Yeah, it's wild.
The Fugitive Doctor has really caught on with people, and RTD has embraced the Timeless Child concept, so....maybe?
Yeah, it's a double-take of a sentence.
"Kerblam" was an interesting-but-flawed episode, and my memory of "Praxeus" is...fuzzy, at best.
The headline has since been changed:
Trudeau to fill Senate vacancies before retiring: source
we didn’t really learn much more about her than we already knew.
Yeah. I said in my original comment that the Georgiou storyline is the strongest one, but it still feels very much like the first chapter that sets up future development, rather than something that pushed her story very far forward. It basically positions her as realizing that maybe a "monster with a conscience" isn't so useless after all, and that she can work to atone for her past misdeeds.
Which is fine...but it's still a setup for future stories that may never happen. It very much feels like a series pilot, rather than a standalone movie.
I completely agree with all of the other stuff you mention about the other characters, and I think it just screams, "we tried to compress an entire season's worth of story into a single movie." A lot of stuff happens, but everything that would get us invested in the characters was cut.
The Fuzz reveal makes a lot more sense if if happens in, say, episode 7 out of 10.
But that being said, we can see Starbase 17 (two of them, in different locations!), Starbase 25 and Deep Space 3 across the treaty line
It's a very confusing graphic, but I think the line might intead represent the area of space in which Alok's team operates - it starts to animate as "Alpha Squad" is highlighted amongst the list of available S31 squads. But it certainly looks like a border, so it's ambiguous, at best. The entire sequence is also questionable, considering it contains "footage" of Georgiou in the 32nd Century.
This is a TOS-style stardate, but back then stardates were pretty much random, and given the state of stardates these days, tells us absolutely nothing about when this is set
At least one online Stardate calculator spits out a result of April 17, 2324, which sounds about right based on Garrett's age. I have no idea what formula is being applied to get that result, though.
While civil unrest and secession from the Federation would lead to chaos and Tasha escaping from the colony around 2353, that collapse wouldn’t start until around 2339.
A barely-related sidenote: I firmly believe that Turkana IV was an independent human colony, and never a Federation member. In "Legacy," Picard says that the planet "severed relations" with the Federation, which doesn't necessarily mean they seceded (and, really, the word "seceded" was right there for them to use). This would also help explain why the Federation allowed the planetary government to collapse the way that it did, with no apparent intervention.
I would be happy to see these characters again, under a different writer/director team.
I think I liked it more than you did, but there are few criticisms I've seen that I don't agree with. Enjoying it does not necessarily equate with thinking it was good, you know?
I'm hearing that she may have come aboard at Michelle Yeoh's request.
I've always thought that the Terran Empire is inherently abusive, and that Georgiou is best used as the ultimate nature vs. nurture case study.
In that sense, I was glad to see some aspects of her younger life explored. I find this "Hunger Games"-esque concept at least more interesting than the "revenge-seeking ex-lover" part of it, which was a lot less compelling to me.
I'm guessing that this is something they do if the previous emperor dies of natural causes or willingly abdicates.
I can't remember how many candidates they said there were, but I assume each one is sponsored by some kind of nobility within the Empire.
With both The Hunger Games and the Terrans being inspired by the Roman Empire, I didn't think it was entirely out of left field (with the caveat that the Mirror Universe is a very silly place).
Who was that hologram lady supposed to be at the end? She looks vaguely familiar but I couldn’t place her.
That was, unexpectedly, the legendary Jamie Lee Curtis.
We're looking in to it, but I'm not sure when a solution may be found. It's actually worse than you know when it comes to lemmy.world content making it to us - think days, not hours.