{"id":23632,"date":"2020-02-20T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23632"},"modified":"2020-02-20T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T01:32:08","slug":"star-trek-picard-s01e05-stardust-city-rag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/02\/20\/star-trek-picard-s01e05-stardust-city-rag\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Picard S01E05 Stardust City Rag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek: Picard<\/em> S01E05: A somewhat uneven mix of Las Vegas heist caper and serious themes. Parts I greatly enjoyed (the outfits, Patrick Stewart going overboard), other parts (the opening scene in particular)&#8230;not as much. Not <em>bad<\/em>, but not as good as prior episodes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Oh, sure, they bring back one of the Borg Babies, just to kill him off? Okay, sure, it&#8217;s motivation, and ties into Seven&#8217;s story, but it&#8217;s a sad end to what was an interesting <em>Voyager<\/em> character. (And while for those who know the <em>Voyager<\/em> backstory, it&#8217;s part of a much larger arc and works for motivation, for those who don&#8217;t make that connection, could this come off as another &#8220;fridging&#8221; moment?)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Lots of fan service (tranya, and both Mr. Mott&#8217;s barbershop and Quark&#8217;s Bar have apparently either gone franchise or just moved to Freecloud).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>More info on the Fenris Rangers, as it turns out that&#8217;s what Seven has been doing. I did like the look at what Seven&#8217;s been up to over the past 14 years, and I hope this isn&#8217;t the last we see of her in this show.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Given the horrible surgery of the opening scene, and it being obvious that Bjayzl was still in the same business, I&#8217;m entirely okay with Seven&#8217;s taking her out.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>That name, though&#8230;. Bjayzl? I was half-convinced that it was &#8220;vajazzle&#8221; at first.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Raffi&#8217;s detour to try to reconnect with her estranged son fleshed out her character&#8217;s story more, and introduced a few more pieces of the conspiracy puzzle, but did seem like it wrapped up pretty quickly. And his wife seemed rather nonplussed at meeting her husband&#8217;s estranged mother, as well. Important pieces, but maybe wrapped up too quickly?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>There was suspicion that Jurati was going to be a bit problematic, and now it&#8217;s pretty clear that her meeting with Commodore Oh likely included giving her some amount of information about Soji being &#8220;the destroyer&#8221;. There&#8217;s definitely more to come here.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>And it&#8217;s finally confirmed that Dahj and Soji&#8217;s mom isn&#8217;t a real person, but an AI construct that helps keep them under control.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Bruce Maddox was definitely not the person we met all those years ago on TNG. Lots of &#8220;mad scientist&#8221; vibes in this show (Maddox, Bjayzl, all the staff on the Artifact&#8230;).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bjayzl, vajazzle, let&#8217;s call the whole thing off&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047],"tags":[3617,3464,4097],"class_list":["post-23632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-pic","tag-picard","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}