It seems that CBS senior executives really wanted a show with Patrick Stewart as Picard.
Many attempts to pitch a show were made but it wasn’t until Chabon flattered him into reading a concept that Stewart would even meet with the creators.
CBS and other studios had access to the state grants to incent the major streamers to keep production in California and made the choice to blow theirs on Picard.
The ones in the image of the post are all old, rehashes from classic episodes.
When the Borg first appeared towards the end of TNG season one, all we saw was destroyed colonies. It was a mystery who or what was causing this.
Or, consider how we heard about the Romulans before first seeing them in TOS.
A slow revelation of a new and unexpected opponent, very different from the ones we’ve seen before, would be much more interesting than revisiting old ones repeatedly.
I’d definitely like to see more of Una.
This is where some lower budget (than S31), less action-focused, made-for-streaming movies would be great.
How about more new antagonists?
I’d like to know more about the Vendari Ral and the remaining Emerald Chain in the 32nd century.
However, what I’d prefer over time is to see a build up to and slow unveiling of another unique antagonist as we got with the Borg.
Picard was produced in California, seemingly a condition of Patrick Stewart.
Paramount was able to get a one-time California state grant to defray costs but it was produced on leased soundstages rather than Paramount’s own.
This meant that there was a very short window after production ended before the sets had to be broken down. Some of the set elements and properties were packed and shipped (perhaps to Toronto?) It seems that the Enterprise D bridge reconstruction was transferred to the Roddenberry archive.
The SNW co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers have been chatting up this idea for almost a year it seems.
The announcement that Thomas Jane was cast as McCoy, and appears in the SNW series finale at the end of season five, suggests that, unlike Matalas’ Legacy concept, there was some series buy-in at senior levels prior to the merger.
It’s very cool that Michael Cassabon was allowed to come back to do a second piece.
I have been looking to see if he’s posted a longer piece elsewhere as he did for the U of T library shoot. I doubt this is a TrekMovie exclusive.
He’s now at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario but hasn’t posted anything on his own social media that I can see.
I’ve been wondering about the Emerald Chain too.
While there is a treaty and détente, it seems odd that only the Venari Ral have been mentioned as a threat this season.
I like it better than the theory that Anisha Mir was always truly Vendari Ral and will betray everyone, and likely die, in the finale.
Then, since it sounds to be clear and recent, perhaps you could explore citizenship by descent in an EU country where you have a legitimate claim.
I was very relieved to see Lura back
I hope we’ll see much more of her in season two.
Looking again at the production photo of Tatiana Maslany as Anisha Mir, there may be an entirely different long con going on from the Federation side.
Could be a coincidental styling choice but, Anisha seems to be dressed in something close to a Section 31 uniform!
So, speculation…
We know from Discovery that Starfleet and the 32nd century Federation have some kind of shadowy espionage and covert operations organization.
Could it be possible that Anisha, who was known to Nahla Ake, was more than a desperate mother looking to trade her skills to the Venari Ral for sustenance for herself and her child?
Was there some kind of deep covert mission that went profoundly wrong? If so, was Ake read in?
If Anisha is somehow a Federation operative, how will Caleb deal with his being put at risk, then sacrificed for an operation?
Anisha may be less morally culpable for her actions as an infiltrator of the Venari Ral, but as a mother putting her child in the line of harm, there is a completely different calculus.
You might do better looking for an actual ancestor born or naturalized in Canada.
You may be surprised.
The note at the top of the article has got me speculating on the meaning of the word play:
Episode 10 of season 1 of Starfleet Academy is titled “Rubincon,” and no, that is not a typo for “Rubicon.”
The suffix con leaps out.
Brakka seems a full on dark triad kind of villain. With that comes the Machiavellian manipulation and deceit, including cons.
For rubin, the first part of the word, the dictionary definitions I find say that it’s an obsolete word for ruby (alternative spelling is rubine).
So literally, the title of the episode means, well, “ruby + con”.
Which gets us back to a sound-alike for rubicon…
Clearly the writers are making a point here with this double entendre.
My money’s on the red wall of omega-47 being a grossly gigantic con where the isolation of the Federation is not quite the threat it seemed at the end of episode 9.
However, is it only Brakka who is responsible for the con, or is and has Anisha Mir been part of a long con of both Ake and her son from the start?
And, what is it that Brakka and Anisha Mir are really after with all this?
Concerns about equity for adopted persons were raised by senators when the bill was being studied in committee. They let C-3 go through due to the need to address Bjorkquist but asked the Minister to come back with further amendments in future.
There is a different form and process for adopted persons adopted outside of Canada. Current processing time is about two years.
It involves two steps:
The text on the linked IRCC page reads:
If you choose to apply for citizenship, there are 2 parts to the process:
Part 1: We check if the parent can pass on Canadian citizenship to their adopted child.
Part 2: We check if the adopted child can become a Canadian citizen. See:
Understand. Many of us are considering our dual citizenship options while they are available.
I can appreciate your concern.
Good luck. That should be fairly straightforward as you are only second generation descent.
No.
The 1095 day presence is a requirement should you wish to pass Canadian citizenship to a child born or adopted after December 15, 2025z
Kirsten Beyer’s had a very creepy and innovative follow up to the Schisms aliens in her Treklit Voyager Full Circle sequence of novels.
Discovery borrowed one of her plots for the 4th season. I wouldn’t mind if they adapted some of their alien concepts for SFA.