STAR TREK PICARD - Stardust City Rag

"Stardust City Rag" 
Season 1 Episode 5
Director : Johnathan Frakes
Stardate: 2386/2399

Hey trekkers Spacerguy here. Star Trek Picard is showing us the before and after Trek timelines with characters crossing paths and slugging it out in the galaxy. Parents be warned this episode has some might say a "Tarantino bloodfest" We see the Seven Domes where Seven of Nine - Jeri Ryan  (from Voyager) gets her evil on some aliens.

PICARD (Patrick Stewart) SEVEN (Jeri Ryan)

Why I hear you cry? simple really. Its payback, cos like shes far from all right with dark violence, so now shes angry and besides Federation justice on Vergessen? Forget about it. The beloved Federation has fallen my Trekkie friends. I'm right aren't I?  Meanwhile Picard's scheming is taking shape aboard the La Sirena with plans to "save the galaxy" So he's in a ropey Allo Allo pirate costume spouting hazeri values taking on renegades. Sevens cold blooded murdering - whats going on trekkers? Doesn't Picards Starfleet pomp count anymore?

EVAN EVAGORA

 The year is 2386 so like did Lieutenant Itcheb really deserve to be tortured..? All that horrible drilling as that cruel wretched Bjayzi toyed with her ex-borg victim. She harvested and detached Itcheb's cybernetic devices which identified who he was... Borg! (Not that Picard,- (Patrick Stewart) Seven (Jeri Ryan) or Itcheb (Manu Intiraymi) ( ever had any choice ) Poor Itcheb (from Voyager now ex-Borg looked so miserable with Seven except here was someone crying out  for the end. His optical implant is gone - theres really too much damage done. Seven is torn but finishes the job putting Itcheb to rest.

SEVEN AND ITCHEBS FINAL MOMENT

 Only the game isnt over, it appears Bjayzi has more loose ends to harvest. ..... Seven, determined, is not going to let Bjayzi get away. (trekkies we can whine about the horrors but facts are facts, outerspace is a cold unfriendly place. You'll know when you get ur own starship and besides, whatever happened to an eye for an eye? Why didn't more of us turn out for Star Trek Beyond?

Integrity, intelligence, courage, imagination, and determination are core qualities of Starfleet Officers which sounds fine but doesn't wash at the box office, just compare Star Trek box office to Star Wars numbers.

PICARD GLEAMING FACTS FROM MADDOX

Time runs out for Maddox who's surprisingly been on the run. In a crazy twist, now its Juranti time to turn killer. The guy everyones been after spills the beans before croaking it, unconscious and all that other shoulda coulda woulda hazeri until he dies on the table.

FREECLOUD

Beaming down to freecloud in cornball outfits was like a duh what? moment for me. The federations most revered captain wants to play games? Like seriously this is the plan?  Seven's plan meant using herself as bait and with her Starfleet - Borg experience lure that Bjayzi evil witch out into the open. Now in light of Picard and Seven striving towards their "humanity" Here was an act of retribution fuelled by pure murderous revenge - wouldn't you say?

SEVEN KILLS BJAYZI

QUESTIONS:

1.Is Star Trek Picard delivering a new exciting trend boldly going where no-one has gone before?
2. Are you saddened by itcheb's death? Did Bjayzi get what she deserved?
3. Star Wars doesn't pull any punches why should Star Trek?
 4. How could Dr Maddox really not know what Bjayi was dealing in?
5. Why doesn't Picard not get recognised all the time?
6. Why doesn't Rios ship the "La Sirena's" bridge not have an ad-blocker?
7. Is the United Federation of Planets as an institution failing?


Live Long and Prosper, Trekkers

STAR TREK PICARD - ABSOLUTE CANDOR

Absolute Candor 
Season 1 Episode 4
Director : Johnathan Frakes
Stardate: 2385/2399

Hey trekkers Spacerguy here. The good 'ol Enterprise-D TNG days were really still in their infancy with the Romulans plotting and flourishing in the shadows. So now, Klingon Warrior to Romulan, do lets be honest now, Picard's getting all friendly with Romulans,  good thing eh we know more about Worf', Kimpec and Gowrons family bloodlines eh? Just saying like, our ex-Starfleet friend is bound to run into trouble sooner or later with aliens being aliens.

So now whats Picard going to do? No longer an Admiral or captain of a starship, our friend takes us on a voyage to planet "Freecloud" for heavens sake!!! What do you think of this change in Picard's status?

Following the clues, Raffi one of Picards recruits on the Sirena tracks Bruce Maddox see, remember him? The guy so enthused with dissecting Data in Star Trek's Measure of a Man to build a whole army of Datas (which turned out to be a showcase trial episode). Riker as prosecution using cutting words putting sythetic dignity up for total scrutiny. That was Maddox TNG but has he succeeded on some other dynamic?

Turns out Picard orders a stop-over at the planet Vashti, where Picard and Raffi took Romulan refugees 14 years previously promising, promising, promising. "The Federation....." Upon arrival, Picard finds Elnor (Evan Evagora), a young Romulan fighter he befriended during the relocation. All is not happy families. Meanwhile, Narek continues flirting with Soji while Narissa’s impatience grows with this lark is going on in the Borg artifact.

 You get the gist, admiral Picard is on a mission except it gets dicey eventually on Vashti. Trouble is moral fortitude and the benefit of logic falls on deaf ears when faced with cheesed off aliens. Time to,  beam me up, Rios! Guess who else after a battlefight with a Klingon Bird of Prey? Seven of Nine! Who Hooo, Let the games begin.

Live Long and Prosper Trekkers

STAR TREK PICARD - THE END IS THE BEGINNING

"The End is the Beginning"
First aired: 6 February 2020
Writers:
Michael Chabon & James Duff
Director:
Hanelle M. Culpepper
Stardate: 2385/2399
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Harry Treadaway, Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd,
Hi trekkers, heres my rundown of Star Trek Picard episode 3. We know Picard's rationale with Fleet  Admiral Clancy at Starfleet H.Q. fell on deaf ears. Clearly Picard had a fight which signified a new direction. Give me a new ship or fire my butt. What do you think happened? Patrick Stewart does a deadly job appearing shocked, later.

PICARD TRIES LOGIC AND FAILS

He tells Raffi outside Starfleet H.Q. the news from banned, dismantled synths and halted research but why would the Tal Shiar attack attack a (synthetic?) fleet designed to protect them? states Admiral Picard and yeah he got canned so its easy to see trekkers. Isn't it? Starfleet is guilty of hiding something. News of Picards resignation got Raffi fired so its clear why she was cheezed off.

RAFFI AND PICARD OUTSIDE STARFLEET HQ

 Its a great story and one which leaves millions of Romulans on their home planet up sh*t creek facing a super nova, haha Ah but no, c'mon seriously lets be decent. Even though Starfleets seems to have adopted an crap attitude cursing our pointy eared Romulan friends to burn (given the Mars attack) was all the excuse Starfleet needed.

PICARD AT RAFFI'S

Why is the Federation turning its backs? Some say, Starfleet used to be heralded as the perfect driving force for "we come in peace" in the galaxy but Picard is really undoing 54 years of unity in the Federation. Why I hear you cry? To begin we have secret Romulan assassins operating on Earth which is an interesting sub-plot in episode 3.

COMMODORE O - WHATS SHE AFTER?

It has been voiced that patrick Stewart took on Star Trek Picard because he believed the show could represent the current world we live in the wake of Brexit and Donald Trumps presidency. Theres a guy on youtube who says " This opening definitely hammers that home with a government more interested in helping itself than people who may end up emigrating to Earth, so what do think my trekker friends?

2368 AND SOJI

2368 has been working aboard the borg cube and mentoring Soji who is adept at communicating to nameless borg humanoids owing in part to her android capabilities which she is unaware.

Do you think Bruce Maddox created Soji?
Will STP producers ressurect Data from Soji positronic "DNA"?
Which is your favorite ST picard episode?
Bet you love the ending, engage! It was obvious he was going to say it!
Seven and Data....

SEVEN AND DATA

Live Long and Prosper.