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Paramount’s Star Trek Struggle Is a Shitshow of Its Own Making
“My goal is that there should be a Star Trek something on all the time on All Access,” CBS TV Studios president David Stapf told Deadline in 2018, when the return of Captain Jean-Luc Picard for a new Star Trek series was a glimmer in the mind’s eye. Five years and a name change later,…
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Damn, Where Has This Star Trek: Picard Been?
Star Trek: Picard is a show that, for its first two seasons, vacillated wildly between whether or not it wanted to be a self-serious look at how time had changed and wounded Jean-Luc Picard, or a daring, often unhinged heroic adventure for its titular hero. Its third season has been as strong as it is…
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Patrick Stewart Was Behind Star Trek: Picard’s Big F-Bomb This Week
There was a time when Star Trek’s utopian future was meant to show people had grown beyond conflict and profanity, but as the franchise has been reborn in the streaming age and more mature material has become common, the creatives behind it have come to accept that, well: the occasional f-bomb is only logical.
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Star Trek: Picard Returns, With the Sins of the Past in Tow
Over two wildly different seasons so far, Star Trek: Picard has tried to navigate just what it wants to say about its titular legend. Are our memories of Jean-Luc Picard justified or warped through rose-tinted recollection? Is he too tied to the past, or the only figure Starfleet could turn to to navigate a tumultuous…