The big bad actually could just be the Pah Wraiths from DS9, leading to Sisko coming back for a final battle with them at Federation day.
No. Brooks is more than a little mental these days and has been persona non grata in the industry since not long after ds9 ended. Not to mention ds9 pretty much pre-emptively prevented any further involvement of that particular group as they all got sealed back up in the fire caves
Clown College 2nd Year said:
I can't quote WonderWho but Salome Jens who played the female changeling is 87 years old now so I doubt the actress herself will be making an appearance
I doubt she will but if not it won't be for that reason. She already has made appearances in that role several times, as recently as 2018 reprising the role for the DS9 expansion of STO
Reinhardo-sama said:
Isn't this also the finale season of this slop? I could be wrong, but I really think this is it.
Officially yes, but stewart has made several comments in the past few months talking about how he's interested in doing more. Whether that means a season 4 of this or some kind of movie or a spinoff of picard who knows, but I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't the last we see of him as picard. I wouldn't put it past paramount to greenlight a final movie given they originally intended to after nemesis and if season 3 of picard hits the ratings they want it to
Brain Problems said:
What's killing me is all the unearned grandiosity and contrived stakes. The show has done nothing to generate any semblance of tangible existential threat but instead leaned into what every fucking nuTrek series loves to do: fall back on DON'T TRUST STARFLEET BRO, THEY'RE COMPROMISED AND ACTUALLY EVIL BRO mixed with the magic macguffin person who's the key to everything. It sucks, it's cliched, and it's boring.
Yeah pretty much this. Alot has happened without anything actually happening. The plot hasn't actually advanced at all in terms of the situation as a whole and in reality they don't even know what the changelings plans are or whether they are actually tied into the event the way they think. It obviously is but from their perspective the characters don't actually have any real confirmation of that and have made no actual practical effort to do anything about it. They have literal bodies of dead changelings, what should be a recorded message of one of them admitting to having replaced at least one important officer and all the security logs of the titan to back up any claims of what is really going on and they're fucking around in the middle of nowhere hiding from a ship until they decide to do the exact opposite for no logical reason. Its bizarre. There are literally 3 episodes left and nothing substantial to the plot has even happened yet and nobody knows what said plot technically even is yet. I have to ask where the hell they got these writers from because this has to be some of the very worst writing i've ever seen in any medium. I have to ask what they're teaching in writers courses these days if this bs is what gets you a multimillion dollars per episode budget. Prime proof if anyone ever needed it that throwing tons of money at a problem doesn't make something better and if anything makes you prone to doing stupid things to make it worse
Cnut said:
This show only makes sense if they came up with a "shock and awe" endgame, and merely reverse engineered enough episodes to call it a season. We will see in the next three weeks.
Today Alex Kurtzman announced a hip, diverse Starfleet Academy show for teens. Last one out please turn off the lights.
At this point i'm assuming thats whats going on. They're doing what that first revival of the xfiles did and making everything about the last episode and maybe half of the previous one with a setup for the finale and everything else is pointless filler that vaguely puts pushes things toward said finale. So I expect episode 7 to be pointless shit, most of episode 8 to be the same, but ending on some lead in to the buildup to the finale episode that will be episode 9, which spends its entire episode doing nothing but leading up to the finale
and I still don't understand what the point of the academy series is. Its essentially a school full of mostly young adults, which works for a series in some contexts like say boston public kind of thing for high school drama and all the shit that goes on in high schools but the premise falls flat right from the start because its set in the star trek universe....so what exactly can happen? Theres no threat of the week, no exploration, no diplomacy, its a bunch of 18 - 25ish humans and aliens doing class work and at best maybe running simulations of battles or whatever. Are half the episodes going to be weekly field trips to other planets or trainee cruises on old ships? Beyond that there really isn't anything else to do. Nobody is going to tune in to see this weeks episode of the drama queen orion skank breaking up with her andorian boytoy to get BBC from the klingon star parrises squares player, while some sjw type romulans run student BLM style diversity protests because the pakled students get treated like special needs kids cause they're too stupid to attend the academy. Stuff like this is one of the main reasons the creators of DS9 scrapped the original premise of setting the series on a colony and went with the space station concept, and even that had to have some major reworking by season 3 and introduced a ship they could actually do something with
