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kathleen_daileyEpisode 2 out of 10 of ST: Picard, and we're moving at an in-system crawl. Possible spoilers follow.
--I'm considering joining Team Shaw. Nothing he says (except "Commander Hansen") sounds wrong to me this week.
--Any stories and/or backstories about Captain Vadic, I'm there for them.
--I wish Elnor were a part of this arc. From all that we've learned of him, it seems as if he belongs here.
--Funny, David Marcus sprang immediately to mind as the Trek exemplar of the Hero's Secret Son, but more than one person has mentioned Alexander (K'Ehleyr and Worf's son) as another. I didn't even think of him, maybe because Worf (for better or worse) was a part of his life. So now we're up to three surprise kids, unless Jack turns out to be the TNG-era equivalent of a test-tube baby. We should be so lucky.
--"I believe it is afternoon in Sol system"? Good grief, writers. Even if you don't know that there are different time zones on Earth (and by extension, one assumes, on every planet in this temporal dimension, including the others in Sol system), ST:P is rumored to have a science advisor (Dr. Erin Macdonald) who "oversees the science in the writing and production of the various Star Trek series on Paramount+." Maybe she and the script department are operating in parallel universes and never encounter one another.
--Why would Vadic give Shaw an hour to surrender Jack? Why not "I give TWO MINUTES for you and your gallant crew" and plant the exposition in a place where it might actually have some dramatic impact? Yeesh, these writers. They'd make sure that any bomb had a digital time readout that showed (no one except the TV audience, in ECU) how many minutes and seconds were left before the boom. Maybe we're supposed to think that Vadic is just messing with the heroes for the fun of it, but it seems clunky to me.
--I'm considering joining Team Shaw. Nothing he says (except "Commander Hansen") sounds wrong to me this week.
--Any stories and/or backstories about Captain Vadic, I'm there for them.
--I wish Elnor were a part of this arc. From all that we've learned of him, it seems as if he belongs here.
--Funny, David Marcus sprang immediately to mind as the Trek exemplar of the Hero's Secret Son, but more than one person has mentioned Alexander (K'Ehleyr and Worf's son) as another. I didn't even think of him, maybe because Worf (for better or worse) was a part of his life. So now we're up to three surprise kids, unless Jack turns out to be the TNG-era equivalent of a test-tube baby. We should be so lucky.
--"I believe it is afternoon in Sol system"? Good grief, writers. Even if you don't know that there are different time zones on Earth (and by extension, one assumes, on every planet in this temporal dimension, including the others in Sol system), ST:P is rumored to have a science advisor (Dr. Erin Macdonald) who "oversees the science in the writing and production of the various Star Trek series on Paramount+." Maybe she and the script department are operating in parallel universes and never encounter one another.
--Why would Vadic give Shaw an hour to surrender Jack? Why not "I give TWO MINUTES for you and your gallant crew" and plant the exposition in a place where it might actually have some dramatic impact? Yeesh, these writers. They'd make sure that any bomb had a digital time readout that showed (no one except the TV audience, in ECU) how many minutes and seconds were left before the boom. Maybe we're supposed to think that Vadic is just messing with the heroes for the fun of it, but it seems clunky to me.
