If the network had a problem with the plans for season 2 being too dependent on older stuff it’s odd that season 3 still managed to be so full of it, considering the seasons were apparently filmed back-to-back. Did the network folks give their notes on season 2 and then stop paying attention?
Comment on ‘Picard’ Season 2 Was Rewritten After Paramount Deemed It “Too Star Trek,” Says EP
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 9 months ago
I think this is an extremely lousy headline, but the content is good.
Firstly, the headline slightly misquotes what Matalas actually said (emphasis added):
“We wrote nine episodes at one point and the network was like, ‘No, we don’t really understand this, it’s a bit too sci-fi, it’s a bit too in-Star Trek.’”
I think a story being a little too “inside baseball” and reliant on stuff from decades ago is a perfectly valid note, especially when we’re talking about ideas like this:
The idea was that Guinan’s bar was presented as a normal bar in Los Angeles, but if you knew the right thing to do, you could go into the back through the telephone phone booth and that was Rick’s Café and it was a stopping point for all these different species that were actually there on Earth with a ‘Do not interfere’ thing happening.
The stuff about COVID messing with the writing and shooting schedule is understandable, and created problems that can be seen in many TV shows filmed around that time. All the same, it makes me wish they had decompressed the schedule and not rushed through things as much as they did.
The comments about there being a lot of different ideas in season two are interesting, since I think she overall series’ biggest flaw is that it crammed a lot of ideas, many of which I like quite a bit, into only 30 episodes, with few (none?) of them being fully explored.
And regarding the Jurati Borg…I don’t know, I never found that confusing in the slightest. I think their intent came through just fine.
ryper@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 9 months ago
My cynical take is that season three was pretty shallow overall, and I’m not sure there was anything in it that would make someone say, “wait, what?”
pelletbucket@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I’m not going to complain that it wasn’t specifically written for long-time fans, but I am disappointed that it wasn’t specifically written for long-time fans.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Yes, I was surprised to read that there was any misconception. It seemed pretty clear to me that nothing they did in the past would have altered the history of TNG/Voyager/etc.
As I recall, the order of events played out like this:
I really enjoyed Jurati’s story in season 2, and was a bit disappointed that we didn’t see her at all in season 3, since she and her collective should no longer be required to stay out of history’s way. But at the same time, they set that up at the end of season 2 pretty explicitly. I just felt like if they were going to bring the Borg back again, they ought to least mention that there’s a whole other collective of friendly Borg who are possibly much more technologically advanced than the Prime Borg and are kinda-sorta part of the Federation.
sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In all fairness, Captain Shaw did mention the Jurati Borg, albeit a bit offhandedly. “Forget about all that weird shit on the Stargazer. The real Borg are still out there”