Dixon Hill

Okay.

As someone who does enjoy a bit of pulp noir fiction, I just want to take on a record that while people seem to equate Dixon Hill being very much in the Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe vein, Dixon Hill, with his emphasis on tough guys storming into rooms with guns, is definitely more in the vein of the Mike Hammer novels written by Mickey Spillane.

Anyway! Picard goes to Rex's bar and Madeline wants him to pack heat, because if he's going to Rex's bar, he's going to need it.

With Picard out of the picture, Riker now settles her sights on Riker after a rather unsettling scene where she tells Wesley that she's too young for him right now, but maybe when he's older.

Yeah, and...

I don't know, it felt like a weird, almost medley of things.

Of, let's throw more stuff out there with both Loxana and with Dixon Hill and all that.

Just tagged in as a momentary background thing.

This is one that I often put on, uh, as a going to sleep episode, 'cause I just love the opener with Gloria from Cleveland and all the Dicks...

I always love Dixon Hill stuff, and-

Yeah, me too

... you know, it's fun.

But, um, no, I, I get it.

I get it.

That, that would've been an interesting twist to see Picard in, like, full-on Dixon Hill mode trying to solve an actual detective story.

And, like, some of the, some of the-

[laughs] He literally does.[laughs] That's exactly it, and his shed unfortunately...

Because if you thought this episode couldn't get any worse, it's also a Dixon Hill holodeck episode.

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Fuck off.

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Um, there's a system.

So it's a Dixon Hill episode, pa- in part.

There are essentially three plots in this episode.

Everybody's fucking on the holiday.

In this very episode, the Dixon Hill thing, Jean-Luc is taking out his secretary, which hello, sexual harassment much.

But, you know, he's trying to get somewhere with that.

True.

It could be kind of exciting.

And that's the thing.

I found the Dixon Hill parts of this so boring this time.

I just did not care.

I think it has incredibly strong characterisation that relies on what you know about the character of Picard that's been established so far.

Which is, we know that Picard loves archaeology, and we know that Picard loves his Dixon Hill adventures.

And therefore, this sort of bollocks is exactly the sort of shit that he fucking lives for.

Yeah, exactly, yeah.

And then Picard later on is like, well, you've got it already, haven't you, Vashj? Because you only wanted me and the Ferengi to see that you'd dug for it and it wasn't there so that we'd be witnesses to leave you alone and then you could go flog it.

And it's a great bit of...

Well, very Dixon Hill.

He should have put on his little hat.