Star Trek: Picard

WORKING

Star Trek: Picard. Creators, story, and various scripts: Kirsten Beyer, Michael Chabon, Akiva Goldsman; see IMDb for complex details.[1] Patrick Stewart, star. USA: CBS Television Studios, Roddenberry Entertainment, Secret Hideout (production) / CBS All Access et al. (distribution), 2020 f.[2] 46-minute episodes. Episode guides: IMDb;[3] Wikipedia, season 1.[4] Concerning season 2, Wikipedia.[5]

SEASON 1: In addition to a cornucopia of Star Trekkian devices for human beings and other humanoid species to interact with and interface with, the over-arching plot centers on "Synthetics," in the line of Mr. Data, but on a spectrum of models from the largely robotic to indistinguishable from humans or post-humans. There is also a significant setting of a partial and at least partially disconnected Borg Cube, and organic species being disengaged from the Borg hive, including shots showing the mechanical/cybernetic in or being removed from intimate contact with flesh (including quick shots of somewhat gory surgical realism). Linguistic note: the Synthetics are spoken of as "Artificial Life," so consider this sense of the term for "AL" and for issues of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

In the episode "Nepenthe," note contrasts between and among a garden world, the decommissioned (?) Borg Cube (still something of a mechanical/electronic/cybernetic hive), and various spacecraft.

RDE, finishing, 28Nov21, 6Dec21