I didn't know there was a Picard series.

It just started! I'm probably going to watch the first one later tonight. :) If it has actually started and they're not just advertising Season 2 as available because of a trailer.

cool. Is it on regular telly or on all access? I'm interested lol.

Sadly it's on CBS All Access.

:( Hence my deep annoyance. Because if it weren't for Discovery, Picard, and another show called Strange Angel I probably wouldn't bother with those money grubbers.

ah then I won't be able to watch it. :/ did you want to see the Strange Angel?

Strange Angel is really an interesting show although I suspect a lot of it is fake since I know that while it's supposed to be a dramatisation of Jack Parsons' life there is stuff in it that I'm pretty sure is not true.

Is Nigel your cat or your dog? I'm getting bits and pieces thru the stalker feed while I quest and feed pets. Either way I hope that they feel better soon and so do you.

no idea who that is lol

Nigel is my cat. Baxter is mums cat. Thanks. Im very stressed. And the dog, Amelia, is spparently chewing herself. I just had to put her thunder shrit and cone on.

what a mess! hugs I'll send good thoughts your way.

The whole thundershirt idea is genius. I have a weighted blanket for me too, it helps me sleep. Animals pick up on human stress too, so.

Jack Parsons was an important rocket scientist (JPL is named after him) and also an important Thelemic leader (the occult tradition that Aleister Crowley began). I'm interested in both of those things.

FWIW we apparently still have only a teaser for Picard.

https://www.tvguide.com/news/star-trek-picard-series-every-thing-to-know/

https://io9.gizmodo.com/star-treks-picard-series-will-be-a-psychological-look-a-1834668952

I grew up on TOS cause I'm old af, but Picard has always been such an interesting character.

Let us naps. Wait, I can't nap. QnQ

That is not fun at all.

Nope!

But hey. Neugarten is actually fun for me this year, so there's that. I can ignore Rumi and buy the shit out of Shanti's new shop. Also some of the items in the local food shop are actually wearables. The cordials are filters. <3

I did nap cos I'm emotionally drained.

they are so great. I've not tried something like it for myself but maybe i should. Glad it helps you :) ah I see. Mm, interesting. I'm kinda ticked at the last couple movies for NG so I'm leery of this lol. (Goggles FWIW) TOS? Af? (I'm terrible at acronyms.)

TOS = "the original series."

AF = "as (insert your favourite word beginning with F here)"

TNG is not my favourite series by a long shot and the movies haven't been great (though better than Abrams' reboots), but I like Picard as a character and this is intriguing. I mean, the teaser for the series is his winery that he opened, after he retired, I think? I'm excited about it because we might get to see what life is like in the Federation. We see the cultures of the rest of the universe lots and we see military life in the Federation in times that are good and times that are bad, but we haven't seen much of the Federation itself.

hah okay lol. haha gotcha :D I grew up with TNG so I am more partial to it. :) It could be a good show, with those points in mind :)

Well I don't dislike TNG - far from it.

But at the time that it came out, I was somewhat disappointed that they decided to retcon out a lot of the politically incorrect stuff from TOS rather than having the Federation grow up and get over itself, because I'm partial to narratives where societies and people that have problems change for the better.

Also, I personally am not a big fan of the Prime Directive being the Prime Directive. I think it's probably a good idea to let societies grow and develop on their own, but to have that supersede the welfare or the existence of the people involved is not okay. So the series where the Prime Directive is treated in a more absolutist way than not are the ones I like least. I stopped watching Enterprise for like a year after an episode where they seriously considered letting a sapient species become extinct rather than intervening in their development.

Because alive and compromised is better than dead and pristine, you know? Or, as a character in an ancient fanfic of mine put it: "oh yeah, the Federation will protect you from antibiotics and toilet paper!"

I think the Prime Directive is a good principle, but it's not the best first principle, because it can lead to thinking that it's okay to let people just die.

This is similar to why I object to utilitarian philosophy; if "minimising suffering" is your first principle above all others, it can take you to the place where you think sapient or sentient beings are better off dead whether or not they want to be dead. It's why "animal shelters" operated by animal rights groups kill a lot more pets than those which are not operated by animal rights groups--shelters that are operated by the city kill pets because they're not adoptable, or because they're sick, or because they can't afford to feed all the pets in the shelter, whereas PeTA's shelter is notorious for being a place that carnivorous pets check into but never check out of regardless of their health status and despite the ridiculous amounts of money that people who aren't fully aware of PeTA's endgame goals are donating to them.

ah see, I only saw a handful of the os series so I wouldn't really know much about what they dealt with. Trouble with tribbles and the movies are basically it. I know Khan had some issues.
Yeah I can see your point with the prime directive. There's give and take with it. It can help but also not, so judgement is needed.

Rumi is selling some A+ items. =3

Aaw ❤️

how are you?

Tired, drinking coffee.

coffee sounds good :D

I am addicted.