Picard pined for a family in “Generations” and occasionally before that IIRC. People live longer in this future (longer than I think is technically possible, wasn’t McCoy like 150 before he died?) If Strom Thurmond can bang one out at 70..... ;) Seems like Picard is 95, born 2305 and this is set in 2400.
His sister in law was not mentioned. I thought she was dead also, my mistake. Maybe she actually murdered her husband and the son accidentally died with him. ;-)
RE Refugee Number, I can easily see 900 mil wisely leaving the homeworld before it was blown up. I have no issue with that. Nor with the libtard Federation wanting to help, they did the same thing with the Klingons in Star Trek 6. The GOP probably only has like 10% of the seats in the Federation Congress. ;-D
Reading “Memory Alpha” to pick up what I missed, the Federation’s fleet that was to help them was at shipyards on Mars and blown up (and they said “screw it” after that), that explains why the Romulans hate the “synthetics”.
It reminds me of that South Park ep with Japan and the Dolphins.
Trailer for future eps also showed Picard in a sword fight with some guy while people watched. Stewart probably asked for that. Picard drove a dune buggy in the last movie cause Stewart liked driving dune buggys.
“Picard pined for a family in “Generations” and occasionally before that IIRC.”
Pining and doing are two different things, though. I pine for one myself, and well, you know that story.
“People live longer in this future (longer than I think is technically possible, wasn’t McCoy like 150 before he died?)”
McCoy being in the TNG pilot was an outlier, gimmick and a bit absurd. In fact, I doubt he would’ve made it to the age he claimed, unless they magically found a cure for arthritis, which was already crippling him by the movies (Christopher Plummer’s Gen. Chang barking “You were incompetent !” was telling in why he was partly unable to save the Klingon Chancellor Gorkon). Memory Alpha had McCoy being only 39 when he joined the Enterprise, though the actor was 46 and looked a bit past 50.
If expanded lifespans were likely, we’d be looking younger, not older than our actual age (i.e. at 50, you’d look 30 and so forth, at 100, you’d look 75-80, etc.). McCoy was supposed to be 137 in the TNG pilot, but if you look at him when he was 66 and wracked with arthritis in “The Undiscovered Country” and looking closer to a frail 80+, it seems all the more ludicrous he’d live 71 more years (in fact, it was never mentioned when he died). It would’ve been hell for him to suffer with such health problems for longer than he was alive at the point he was to retire from his post (and then supposedly he went on to all these other positions, such as Surgeon General, et al, which seem all the more baffling and unlikely).
Of course, as long as you’re a male and can still ejaculate (with viable swimmers), you can impregnate a fertile female. I think even my ggg-grandfather who remarried a woman 30 years younger than himself (she was 25, he was 55), was still having children with her until around 70. I get a bit touchy when that subject of wide age disparities between a guy and a girl come up on here, because had he not married that young woman, I would not exist (nor my father, his mother and so on). I’ll similarly have to do the same to start a family (well, not 30 years yet).
It explicitly stated the wife, Marie, survived Robert and René in Memory Alpha info. Yes, so Jean-Luc is indeed even older than I thought his character would be, around 95.
Getting back to something I remembered, from the Animated Series of all things (considered semi-canon), they had the first Captain of the Enterprise, Commodore Robert April, and he was being forced to retire at the age of 75 (though it was rescinded). With the exception of the Vulcans, you don’t want a geriatric corps serving in active duty. I can imagine an absolute limit of maybe 85-90, so it makes Picard’s “retirement” not due his belief that “Starfleet wasn’t Starfleet” anymore, but because of obvious reasons of diminished physical capacity.
“RE Refugee Number, I can easily see 900 mil wisely leaving the homeworld before it was blown up. I have no issue with that. Nor with the libtard Federation wanting to help, they did the same thing with the Klingons in Star Trek 6. The GOP probably only has like 10% of the seats in the Federation Congress. ;-D”
Would those 900 million have known what was to happen ? If so, why didn’t they attempt to stop it ? It’s really too ludicrous to consider. Blowing up all these worlds is too beyond the pale. In fact, it’s made it no longer shocking, but absurd. Vulcan, gone. Romulus, gone. Mars(?), gone ? It’s ludicrous and bad writing. That’s soap opera level stuff. I love soaps, well, the ones I watch, but you take it with a grain of salt, and expect some retcons to occur from time to time for the purpose of stories and drama. But this really diminishes the Trek universe reducing it to this level of silliness.
Picard sword fight. Well, was he battling a bad guy while people sat by and watched and did nothing, or was this just a good-natured jousting match that he enjoyed while Captain ? If it’s the former, again, the absurdity of a 95-year old character in such a situation...
As for driving dune buggies, the one thing I noticed about the TOS and even TNG period was that there seemed to be no vehicles (not counting Abrams’ absurd scene with a little kid Kirk menacing the corn fields of SE Iowa playing some $hit modern-to-our-era music). I would think the dune buggies would not be PC SJW-approved technology, and make Patrick Stewart look like a hypocrite. Mass transit seemed like the only method.
Anyway, we’re debating all this canon/not canon stuff in a show that cannot be canon in the fictional Abrams Kurtzman Fag Faux Trek universe of asshattery.