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Involuntary Celebrity said:
sounds like he slept through the Wesley academy exam episode.
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Not that I blame him. Most people have.

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Involuntary Celebrity said:
- Wes didn't kill anyone in the psych exam, and he didn't get points for "feeling bad about it." He got points for making a decision on his feet despite the moment being his worst fear. The instructor also explicitly says this, and that there was no right answer, just that he needed to act.
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I always wondered if he lost points because he chose to save the old man whose legs were crushed instead of the young man who wasn't hurt. As in, he triaged wrong. That would've been funny, and probably exactly what Roddenberry would've done.
 
obsdj said:
I always wondered if he lost points because he chose to save the old man whose legs were crushed instead of the young man who wasn't hurt. As in, he triaged wrong. That would've been funny, and probably exactly what Roddenberry would've done.
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i think that's covered tbh by the instructor tacitly confirming that the test was based on the scenario of Picard killing his father saving another crewman. doubt they'd slip that into one applicant's psych test.

lots of missed opportunities in that episode though yeah.
like Wesley gunning for the dumbass humie girl instead of the cutie pie vulcan. just a few episodes later he's down to fuck a yeti princess because she knows all about spaceship magnets
you already turned down the bimbo slut planet Wes, you're a brains man

Super late edit because I don't want to spam the thread with wesley takes:
Captain Syrup said:
Not that I blame him. Most people have.

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I think it's pretty decent as far as soap opera episodes, mainly thanks to the parallels with the Picard B-plot. Even though apart from P being offered the Academy job it only really dovetails with his pep-talk at the end, it prompts you to make the symbolic connection.
I guess they kinda dropped the idea but early on they apparently had some semi-planned concept of treating Wesley like a young Picard (probably meant to be the flip-side of Picard's "help me pretend to like kids" arc that never really matters either). He gets stabbed from behind in that shitty Q episode long before Picard tells his Nausicaan story, for example.

Most of the exams were kinda Picardy and the psych test was straight up Picard-focused so it's more rewarding through that lens with the revelation at the end that Picard failed the first time too. I don't want to give it too much credit, but I wonder if you're even meant to consider whether Wesley's rejection was just according to keikaku.
 
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really late to the party. But I watched season 3 of Picard. Dumb sure, Stealing shit from return of the Jedi yeah. Star trek 2 star trek 3 rehashed yep. But I don't care it works its fun I fucken loved it! Gates mcfaden is a hot couger and behold she can actually act, and Diana troy finally got ugly .......

season 1 and 2 of picard don't exist they are fan fiction to me ........

This was so fucken cool I am addicted to Member berries
 
Fascist Kirk said:
really late to the party. But I watched season 3 of Picard. Dumb sure, Stealing shit from return of the Jedi yeah. Star trek 2 star trek 3 rehashed yep. But I don't care it works its fun I fucken loved it! Gates mcfaden is a hot couger and behold she can actually act, and Diana troy finally got ugly .......

season 1 and 2 of picard don't exist they are fan fiction to me ........

This was so fucken cool I am addicted to Member berries
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If they could just maintain that quality for a show like Strange New Worlds or something, I'd be over the god damn moon.
 
Fascist Kirk said:
Stealing shit from return of the Jedi yeah
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I was fine with this because after all those years of Kurtzman shit, the old crew deserved some fun.
As for the writing, there's one thing that I didn't understand: were Ro and Picard really that close in TNG?
 
I'm rewatching Voyager in the background and caught this nice view of the set on "Basics Part 2". The shot starts at the back of a cave rushing towards this guy at the entrance of it.
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It stands out a lot even though it only shows up for half a second.
 
UnKillShredDur said:
Fuck the Baku, they weren't even indigenous to the planet that was granting them eternal life.
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The Baku are colonists. I'm almost certain the Sona are the parent race. Yes, the main Sona characters are renegade Baku, but wouldn't renegade Baku simply go back to their homeworld and resume their native identity? The Sona clearly aren't a few kids who got mad at their hippie parents and struck out on their own. They have starships on par with Starfleet and the industrial base to build and support those ships, they have international legal personality because they can negotiate with the Federation, the Briar Patch is recognized as their sovereign space, they even have those two client races. So the whole Insurrection thing was an internal dispute between the Sona state and one of their settlements. Imagine China is moving a village to build a dam with support from the US, and the US will get billions of dollars in concessions in exchange.* Suddenly, a US aircraft carrier starts sinking their destroyers and sends a SEAL team to the village, where they start killing Chinese troops, because the captain is having sex with one of the villagers. He justifies this by pointing out the local party official came from the village and there's bad blood between him and the villagers. That's Insurrection.

*Ignore the current political situation between the US and China, it's not relevant to the comparison.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
"Homo sapiens + funny forehead bumps = instant aliens"

- Star Trek logic
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Hey you make do with what you can on a TV budget. Back in TOS they were so poor the Klingons couldn't even afford the bumpy heads.

It's part of what made Farscape so great is they went above and beyond to make some great puppets in addition to funny makeup.
 
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