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[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having now watched it, I agree this was a good video overall.

I do think Rowan gives the season one premise a little less credit than it deserves - Picard didn't spend his entire post-Starfleet life moping around on the vineyard, but rather wrote a number of books on history, and was presumably somewhat involved in promoting them. This is at least adjacent to his passion for archaeology.

I like to think that Picard was more interested in the painstaking reality of genuine archeology than raiding / treasure hunting.

Running around (with or without Vash) in an Indiana Jones kind of way flew in the face of Picard’s core respect for other cultures and civilizations in context.

I’m always surprised when I see how many otherwise thoughtful fan critics ignore the moral conflict in ‘tomb raiding’. On the other hand, Patrick Stewart the actor would have liked the excuse for swashbuckling adventuring at any age.