Confession: Early in pandemic, while everyone was working on their sourdoughs, I lost my mind over how much I hated Picard S1. Literally spite-scripted screenplays for a series that used the same elements in service to something that felt more "Trek". (Hey, we all coped differently. 🙃)
I didn't watch S2 & S3, while my fellow #Trekkies hatewatched. I plan to pour my love of Trek into more new SF material, but... I think this review also neatly sums up the ongoing problem:
https://observer.com/2023/04/star-trek-picard-finale-review-to-not-so-boldly-go-backwards/
Proof of me losing my damned mind. :) The series was called JEAN LUC. I had art for it, as well as intro music picked out. (You like how I made the wine shelves look vaguely Borg? 🙃) I had four full scripts written before I remembered I could just pour my energy into my own SF projects instead. Last time I went this hard was a "fan-fix" for Prometheus, which drove me nuts for mucking with Alien. I rewrote that script in three days.
😂 I, ah... I get a little intense about the SF that made me.
And a taster - opening scene, episode one, with Rina Ketty's J'attendrai serving as a perfect blended intro that, in every episode, was to be paired with the visual depiction of a different process - most taking place in otherworldly settings, but this one of course starting on one special vineyard. :) I would have been a fun writer for Trek in another universe, I tell you what!
*classicist. Sheesh. Always a typo somewhere. Anyway, back to work! Happy Saturday! #AmWriting
Imagine this song playing as we bear witness to various production processes - on space ships, in alien monasteries, on vineyards: all of it. All the elegance of Jean Luc Picard - explorer, classist, Frenchman in affectation if not in proper accent - taken stylishly into outer space (again)!
It's okay, though. I have new SFF work in progress that'll heal all my Trekkie wounds. 🙃
https://youtu.be/QeFf8CCh3Hw