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2020-01-27T23:52:10.502Z


Based on the opening of Star Trek: Picard, this is a series that a character like Jean-Luc Picard and an actor like Patrick Stewart deserve. This is not just a cheap strings ...


More than just nostalgia: "Star Trek: Picard" fiercely returns to where we need to be

Based on the opening of Star Trek: Picard, this is a series that a character like Jean-Luc Picard and an actor like Patrick Stewart deserve. This is not just an inexpensive grasp on the strings of nostalgia, but a series that today's political climate demands

More than just nostalgia: "Star Trek: Picard" fiercely returns to where we need to be

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"He is Jean-Luc Picard. If he wants to go on one last mission, then that's what we will do."
(Elder Dr. Beverly Crasher in the latest episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which will take place in part 25 years in the future)

It might be hard to grasp this at first glance, especially since the premiere episode of Star Trek: Picard is framed in details that would only excite the likes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In three minutes and twenty seconds from its inception, the new series contains plenty of details that will thrill everyone who grew up on the classic from the late Eighties and early nineties. The captain and Data on the Enterprise, they play poker, is bartender Earl Gray. When Picard wakes up and his dog runs to him, we find out that his name is "Number 1," as the nickname of Will Riker, the captain's right hand in those days. The end of the episode (without spoiler) will not even say anything to anyone who has not seen the original series starring. But "Picard" seems more than just a craving.

Someone on Twitter wrote that in the middle of watching the episode, he had to stop to explain to the couple the meaning that Jean-Luc Picard's character had for him as a child of mixed origin. Captain Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, was the epitome of Gene Roddenberry's humanistic vision, creator of Star Trek and its first series. More than the elaborate alien mythology, more of the technological futurism that has largely materialized since 1966 to the present, more inexpensive action scenes that seemed ridiculous in real time, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was a series of integrity and a groundbreaking series. One that attracted viewers who had never seen on the small screen people who looked like them, all the more so as part of a star fleet flagship crew.

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Retiring Captain and Number 1. Patrick Stewart, "Star Trek: Picard" (Photo: PR)

Star Trek: Picard, Patrick Stewart (Photo: PR, PR)

According to the next generation, humanity in the 24th century is utopian, innocent of greed, discrimination, racism and slander, and all its virtues are reflected in the captain who commanded the enterprise. Stuart Magnet-always brought with him the full Shakespearean volume of his training, and soared Jean-Luc Picard's life that was several degrees above any other character in the series and the franchise films. His very presence elevated the Star Trek universe. His Picard is an impressive man, resourceful and stately, brilliant military strategist, but first and foremost a moral, tolerant and peace-loving diplomat.

Based on the first episode of "Picard" (which aired on Amazon Prime Video on Friday), this is a series that a character like Jean-Luc Picard and an actor like Patrick Stewart deserve. The "Next Generation" featured several masterpieces throughout its 178 episodes, although it broke through in the racial diversity and ideals it presented, but as a television product it was the product of outdated conventions of the medium, as well as a budget that rarely allowed its aesthetics to rise above the cartoons.

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You don't rely on fictional danger. "Star Trek: Picard" (Photo: PR)

Star Trek: Picard, Patrick Stewart (Photo: PR, PR)

Now, without giving up exciting action scenes - the fight at the beginning of the episode and the rooftop blast scene were both spectacular - the new series aligns with its protagonist. Her feet are literally on the ground. It is impressive, restrained, thoughtful and dedicated, much less geared toward action refining and much more into suspense and mystery drama. It is more real - you do not rely on a fictitious sense of danger through great death just to be eliminated by time games. Even with the help of "red shirts", there are extras whose purpose is to make peas. Even the opening of "Picard" is much gentler than its predecessors.

What's more, old Jean-Luc appears far less heroic, more sober and defeated. "Dreams are great," he tells his housekeeper. "The awakening is the one I'm starting to dislike." But apparently he has no choice but to wake up. Picard has been planting several plot seeds already in its first episode, posing questions for us about what happened in the past and what is about to happen. But as the seemingly nostalgic framing suggests - Datta's spirit (Brent Spinner) hovers over events and once again establishes some of the most beautiful and touching "next generation" motifs. The android victim of the Android, who lost his life when he saved his commander and other friends in "Star Trek: Nemesis" from 2002 (the latest film with Cast "The Next Generation"), present all the time. "Picard" also seeks to explore the meaning of being human this time around, both within its plot and as an allegory of contemporary reality, as Star Trek always did.

Spoilers for the first episode in the next two paragraphs.

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Returns beautiful motifs. "Star Trek: Picard" (Photo: PR)

Star Trek: Picard, Patrick Stewart (Photo: PR, PR)

The whole conversation between Picard and Dage outside the Star Fleet archive, when he told her she was an android, was very exciting. Not because she relied on emotional baggage that was cultivated decades ago, but for decades. "If you are who I think you are," he tells her, "you will happen to me in ways you cannot understand." Daze's character is a beautiful echo of her father, with all the history involved, and as a result of her death a few minutes later, it was unfortunate despite her brief acquaintance. The world is twisting its nose in the face of creatures like it, and in fact in the days of the series the law forbids creating like them. In the process, we discover that the star fleet is less characterized by integrity and spirit, and has abandoned millions of Romulans to their bitter fate - human beings themselves are not humane.

The enigmatic end of the episode, revealing that the Romanian site of reconstruction was built on the ruins of the screw spacecraft, communicates the idea of ​​humanity and synthetics. One of the most iconic episodes of "Next Generation" is "Best of Both Worlds," a double episode that sealed the third season and opened the fourth. As part of a Screw spacecraft, a strain of aliens acting as a collective while connecting all its details to one system, "assimilated" Picard into it and made it one of their own. Since the knowledge of each of the screw men - born as human and then connected to the system - is uploaded to the collective system, the aliens planned to use Picard's knowledge to find a way to subdue humanity and assimilate the whole, and even use it as their speaker for that purpose. Even when the captain finally managed to free himself from their grips, the incident left him with mental scars. Later, when a detail of the screw was captured by them in the beautiful episode "I, Screw" of the fifth season, Picard's perception of the screw was challenged when it became clear that, apart from the collective, the individual manages to form a personal identity for himself.

In its futuristic and ever-campaigning, Star Trek on its various incarnations has always sought to explore human psyche and human nature. Today, by 2020, as war refugees are knocking on the doors of the nations of the world, England is preparing for a brawl and in the United States the rifts are growing, Roddenberry's vision of united humanity looks even further away than when "The Next Generation" ended in 1994. That's one of the reasons why Picard's image, one of the most important in the science fiction genre in particular and on television in general, is so much needed on screen again. This is also one of the reasons why Picard is probably more than just an opportunistic push for nostalgia.

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Refugees of the future. "Star Trek: Picard" (Photo: PR)

Star Trek: Picard, Patrick Stewart (Photo: PR, PR)

A new episode of Star Trek: Picard is available every Friday at Amazon Prime Video, near the United States.

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