TNG AU where Picard and Q hook up in the first episode and every time Q turns up after that is the Q equivalent of sending yet another text after being left on read.
Clever to connect DS9 to TNG right in the first ep, so that fans would come over to check out the new show
This opening where we get to see the battle of Wolf 359 was intense!!
Can’t say enough about how much I love the DS9 opening theme. The blue comet, the rotating shots of the station, the brassy instrumentals. Yes!
Setting up Picard as someone Sisko hates was really ballsy. Picard was/is a super popular character. It’s taking a chance to start your new show with your lead at odds with an old favorite, but at the same time, we just saw Sisko’s wife die, so we sympathize with him even knowing it’s not fair for him to blame Picard for his pain.
I love every single thing Avery Brooks does with his face
I can’t believe they said “We need to show off our futuristic sci fi show’s shapeshifter’s abilities so we’ll just have a thief chuck a fucking mace at his head and shoot it as awkwardly as possible.”
Glad to see any Sisko and Quark interactions are always a delight, right from day 1
Kira offended by Bashir’s tactless enthusiasm~
O'Brien’s farewell look at the Enterprise bridge! Trying to sneak off without saying goodbye! Oh, feels!
“Computer, you and I need to have a little talk.”
I always really liked the idea that the Prophets use your memories of people to appear to you because they don’t have physical forms of their own.
“You exist here.” Such a power line.
Sisko explaining the concept of linear existence–what it means to live as a person–is one of the best ideas from this whole show. Having to analyze and accept your own grief in order to communicate with creatures who have no concept of grief at all makes for some great science fiction.
And we end with that great crane shot as it pulls back and up to the Promenade’s upper level! Love it. Love it all.
Hmm, this two-part opener feels incomplete to me somehow, compared to my memories of seeing it 25 years ago. But I think I also had The Emissary novelization as a kid, so it’s probably just that I had more of an understanding of the scenes from reading the novel. Especially about the Prophets and Sisko interacting. Perhaps time I re-read that book.
In the mood for sailing; shippity ship-ship. Q/P = the best.
…and what if Jean-Luc is the horny one?:
“You’re amazing, Q, but I still need you! Next time, be so kind and snap a bit more- let’s see: Q on Nth degree would do just fine. ..or slap me few times with your magnificent, giant penis. After; you can prosecute and judge me, I promise, or before - as part of the limitless foreplay. Yeah, that would be quite enough for now, thank you, Q.”
My newest treasures. That little photoset is a perfect presentation of his versatility and - at the same time - it provides a little insight into the essence of his wonderful personality and professional awesomeness.
Watching tng makes spirk so much funnier bcoz picard and riker have an actual heterosexual relationship between captain and 1st commander and can u imagine them doing the things spock and kirk do? Picard asking for a backrub from riker. Riker saying picard is literally infallible. Picard telling riker that he makes him believe in miracles.
