Grab your beers and dump your warp cores, because we're boldly going once more into the world of Star Trek Picard, this time to review Episode 4 - Absolute Candour.
It’s a constant source of irony to me that Hollywood, in its hypocrisy, will praise a woman for being strong and denounce a man as toxic when the actions of both were exactly the same.
@@zztopz7090 I was attempting to highlight the fact that certain hypocritical people will say that some actions are "strong" or "empowering" if a female character does it, but will denounce those same actions as "toxic" or "problematic" if done by a male character. Here's a perfect example: I'll give you a scenario with all context clues regarding sex of the characters removed any you'll try to figure out if they're the actions of a "toxic male" or a "strong woman." Character A meets Character B. Character B makes a few reasonable and non threatening statements to character A about their appearance, probably intended to defuse the situation with humor. Character A assaults Character B, steals from them, and leaves with no apparent repercussions. Is Character A a "Strong Woman" or a "Toxic Male?" The correct answer is yes. Those are both story beats that perfectly mirror each other taken from the 1984 Sci-fi / Horror classic The Terminator (The scene where he beats up three street thugs and takes their clothes) and a deleted scene from the 2019 film Captain Marvel (where she crushes a biker's hand for telling her that she should smile more, and steals his motorcycle).
@Bryan the Figure man I don't disagree with your initial statement at least. I'm talking about those in charge of media who know this isn't how the world actually works or should even work yet are attempting to brainwash people into accepting it. Those are the hypocrites to which I'm referring. They want a populace that doesn't think for themselves and will simply accept any narrative given to them. Problem is people are pattern seeking creatures by nature and if the patterns they see aren't reflective of the narrative BS being foisted upon them they have only two options go further down the rabbit hole of cognitive dissonance, or realize they're being lied to.
Picard is on a deperate mission to reach a girl before the Rolumans find her.. while the Romulans know exactly who she is, where she is, heck she's on a Romulan borg ship sleeping with a Roluman spy. but hey, Picard needs to go do some chocobo farming before the Romulans find her. Great plot.
Chocobo farming! I laughed out loud at that. I literally started hearing one of the chocobo themes in my head, the more casual relaxing one. I wanna see clips of all this side quest nonsense set to that theme now, contrasted with them saying how they have to get to her before it's too late.
Dont forget that even the last episode showed..the romulans were right all along :D...Even TNG Picard would´ve ordered that darn android village to be bombed into dust with quantum torpedos,considering the risk they could pose
@Joe Blow Indeed. I remember how we enjoyed ST when we were kids and this I dare not even think of seeing before checking the TCD’s review, that's how deep we sank - "fuck off ST" (in Drinker’s voice)..
I, for one, hope that SOMEONE will pull the franchise out of the shitter. Just like Star Wars does, they need, dare I say _require,_ their own Kevin Feige; someone who has the necessary vision that these kind of shows depend on to have a consistent and, more importantly, _lasting_ impact. Both Disney and Kurtzman/JJ/Bad Robot/Secret Hideout/et al have acted like their respective productions were essentially MadLibs, where they just inserted names and jargon into scripts that are basically simply Young Adult drivel (emphasis on the simple). I just don't see people revisiting these shows, either rewatching them or doing "deep dive" retrospectives on the issues they tackled, years from now, let alone decades. Yeah, I will say it, the old shows are dated and many episodes where they tried to make a point really failed. But there is, or at this point was, a heart and soul to them, not to mention some amazing performances by several of the actors that is completely missing from what is on display today. And I know this might already have been said, but while I'm all for "strong female characters" Disney (i.e. Kathleen Kennedy) and Kurtzman - N - Crew have done a HORRIBLE job of portraying them. Either A) they surround the female lead with overly dumb or over the top chauvinistic (or both) men or B) they basically put her in roles where a 250 pound man would normally be comfortable, not to mention actually believable. Or in some cases both, like Michael Burnham. It's sad, really, because just like boys, girls need good role models, too, but they won't find them in today's Trek. Instead, they get someone who is belligerent, obstinate, violent at times, and apparently just does whatever the fuck they want regardless of whatever kind of command structure is in place. Oh, wait a minute. They are routinely dropping F-bombs now, aren't they. Well, put that point up on the bit board, too, I guess. :/ You know, Trek _used_ to inspire kids to become astrophysicists, doctors, scientists, and, yes, even engineers (thanks, Scotty!), but now Trek actually makes you _more_ dumb when you watch it. They are making the same mistake the movies ran into. That being trying to turn it into action shlock. Yes, Trek can certainly have plenty of action and fights/battles in it, but it just isn't made for that. It wouldn't have lasted as long as it has it it had been that way in the beginning. Sorry this comment got so long. It's just that there's so much wrong and when I get going... ;) I actually told my friends that I would avoid watching anything about Trek until I heard that it was finally OK to watch again, because I realized that it's actually starting to make me a very bitter person, which is something entirely very "un-Trek-like". :/ However, I just can't resist The Drinker's charms. :P In the meantime, I guess there's still The Orville. ;) I now leave you to get back to whatever it was you were doing. ;) Take care, all! :) EDIT: Small grammar FU fixed
@Lord Brain It's actually moving to Hulu as a hulu original, Macfarlane says he's excited about that since he doesn't need to prune down episodes for runtime anymore.
@@eXpriest They need to up their game and get some better writers too. While it's a million times better than this new "Star Trek" crap, it's still a lot less than it could be, and season two was overall worse than season one, except for a few episodes.
@Lord Brain I don't know where all the cool kids go to get free shit nowadays but hulu is the only licensed streaming service that carries it and of course I would never condone space piracy. And no, we're not related, other than both being large white dudes we don't even look similar.
Wait, Picard needs a warrior and his first thought isn't to call up the Klingons and call in a few favours? Isn't Picard a highly honoured human in the Klingon Empire?
Volrag yeah like isn’t Worf the Chancellor or Federation Embassador or some shit now ( I can’t keep up with all the fucking ret-conning that goes on these days).
@@aldunlop4622 Assuming Martok is still the chancellor, Worf might still be his ambassador to the Federation. So Picard would definitely have a very strong "in" if that were the case. He might even be able to get Worf himself if Worf were able to convince Martok to allow him to go on a dangerous mission to honor his former captain.
"I AM NOT A MERRY MAN!" lol, Michael Dorn displays more charisma in those couple of seconds than every actor on this series from beginning to end combined.
@@Coramelimane that doesn't sound plausible. I like the origin of V'Ger being the origin of the Borg. Can't remember what game that was from.... Making I'm mixing things up. It's been years since I've seen that Origin of the Borg in-game video.
In the final episode of the season I want to see old, bearded, dementia Picard from "All Good Things..." appear at the apex of whatever stupid space battle is happening and shout "Q! Enough of this!" - Q pops in, smirks, snaps his fingers, and cancels the show.
Regarding your point about Luke and Picard: the funny thing is, the whole "hero is now an old man who kinda gave up" can and WAS done well. Logan did it nicely with Wolverine. Batman Beyond did it well with Bruce Wayne. These writers are either hacks or deliberately malicious. Possibly both.
The writers don't care about what they write. Kurzman wants to fulfill his dream of running a franchise, while the entire writing team wants to "rewrite the western patriarchy culture".
@@jrich749 i dont think it's about saving money to spend on special effects for our benefit. cheap writers are easily manipulated and controlled, they'll happily dance to the tune of the woke overlords. jon favreau asks 10bn for mandalorian, and has the power to ban kathleen kennedy from the set.
That episode was where Q let Picard reverse a critical choice in his life that he thought was wrong. If only Q could come back and do that again but with whatever choice Picard made that turned him into Jake Skywalker this time around.
@@whitworth5s248 If only Q could come back, snap his fingers, causing a bright flash, and give us back Roddenberry's Trek, not Jar Jar Abrams' Trek. Maybe with a Redstone back in charge of things at ViacomCBS that will happen if the rumor Q is coming back for season 2 of this shit show. Too bad he can't meet up with Michael have her pull her your mansplaining BS and have him flash her out of existence.
@@thepunchableface1506 Until the kwisatz haderach who's like them, but better and male, comes along to save everything. If the new movie follows that I can already see the twitter storm. Not the ultimate kwisatz haderach though, that's a story for another time... (who is also a man)
@@mike_827and his name shall be...Paul :) man, Dune is so good. Though I think the Twitter storm will stop when they hear about the universe wide Jihad
Well, Romans based their society on some Romulans who accidentally landed on Earth, and The Byzantium Empire was basically the ROman Empire and the Orthodox religion is the official religion of, oohhh forget it.
It's more amazing that the Romulans have nuns at all when the Romulans were never shown having a religious element in their culture. They were basically communists.
It's like Patrick Stewart told these guys who created the Picard series, "I want to destroy Picard, I want to make him the weakest and whiniest old man in Star Trek". And the creators say, "YOU GOT IT!"
Remember when Picard fought alongside Kirk? No, i don't consider those movies canon, but Picard would fight to his death for what he deemed just. He had pride and resolve. Not this whiney senior citizen beta male GARBAGE. Makes me wanna PUKE.
@@dennismoore2752 The entire thing makes me want to puke. The storyline is that Romulus was set to be destroyed and the mighty Romulan Empire is completely incapable of evacuating their people? It's all up to Picard to save them, as if the entirety of Starfleet is like 'Let them die".....which isn't something Starfleet would ever do (Star Trek The Undiscovered Country says hi). Then the Mars rescue fleet is destroyed and Starfleet is like welp we tried. To which Picard acts like the fleet destruction isn't a big deal and doesn't understand why Starfleet still won't save the Romulans. Are we supposed to believe the might of the Romulan empire is just sitting there, bags packed, and whispering "Don't worry Picard will be here soon". Along with this odd Romulan plot we got Data's daughters AND something going on with a Borg cube. What in the actual fuck were they trying to make here?
The show would be significantly less horrible if it were not pretending to be Star Trek, but it would still be unwatchable and insulting trash. (Still better than STD).
*we can now start referring to it as STNO Star Trek in Name Only* *at least for those who want to be polite...other more descriptive terms apply for those who do not*
I watched the first episode because it was free. From that I could see exactly what this series was going to be, and decided not to watch. And it turns out, I wasn't wrong. It's a sh*tshow under the franchise-withering leadership of Kurtzman the hack.
Yep. Even after Picard's bluff failed and he was relieved of duty, he wouldn't have tucked his tail between his legs and gone into retirement, not while so many people were depending on him. He'd have explored every other legal avenue, and if necessary he'd have orchestrated a civilian fleet like Dunkirk's to help as many people possible.
@@Dimmary Remember that episode where Picard got his girl actually "stolen" by Q?That must´ve been the biggest damage Q ever did to him...I mean...the first Borg Episode did damage to him aswell,but atleast all encounters with Q left a lasting mark of wisdom with him...Vash being talked away by Q did not have any lessons learned if i remember correctly :D..Let´s just hope Q will never show up in "PICARD"...It took Guinan"fuck your aggresion in my Bar,i have a rifle" to make him go defensive...Imagine that shitty blonde doctor doing the same..urgh
@Char Aznable I couldn't agree more. These are creatively-lacking, misguided people who somehow think they have a personal duty to transform the world in their own image by pushing endless (and continuous) false philosophies through their "entertainment." I'd like to say we're at the bottom of this pit, but frankly I'm not sure about that.
@Char Aznable So nu-Trek's pessimism is entirely correct? Or some kind of intentionally self-fulfilling prophecy designed to get everyone used to everything getting worse?
@@slewone4905 it's the hair. No self respecting Romulan should be without a bowl haircut. Still only one person of non-terran though. I'm surprised that the twitter mobs haven't been in uproar over this lack of representation lol. Saying that, does Seven count as multi racial? Mind you, she has turned her back on her Borg heritage so that wouldn't be looked upon favourably.
Critical Drinker, roguish Captain of the starship Hustler crewed by a holographic crew of naked Bond girls. The ones from Connery's films, of course. You really don't want to know what he did to the holodeck.
Honestly having sexy holograms and seeing the other characters react to them would be a great way to paralell todays ongoing "sex doll" debate. He's objectifying women, but they aren't real, so does it matter? It could also show character development as he changes their behaviour and dress style over the show to be more modest and act more intelligently.
Remember in the 90s how kids action cartoons always had these awkward fight scenes because the writers had explicit instructions to never include any closed fist punches? It wouldn't surprise me if now there was a rule with these adult shows that specifically banned scenes with Male characters having snappy comebacks.
swords in sci-fi, it reminds me of that scene from Indiana Jones when the guy was swinging the sword around and Indiana Jones just drew his pistol and then shot him.
If you want swords in your sci-fi, you need to set things up so it's reasonable to use them. Oh, everyone uses energy weapons and you can make 'scattering fields' that negate them beyond point blank so people use melee weapons/bayonets? Okay I can buy that. Oh, no one has developed energy weapons yet and kinetic negating shielding is cheap and effective so people often have to fight hand to hand to get a slow blade through the shield? Sure I can roll with that. Oh advanced nano-tech ubiquitous in the atmosphere sucks up any energy beyond a given density to the point that gunpowder and steam engines can't work here? Guess that explains the bows/crossbows and melee weaponry being common. Oh, personal cloaking/jamming tech has gotten so far ahead that it's essentially impossible to spot your enemy outside of melee range if they don't shoot first, so doctrine is to melee 95% of the time to not get instantly shot by your enemy? We can work with this. But you absolutely NEED to have a justification.
Isn't it funny how the galaxy seems to have gone to shit in this show when nearly every major organization is lead by a woman? Just thought it was interesting.
Just look what happened to Ancient Egypt when women ran the show... they stopped dusting the furniture and sweeping the floor, and a bunch of sand buried everything for thousands of years.
@am d Your comment isn't doing you any favors and just gives social justice fanatics a reason to call people like you evil. Not every woman is a social justice lunatic who can't be in charge of anything. Just like not every man is capable of being in charge of things either. Humans are fuck ups regardless if they are a man or a woman. You should probably think about this for a while because you seem to have some issues you need to deal with on your own.
@am d "oh no the franchises I like are getting fucked up by shitty writing and terrible female characters. Guess they never should have been allowed to vote" What a jump in logic. No, what a lack of logic to begin with. There have been hundreds upon thousands of roles performed well by women, and there have been plenty of competent female leaders throughout history. Don't let poorly played characters in movies and tv affect your opinion of roughly 50% of the population ya dunce
I’ve been watching Picard and they destroyed the cannon universe. Episode 3, Raffi complains about being impoverished after her career in Starfleet, but they don’t value money anymore. Why would you, when you can manipulate light and replicate food? Economy is worthless when you can endless resources. This Kurtzman is ruining Star Trek.
This is the final nail in the coffin for me. I considered this ANYBODY'S last chance to redeem Star Trek. And CBS blew itt, as they repeatedly have for the last 10 years. Never again. Not even for Sir Patrick Stewart.
Kurtzman has a very limited vision. He doesn't understand an empire encompasses many worlds from many different systems, that the federation is hundreds of species, that food and entertainment is unlimited in star trek and so people live their lives seeking fulfillment and knowledge, and doesn't grasp the actual size of the galaxy and how even going 10x or 1000x the speed of light would still take many years to traverse. It's really heartbreaking to have such a wonderfully philosophical and curiously scientific universe get devolved into dumb action setups, bad jokes, identity politics, and barely veiled current political topics addressed clumsily. It also doesn't help that we've seen this kind of crappy politicization of multiple former geek properties in recent years
The touch of the sociopath is visible in our society. It's really concerning once you learn to see them. Until you do, their actions are confusing and produce cognitive dissonance. Because, they are completely self-serving humans. I wouldn't call them people, that's a stretch.
He went out to get a pack of cigarettes even though humanity had gave up smoking centuries prior. Or, was it he went out for scratch tickets even though they don't have money in the future? Either way, I am sure it was a lame excuse.
To be fair Drinker, having a sign saying Romulans Only on a planet filled with Romulans does make sense. "Hey! See the sign?" "I see it, but I don't understand it." ".... oh."
yeah what is up with all these 20th century clothing in the 24/5th century? that, besides all the other miriad issues, also takes you so out of the supposed sci-fi show.
Yes, and Belloq had the headpiece to the staff of Reeeeeeee..... Except his copy only had markings on one side, so he was digging in the wrong place..... Much like the writer's of this show.... On a hiding to nothing.
You'd think they would have that Romulans only thing down to a T. I remember transporters having DNA analyzers on them...they could basically just make it so that only people with Romulan DNA could beam through...
I cancelled my CBS All Access last month when I kept getting streaming errors trying to watch this show. Apparently CBS didn't like that I was being billed through my Apple iTunes account and not directly through CBS, even though I had signed up two years ago. CBS suggested that I cancel billing through iTunes and create a new account with them. Instead I contacted Apple and at my request, they not only cancelled my CBS All Access, but also refunded me the entire past year I paid it! Put another way, Apple reimbursed me for the pain and suffering I endured from watching the last season of Star Trek Discovery! After watching all your videos on Picard, I know I made the right decision to not waste any more money on CBS All Access. Oddly enough, I'll happily continue to watch your brutally honest Picard critiques, even though I have no desire to see the actual show itself.
What's funny with 'murica is when they mess up, they always blame others ideologies than theirs. So capitalist individualism and greedy businesses does something they don't like, they blame marxism. That's hilarious and sad at the same time. Also there's zero chance any person blaming marxism had read his books.
The full array of scenes from the original Star Trek series that you are able to splice in to make great commentary ate a testament on their own to how much greater those were.
'Absolute Condor' sounds like the most awesomest name for a luchadore. Maybe from a family of lucha. Absolute Condor - Our hero. Certain Condor - His kid brother. Unsure Condor - His grandpappy. Condor Unbecoming - His uncle, currently in jail.
Write Yourself Into A Corner: "The planet has transporter-proof shields!" SocJus Solution: "Just ignore it and beam in anyway! If anyone says anything, call them a nazi racist sexist man-baby who's complaining about nothing! We need to subvert expectations after all!"
Well. I hate to tell you. But that is where the whole thing is going. I would expect that at least the cast is going to turn out to be androids in shocking twist after shocking twist.
This show is starting to remind me of that episode of Futurama where they end up on a plant run by giant amazon woman that only use the men for “snu snu.”
And they're bring _Battlestar Galactica_ back next. The reboot introduced strong, complex characters across the board. I fear what lies ahead. So Say We All.
Picard and NuTrek in general makes me think about a quote from shakespear "It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing". After last weeks episode i officially give up on the franchise. It appears as if there is no hope that it will become actually good again.
You're 200% right the franchise is dead I'm just surprised that Roddenberry son doesn't have any import into this disaster the only thing that can be done right now is a 10 to 20 year moratorium on Star Trek no more new productions let the fans do what they may and then bring all this back in like what's a 2040 because right now your just not going to recover... patience too far gone for any emergency surgery or even experimental procedure
@John Rayne yeah but if I was him I'd be going off on these motherfuckers like a crack fiend who hadn't had a fix in a week... I'd be calling all these motherfuckers out
You were rather stupid to still be invested up till now. What the hell took you so long? Two years of Star Trek Discovery wasn't enough for you to make a decision? You just HAD to tune in to Picard, knowing that the same idiots who made Discovery would be making it too! I mean, too little too late. You should have been smart enough to bail on this mess long ago. Now, I can only laugh at you for being dumb enough to hang in this long.
Then he was one weak ass motherfuker maybe he's still trapped in the Nexus there's been some theories alluding to that... you think somewhere along the line right now he be referring to his conversation with Kirk fuck you Patrick Stewart 4 fucking up Star Trek
It's not escaped my notice that there once was a time when my only interest in critics was the rare occasion when they could be useful to help decide which flic to see on a Friday night... ...today my only interest in once favorite series that have fallen so low is seeing the reaction of my favorite reviewers - another fine video old chap.
The actual show that Picard came from was pretty insanely awesome sci-fi, at least by the standards of its time. That time has long, long since passed, though.
STP: "A broken old man who got knocked down once and never tried to rise up again. A character with absolutely no life, no goals, ambitions, ideas, or motivation except when we're directly viewing him." TNG: "I can't live out my days as that person! That man is bereft of passion… and IMAGINATION! That is not who I am!"
This is simply “The Picard Apology Tour,” where Patrick Stewart goes on a vicarious apology tour (through his character) for his life of white privileged. Not quality Trek, as advertised.
Slowest....supernova...ever. gices starfleet enough time to build a fleet of rescue ships when romulans couls just...use their OWN massive fleet to get out of the way?
I mean considering that a supernova will not travel faster then light and the romulan star empire was hundrets or thousands of lightyears across...there was absolutely no reason to hurry at all. Generations could have lived and died and the supernova would still be chugging along. The writers are beyond incompetent.
It's like Stewart is trolling the producers. I mean, everything in that episode was an absolute substantiation as to why we need borders, and proper immigration policies.
I wish this was some clever subversive move. I really do, but we've hit the point where the parody is indistinguishable from the sincere product. No one can make them look more ridiculous than they do.
The reason the Borg cube is broken is because the Borg started to only assimilate females to be woke, and none of them were willing to do the manual labor required to repair the cube
Another fine review sir. Thanks for this I will not even waste my time to this show. I am reminded as you mentioned the ticking clock of a Battlestar Galactica episode were the cylons kept jumping in in a certain amount of time. That episode certainly drove home the sense of urgency the time-sensitive storylines need
Well it seems it wants to take advantage of nostalgia to get people in and then subsequently destroy and undermine everything anyone would ever have been nostalgic about. Pretty par for the course these days
I was ridiculously excited when I first heard about this show. I was practically giddy! And then I was upset when I found out I couldn't watch it on Prime here in Canada. But after watching reviews from The Critical Drink and others, I'm actually glad I haven't seen it. Now I know I shouldn't judge the show without first watching it, but I just don't want my memories of TNG to be tainted. Looking back, I wish I'd only watched Alien and Aliens and nothing after that. Or only The Terminator or Terminator 2. I think I'll learn from my past mistakes and keep my happy memories of TNG, and Jean Luc Picard intact.
Honestly, I feel like I'm watching a Syfy original movie with poor acting, bad writing, and cheesy effects. And the over the top female worship isn't helping matters.
Man don't say that! Some of the sci fi originals were bad ass compared to this trash! I remember me and my cousin staying up all night watching raptor island, dog soldiers, a movie in the desert about flesh eating monsters
Can we just appreciate the big brain logic of star fleet dismissing a dude who has literally saved humanity on multiple occasions and then through additional gigabrain logic dismissing that captain’s officers despite the fact any actions of those officers, (short of being directly insubordinate) will be informed by that captain’s orders. Like WHY Well I suppose this is the series that has a multi species pan galactic political entity become isolationist (however the fuck thats suppose to work) after 1 planet’s shipyards get hit.
Picard's character was put out to pasture which is symbolically the vineyard while they ruin him and all he used to stand for while simultaneously ruining the original STAR TREK history and story. It was a set up from the beginning like STAR WARS, and so many others recently. ..."Let the past die...Kill it if you have to."
10:14 Hand-to-hand weapons were actually useful in the trenches of World War I. They were mostly crude nasty jobbers like daggers and clubs. 16:01 That sort of reverse grip is never used IRL. Gotta wonder what Skallagrim or Shad of Shadiversity would say about this.
You know what the best thing these new Star Trek shows is? They really make me enjoy watching my collection of classic episodes of the original shows. I rewatched _Encounter at Farpoint_ last night, and even though it was a middling opening salvo, it was leaps and bounds ahead of modern crap they are trying to pass off as "entertainment" these days....
I’d love to see a battle between TNG Picard and Picard Picard. I imagine TNG Picard would be disgusted with his older self. At least All Good Things old Picard wouldn’t give up or surrender.
As someone who collects swords, knives, hatchets and medieval weapons, I think a lot of people underestimate how lethal they are at close range, and how for example, daggers are actually MORE lethal at point-blank range than sidearms. This said, I am going to roll with you on this one ... space-lazor hand-cannon beats melee weapon every time.
Dude that would be a brilliant premise for an adult swim animated show: TNG: Night Crew, following the antics of the slacker 3rd shifters. Dodge duty to catch a catnap in a remote jeffries tube, covertly chuggin a few brewskis in the back of the cargo bay, or hiding Dr. Crushers' medical implements on her as a prank.
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Here we go again dear drinker. I love your work. Big fan.
Up to 300k. I remember when you just started!!
Am telling ya I know ya dont do cartoons but do a review of frank Miller's batman the dark knight returns. Trust me its good
@N30N 0M3N I know because every body else in galaxy speaks English lol
Scorsese’s next film is going to be a western dude 👍🏻
Star Trek: Picard
To boldly go where no one gives a s^it.
Lol
To boldly catch cheaply rendered space taxis to backwater slums and desert trailer parks.
Ha! 😁
nailed it
Fred Strelzoff Featuring: nothing anyone ever wanted to see in a Star Trek show!
It’s a constant source of irony to me that Hollywood, in its hypocrisy, will praise a woman for being strong and denounce a man as toxic when the actions of both were exactly the same.
Their actions are not the same. Strong men of the past were flawed, but decent, while strong women today are angry bullies.
@@zztopz7090 I was attempting to highlight the fact that certain hypocritical people will say that some actions are "strong" or "empowering" if a female character does it, but will denounce those same actions as "toxic" or "problematic" if done by a male character.
Here's a perfect example: I'll give you a scenario with all context clues regarding sex of the characters removed any you'll try to figure out if they're the actions of a "toxic male" or a "strong woman."
Character A meets Character B. Character B makes a few reasonable and non threatening statements to character A about their appearance, probably intended to defuse the situation with humor. Character A assaults Character B, steals from them, and leaves with no apparent repercussions. Is Character A a "Strong Woman" or a "Toxic Male?"
The correct answer is yes. Those are both story beats that perfectly mirror each other taken from the 1984 Sci-fi / Horror classic The Terminator (The scene where he beats up three street thugs and takes their clothes) and a deleted scene from the 2019 film Captain Marvel (where she crushes a biker's hand for telling her that she should smile more, and steals his motorcycle).
Patrick Stewart is in it for the money.
@Bryan the Figure man I don't disagree with your initial statement at least. I'm talking about those in charge of media who know this isn't how the world actually works or should even work yet are attempting to brainwash people into accepting it. Those are the hypocrites to which I'm referring. They want a populace that doesn't think for themselves and will simply accept any narrative given to them. Problem is people are pattern seeking creatures by nature and if the patterns they see aren't reflective of the narrative BS being foisted upon them they have only two options go further down the rabbit hole of cognitive dissonance, or realize they're being lied to.
I love how the political side that actively tries to normalize pedophilia thinks they can pass any kind of moral judgement on anyone.
Picard is on a deperate mission to reach a girl before the Rolumans find her.. while the Romulans know exactly who she is, where she is, heck she's on a Romulan borg ship sleeping with a Roluman spy. but hey, Picard needs to go do some chocobo farming before the Romulans find her. Great plot.
Chocobo farming! I laughed out loud at that. I literally started hearing one of the chocobo themes in my head, the more casual relaxing one. I wanna see clips of all this side quest nonsense set to that theme now, contrasted with them saying how they have to get to her before it's too late.
Don't be like Patrick people invest your money wisely😒
Dont forget that even the last episode showed..the romulans were right all along :D...Even TNG Picard would´ve ordered that darn android village to be bombed into dust with quantum torpedos,considering the risk they could pose
@kevin barker Young wife who divorced his old butt and took her share 🤑💰😭
Heh. I understood that reference.😎👍
I have zero interest in watching this show, but I’m all over the Drinker’s reviews!
#me too
@Joe Blow Indeed. I remember how we enjoyed ST when we were kids and this I dare not even think of seeing before checking the TCD’s review, that's how deep we sank - "fuck off ST" (in Drinker’s voice)..
Bryan M Same, I’m really trusting the reviews they have been on point and explain my unease with the current crap dished out as entertainment.
Joe Blow So True! I like his reviews so much that I’m reading his first book Redemption! So far, I’m liking the book.
yep... watching the drinker tell the story is more interesting than actually watching the show.
I believe Rich Evans said it best: " How does it feel to have lived long enough to see all of your favourite franchises go down in flames?"......
Here's hoping that RLM, Drinker, and the gang survive all the latest trends.
Mike: “feels great”
A mix, because you have to laugth and smile when in reality you are crying
I, for one, hope that SOMEONE will pull the franchise out of the shitter. Just like Star Wars does, they need, dare I say _require,_ their own Kevin Feige; someone who has the necessary vision that these kind of shows depend on to have a consistent and, more importantly, _lasting_ impact. Both Disney and Kurtzman/JJ/Bad Robot/Secret Hideout/et al have acted like their respective productions were essentially MadLibs, where they just inserted names and jargon into scripts that are basically simply Young Adult drivel (emphasis on the simple). I just don't see people revisiting these shows, either rewatching them or doing "deep dive" retrospectives on the issues they tackled, years from now, let alone decades. Yeah, I will say it, the old shows are dated and many episodes where they tried to make a point really failed. But there is, or at this point was, a heart and soul to them, not to mention some amazing performances by several of the actors that is completely missing from what is on display today.
And I know this might already have been said, but while I'm all for "strong female characters" Disney (i.e. Kathleen Kennedy) and Kurtzman - N - Crew have done a HORRIBLE job of portraying them. Either A) they surround the female lead with overly dumb or over the top chauvinistic (or both) men or B) they basically put her in roles where a 250 pound man would normally be comfortable, not to mention actually believable. Or in some cases both, like Michael Burnham. It's sad, really, because just like boys, girls need good role models, too, but they won't find them in today's Trek. Instead, they get someone who is belligerent, obstinate, violent at times, and apparently just does whatever the fuck they want regardless of whatever kind of command structure is in place. Oh, wait a minute. They are routinely dropping F-bombs now, aren't they. Well, put that point up on the bit board, too, I guess. :/
You know, Trek _used_ to inspire kids to become astrophysicists, doctors, scientists, and, yes, even engineers (thanks, Scotty!), but now Trek actually makes you _more_ dumb when you watch it. They are making the same mistake the movies ran into. That being trying to turn it into action shlock. Yes, Trek can certainly have plenty of action and fights/battles in it, but it just isn't made for that. It wouldn't have lasted as long as it has it it had been that way in the beginning.
Sorry this comment got so long. It's just that there's so much wrong and when I get going... ;) I actually told my friends that I would avoid watching anything about Trek until I heard that it was finally OK to watch again, because I realized that it's actually starting to make me a very bitter person, which is something entirely very "un-Trek-like". :/ However, I just can't resist The Drinker's charms. :P In the meantime, I guess there's still The Orville. ;) I now leave you to get back to whatever it was you were doing. ;) Take care, all! :)
EDIT: Small grammar FU fixed
@@CybershamanX Nicely put... :) OL J R :)
"When I was first approached about doing this show, I was concerned it might undermine the work we've already done." -- Sir Patrick Stewart
"...but then they offered me lots of dosh, so I said 'ah, f**k it!' and did it anyway!"
@Lord Brain They did. It's called "The Orville."
@Lord Brain It's actually moving to Hulu as a hulu original, Macfarlane says he's excited about that since he doesn't need to prune down episodes for runtime anymore.
@@eXpriest They need to up their game and get some better writers too. While it's a million times better than this new "Star Trek" crap, it's still a lot less than it could be, and season two was overall worse than season one, except for a few episodes.
@Lord Brain I don't know where all the cool kids go to get free shit nowadays but hulu is the only licensed streaming service that carries it and of course I would never condone space piracy.
And no, we're not related, other than both being large white dudes we don't even look similar.
Wait, Picard needs a warrior and his first thought isn't to call up the Klingons and call in a few favours? Isn't Picard a highly honoured human in the Klingon Empire?
Volrag yeah like isn’t Worf the Chancellor or Federation Embassador or some shit now ( I can’t keep up with all the fucking ret-conning that goes on these days).
Which Klingons would we get?
He was in TNG. In STP, he would have pissed the off too, and need to apologize some more.
You're thinking of Star Trek. This isn't Star Trek.
@@aldunlop4622 Assuming Martok is still the chancellor, Worf might still be his ambassador to the Federation. So Picard would definitely have a very strong "in" if that were the case. He might even be able to get Worf himself if Worf were able to convince Martok to allow him to go on a dangerous mission to honor his former captain.
"I AM NOT A MERRY MAN!" lol, Michael Dorn displays more charisma in those couple of seconds than every actor on this series from beginning to end combined.
@Projekt:Kobra ua-cam.com/video/kKdohNSnLtw/v-deo.html :-D
@@MatthewLee8383 It's kinda weird knowing where that's from... ua-cam.com/video/8V_hCqO6UQs/v-deo.html
Here here! 🍻
The "Romulans Only" sign written in English made me lol.
That makes sense if you are trying to exclude humans.
@@Axemantitan On a planet without humans?
@@TheReddragon64 well, on a planet that might get human visitors 😊😁🤣🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
it makes PERFECT sense. you want humans to read it. Jesus how do people keep NOT getting that. Rest of the show is shit though :)
@@chauncyraymond555 lolz, sheltering in place gettin to ya?
And then, for no reason at all..........everyone sided with the Borg.
I second Richard Evans. I bet this series will reveal the Romulans invented the borg.
we are the Borg prepare to be assimilated your biologic...al.., nevermind, we can't have feminism ruining our collective.
@@Coramelimane that doesn't sound plausible. I like the origin of V'Ger being the origin of the Borg. Can't remember what game that was from.... Making I'm mixing things up. It's been years since I've seen that Origin of the Borg in-game video.
@Alex M well, no. Borg are logical lol
@Alex M WHITE MALE DETECTED. YOUR TOXIC MASCULINITY IS FUTILE.
In the final episode of the season I want to see old, bearded, dementia Picard from "All Good Things..." appear at the apex of whatever stupid space battle is happening and shout "Q! Enough of this!" - Q pops in, smirks, snaps his fingers, and cancels the show.
That's probably the only thing that could save this show.
Going out on top! Now how do imply that STD was Spot’s nightmare?
That sounds like a great TNG episode. Sadly, this is Abrams Trek, so no good writing to be expected.
Constitutionalist Libertarian That’s now literally how I will think of the end of STD. Thank you for crystallizing it for me.
Joshua Calkins did you misspell “Spock” or are you referring to Data’s cat? I choose to believe the second.
Regarding your point about Luke and Picard: the funny thing is, the whole "hero is now an old man who kinda gave up" can and WAS done well.
Logan did it nicely with Wolverine. Batman Beyond did it well with Bruce Wayne. These writers are either hacks or deliberately malicious. Possibly both.
Bruce didn't really give up though? He was still fighting as an old ass man. It just so happened that Terry showed up and could do the job.
@@shagohad3 he did gave up after he had to use a gun
They hired soap opera and cheap comic book writers. It helps them keep their budget down so they can give us more space pew pew.
The writers don't care about what they write. Kurzman wants to fulfill his dream of running a franchise, while the entire writing team wants to "rewrite the western patriarchy culture".
@@jrich749 i dont think it's about saving money to spend on special effects for our benefit. cheap writers are easily manipulated and controlled, they'll happily dance to the tune of the woke overlords. jon favreau asks 10bn for mandalorian, and has the power to ban kathleen kennedy from the set.
Oh you didn't! A clip of him telling Q he'd rather die than be a bland tool.
That was agony.
That was so on point I genuinely felt sad. They turned Picard into the thing he hated most. The thing we hate most, really.
That episode was where Q let Picard reverse a critical choice in his life that he thought was wrong.
If only Q could come back and do that again but with whatever choice Picard made that turned him into Jake Skywalker this time around.
Hahaha - 👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻
@@whitworth5s248 If only Q could come back, snap his fingers, causing a bright flash, and give us back Roddenberry's Trek, not Jar Jar Abrams' Trek. Maybe with a Redstone back in charge of things at ViacomCBS that will happen if the rumor Q is coming back for season 2 of this shit show. Too bad he can't meet up with Michael have her pull her your mansplaining BS and have him flash her out of existence.
“A bunch of warrior nuns who run the place.” And to think, this show couldn’t get any more woke...
You will love Dune. Women have been running the galaxy for millenia.
To be fair, the Adepta Sororitas of Warhammer 40K? They make the whole "badass battle nuns" thing WORK. Like, Dayum.
@@thepunchableface1506 Until the kwisatz haderach who's like them, but better and male, comes along to save everything. If the new movie follows that I can already see the twitter storm. Not the ultimate kwisatz haderach though, that's a story for another time... (who is also a man)
@@mike_827and his name shall be...Paul :) man, Dune is so good. Though I think the Twitter storm will stop when they hear about the universe wide Jihad
So... the Adepta Sororitas?
Amazing how the Romulan nuns way in the future dress just like 1800’s orthodox nuns dressed on earth.
Well, Romans based their society on some Romulans who accidentally landed on Earth, and The Byzantium Empire was basically the ROman Empire and the Orthodox religion is the official religion of, oohhh forget it.
How else would you know they were nuns and not (say ) Bene Gesserit?
@@slewone4905 Byzantine Empire was waaaaaay before 1800's. But regardless, that topic is more interesting than Pitard
@@slewone4905
Trek lore is weird, but go on.
It's more amazing that the Romulans have nuns at all when the Romulans were never shown having a religious element in their culture. They were basically communists.
It's like Patrick Stewart told these guys who created the Picard series, "I want to destroy Picard, I want to make him the weakest and whiniest old man in Star Trek".
And the creators say, "YOU GOT IT!"
I see old woke Patrick Stewart, but sadly Jean-Luc is nowhere to be found.
He is not a merry man.
It shows you how good Stewart's acting was in TNG. It's a pity he's retired now.
Remember when Picard fought alongside Kirk? No, i don't consider those movies canon, but Picard would fight to his death for what he deemed just. He had pride and resolve. Not this whiney senior citizen beta male GARBAGE. Makes me wanna PUKE.
His name is JL now. Come get with the times lol.
@@dennismoore2752 The entire thing makes me want to puke. The storyline is that Romulus was set to be destroyed and the mighty Romulan Empire is completely incapable of evacuating their people? It's all up to Picard to save them, as if the entirety of Starfleet is like 'Let them die".....which isn't something Starfleet would ever do (Star Trek The Undiscovered Country says hi).
Then the Mars rescue fleet is destroyed and Starfleet is like welp we tried. To which Picard acts like the fleet destruction isn't a big deal and doesn't understand why Starfleet still won't save the Romulans. Are we supposed to believe the might of the Romulan empire is just sitting there, bags packed, and whispering "Don't worry Picard will be here soon".
Along with this odd Romulan plot we got Data's daughters AND something going on with a Borg cube. What in the actual fuck were they trying to make here?
Her eyes are so close together Patrick Steward thought he was working with Cyclops again. (X)
I have been a Star Trek Fan for 50 years, and I can tell you, this show is not Star Trek, it just has the label slapped on it...sad.
Do you feel the same way about Discovery? I do, and to be honest I dislike this show even more.
At least the first series of Discovery had a plot.
The show would be significantly less horrible if it were not pretending to be Star Trek, but it would still be unwatchable and insulting trash. (Still better than STD).
You patented it, slapped it on a plastic lunchbox and now you're SELLING! *Slam* You're SELLING! *Slam*
*we can now start referring to it as STNO Star Trek in Name Only*
*at least for those who want to be polite...other more descriptive terms apply for those who do not*
I haven’t watched Picard it sounds too bad.
Same. I actually liked STD at first but gave it up real fast.
Ascension Industries I can’t get through it either ha
It is.
It's like I was so excited for The Mist tv series then I watched it ........😞🤕😞😞
I watched the first episode because it was free. From that I could see exactly what this series was going to be, and decided not to watch. And it turns out, I wasn't wrong. It's a sh*tshow under the franchise-withering leadership of Kurtzman the hack.
Yep. Even after Picard's bluff failed and he was relieved of duty, he wouldn't have tucked his tail between his legs and gone into retirement, not while so many people were depending on him. He'd have explored every other legal avenue, and if necessary he'd have orchestrated a civilian fleet like Dunkirk's to help as many people possible.
David Marshall >> Dunkirk was mostly the Royal Navy...but myths are nice too.
Remember that episode where Picard is on vacation and where did he go? On a planet where he could work on archeology.
@@Dimmary Remember that episode where Picard got his girl actually "stolen" by Q?That must´ve been the biggest damage Q ever did to him...I mean...the first Borg Episode did damage to him aswell,but atleast all encounters with Q left a lasting mark of wisdom with him...Vash being talked away by Q did not have any lessons learned if i remember correctly :D..Let´s just hope Q will never show up in "PICARD"...It took Guinan"fuck your aggresion in my Bar,i have a rifle" to make him go defensive...Imagine that shitty blonde doctor doing the same..urgh
Star Trek was about hope for the future, a better tomorrow. This just says the best has already been.
"The best is yet to come, and then it's back to the same old s*** you already know."
@Char Aznable I couldn't agree more. These are creatively-lacking, misguided people who somehow think they have a personal duty to transform the world in their own image by pushing endless (and continuous) false philosophies through their "entertainment." I'd like to say we're at the bottom of this pit, but frankly I'm not sure about that.
It's crazy that The Orville is the best Trek of the last decade.
@@Nayr747 truth
@Char Aznable So nu-Trek's pessimism is entirely correct? Or some kind of intentionally self-fulfilling prophecy designed to get everyone used to everything getting worse?
Star Trek Picard: USS Apologist - apologizing where no apologies are necessary.
They travel through space checking privilege and paying reperations to people they've never met
There is a distinct lack of diversity in Picards crew. Far too many Humans lol.
They have an elf. AND I DO MEAN ELF, because there is no way that dude is a Romulan.
@@slewone4905 it's the hair. No self respecting Romulan should be without a bowl haircut. Still only one person of non-terran though. I'm surprised that the twitter mobs haven't been in uproar over this lack of representation lol. Saying that, does Seven count as multi racial? Mind you, she has turned her back on her Borg heritage so that wouldn't be looked upon favourably.
@@dominicmcdermott6449 Btw..what the hell happened to Chakotay...i can´t remember him being mentioned once
I aM nOt A mErRy MaN
@@NashmanNash He complimented Janeway's legs. He's in hell now
Critical Drinker, roguish Captain of the starship Hustler crewed by a holographic crew of naked Bond girls. The ones from Connery's films, of course. You really don't want to know what he did to the holodeck.
Turning the holodeck into the holedeck
The Trek show we all need
Sounds like a cross between Son of a Beach and Thunder in Paradise in space.
Porno parody incoming in 3... 2.- oh wait, the Orville already did it !
Honestly having sexy holograms and seeing the other characters react to them would be a great way to paralell todays ongoing "sex doll" debate. He's objectifying women, but they aren't real, so does it matter? It could also show character development as he changes their behaviour and dress style over the show to be more modest and act more intelligently.
Remember in the 90s how kids action cartoons always had these awkward fight scenes because the writers had explicit instructions to never include any closed fist punches?
It wouldn't surprise me if now there was a rule with these adult shows that specifically banned scenes with Male characters having snappy comebacks.
swords in sci-fi, it reminds me of that scene from Indiana Jones when the guy was swinging the sword around and Indiana Jones just drew his pistol and then shot him.
If you want swords in your sci-fi, you need to set things up so it's reasonable to use them.
Oh, everyone uses energy weapons and you can make 'scattering fields' that negate them beyond point blank so people use melee weapons/bayonets? Okay I can buy that.
Oh, no one has developed energy weapons yet and kinetic negating shielding is cheap and effective so people often have to fight hand to hand to get a slow blade through the shield? Sure I can roll with that.
Oh advanced nano-tech ubiquitous in the atmosphere sucks up any energy beyond a given density to the point that gunpowder and steam engines can't work here? Guess that explains the bows/crossbows and melee weaponry being common.
Oh, personal cloaking/jamming tech has gotten so far ahead that it's essentially impossible to spot your enemy outside of melee range if they don't shoot first, so doctrine is to melee 95% of the time to not get instantly shot by your enemy? We can work with this.
But you absolutely NEED to have a justification.
"Mal... He killed me Mal. With a fucking sword. How weird is that?"
Thanks serenity.
That was Harrison's idea, because he didn't want to train for a sword fight :)
LockMock Welcome in a Warhammer 40k Universum and chainsaw swords as a favourite mele weapon of Space Marine.
@@strudl32456 I heard, on the internet of all places so dunno if true, that Harrison had diarrhea and simply wasn't able to do a combat scene.
Few things make me as happy as The Critical Drinker tearing apart bad writing, ridiculous plot holes, and "woke" characters.
Anxious Samurai more fun than actually watching the show itself
And since he's an actual writer, he kinda knows what he's talking about.
Isn't it funny how the galaxy seems to have gone to shit in this show when nearly every major organization is lead by a woman? Just thought it was interesting.
Just look what happened to Ancient Egypt when women ran the show... they stopped dusting the furniture and sweeping the floor, and a bunch of sand buried everything for thousands of years.
haha!
@am d Your comment isn't doing you any favors and just gives social justice fanatics a reason to call people like you evil. Not every woman is a social justice lunatic who can't be in charge of anything. Just like not every man is capable of being in charge of things either. Humans are fuck ups regardless if they are a man or a woman. You should probably think about this for a while because you seem to have some issues you need to deal with on your own.
Just like here on Planet Earth....
@am d "oh no the franchises I like are getting fucked up by shitty writing and terrible female characters. Guess they never should have been allowed to vote"
What a jump in logic. No, what a lack of logic to begin with. There have been hundreds upon thousands of roles performed well by women, and there have been plenty of competent female leaders throughout history. Don't let poorly played characters in movies and tv affect your opinion of roughly 50% of the population ya dunce
I’ve been watching Picard and they destroyed the cannon universe. Episode 3, Raffi complains about being impoverished after her career in Starfleet, but they don’t value money anymore. Why would you, when you can manipulate light and replicate food? Economy is worthless when you can endless resources. This Kurtzman is ruining Star Trek.
kurtzman then would eradicate starfleet from star trek and call picard the "Devil".
This is the final nail in the coffin for me.
I considered this ANYBODY'S last chance to redeem Star Trek.
And CBS blew itt, as they repeatedly have for the last 10 years.
Never again. Not even for Sir Patrick Stewart.
Kurtzman has a very limited vision. He doesn't understand an empire encompasses many worlds from many different systems, that the federation is hundreds of species, that food and entertainment is unlimited in star trek and so people live their lives seeking fulfillment and knowledge, and doesn't grasp the actual size of the galaxy and how even going 10x or 1000x the speed of light would still take many years to traverse. It's really heartbreaking to have such a wonderfully philosophical and curiously scientific universe get devolved into dumb action setups, bad jokes, identity politics, and barely veiled current political topics addressed clumsily. It also doesn't help that we've seen this kind of crappy politicization of multiple former geek properties in recent years
The only reason Raffi is a poor drunk is because she chooses to be one. That's what makes her unlikeable.
@@k2k4 This might be the most abysmal decade of entertainment ever, particularly sad given the number of quality shows that were around in the 2000's.
is it me or does it feel like every one of these woke shows are run by sociopaths that have no way of relating to human emotion or common sense?
they also follow a simple formula. Men = (Bad+Dumb+Weak) * Women = (Courageous+Smart+Cunning)
@Cheryl Graham haha yup 😛
Scary....
The touch of the sociopath is visible in our society. It's really concerning once you learn to see them.
Until you do, their actions are confusing and produce cognitive dissonance. Because, they are completely self-serving humans. I wouldn't call them people, that's a stretch.
@@got2kittys I hear that ,creepy as hell
I miss Worf.
But I'm glad he's not in this piece of crap.
He is. Hes now a house husband to Quarks old wife.
They'd make him take a beating too, but only from a strong, diverse female character, who can also easily beat him in a fight.
They would have made him some a Trans feminist with bright blue hair.
he will show up soon, in the discovery klingon makeup.
@@oldtwinsna8347 yurgh hope not...
Remember all the Romulans with swords in Tng?...... Yeah me neither.......
Thats because only the MOST ELITE use swords...LMAO
They stole that from the game STO.
They are training to fight Klingons. They like sword fights.
Bug Eyed Dr. Lady: I used to bug my father like this.
Roguish Captain: Oh, so that's why he left.
He went out to get a pack of cigarettes even though humanity had gave up smoking centuries prior. Or, was it he went out for scratch tickets even though they don't have money in the future? Either way, I am sure it was a lame excuse.
Bug Eyed Dr. Lady: How did you kno...
Roguish Captain: I do now.
or did he jump into the antimatter core of a starship just to get five minutes peace
To be fair Drinker, having a sign saying Romulans Only on a planet filled with Romulans does make sense.
"Hey! See the sign?"
"I see it, but I don't understand it."
".... oh."
But don't universal translators exist in the future?
Picard: Shows up dressed like Belloq from Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
yeah what is up with all these 20th century clothing in the 24/5th century? that, besides all the other miriad issues, also takes you so out of the supposed sci-fi show.
Yes, and Belloq had the headpiece to the staff of Reeeeeeee..... Except his copy only had markings on one side, so he was digging in the wrong place..... Much like the writer's of this show.... On a hiding to nothing.
Thinking about it, why is there a "Romulans Only" sign on a bar, in a Romulan settlement, on a world with a planetary shield so nobody can drop by?
In a language _literally_ alien to them...
You'd think they would have that Romulans only thing down to a T. I remember transporters having DNA analyzers on them...they could basically just make it so that only people with Romulan DNA could beam through...
I cancelled my CBS All Access last month when I kept getting streaming errors trying to watch this show. Apparently CBS didn't like that I was being billed through my Apple iTunes account and not directly through CBS, even though I had signed up two years ago. CBS suggested that I cancel billing through iTunes and create a new account with them. Instead I contacted Apple and at my request, they not only cancelled my CBS All Access, but also refunded me the entire past year I paid it! Put another way, Apple reimbursed me for the pain and suffering I endured from watching the last season of Star Trek Discovery!
After watching all your videos on Picard, I know I made the right decision to not waste any more money on CBS All Access. Oddly enough, I'll happily continue to watch your brutally honest Picard critiques, even though I have no desire to see the actual show itself.
Good for you
Apple is the evil megacorpoation of the people
That "bereft of passion and imagination" line from TNG is all that really needs to be said about STP. So painfully accurate.
The future in this show is absolutely miserable for everyone.
What's funny with 'murica is when they mess up, they always blame others ideologies than theirs.
So capitalist individualism and greedy businesses does something they don't like, they blame marxism.
That's hilarious and sad at the same time. Also there's zero chance any person blaming marxism had read his books.
Nice of the nuns from 'Dune' to make a guest appearance in this series. I had no idea we were due a crossover! 🤔
Lol....niiiiiiice..
Picard was in the original Dune. Crossover started a long time ago.
That actress' hairline is more disturbing than her eyes being too close together.
Arch Stanton Damnit, man! Now it’s all I can see! 😳
She's like a younger Glenn Close and just as unfuckable.
5:57-6:08
Now that's all I can see.
@@trontosaurusrex9532 Eyes to close girl is Jewish ( who would have thunk )
So, the Picard from Star Trek: Picard is somehow the Lt [JG] Picard, who never got a mechanical heart? Multi-verse theory is crazy.
Or, Picard is the lost footage of Q taking him through his life showing him how things will end up if he doesn't get stabbed.
Constitutionalist Libertarian hahaha perfect
@@TheFoulMouthNews yep!
The full array of scenes from the original Star Trek series that you are able to splice in to make great commentary ate a testament on their own to how much greater those were.
'Absolute Condor' sounds like the most awesomest name for a luchadore. Maybe from a family of lucha.
Absolute Condor - Our hero.
Certain Condor - His kid brother.
Unsure Condor - His grandpappy.
Condor Unbecoming - His uncle, currently in jail.
I thought it sounded like a bond movie or a sick finishing move
@@wert1234576 Sounded more like a military operation to me
Condor, his wings broken. :(
Write Yourself Into A Corner: "The planet has transporter-proof shields!"
SocJus Solution: "Just ignore it and beam in anyway! If anyone says anything, call them a nazi racist sexist man-baby who's complaining about nothing! We need to subvert expectations after all!"
Engage the social justice transporters!
Activate the Heisenberg Patriarchy Compensators!
Decouple the tertiary woke couplings!
It’s no good, Cap’n! We’ve got to eject the integrity core!
"Somebody on the surface may open the shield" I think that was the line?
Seems like Picard is basically the TNG episode "Family", but he got high and wandered off.
Has anyone noticed that as well as acting like him, Picard actually now looks like Kif from Futurama?
Bring in Amy! Or is there one already? Whatever the case, bite my shiny metal...
I thought Kif was green?
Fuckin hell 😂😂
Matriarchy: Have the boy ruin Star Trek.
Picard: The boy?
Matriarchy: You! YOU ruin Star Trek!
(Still better thanSTD, but more painful).
Jfc, you're right. Abso-fukken-lutely right. Omg, I can now never unsee this travesty 😲😲😧😧😧
I guess this chaos is due to all the women aggressively in charge across the galaxy.
All their periods have synced so it's complete chaos for 5 days every month.
Yes... Put women in charge and this is what you get!!!!
Cuntfussing is the downfall of all mankind and civilization.
They've screwed things in an entirely, eco-friendly, non-binary feminist way.
Were I work, a woman was placed to be “the boss”, the place it’s fucking chaos now...
"Fine, a boy with a stick", "Don't get too excited, only I may touch it".
That would have been clever without even being mean. Wish you were a writer on the show.
"Another little girl with stick envy, I see."
i cant tell if everyone is an android or if they are all just bad at acting
cubeincubes that second one...
They're not androids, they're SYNTHETICS.
You bigot!
Check.No signs of life at all.
Well. I hate to tell you. But that is where the whole thing is going. I would expect that at least the cast is going to turn out to be androids in shocking twist after shocking twist.
Plot twist. Everyone’s dna is traced back to the mother synthetic.....Brie Larson. Hello God!
This show is starting to remind me of that episode of Futurama where they end up on a plant run by giant amazon woman that only use the men for “snu snu.”
That single episode was far better than STD and STP combined.
"I had snu snu"
And they're bring _Battlestar Galactica_ back next. The reboot introduced strong, complex characters across the board. I fear what lies ahead. So Say We All.
We can only hope it never happens.
Picard and NuTrek in general makes me think about a quote from shakespear "It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing". After last weeks episode i officially give up on the franchise. It appears as if there is no hope that it will become actually good again.
You're 200% right the franchise is dead I'm just surprised that Roddenberry son doesn't have any import into this disaster the only thing that can be done right now is a 10 to 20 year moratorium on Star Trek no more new productions let the fans do what they may and then bring all this back in like what's a 2040 because right now your just not going to recover... patience too far gone for any emergency surgery or even experimental procedure
@John Rayne yeah but if I was him I'd be going off on these motherfuckers like a crack fiend who hadn't had a fix in a week... I'd be calling all these motherfuckers out
You were rather stupid to still be invested up till now. What the hell took you so long? Two years of Star Trek Discovery wasn't enough for you to make a decision? You just HAD to tune in to Picard, knowing that the same idiots who made Discovery would be making it too! I mean, too little too late. You should have been smart enough to bail on this mess long ago. Now, I can only laugh at you for being dumb enough to hang in this long.
The irony of that shakespeare quote is that Patrick Steward is well known for his role in Macbeth and that scene in particular XD
The demand for space gynecologists must be humongous
I'm so glad James T Kirk died before seeing what the galaxy turn into.
Picking up Romulan Elrond: check
Picking up some space hobbits and a space dwarf to form the fellowship of the Galaxy Ring: next
They are taking the space hobbits to Qo'noS!
Data's death broke him. He's a simp now.
Then he was one weak ass motherfuker maybe he's still trapped in the Nexus there's been some theories alluding to that... you think somewhere along the line right now he be referring to his conversation with Kirk fuck you Patrick Stewart 4 fucking up Star Trek
"Now he grows up to become Elrond of Rivendell." Lol. Thanks Drinker, I'm at work laughing my head off.
Almost as if Picard has been sitting alone on an island waiting for the Jedi to die
Yep, the Man-Hate is strong in this..
SHEER FUCKING HUBRIS
I still find it entertaining that the Romulans are Irish.
They're cheeky fekers.
It's not escaped my notice that there once was a time when my only interest in critics was the rare occasion when they could be useful to help decide which flic to see on a Friday night...
...today my only interest in once favorite series that have fallen so low is seeing the reaction of my favorite reviewers - another fine video old chap.
Warrior nuns? (Cough) on a desert planet. Oh, you mean the Bene Gesserit, okay.
These reviews are the most Start Trek I've ever seen.
Geoff English ha same
Guys, where's the Episode 3 review from the Critical Drinker? am I blind?
The actual show that Picard came from was pretty insanely awesome sci-fi, at least by the standards of its time. That time has long, long since passed, though.
@@imapseudonym6198 Yeah, Drinker's review's make me wanna watch the original, and the old Picard ones too.
Ali Baba He said it was too boring to review.
"Elrond"--Ha! The minute I saw that character, I thought, "He's a 'Lord of the Rings' Elf!"
STP: "A broken old man who got knocked down once and never tried to rise up again. A character with absolutely no life, no goals, ambitions, ideas, or motivation except when we're directly viewing him."
TNG: "I can't live out my days as that person! That man is bereft of passion… and IMAGINATION! That is not who I am!"
I typed all that out before you made that reference yourself. Glad to see we are all on the same page about Jake Picard.
"I just love scanning for life forms,🎶, life forms, you tiny little life forms, where are you?"
No lifeforms in this show. You can stop scanning.
The show's a stiff. Bereft of life.
Hole in Dans Sock not on Picard...
Love the Father Ted reference, also the clips you scatter all over your videos. Dermot Morgan will forever be missed.
"I am *NOT A MERRY MAN!!"*
😆😆
Laughed so hard there.
This is simply “The Picard Apology Tour,” where Patrick Stewart goes on a vicarious apology tour (through his character) for his life of white privileged. Not quality Trek, as advertised.
T-shirt please: "Nah, it'll be fine."
I'm not even a Star Trek fan but I do love the Drinker's videos
And the script is like "nah, it'll be fine" lmao I love this guy
Yeah i always laugh when he do this
My God!! They're trying to turn Star Trek into Star Wars! Rian Johnson style, that is.
Slowest....supernova...ever. gices starfleet enough time to build a fleet of rescue ships when romulans couls just...use their OWN massive fleet to get out of the way?
But muh political commentary!
I mean considering that a supernova will not travel faster then light and the romulan star empire was hundrets or thousands of lightyears across...there was absolutely no reason to hurry at all. Generations could have lived and died and the supernova would still be chugging along. The writers are beyond incompetent.
Yeah, the Warbirds or something.
Yeah it's not like the romulans had the biggest ships by far during TNG
@@Mermiam the Borg Cube is larger than a D'Deridex.
It's like Stewart is trolling the producers. I mean, everything in that episode was an absolute substantiation as to why we need borders, and proper immigration policies.
I wish this was some clever subversive move. I really do, but we've hit the point where the parody is indistinguishable from the sincere product. No one can make them look more ridiculous than they do.
We need to resurrect McCarthy and clean house.
90 woke, out of work writers disliked this video...
The reason the Borg cube is broken is because the Borg started to only assimilate females to be woke, and none of them were willing to do the manual labor required to repair the cube
Underrated comment.
At this rate of blowing up home worlds. No one will have one.
"We are the SJW's. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile."
JJStar Wars and JJTrek just can't get away from planetary crises/existence failures. Every single one of them, dammit...
Another fine review sir. Thanks for this I will not even waste my time to this show. I am reminded as you mentioned the ticking clock of a Battlestar Galactica episode were the cylons kept jumping in in a certain amount of time. That episode certainly drove home the sense of urgency the time-sensitive storylines need
I don't understand the point of this new Picard show.
pablo rages neither do the showrunners and writers apparently
Well it seems it wants to take advantage of nostalgia to get people in and then subsequently destroy and undermine everything anyone would ever have been nostalgic about. Pretty par for the course these days
@@thinkwithurdipstick the SJWs seem to be going though every existing franchise men & boys enjoy ... and destroying them
It's because Patrick Stewart wants a bigger headstone in a more upmarket cemetary.
pablo rages you could try a processor but it will short out or explode
It seems like every 6 minutes Picard uses the line: "I did all I could..."
I was ridiculously excited when I first heard about this show. I was practically giddy! And then I was upset when I found out I couldn't watch it on Prime here in Canada. But after watching reviews from The Critical Drink and others, I'm actually glad I haven't seen it. Now I know I shouldn't judge the show without first watching it, but I just don't want my memories of TNG to be tainted. Looking back, I wish I'd only watched Alien and Aliens and nothing after that. Or only The Terminator or Terminator 2. I think I'll learn from my past mistakes and keep my happy memories of TNG, and Jean Luc Picard intact.
Honestly, I feel like I'm watching a Syfy original movie with poor acting, bad writing, and cheesy effects. And the over the top female worship isn't helping matters.
'Cept a SyFy orig would be watchable
Man don't say that! Some of the sci fi originals were bad ass compared to this trash! I remember me and my cousin staying up all night watching raptor island, dog soldiers, a movie in the desert about flesh eating monsters
John Sullivan Dog Soldiers! (Satan DID save his ass...just not all of it!). At this point I’d much rather see a sequel to that than a new ep of Trek.
@@johnmachuga8811
In SyFy's defense, they were smart enough to buy The Expanse, the best modern sci-fi series.
over the top female worship = having female characters
This nonsense needs to stop.
Can we just appreciate the big brain logic of star fleet dismissing a dude who has literally saved humanity on multiple occasions and then through additional gigabrain logic dismissing that captain’s officers despite the fact any actions of those officers, (short of being directly insubordinate) will be informed by that captain’s orders.
Like
WHY
Well I suppose this is the series that has a multi species pan galactic political entity become isolationist (however the fuck thats suppose to work) after 1 planet’s shipyards get hit.
1:55 “Clean water” (shows picture of beer)
😂😂😂
Best review channel on youtube
By far.
Picard's character was put out to pasture which is symbolically the vineyard while they ruin him and all he used to stand for while simultaneously ruining the original STAR TREK history and story.
It was a set up from the beginning like STAR WARS, and so many others recently.
..."Let the past die...Kill it if you have to."
10:14 Hand-to-hand weapons were actually useful in the trenches of World War I. They were mostly crude nasty jobbers like daggers and clubs.
16:01 That sort of reverse grip is never used IRL. Gotta wonder what Skallagrim or Shad of Shadiversity would say about this.
That Lily Singh burn was on point !
You know what the best thing these new Star Trek shows is?
They really make me enjoy watching my collection of classic episodes of the original shows. I rewatched _Encounter at Farpoint_ last night, and even though it was a middling opening salvo, it was leaps and bounds ahead of modern crap they are trying to pass off as "entertainment" these days....
I’d love to see a battle between TNG Picard and Picard Picard. I imagine TNG Picard would be disgusted with his older self. At least All Good Things old Picard wouldn’t give up or surrender.
- "Say it again, Dexter !"
- "Château Du Picard"
Omlett du fromage
Chateau "DUUUUUUHHHHHHH" Picard
When Star Wars and Star Trek fans finally join together... in grief.
@Pardeep Parmar I for my part, enjoyed immensly both, including also Babylon 5, Stargates and other.
As someone who collects swords, knives, hatchets and medieval weapons, I think a lot of people underestimate how lethal they are at close range, and how for example, daggers are actually MORE lethal at point-blank range than sidearms. This said, I am going to roll with you on this one ... space-lazor hand-cannon beats melee weapon every time.
This show needs the Next generation's night crew. Beer me!
Dude that would be a brilliant premise for an adult swim animated show: TNG: Night Crew, following the antics of the slacker 3rd shifters. Dodge duty to catch a catnap in a remote jeffries tube, covertly chuggin a few brewskis in the back of the cargo bay, or hiding Dr. Crushers' medical implements on her as a prank.
@@rafetizer Imagine if both Seths could get their hands on the actual Star Trek franchise and do spinoffs...Oh! The possibilities.
@@rafetizer I vote for Bill Burr to voice an engineering chief.
I miss Star Trek.
To me Star Trek died when Kirk did in Generations everything after....😨😩
Watch the Orville through the 2nd season. That's were Star Trek is hiding today.
"Who is this bald imposter"?
Solely relying on a sword in modern war-zone would be about as smart as climbing out of a trench and walking very slowly towards the enemy.
Don't bring a knife to a gun fight
But it's ok to bring a sword on a disruptor fight.
At least it made sense in the dune universe.
So you’ve heard of walking fire.