Star Trek: Picard
Slate's Spoiler Specials
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3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Slate staffers Marissa Martinelli, Daniel Schroeder, and Megan Kallstrom spoil Star Trek: Picard, which picks up years after Admiral Jean-Luc Picard has separated from Starfleet over ideological differences. The Star Trek legend has retreated into retirement on Earth when the daughter of an old friend—the android Data—shows up, leading Picard to amass a new crew to track down her sister before sinister forces beat him to it.
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You can read Megan Kallstrom’s piece here.Â
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.3 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:10.0 | I see dead people. |
| 0:13.0 | Silent breeding people! |
| 0:16.9 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:20.3 | Oh, Rush, God. No, I am the father. |
| 0:26.6 | What's in the box? |
| 0:31.8 | You maniac! You blew it up! |
| 0:34.9 | Damn you all the hell! |
| 0:55.7 | Hello, and welcome to Slate's spoiler specials. I'm Marissa Martinelli and associate editor here at Slate. I'm very excited to be joined today by Slate podcast producer Daniel Shrader. Hi, Daniel. Hi, Marissa. And Slate legal coordinator, Megan Callstrom. Hi, Megan. Hello. Instead of hello, I should say, peace and long life to you. |
| 0:59.5 | Because today we are spoiling Star Trek Picard. The newest installment in the massive Star Trek franchise is currently streaming on CBS All Access, which is now offering a free month trial because of the coronavirus. |
| 1:11.5 | Very exciting. |
| 1:18.8 | So the three of us are all pretty big Star Trek fans. I'm curious what you were thinking going into this series. This brings back Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, the character he played |
| 1:24.3 | on the next generation, arguably the greatest of Star Trek captains. |
| 1:29.8 | Daniel, what were your expectations heading into this? Well, I mean, he's the second best |
| 1:35.0 | Star Trek captain. The first one's got to go to Janeway. But anyway, I was really excited |
| 1:40.3 | about this. I have been in the past year or two binging a lot of Star Trek, |
| 1:45.2 | mainly thanks to you, Marissa. You gave me a breakdown of where to start in Next Generation, |
| 1:51.7 | which is mainly skip most of the first season, and then just watch that one person die that |
| 1:57.3 | everybody cared about, and I'm just like, buy, go synced in the goo. But I was excited |
| 2:01.6 | about Picard because I went to Comic Con last year on a whim. This is where they, like, |
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