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We're back with extensive coverage of the sixth episode of Star Trek: Picard, Season 1 Episode 6, titled The Impossible Box. This episode was written by Nick Zayas, and it was directed by Maja Vrvilo.

Fred from The Netherlands was kind enough to send us images for this episode, and we used many of them here! Our cover image this week is one of Fred's "Visual Yeses".

We have feedback for the last episode, S1E5 Stardust City Rag. Discussion about The Impossible Box begins at 27 minutes 33 seconds. We have used chapters again this week. If your podcast app supports them, it will allow you to skip ahead to the section you want easier.

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So, that's it for this episode! For our next episode, we'll be discussing the seventh episode of Star Trek: Picard, titled Nepenthe. Your feedback is SO important to us!!! Share your thoughts about previous episodes with us, and our listeners! And sign up to our Patreon to get access to the Patreon episode.

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For episode 108 of The Walking Dead Talk Through, Kyle and Mark talk through The Walking Dead Season 10 Episode 9, titled Squeeze. This episode was written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and directed by Michael E. Satrazemis.

As some of you might know, Brian has been running the show over at Star Trek Picard Cast and it's been time consuming for him. But don't worry as Mark crossed over to jailbreak Kyle from Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through and freed him from Virginia's prison community. So he will be with us for the remainder of this season. (Unless Virginia figured out how to cross time and space) And Brian hopefully will be able to join us at a later date once things quiet down.

Well there seems to be a theme among everyone's feedback this week. "Gross!" Naked Negan and Alpha bumping uglies (thank god they didn't show that) had everyone cringe. While it worked to show Negan make inroads...ewww... i mean infiltrating the Whisperers. It was a lot that could have been left unseen. Gamma's betrayal seems to have been uncovered and what that means for our group we will see. Carol's repeated blundering might have cost us Connie and Magna, but let's hope they survived. So an explosive start to 10B, for sure.

Please leave your feedback for the next episode, S10E10, titled Stalker, by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. If you have any feedback on this episode, Squeeze, send that in, too! One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email to [email protected] or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146.

Ratings for S10E9 Squeeze are up! It got a 1.20 in the 18-49 demographic, with 3.518 million viewers. This is up from the mid-season finale, which got a 1.02 in the 18-49 and 3.214 million viewers. On the other hand, at the later time due to the season premiere of Better Call Saul, Talking Dead was down considerably. It got a 0.14 in the 18-49 demographic, with 522,000 viewers, down from 0.29 and 1.133 million last week.

Lately. it's been difficult collecting the feedback, and we could use your help. The bulk of feedback comes in on Tuesdays; we have limited availability on Tuesdays. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Faceboo

We're back with extensive coverage of the fifth episode of Star Trek: Picard, Season 1 Episode 5, titled Stardust City Rag. This episode was written by Kirsten Beyer, and it was directed again by Jean-Luc Picard's former Number One, Jonathan Frakes.

Fred from The Netherlands was kind enough to send us images for this episode, and we used many of them here!

We have feedback for the premiere episode, S1E2 Maps and Legends, S1E3 The End is the Beginning. and S1E4 Absolute Candor. Discussion about Stardust City Rag begins at 36 minutes 22 seconds. We have used chapters again this week. If your podcast app supports them, it will allow you to skip ahead to the section you want easier.

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We recorded another Patreon call on Saturday, February 22nd to discuss a couple of things. Ruthie attended a screening of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan with William Shatner as the guest of honor. I read the new Star Trek: Picard novel, The Last Best Hope. We'll discuss that, as well as the first five episodes of Picard. If you want to listen in, sign up to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/brianandruthie for as little as $1/month and you'll get access!

So, that's it for this episode! For our next episode, we'll be discussing the sixth episode of Star Trek: Picard, titled The Impossible Box. Your feedback is SO important to us!!! Share your thoughts about previous episodes with us, and our listeners! And sign up to our Patreon to get access to the Patreon episode.

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We're back with extensive coverage of the fourth episode of Star Trek: Picard, Season 1 Episode 4, titled Absolute Candor. This episode was written by Michael Chabon, and it was directed by Jean-Luc Picard's former Number One, Jonathan Frakes. This is our longest episode to date!

Fred from The Netherlands was kind enough to send us images for this episode, and we used many of them here!

First, we have feedback for the premiere episode, S1E2 Maps and Legends, and S1E3 The End is the Beginning. Discussion about Absolute Candor begins at 26:08 with "Spot the 47". We have used chapters again this week. If your podcast app supports them, skip ahead to the section you want easier.

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We will be recording another Patreon call on Saturday, February 22nd at 6 PM Eastern to discuss a few things:

1. First, Ruthie attended a screening of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan with William Shatner as the guest of honor.
2. Second, have you read "Star Trek: Picard - The Last Best Hope"? I did. We'll talk about it.
3. Finally, we will discuss the first five episodes of Picard. If you want to listen in, sign up to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/brianandruthie for as little as $1/month and you'll get access! And, if you contribute at the $5 level, you'll be able to participate in the live call!

First, as has been true with the second and third episodes, the fourth episode begins with a flashback. We meet a young Elnor and Zani of the Qowat Milat.

The two Elnors don't match up. He had blue eyes and has an American accent as a child, but has brown eyes and talks in an Australian accent as an adult. Where does the accent come from? No one else had that accent. I tried three times to make this point in the podcast, but Ruthie didn't seem to understand my point. It's not the accent, but that he didn't have it as a child AND no one else in the village had it. Laris has an Irish accent, but we don't meet her as a child and don't meet people with who he grew up, so it works. In Elnor's example, we see his past and get the context of where he grew up. It's not a huge deal, but it did take me out of the episode a tiny bit.

We're back with extensive coverage of the third episode of Star Trek: Picard, Season 1 Episode 3, titled The End is the Beginning. This episode was written by Michael Chabon & James Duff, and it was directed, for the third time in a row, by Hanelle M. Culpepper.

Fred from The Netherlands was kind enough to send us images for this episode, and we used many of them here!

We included a segment from our latest Patreon episode to give you a little taste since this segment covered something we hadn't talked about on the podcast yet. You can hear the full episode, which discusses the Star Trek: Picard Countdown comic and the first two episodes of Star Trek: Picard by going to https://www.patreon.com/brianandruthie and support us for as little as $1/month!

We have feedback for the premiere episode and S1E2 Maps and Legends. Discussion on The End is the Beginning begins at 29:50. We have used chapters again this week. If your podcast app supports them, it will allow you to skip ahead to the section you want easier.

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That text wasn't there in the last episode. Fred pointed this out in a late addition to the podcast. Thanks Fred!

We see Commodore Oh visit Dr. Agnes Jurati, but we don't see what is said. Then, later, we see Jurati get a disruptor from... no knows where? This does bring suspicion to Jurati and her motives, but we do believe this is a red herring. What we couldn't get past was the VERY prominent ears of Oh's. They seem to REALLY stick out beyond what we saw last week's episode. See below.

So, that's it for this episode! For our next episode, we'll be discussing the fourth episode of Star Trek: Picard, titled Absolute Candor! Your feedback is SO important to us!!! Share your thoughts about the first, second, or next episode with us, and our listeners! And

We're back with extensive coverage of the second episode of Star Trek: Picard, Season 1 Episode 2, titled Maps and Legends. This episode was written by Akiva Goldsman & Michael Chabon, and it was directed, for the second time in a row, by Hanelle M. Culpepper.

We have feedback for the last Star Trek: Short Treks, Children of Mars, as well as the premiere episode. Discussion on Maps and Legends begins at 15:57. One thing of note, we have used chapters for the first time this week. If your podcast app supports them, it will allow you to skip ahead to the section you want easier.

Fred from The Netherlands was kind enough to send us images for this episode, and we used many of them here!

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We see in the cold open the attack of Mars by synthetics. This was spectacular and chilling.

I personally enjoyed Laris and Jean-Luc's investigation of the murder at Dahj's apartment.

Like Discovery's S1E5 Choose Your Pain, this episode featured two F-bombs. The first is by Laris, who actually said "feckers", but the captions put a U instead of an E. The other one is more blatantly used by Admiral Kirsten Clancy around the time of this screen capture. This second one was pretty startling, both to the viewers and to Picard himself.

I wasn't too happy that they made that choice. I want to make it clear: IT DOES NOT OFFEND ME. There was an outcry from some viewers when Discovery's Tilly and Stamets cursed. Some were offended; others thought it wasn't becoming of a Starfleet officer; many others thought at the time that it made it difficult for them to share Discovery with their children. like how they were exposed to Star Trek as children by their parents. It's that last reason that makes me disappointed that they made this choice. They don't need to give ammunition to the haters!

So, that's it for this episode! For our next episode, we'll be discussing the third episode of Star Trek: Picard, titled The End is the Beginning! Your feedback is SO important to us!!! Share your thoughts about the first, second, or next episode with us, and our listeners!

We're back with extensive coverage of the premiere of Star Trek: Picard, Season 1 Episode 1, titled Remembrance. Remembrance's teleplay was written by Akiva Goldsman and James Duff. The story was written by Akiva Goldsman & Michael Chabon & Kirsten Beyer & Alex Kurtzman and James Duff (there's a whole Writer's Guild of America explanation as to why it is written that way. The episode was directed by Hanelle M. Culpepper.

Fred from The Netherlands was kind enough to send us images for this series premiere, and we used many of them here!

Some would say that the Enterprise is not lit correctly, but it looked good to me! We've seen this scene in the trailers, but it was still good to see the actual scene.

This appears to be the first time we're seeing a futuristic Boston in the 24th Century. We also see Japan for the first time, in Okinawa. We also see San Francisco and Paris, but we have seen those before, especially San Francisco.

Dahj experiences a traumatic event.

Her Xahean boyfriend is dead via an assassin's knife.

I have to say that Laris and Zhaban have already left a strong impression on me. If they can devote themselves to Picard in this way, they are good people. They have to be.

Richter, the journalist, didn't exactly make me want to like her very much. However, she does paint the picture that the Federation we saw in the TNG days is no longer. It's a much different animal in 2399.

I mentioned in the episode that I thought Picard's ability to trust this young woman who said she just killed three people without even asking many questions seemed a little suspect, but I guess his vague recollection of her face, and then later seeing that the face in the second painting, might have been enough to explain him.

Goodbye, Dahj. We hardly knew ye.

So, that's it for this episode! For our next episode, we'll be discussing the second episode of Star Trek: Picard, titled Maps and Legends! Your feedback is SO important to us!!! Share your thoughts about the first or second episode with us, and our listeners! And sign up to our Patreon to get access to our next Patreon episode after we record it, which will cover the Star Trek: Picard Countdown comic book.

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We're back with a Star Trek: Picard pre-season 1 roundtable episode! This time out, we are joined by esteemed Trek historian, author, podcaster, and Portal 47 purveyor, Larry Nemecek; Mark Kirkman, my friend, and co-host on The Walking Dead Talk Through and Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through; and Patrons Fred from The Netherlands, James (The Augmented Sailor) Robbins, and Laurence Todd (LT from NC). We begin the roundtable discussion with a compelling question submitted to us by LT, "What makes Picard such a compelling character?" We then round out the discussion with our thoughts of Star Trek: Picard prior to its debut on Thursday, January 23, 2020.

So, that's it for this episode! Our next episode, we'll be discussing the series premiere of Star Trek: Picard! Like on The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, your feedback is SO important to us!!! Share your thoughts about the first episode with us, and our listeners! Most importantly, remember to subscribe to The Star Trek Picard Cast!

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We're back with not just another episode of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast! Wait, no it isn't! This time, it's an episode of The Star Trek Picard Cast! That's because this Short Trek deals with events that precede Star Trek: Picard!!! This time, Ruthie and I cover the sixth and final Short Trek of Season 2: Children of Mars, which was written by Chris Silvestri & Anthony Maranville, and directed by Michael Giacchino; and The Girl Who Made the Stars, which was written by Brandon Schultz and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. Both of these animated Short Treks were released Thursday, January 9, 2020.

Our last episode was originally released on The Star Trek Picard Cast feed exclusively. Unfortunately, we noticed a sharp decline in downloads from the previous Picard episode that was very evident upon its release. We realized by making the content exclusive to the Picard feed, we unintentionally made it difficult for our existing listeners to find us. We decided to reverse our decision. Going forward, all Picard episodes will be found on the Discovery feed AND the Picard feed. If you want both podcasts, you only need to subscribe to the Discovery feed only. If you only want Picard episodes, subscribe to the Picard feed. Of course, if you want all of the episodes in

Fred from The Netherlands was kind enough to send us images for this Short Trek, and we used many of them here!

We had feedback for the last episode about the other characters in Picard. More of that below.

I made three mistakes in this episode, all in the same section of the episode. When I read over feedback from previous episodes, I said it was from STDP 047, but that was incorrect. In fact, I missed that feedback altogether. The feedback I read was from STPC 002, which I didn't even mention that I was going to read! We will have to cover episode 47 feedback for our next regular episode. Also, I said that Ship in a Bottle was TNG S6E13. I was off by one. It's S6E12. OK OK... It's a pretty small thing, but there were mistakes and I'm calling myself out on them! I also neglected to mention an error I made last episode. Icheb, the Star Trek: Voyager ex-Borg adolescent, DID NOT die. His character lived.

So, that's it for this episode! In conclusion, Ruthie didn't like either episode and thought they were a waste of time. However, I loved one and liked the other, but were disappointed with aspects of both. Next time, we will be back with news and the final Short Trek, Children of Mars. Most importantly, remember to subscribe to The Star

We're back with another episode of The Star Trek Picard Cast! This time, this episode is exclusive to the Picard feed. In this episode, Ruthie and I discuss the other characters that are returning in Star Trek: Picard, besides Jean-Luc Picard himself. Thanks to Fred from the Netherlands for providing most of our pics!

At this point, we know of five other characters returning in Star Trek: Picard.

The first we'll discuss is someone who doesn't have a relationship with Picard, Seven of Nine, the ex-Borg from Star Trek: Voyager, played by Jeri Ryan. She was always a compelling character, and well-played, and we are both looking forward to seeing her most of all the characters announced.

Hugh was first seen in the TNG episode, "I, Borg". He was a Borg drone who develops his own identity after being separated from the collective. We later see him in the episode Descent. If they are planning to feature the Borg in this series, bringing his character back is a good choice.

Riker was Picard's First Officer on the Enterprise-D and E. He later became Captain on the USS Titan. This was one character that I thought they had to have back if they are going to do a show on Picard. They were a great team and it only makes sense for him to return.

If you bring back Riker, you definitely need to bring back Counselor Deanna Troi. As you may recall, they were married in Star Trek: Nemesis, but that's not the only reason why she is back. Troi was always a great advisor to Picard, as was Riker, and he's going to need all the help he can get.

One of the most popular characters of Star Trek: The Next Generation was Data. Data died in Nemesis, so bringing him back is a little trickier than some of the other characters. We do not think he will be returning in the flesh, no pun intended, but will return in dream sequences, flashbacks, and possibly holodeck programs. I am definitely looking forward to his character's return, but still wondering how that will happen.

We both agree that our first choice would be Dr. Beverly Crusher. It was suggested in the series finale, All Good Things, that she married and later divorced Picard. We hope that it's just a big secret and that she will be returning.

Ruthie would like to see Worf. I am skeptical though, after how they changed the Klingons in Discovery.

Q would be another character I would like to show up in Picard, although I don't have a clue how they would do that in this story. How they would handle Q's aging? John de Lancie has aged a lot since last playing the role, though they all have. but he's immortal, so that's harder to explain. I also would like to see Guinan return, played by Whoopi Goldberg, and she would be another logical character to return. Beyond that, we don't have a clue.

What do you think about the other characters that are going to be featured in Star Trek: Picard? Do you have any cha