Tag: Star Trek: Picard
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Vox”
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. “We’ve been here before.” I’ve used the phrase “creative project” a lot while rewatching Star Trek: Picard. Many of my entries have gone to trying…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “The Next Generation”
This entry was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the WGA strike hub and the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “This message is for Admiral Jean-Luc Picard.” She’s back! We’re back! I’m back! After promising to be…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “The Star Gazer”
“Cheers, big ears.” Season two, let’s do things in twos. Here goes. A story: I signed up for Paramount+ a couple of weeks ago, because I wanted to watch the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in 4K. (On Crave, it’s presented in… whatever the fuck Crave supplies. I don’t actually understand Crave;…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Nepenthe”
“Oh, MAN!” After a furious week or so of writing and scheduling posts for this rebooted Blogging the Next Generation, I took about a month off between “The Impossible Box” and today’s entry. I recall something similar happening when the first season of Star Trek: Picard was airing: this show is a slog, man, particularly…
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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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What Star Trek isn’t
Like many from the TNG Generation, I’m enjoying the third season of Star Trek: Picard, although — like, I’m hoping, at least a few of us — I feel a bit silly about it. I’m aware that, for example, my visceral glee at the prologue of the first episode was largely due to the fact…
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