On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 10:20 AM M-D November <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kevin - I've watched both episodes 1 & 2 - the story isn't being told in > flashback at all. > As I said, it wasn’t quite a flashback, but much of the first episode features exposition about the events ten years prior. 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/d9e8f125-55e0-4c60-961e-cb1119f6933b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAKgmY4BvY0e9tAMyJ_c1z_LYuuVXhXdKHLkaKnFEQTsE3EX5kA%40mail.gmail.com.
