Author: tederick
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Monsters”
This entry was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the WGA strike hub and the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “I bet five-drink Picard is a blast.” We meet Yvette Picard, Jean-Luc’s aged mother, once during the…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Two of One”
This entry was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the WGA strike hub and the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “We’re losing him!” Here it is: the one where I stopped watching Star Trek: Picard. In my…
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I’m so fascinated
Even if I hadn’t quit my job this year, I think this summer’s strike actions by the Writer’s Guild of America and the Screen Actor’s Guilt / AFTRA would feel like a central idea in … well, everything. My relationship to my own career, both where I’ve been and where I now want it to…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Fly Me To The Moon”
This entry was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the WGA strike hub and the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “The century leading up to first contact was rife with chaos.” Ok, I fully forgot Isa Briones…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Watcher”
Here in Canada, we get all of the Star Trek series through a long-running deal between Paramount and Bell Media, which means that the Star Treks all stream on a Bell product called Crave — which is a pretty good service, especially (like all streamers) if you aren’t paying for it. Last week, the notices…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Assimilation”
“Computer, dictate the file logged Shit-I-Stole-From-The-Borg-Queen.” I’m back from a week in (extremely) sunny Los Angeles, which times out nicely, because Star Trek: Picard is about to spend the rest of its season there. Season two has made the jump backwards in time, and films 2022 for 2024 with no adjustments, save the Hollywood Hills…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Penance”
“The chase is dying in your arms. And I am but a suture in the wound.” Few experiences in all of Star Trek: Picard are more clarifying than seeing John De Lancie return to the role of Q in “Penance.” De Lancie smacks the cover off the ball; the ball clears the far wall and…
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What if we threw a twitter and nobody came?
Price shot me an invite for Bluesky and I joined (fuckos, I had been on that waiting list for months!). All this turned out opportune, timingwise, because Meta’s threads thing launched, I think, a day and a half later or something. I joined that too — my cold war against the other tedericks require that…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “The Star Gazer”
“Cheers, big ears.” Season two, let’s do things in twos. Here goes. A story: I signed up for Paramount+ a couple of weeks ago, because I wanted to watch the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in 4K. (On Crave, it’s presented in… whatever the fuck Crave supplies. I don’t actually understand Crave;…