't care for Nemesis, but this was Picard closest to a (iirc) high-ranking Romulan being openly friendly to him (and the Federation).
It’s everything you didn’t want Star Trek to be.
True and I can already see the cheap social commentary for the Picard spin-off ("Romulan refugees welcome").
It might take some time, maybe more than what the writers have spent on the actual show.
It talks like a fag and its shit's all retarded.
It’s not Star Trek. It’s an attempt at creating “Game of Thrones,” but with a Star Trek skin.
My theory is that the showrunner duo (Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts who got fired after being accused of acting like crazies, yelling at their writers in the writing room etc.) hated the character of Lorca when they got the gig after Fuller's departure and wanted the character gone. It's all in the writing, the way things happened in that Mirror episode. He says that he wants to "make the Terran Empire glorious again" (yes, they really made him say that) and then gets stabbed in the back by Emperor Georgiou and... Burnham is standing in front of him, watching and doing nothing while his body falls through the trapdoor.
Actually, the first black female captain was in Star Trek 4, after that there was Captain Tryla Scott in Conspiracy. Also, the supernova destroying Romulus is the most recent canonical event in the prime timeline, only connected to the recent movies by Nero and Spock getting pulled into that universe.
Reading your post and that screenshot brought to mind this bit i read recently:
There's another thing that pissed me off too about the whole "First woman" thing is that even though Star Trek Enterprise is the only series that they respect, STD has gone their way to erase some of the canon so they could hype up Georgiou. There's a scene where they show a list of decorated captains in a weird order, April, Archer, Decker, Georgiou and Pike. They've ignored Erika Hernandez, the "actual" first female Captain.
