#freecloud

[cristobalrios]

PicardPositivity Day 29: Stardust City

The name's Rios. Cris Rios.

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[the-goofball]

Freecloud? I mean there are quite a few years between Lower Decks and Picard, so things could change and look slightly different.

[stra-tek]

Michael Chabon's detailed backstory for Freecloud, from Star Trek: Picard. It goes on a lot longer than the excerpt here

SOME NOTES ON FREECLOUD

Freec Out in a Moonage Daydream

[protectspock]

I want to go to Freecloud so bad. I don't care that I could get murdered. Vegas-Disney-Capitalist-Hell planet. Mot and Quark are there. They have the only good outfits in the 25th century.

[usstrekart]

My episode poster for Star Trek: Picard episode 005: Stardust City Rag

[electricpentacle]

I have just realised what the aesthetic of "Stardust City Rag" reminded me of: Blake's 7. It was totally a homage to "Gambit".

Bjayzl and Servalan clearly have the same tailor:

And Picard made a decent stab at Travis cosplay:

I wonder how much is a conscious homage, and how much is a kind of convergent evolution that happens when you filter a Trek-esque setting through a cyberpunk sensibility?

[quasi-normalcy]

Freecloud seems like the kind of place that should have some Ferengis on it, so I’ll be disappointed if some don’t turn up in the background.

[quasi-normalcy]

I like how you can immediately tell that Freecloud, unlike the Federation, is a capitalist economy by the fact that visitors are immediately bombarded by pop-up adverts.