Star Trek: Picard Season 3, Episode 1 - re:View
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- čas přidán 16. 02. 2023
- We're back! Two elderly men talk about Star Trek Picard Season 3, episode 1! Now, before you expect clown wigs and blood and screeching - please do note: This is just a review of the very first episode and so far they did a pretty good job! Rich and Mike try to be as fair as possible when they talk about stuff and even Star Trek Picard is included.
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Beverly's son is definitely Picard's son. You can tell because of the English accent, so you know he's French.
Everyone knows accents are genetic
@@mind4lease554 Every Soong looks like Brent Spiner. Genetics are beautiful.
Would this be Picard's third surprise son?
Picard gets pretty busy for such a reserved man
And they pointed out that Picard and Beverly had "tried" to be lovers.
I love how 95% of the people watching never saw an episode of this show and are just here to watch Rich and Mike suffer.
That's literally me
Yep, me too.
I was looking forward to seeing them put a video out about it, even though the last Star Trek TV show I watched was Voyager.
Actually watching the show would require sitting through something executive produced by Alex Kurtzman.
We all love a good train wreck.
I just don't understand how all these elderly people manage not to zone out on such darkly lit bridges.
space adderal
The atmosphere of this show just sucks
@@mattstrathis4328
"The atmosphere of this show just sucks"
Yeah they sort of went the opposite way from the movies, the new movies were way too bright, this one is way too dark lol.
I served in the real Navy on submarines, and we had normal illumination. The lights are a little lower in sonar (I was sonar) supposedly so we saw the green monochrome screens better -- although I hated it being dark in there, and looking back, why did we have to have it dark when fire control (the team that coordinates targeting of torpedoes) is working under normal illumination and they have to look at monochrome green screens too? -- but the rest of the boat was illuminated normally.
We do "rig for red" when running at periscope depth at night so the officer of the deck can see outside thorough the periscope. Then we go back to normal illumination. (surface ships do red light a lot more often at night, because they are trying to be harder to see by the enemy at night. Submarines don't have that issue because we're underwater. lol.)
I think Seth Macfarlane explained it best why he loved the Enterprise-D: it looked like an office. There were plants, comfortable swivel chairs, etc. It looked like a place people worked in day to day. Could you imagine being stuck on a nu-Trek ship where everything is constantly dark, shiny, and sterile? Having to look at a bright screen your entire day? It would drive you crazy.
The Enterprise in TNG has some of the most visually pleasing and welcoming lighting I’ve ever seen, it just looks nice.
As someone who has never watched an episode of Picard, I was ecstatic to hear that they renewed it for a 3rd season just because I knew it meant that Mike would force Rich to watch it.
Me too!! Lmao
But I thought Mike and Rich said they gave up at the end of season 2.
Same lol
@@Edax_Royeauxthe hack frauds always lie, nothing's every really gone.
Second this! 🤣😂 I'm glad someone ruined their memories of picard for all of us 😂
It’s sad to see addicts falling off the wagon again. I hope you guys get the help you need. 🙏
Yesterday I said to myself "Oh Picard's out? Guess I won't know what happens..."
I think I need some counseling.... All I listen to is rlm... I dream about captain pickard and shakma chasing some kid with a cock on his shirt around the set of the hateful eight
Yeah but how many more years could they realistically expect to live anyway? Two? One?
I know we are talking about different addictions but I nearly rage quit when Raffi threw her drugs on the street for some kids to find. A fine Star-fleet Operative.
Yeah there's serious cope happening here. I would LOVE to be wrong but I'm not holding out and hope for any new star trek.
When Rich says Star Trek has no soul, you can visibly see another fragment of what little soul Mike has left, leaving his body.
His first horocrux is broken
@@fajile5109 😆
He might mean that most characters in star trek don’t have a soul where as in Star Wars is a bit more whimsical in that department.
@@gelraldoldo5152 rich hates star wars
"Local movie reviewer loses little bit of hope that he didn't knew he even had".
The moment when Laris is trying to get rid of Picard's old stuff and he grabs the flute from Inner Light and shakes it at her and says "Don't you understand how special this flute is, you ignorant poser? My god, woman, it's the thing from everyone's favorite episode of my adventures, just like that dog from Futurama" was solid
Jean-Luc Picard's Ressikan flute cover of Walkin' On Sunshine is the 25th century's pan flute cover of Kiss From A Rose.
And then everyone MORBED
That episode with the flute ... it stayed with me all these years
Gotta love that, despite Will Wheaton's relentless shilling, the writers made an entirely new son for Beverly Crusher, rather than bring back Whesley.
Haha somehow I forgot about Whesley while watching this video
Bahahahahahaha
Have they said why they refuse to have him on the show? It’s actually legit really sad and I know nothing about it apart from these videos. It’s so clear he wants to be included 🥺
@@mitchellhouser1572 He was in season 2, briefly.
@@mitchellhouser1572 They don't refuse him or anything. It just does not make sense in the story because the character is bound to "The Traveller", a timeless, formless thing that floats through the cosmos, now. Wesley is basically a sort of interdimensional being now.
Rich's forgetting major characters of the first two seasons is definitely a trauma response
Well, let's be honest, It could just be because Rich is a raging alcoholic.
@@Anacronian I mean... they're all raging alcoholics.
I don't think Rich drinks, is the funny thing. He's usually got a Coke instead of a beer in his hands. The meme of him on the couch with the beer is just some old-ass HitB skit
It's a side effect of his diabetes medicine
@@Anacronian I think it’s the dementia.
“This is Star Trek. There is no soul… That shit’s for Star Wars.”
All time classic line from Rich.
nuTrek is the closest I've ever come to really understanding what it's like to be in an abusive relationship.
"I'm sorry I hurt you, baby. I love you."
"I love you, too. I'll give you another chance."
Things are ok for a few episodes and then BOOM! all of a sudden I'm naked and being beaten with an extension cord.
I always said TNG is like a warm blanket and Picard is someone climbing under it and molesting you.
It's such a detailed description. Extension cord ? Like really ? Out of all things ? Very peculiar choice. Story is based on real facts or no ? 🐧
Damn
I'm quite enjoying Strange New Worlds to be honest. Same for Lower Decks
@@salomaonplanetsaturn What? It's not that uncommon of a joke
The mixed emotions of watching someone in a bad relationship who genuinely believes that if they're just patient and forgiving long enough their tormentor will change.
Yeah they're in the classic cycle of abuse with Star Trek. Star Trek Picard has hurt and abandoned them, and now it's come back with flowers and chocolates and memberberries swearing it's changed.. this time will be different baby.
Counterpoint: Star Trek: Enterprise made a huge U-turn in quality in the second half. And the earlier series besides TOS each took a while to find their footing to varying degrees.
@@R3GARnator Yeah but not to the degree of Picard and STD...
This is exactly right
@@R3GARnator Here's a second counterpoint: The tormentor, so to speak, DID change, quite literally, it's a new showrunner.
This is like watching your alcoholic uncle whose 2 years sober reaching for the wine bottle on Thanksgiving.
Or watching them eat the mutant turkey from _Blood Freak…_
Listen, children! That happens if you watch Picard!
@@voltijuice8576 oooOooOOOOooo Herschel!
Multi K comment right here
No one should pay paramount plus. Just watch it for free online so their view count is so low they're forced to fuking give the fans what we want
These two warriors fighting to find love in a place it used to be is a real episodic journey
They were; connected, but through the passage of time, they ulimately could not find the bond that they could not share.💔
Mike saying "I'm gonna go home" at the end really spoiled the illusion for me that they just live in this abandoned warehouse with the wheel in one corner and the Plinketto board in the other
Seeing Rich and Mike start yet another season of Picard feels like when you know Grandma is $200 down and catch her back on the 25 cent slot machines
This actually made me laugh out loud. Great comment.
Except Mike isn’t laughing at the old people
Patrick Stewart is Grandma.
Mike and Rich are the grandkids who've been abused for years and already correctly suspect they're not in the will, but have to take care of her anyway.
I have literally had this experience with my own grandma
It’s definitely the dudes I see yawning after late night work to get (X amount) of lottery tickets when the jackpot is over Y (Y= the amount for the nightmare to stop) There’s this hope but the odds are so against us but we relate to a feeling and a what if. In this way, if they mess this up, it’s worse than the lottery. WORSE! So many more victims.
I saw the headline "Wisconsin wins drunkest state in America award again" and instantly I knew RLM was watching Star Trek Picard season 3.
"The best episode of "Picard" yet"; ie "They managed to casually step over the lowest bar possible."
I love how they mention the thumbnails of previous seasons and how this one has them looking happy. I'm sure they'll get even happier as the season goes on.
I've seen reviews from people who equally hated seasons one and two but say season three was great. Dave Cullen is one example. Him and some others were given advanced screenings so they've watched the entire season already. His main criticisms were that the interior lighting was way to dark and they used curse words like they did in season one. He said unlike seasons one and two the story was tight and coherent and the dialogue and acting was good.
Season 3 is amazimg
And… they do. Sort of. I’m as shocked as anyone.
@@quinn7876 cause they are actual people who cares about the show
@@TheAltarOfMadnessa season cannot be amazing if it includes Worf with 1960s seque Japanese white samurai eyebrows and a sword.
That takes it down enough points alone
" *Hanged* himself your father *hanged* himself. Your father was not a tapestry"
One of my favorite ASOIAF quotes from the Freys.
Sticks in my head literally every time I hear the word “hung” now lol .
Feast for Crows, right? When Jaime visits Darry?
Can you be hung if the person doing it considered you sub-human?
@@warlordofbritanniaAye, Jaime IV:
"Outlaws killed him," sobbed Lady Amerei. "Father had only gone out to ransom Petyr Pimple. He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway."
"Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry." Lady Mariya turned back to Jaime. "I believe you knew him, ser."
Glad to see some ASOIAF fans representing
"In my opinion, Kirk Bones Spock." - Mike Stoklasa 2023
The hidden figure talking to Raffi is Worf. The hidden figure referred to Raffi as a warrior. Gotta be Worf.
You got it.
Have a cigar!
I figured that out right away.
The "warrior" part made it pretty obvious who it was going to be. Honestly I kind of wish they hadn't done that.
Oh boy! It’s my favorite time of the year - the period of several months where Mike and Rich are drained of what little joy remains in their lives by watching the shambling remnants of their cherished and much-beloved franchise!
I heard it’s good this season 😢
We are truly blessed!
@@Transhumanist_Adam I've heard that every season, this one just decided to go all in one the memberberries.
I'll wait until the end of the season before I give it a watch. None of that "Trek shows need three seasons to get good" nonsense for me. 😒
"Its the most wonderful time of the yeeeeaaarrrr" haha.
Their suffering and desperation is our amusement in these dark, bleak and lensflare-riddled times!
As soon as they announced the rest of the TNG cast would be returning I knew Mike and Rich wouldn’t be able to resist. Star Trek addiction is real and it’s devastating, people. Talk to your friends and family before it’s too late.
Worse than a coffee addiction and a going to the theater just cause you like theater popcorn addiction
Get them on a rehabilitation program with The Expanse. Exposure to good Sci-Fi will fix you.
@@PR0MAN01 Good one XD
So it's the heartbreak..😢
"I would like for Shaw to have a complex depth to his character."
He was honestly the best part of the season, to me. Jelico meets Sisko.
Mike complaining about this Picard being a clone of the original Picard is really funny to me, because the Picard he loves is already a copy of the actual Picard that died in TNG when he beamed himself into space, and they re-materialized a backup of him from the transporter.
The real Picard is still floating out there as a bloated corpse Mike!!
I mean, I'm not a trekkie, but to my mind that's what beaming does anyway. Beamer makes a copy of your physical data and sends that across space - "copied data". You disappear and die. A copy of you is created at the beamer location. It reappears and believes that it is the original version of you, since it retains your memory, so for all intents and purposes you will still exist for the rest of the world...but for the original you, there is no value in that, because you just died. Your stream of consciousness ends at the moment of beaming.
That especially holds true when going by the belief that there are no souls.
What? Which episode is that?
@@Lemon_Inspector lonely AMONGUS
He got dispersed into a giant space fart and they pushed him back together.
I assume the Federation doesn't keep backups of people because of their kooky "dying is really cool, actually" philosophy
OHHH MY GODDDDDDDDD *queue destruction of the set sequence and many sound effects of bottles breaking*
They were so close at remembering the daughter’s name - Her name is Calzone, a reference to Troy and Riker’s love for pizza and a symbol of their marital bliss at the pizza cabin.
Burnt tomato!
Wasn't it Kendra, after Diana's sister who drowned in a pizza sauce factory?
Kelsa, Kelso? TNG =That 2370's Show?
you win the comments
Kestra
Seeing these two beaten into submission but still remaining optimistic due to astronomical levels of Stockholm syndrome and nostalgia makes me feel not so bad about being a Star Wars fan
First bad sign from the first episode is that 7 of 9 had ANOTHER status quo change.
Voyager: science officer trying to be more human with scary past. That was her in most of the show and arguably where she goes from there, she either still struggles with the dark past or moves forward in her direction from it. "Destiny by character consistency" if you will.
Picard 1: Now she is a super hero ranger on the frontier.......then rejoins the collective as a temp queen......then sudden relationship with Raffi.
Picard 2: Married arguments with Raffi. fighting her tiny husband in a fascist present, deborged, antiborg (As if 7 of 9 would ever tell PICARD to never give a borg a chance for redemption), and then reborged again. (and a hilarious fear of lithium scene I will not get over).
Picard 3 episode 1: SUDDENLY Star Fleet again, Raffi is an ex, number 2 on a ship, and is now ready to rebel again to be a space super hero.
Bipolar borg on a drug withdrawel is my only explanation (aside from shitty writers).
Also.................there were kid characters on TNG, DS9, and Voyager. The smartest choice no one has made is to just make a crew of those kids as 40 year old adults now.
Wesley crusher as the ship's councelor with a cosmic perspective of the universe. Alexander son of Worf as the ship's science officer unable to be a warrior. Nog (played by a new actor, sadly) as an experienced ferengi star fleet captain facing discrimination. Jake Sisko as a journalist working on the ship butting heads with the crew trying to hide controversial decisions in first contacts. Molly O'brian, Miral Paris, and Namomi Wildman all taking up other important crew roles. Just............LITERALLY, the next generation. We already got their backstories, YET, they had whole lives we did not see that redifned many of them.
BUT KNOWING Kurtsman's writing staff. all of them became ninjas in section 31, but they were secretly mind controlled by romullans that were all controlled by Brent Spiner playing Zombie Dr Sung.
Exactly, they could have done so much with the wealth of canon & character arcs available to them but that would require a modicum of the type of creative skill that the original writers for TNG, DS9, Voyager etc had. Given the correct parameters ChatGPT could probably write a better Star Trek plot line than Kurtsman's staff lol.
LOL seven fighting her Tony husband 💀
That's an awesome pitch actually. There's so many options. Ripping off _Mass Effect_ wasn't on my list.
They can use Icheb from VOY too. Oh wait he was killed so Picard S1 could feature some gratuitous violence.
I clapped like a demented seal when they mentioned the purple space bazooka.
Can't not look at that one stunt guy who jumped after the explosion.
Didn’t we all
They tried to one up it in the first episode, Beverly is using a pump action phaser gun and it only had like what 8 shots.
It's so dense. Every single frame has so much going on...
You should do a video on star trek: Picard; that's like right up your alley
This is like the television critics equivalent to battered spouse syndrome.
So in the story of Pandora’s Box, all human suffering is unleashed and the only thing that remains in the box is Hope… it’s typical interpreted as like the triumph of optimism, but the more philosophically minded are right to ask… what was hope doing in a box of all human suffering in the first place?
@@chazblank2717 What i wonder is, if all the sufferings were let loose upon the world by leaving the box, why is it a good thing for hope to stay in the box? Doesn't that mean it's kept hidden from the world?
An inconsistent story all around. Someone fire the writer.
@@chazblank2717 Because hope is suffering. Hope requires the absence of something so that you can hope for it. Hope means you are suffering from severe want. ???
The skull comparing Marina just destroyed me. Very hard laughter, oh my goodness.
I love coming back and rewatching these in order just to see those two slowly realize the season turned out to be more than they could’ve hoped for.
Mike got pranked by Picard 3 times now. He's like the Nute Gunray of RLM.
It's time to hang up the old hat, Nute. You've been had!
😂😂
He's still going along for the ride with all these jokers!
“This is getting out of hand, now there are three of them!”
glorious reference :D
"there's three seasons of them now?!"
Mike "Kirk turned into a bloated space balloon." Shatner is gonna love you guys even more.
The cosmic ballet goes on.
Eh, fuck him. He already hated Mike.
🤣 surely they've given up on trying to mend that bridge
I used to hear peoole say never meet your heroes. Now they are all on Twitter showing their twatters.
Kirk better not fly over Ohio, or the USAF gonna shoot him down.
Also Sidney LaForge is played by Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, Mica Burton (pronounced mee-cah) is playing Alandra LaForge, and from the stills looks like she works with her father.
Did we just forget that Dr Crusher blasted a hole in the middle of a dude before vaporizing him? When she steals a shuttle to prove the ferengi scientist's shield theory.
Dr Crusher got quite a bit of development in season 7 that I think a lot of people tend to forget. When Troi gets her promotion to Cmdr she and Crusher talk about it. Crusher didn't need to be a full Cmdr for her position as CMO (apparently), but Crusher wanted to be a qualified bridge officer.
We learn that Dr Crusher has apparently all this time behind the scenes kept up in procedures and policies as well as been in the regular command shift rotation of the Enterprise. She kept up her "quals" so to speak.
While not stated in dialogue, iirc, but after they lose contact with the away team on earth in First Contact she seems to be acting first officer. That would seem to put her in line of command somewhere around Worf. The XO, 2nd officer, and Chief Engineer are missing, the Security Chief is busy fighting and coordinating against the Borg, making her acting XO.
She gets her own ship in All Good Things. All these make you think that Crusher really considered herself to be a well rounded Starfleet officer second only to being a doctor.
She also commands the skeleton crew left behind on the Enterprise during "Descent". She does a great job too.
i love how mike quotes word for word the next generation and the original series but misquote the episode they just watched constantly
His senility didn’t catch the “One quarter impulse power” to leave space dock, where the Valeris quotes regulations that maneuvering thrusters ONLY should be used there! Sad!
@@colonelharland7833 🤣
When you do nothing but watch those episodes over and over it’s easy. Recently watched vs seen a million times.
It is why Star Wars fans can quote hundres of line in the original movies but can't quote a single line from Rey or Poe.
What people love, people remember.. and watch million times.
@@FlyingKipperEh To be fair there's little worth quoting in these new ones. There aren't many good Poe lines.
I'm gonna keep an eye on Mike's shirt to see if it eventually morphs into "make it stop".
I'd buy that teeshirt.
This is actually an amazing idea
The picture needs to also change into the facepalm meme.
Maybe it will evolve into resistance is futile. oooooooooohhhhhhh
That's fucking brilliant, if I was Mike I'd be kicking myself for not coming up with it first
I would be happy to see Mike and Rich discussin every season of Voyager in detail.
It would make me happy because of how painful it would be for them
Yes please
Just episode where the Capt and Paris turn into salamanders and fuck would be enough
The lighting of the ship's interior is as bright as the souls of the writers
I thought Rich and Mike would never do this again.
But no one's ever really gone....
Somehow, Picard returned.
Secrets only the Gorn knew
I really didn't think you guys would do this. This is like watching your loved ones slowly walking toward the edge of a cliff
Don't pay paramount plus just watch it for free online
Again 😂
Walking!? They're free wheeling off of it and are in free fall towards either oblivion and or smashed on old broken beer bottles lol
well after the first two seasons its more like watching the ambulance come and gather the remains of your loved ones from the bottom of the cliff
Watched this re:view at least 3 times before I actually watched the show. I love rewatching these two now, knowing how well it all turned out.
Even a quick plot summary of Picard feels like a fever dream.
You know what this means. We'll need another 10 favourite TNG episodes as a palette cleanser.
I hope so. While listening them confirm the problems in the new shows can be cathartic, it's a lot more plainly enjoyable to hear them discuss things they _actually_ find pleasure in watching.
Would be fun to get a 10 worst episodes too
@@calum0123 oh yeaa
@@calum0123 They already did videos for Picard S1. ;)
And a Mike vs Rich Star Trek Trivia..Jay can be the host
I get unreasonably excited to watch 2 men I don't know talk about a bad show I will never watch.
Well I do know them and these Re:view vids are playing nonstop atop my RLM shrine
You'll never watch it, but you know it's bad. Strange logic. I've listened to a few podcast and CZcams hosts who say that this season is the Next Gen movie we should have got. These are people like Rich and Mike who absolutely hated the previous seasons.
@@davidgaunt5018 Same. I've heard great things about this season from very harsh critics, and after the first episode my faith has been restored. Its not perfect, but nothing is. Pretty damn good start if you ask me.
@@davidgaunt5018 You don't have to get wrist deep in feces to know what it is.
Every time I see Riker and Picard in a scene, I always think it looks like and old man and his carer. That's really the vibe they give off. Picard looking all happy, telling stories and Riker leaning forward, trying to hear what the demented old man is saying, or explaining to him that he can't/shouldn't do something.
"This is Star Trek, there is no soul". At that moment, Dick the Birthday Boy killed Mike's spirit.
The fact that they could not remember Christopher Plummer played General Chang and just called him bald Klingon is more shocking to me than all of Season 1 and 2 of Picard.
Tbf, that’s not one of Plummer’s more memorable roles.
Plus, he’s more famous for playing a Captain.
It's fake. Mike is pretending to not know every conceivable detail to not embarrass Rich Evans.
@@jamesgoss1860
“…to not embarrass Rich Evans”
That doesn’t sound like Mike
You could say they've forgotten more Trek than these writers know
I felt it was a gag
Just when you thought they were out... THEY GET PULLED BACK IN
Now is that Al, or is that Al?!
It’s so juvenile but the added fart sounds to the Picard reviews always make me laugh
I can see an old retired military man growing softer and finally allowing himself to show emotional attachements, remember his golden years with a warm and love he couldnt allow himself when he was in command and had to be professional, unflappable, the rock the rest of the crew could stand on at all times.
What I cant get is that whole second season of "no, that all was trauma, trauma so big one wonders how he passed any psychological examination to become Starfleet"
Starfleet is NOT A MILITARY orgnization.
The problem I have with modern Star Trek is the same as what I have for most modern television shows. It’s that style of TV show that cropped up in the wake of JJ Abrams LOST which consist of…
- Labyrinthine plots that layer in so many threads that by the end not even the shows own writers can possibly keep track of them all to wrap them all up.
- Cryptic dialogue designed to sound mysterious but doesn’t actually mean anything when you think about it.
- Cheap visuals attempting to look “cinematic” without actually understanding visual storytelling.
- Plot structure that prioritises creating interest through mysteries, but rarely actually movies the story forward or changes the status quo. Much less provides answers for the mysteries.
- Actors giving performances designed to be melodramatic and super serious, but rarely feel like naturalistic real people.
It’s why I’ve all but given up on watching modern TV.
The episodic structure is also largely dead. *Everything* needs to have an overarching plot at the very least-which seems counterintuitive to me in this age of streaming. One would think a syndicated show is better adapted for binge-watching, especially with the norm being hour long episodes these days.
There is so much modern tv of which there is plenty that is actually good or even amazing. Much of it better than old tv. You just got stuck.
JJ Abrams and Joss Whedon have the longest shadows in Hollywood
@@seanbirch That's one of the most factually untrue statements, one could ever make ^^
If modernity is able to bring forth such great art, why do they constantly have to dredge up old properties? ^^
At this point, I'm convinced JJ Abrams is a CIA asset.
He's gotta be!
This whole last 13 years of entertainment feels like one giant Psy-Op!
The worst part isn't watching your favorite media franchise shoot itself in the feet, devolve into self-parody, and be repeatedly refused the sweet release of cancellation.
It's the cries from your fellow fans of "It's alive! it's gonna be good again! The new showrunner knows what he's doing!" every time they dig up the dead horse to start beating again.
Oh, and those fans will berate and belittle you for not enjoying it, too.
@@JosephDavies tbf a lot of these once-respected trashfire IPs run a consistent cycle of overhype and underdelivery where nobody really defends the stinkers, just conveniently forgets about them when the next announcement rolls around and it's time to get excited again.
"No, trust me, it's great! They invited me to the premiere party and let me see it early! I'm better than you!"
Hopium Springs Eternal
"It's just a little airborne! It's still good! It's still good!"
I'm glad wil wheaton said "this is really exciting" otherwise I wouldn't know what emotion I'm supposed to be feeling.
😂
Thrilling!
He's so worthless
I'm glad he didn't say "this is really boring".
"I'm glad will Wheaton said" said nobody ever. Except you, recently, weirdo!
"Former ex-Borg" - So Captain Shaw is implying that Picard is no longer an ex-Borg and is in fact a Borg?
"This is Star Trek, there is no soul". Depressing.
I'm happy that Mike is opening up his heart and is willing to get hurt again for true love.
Star Trek Picard is a toxic abuser but he says nice things and we just keep coming back to him
Picard can change. Mike can change him.
“It’s just too painful, I can’t do it anymore.” - Mike
“Yeah, I mean we don’t have to review Season 3. I wasn’t really planning to either.” - Rich
Never change lads
But the audience demands it!
I for one revel in their pain.
I was 100% certain they'd skip Picard Season 3 since they've missed like 3 or 4 seasons of Discovery. Never been so happy to be wrong :')
@@QuintessentialWalrus With Discovery I can imagine Mike and Rich can safely detach it from Star Trek as they know and love it. But they can't really do the same with Picard; it's in the name, they cannot escape its attachment to TNG.
one thing I love about Picard Every time they're on a Starship and a captain says 'open a channel' ...It makes the original sound from the next generation of opening the channel. It's a very distinct sound. Every time I hear that ring throughout the bridge it has to make me smile
You know what the Picard show should have been. Picard training cadets. With a full young cast and Picard is the headmaster of the academy. Then they go on training missions together that always get out of hand. And there is drama between students etc. Would have been a great episodic show. 5-7 seasons at least.
They don't want a white man in a position of authority. And even if they did, he would be getting shat all over by his diverse and female superiors
I agree with you
A Starfleet Academy series was proposed since the 90's, but never came about. It could have worked to some degree.
Agreed. Could have been a better Enterprise: people way out of their depth trying to find their way in the galaxy only with an experienced authority figure to guide them in this case.
Watch Prodigy, yeah yeah it's a kids show and all that, but damn it's really well done and uses the exact same idea.
Watching the light leaving Mike and Rich’s eyes is truly entertaining
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They seem pretty hopeful to me. I like this episode but like Rich and Mike said, the first show doesnt really reveal anything.
dark, I like it
15:56 It took me way too long to realize Mike was saying "Kirk, Bones, Spock" and not "Kirk bones Spock" .
I cackled 🤣👍👍
I mean isn't that how The Naked Now goes?
It’s always nice to see another fangirl in the comments
your uncle jack
Thank god someone else noticed, too
All the fanbase ever wanted was an episodic and modern TNG. Strange New Worlds I think got that message. We'll see with SNW season 2.
Much better show.
Rare piece of nu trek i've actually liked.
@Ouroboros70 and characters you actually like. When I watched Discovery. I wanted Michael to die. She didn't. I quit watching.
_The Orville_ nailed it pretty good imho, especially after the first season. _Strange New Worlds_ is the only new Trek I've actually enjoyed. Anson Mount is charismatic af as Pike.
Agreed. Mount’s Pike feels almost inspirational. At 46 a character is inspiring me again. This hasn’t happened in a very long time.
"I am knowingly watching a show that makes me miserable as I am perfectly aware it ruins a thing I love. How could this happen to me?"
The "All Good Things" Troi side-by-side has my sides in standard orbit
This was the comment I was looking for!
I thought this franchise was dead but five minutes into this episode Beverly Crusher executes a man by shooting him as he lays unconscious on the floor. In that moment I knew Star Trek was back. Thanks Terry Matalas.
exactly, i stopped watching after I laughed at that opening scene... I just couldnt do it.
Eh it was fine. She was fighting for her life. Ya'll are just babies
@@soulknife20 Boring!
Yeah, the opening was really tough.. I was yelling at my screen, when I saw the pump-gun loading mechanism of Beverly’s guns.
When Dr. Crusher vaporized that green Jo'Bril alien on TNG, Bev CRUSH-ER was born.
We all know that with transporter technology you basically die and are reassembled every time you use one so no character keeps their soul in that case.
I'm pretty sure that isn't exactly how it works, I think it's more of matter to energy and reconstitution, and the human mind is energy, so they're still the same person.
@@Jiub_SN It depends if you believe in the soul or not, if we don't have a soul it puts us back together again and we are the same person.
This was one of my favorite RLM videos in a while. You guys were firing all cylinders. Multiple times I laughed out loud.
I just realised, Wil Wheaton (50) is now 3 years older than Patrick Stewart was when he was first Capt Picard (47)
WIL WHEATON IS 50?!
Is he half Keanu Reeves? How is he 50???
Did Wesley die in the movies or something?
I only ever saw the show to its conclusion (not the films), and am surprised I haven't heard his character appearing in one of these nu-Trek shows considering all the interviews and hypemanning that Wheaton does for the stuff.
Would be fun to learn of him having become a good Captain or something, though I suppose that's too positive for nu-Trek.
@@OneWingedRose IIRC, he got whisked away by the traveler in S5 or something because he was so smart, and then he showed back up in Pic S2 as a member of "the travelers", talking to someone about bringing them onboard.
@@jceggbert5 Thanks!
Just when Mike and Rich thought they were out, the show somehow pulls them back in, like a demon dragging them into hell or something.
A battered housewife going back to an abusive husband.
I think the demon's name is Eloisecole, but it's probably actually Alexkurtz'man.
@@ChrisKola Hey, cool it with the anti-elf remarks.
It's like the Devil's tractor beam on their souls...
I think that goes for any star trek fan. Or at least the ones that thought picard was off his rocker the last 2 seasons. I could care less about the story line I am just watching just to see the old cast. Michael Dorn seems like he acts like the old Worf at least.
49:07 I love the tone in Rich’s voice as his Trek awareness is doubted slightly
That isn't Mica Burton playing Laforge's daughter. Actress is apparently Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut
Seasons 1 and 2 of Picard were a nightmare, but... They made Red Letter Media shine.
Rlm combined viewings of all the picard episodes far far outweighed Picard on its best day. That's saying something...And kind of amazing. ..And interesting.
Man did you find the silver lining.
@@danielcraig9666 Mike: "Time is something that you wish you could reverse. The things you see in the scars left on your soul. We wish we could backtrack them all it's into the infinite... I'm not done with my dialogue... into the infinite cosmos of time, time, echoes, like a butterfly's wings when we see, things, that, that change...us..as the people we once were, but will soon become, or grow into. If we reverse the time into our lives, we have to recognize the moments that we share with each other now are priceless, and if we take those moments in time, and we appreciate them, and love them, and truly realize that when we look up at the night sky and see the stars as they are, those stars, once were different stars, and we realize in here, we become something new."
One of life's greatest mysteries: How is Alex Kurtzman still employed?
Well, that's a question I cannot answer on CZcams ^^
If you’re an alum of Wesleyan (which Kurtzman is), Emerson (which this season’s showrunner is), or NYU, you never have to worry for Hollywood employment
@@tehbeernerd and people call the US a meritocracy 😄
@@helveticanoos I knew it. It's that goshdarn patriarchy again!
Same way M. Night Shamalamadingdong does, he has friends in the right places
Therapists do not "help you bury" past traumatic events. Patients often suffer amnesia of the event and the therapist help them remember. Thanks Mike and Rich for confronting this terrible trauma on behalf of all of us.
If I remember correctly, Valeris’s face isn’t showing wonderment so much as thinking they’re all about to die because Kirk is hauling ass out of the space dock at impulse speed.
I do believe it was mentioned somewhere that she is 1/2 romulan and vulcan
How to retcon that Picard is (not) a robot: "Hey, Picard, remember that day when we all told you, you are now a robot?" "Yes, I remember it exactly, it was the first of April three years ago. ... first of April! You bastards!"
Jokes aside, They use Stardates in Star Trek rather then a Gregorian calendar (which I suppose only applies to planet Earth anyway).
Q turns Picard back into a human as a favor.
@@XxDemon23xX Stardates can be translated into Gregorian, in universe, and are a way to compensate for time dilation. Plus, we have no reason to think that non-Starfleet members use stardates. After all, if you spend your entire life on Earth, then what use is a stardate to you?
@@XxDemon23xX stardates are only applied on ships and stations, because it's the way for them to keep track of shift changes.
there's an episode with a character giving a debrief, and he states "this day at this hour, on stardate whatever,.... lately, on this date and this hour, corresponding to stardate whatever... and then one hour later, on stardate whatever...", so they keep track of days and hours, but they've simplified it to stardates 'for the record'.
I wouldn't be surprised if they never even referenced the robot stuff in this season. It didn't happen!
That Deanna Troy side-by-side😂😂😂
I thought that was brilliant. 🙂
I lost it
37:50
Just watching ep4 now. Picard just said. "10 fucking hours!"
And every Changeling uses Odo's bucket
17:16 The Ink Spots are such an awesome old timey band. Glad so many shows, movies, and games are using them
Considering Mike’s love for old people, I’m surprised he doesn’t love every second of this show
I think he only loves to laugh at them and their ailments.
He likes olds he can laugh at...I don't think he wants to laugh at these olds.
Even Mike knows that elderly abuse is wrong
Crusher finally had the son she always wanted.
You mean Picards son
Mike's explanation that she could have artificially created this son from her late husband's DNA and her own actually makes more sense to me than the idea that she was impregnated by Picard again in her mid-50s.
But yes, it really sounds like a "Wesley was such a disappointment.... This time I'll pick the best genes and create my Arnold Schwarzenegger to go with my previous Danny DeVito"-scenario... and I love it
@@NurWahrheiten almost like she tries to get the best of both worlds ?
@@MadDead :D perfect
lol but yes, I don't think Mike's theory is right because if he is a clone of Jack Crusher, wouldn't Picard immediately recognize this guy since he's the same age Jack would have been when Picard was close to him? If he was a clone, he would look pretty much identical and Picard would immediately go, "hey, you're Jack Crusher." There has to be a weirder reason these space pirates are after this guy.
The leather chairs making microfart sounds really elevated my whole experience of watching this video.
That scene of 1701-A leaving ESD in Undiscovered Country still gives me chills.
Mystery person is Worf . The short responses and specifically “You are a warrior” is spot on Worf dialogue.
And as the text decrypts onto screen, its blink and you miss it Klingon Glyphs :)
I bet he's on the giant, sinister looking ship at the end. It's a red herring as a danger.
@@QuantumElectricians it's not even a giant ship. It only is big in comparison to Crusher's knat. The Schimitar would dwarf it.
yeah, it was quite obvious. It's strange how RLM get the most tiniest of details but sometimes can't see what's right in their face.
trailers kind of point to this as well so I think you're right
This is like finding out your elderly neighbor is back to sending money to romance scammers she met on WattsApp again, a year after going broke helping her internet boyfriend from Iran who was a doctor and was super in love with her but then mysteriously disappeared.
Lol wtf
This is too detailed
If "true" trek fans think like this I am glad to be a "fake" fan from their eyes because they sound so fucking weird.
I'm kind of amazed at how I remember the plot of the previous seasons about as well as Mike even though I've never watched the show myself.
"I can't quit you!" - Rich and Mike to Picard
Damn, how'd y'all get through the whole Season 1 recap without mentioning Data confessing his love to Picard before saying "please let me fucking die?"
I think the confession went the other way around.
I have never seen a single episode or movie in the Star Trek universe, but have watched these reviews religiously
Same here, I've watched EVERYTHING Star Trek related the hack frauds have made... but nothing from the actual franchise... except for Galaxy Quest, hahaha
@@DanArnets1492 you guys really should!
Honestly, if you're at all interested in current Trek, the show I would recommend is _Strange New World._ The story structure manages to capture the spirit of the older shows with modern sensibilities. Other than Pike's backstory, you won't need to have much backhand knowledge of Trek to enjoy that.
Honorable mention: _Lower Decks,_ which satirizes older Trek (largely TNG) but in spite of it's premise as an adult cartoon series produced by a guy who did Rick & Morty, manages to really capture the spirit of what fans loved about the franchise. Although it's far more enjoyable as an existing Trek nerd, I've met a number of people who came into the franchise from this show and able to follow that series pretty neatly.
You guys capture my mood surrounding Trek so much!
Great review, as usual. Probably mentioned elsewhere in the thousands of comments, but Valeris’s look in ST VI was as much a reaction to Kirk having them fly out of space dock faster than usual as it was a clue about her being the traitor.
I like how Shaw demonizes Picard for being "former ex-borg"... right in front of Seven.
It was ridiculous.
But you could say it justifies her treating him like Captain Queeg.
I guess seven shouldn't be offended since she's just a regular ex-borg
"Former Ex Borg" is a bizarre line. It’s like saying "Ex, ex Borg". Using a double negative to call him a Borg?
If he really wanted to cut deep, he should have looked at Seven while pointing to Picard asking her if he was her Ex Borg. He would be completely wrong, but the entire point is to disrespect him.
@@oohhboy-funhouse Maybe Picard was an ex-Borg, and robo-Picard is a former ex-Borg. Yeah, that must be it.
@@retrogamingcommentary4163 Does Shaw know that Picard is a robot? Has Fed law/policy changed, so they aren't slaves? P-bot would have every incentive not to reveal his status. Additionally, is P-bot legally Picard thus would keep the vineyard etc? Thomas Riker was treated as an entirely different and distinct person.
I’ve never watched a single episode of Star Trek: Picard but must have watched 8 hours of episode reviews by Mike and Rich. 😂
you're doing life right, I watched the first season and I'm dumber for it
@@notanactualuser season 1 and I was done.
@32:50 Riker just won't stop playing jazz no matter what's going on.
No Starfleet ships seem to be quietly decommissioned these days - they're all 're-fitted', which now seems to mean 'totally rebuilt from scratch into a totally different size and shape'.
I could listen to them do the lofty schlocky S1/S2 Picard dialogue for hours lol