Kevin - I've watched both episodes 1 & 2 - the story isn't being told in flashback at all. In fact, I'm not entirely sure where you got that idea - there are a couple of dream sequences wherein Picard interacts with Data, but aside from the cold open of episode 2 (which effectively retells the events of the Short Trek "Children of Mars" from a different perspective), all of the action in the first two episodes takes place in the current timeframe of the show (i.e. 30 yrs on from TNG, 20 years on from Nemesis). In fact, that's a hallmark of the show - the fact that this Picard is very much wounded by the events of the Romulan supernova (as mentioned in Trek '09) and, after all these years, the death of Data , and yet he's still the idealistic officer who came to represent the better angels of the Federation.
On Friday, January 31, 2020 at 12:12:51 AM UTC-5, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > > Having watched the pilot, currently free on several services (YouTube link > below), it imagines a universe where Blade Runner and Trek coexist. The > story takes place two decades after Nemesis, but the focus is on an event > that occurred a decade prior to Picard’s present day. I dislike stories > told in flashback. But this isn’t quite that. Anyway, it is worth watching. > > https://youtu.be/1PPm5l3o2zw > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/d9e8f125-55e0-4c60-961e-cb1119f6933b%40googlegroups.com.
