Tag: Patrick Stewart
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Seventeen Seconds”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “You don’t get to condemn people before the fact.” Picard and Beverly have “the talk” in this episode, and man, it rips. I suppose there’s…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2”
“Something in my head seemed to just… go away. Like a child’s sandcastle collapsing.” So: what was Picard — season one anyway — about? Let’s start with logistics. Patrick Stewart is roughly 79 when Star Trek: Picard films its first season. The original Rick Berman productions were notorious for their shooting days — 16- or…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Remembrance”
“I don’t want the game to end.” The first episode of Star Trek: Picard is a huge episode of television. Premieres were never this show’s problem. Each season begins formidably, with intent writ large across entertaining hours, which see us reconnecting with old friends who find themselves in new surroundings. That’s an elaborate way of…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — FIRST CONTACT rewatch
We’ve been here before. Quite literally in this case — I covered Star Trek: First Contact, the second Next Generation feature film, as part of Blogging the Next Generation. More broadly, I started, and finished, that project a decade ago: a three-year tour through the episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, then on Tumblr,…
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Review: STAR TREK FIRST CONTACT (Blogging The Next Generation Christmas Special)
“Well I sure as hell am not going up there sober.” The popular “best” of the four Star Trek: The Next Generation feature films, Star Trek: First Contact is actually my least favourite. It’s hard for me to imagine a more stupidly, or crassly, conceived franchise property than this. The film drips concept rather than storytelling,…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “In Theory”
“And a very good job I did of it too.” In which, to the chagrin of fangirls everywhere, Data turns out to be the worst boyfriend ever. While the Enterprise is flying through a dark matter nebula, Data decides to try his hand at dating, and the results are predictably disastrous – even leaving aside…