[Tiste Simeon]

NEEEEEER- I mean hey thanks for the breakdown I've got prime I might check out Picard (though is that a bad place to start?)

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Tiste Simeon, on 01 August 2025 - 09:38 AM, said:

NEEEEEER- I mean hey thanks for the breakdown I've got prime I might check out Picard (though is that a bad place to start?)

Guilty!

I think it definitely lands better after TNG - it's heavily tied in with a lot of visiting recurring characters. It's a mixed bag to begin with - but the final series in particular is absolutely a love letter to TNG and wouldn't work at all without it.

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[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Tiste Simeon, on 01 August 2025 - 09:38 AM, said:

NEEEEEER- I mean hey thanks for the breakdown I've got prime I might check out Picard (though is that a bad place to start?)

You'd still be giving money to Paramount.

It would be more ethical to find a way to watch it that wouldn't...

[Edit: on second thought, perhaps Amazon just buys the rights to a show from Paramount for a specific time period in advance, instead of paying Paramount on the basis of views. In that case, they use viewership numbers during that period to decide whether to also buy the rights for a subsequent period (it's a bit like neuron activation... neurons either fire or they don't, no partial activation). But in terms of expected value you're effectively giving money to Paramount... ghostly fractions of future possible money (that investors will pay real money now for---like Schrodinger's fractional quantum ghosts of the future... (because the great thing about analogies is that they let us explain things we don't understand fully enough in terms of things we understand even less!---like reality, beyond our heuristic wells...).]

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: Yesterday, 12:33 PM

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TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 01 August 2025 - 10:54 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 01 August 2025 - 09:38 AM, said:

NEEEEEER- I mean hey thanks for the breakdown I've got prime I might check out Picard (though is that a bad place to start?)

Guilty!

I think it definitely lands better after TNG - it's heavily tied in with a lot of visiting recurring characters. It's a mixed bag to begin with - but the final series in particular is absolutely a love letter to TNG and wouldn't work at all without it.

I'd go one further and say to appreciate Picard you need TNG (Including the movies) and Voyager. Not a deep dive, following any credible 'best of' list would cover you.