Tag: Star Trek Picard

I didn’t do a halfway point review of Picard because frankly I want to wait and see if they stick the landing.

It’s been fine so far, though today’s episode was a mixed bag of annoyance and nostalgia, which is what most of the episodes have been for me, to be honest.

I swear, if they don’t start moving the Borg artifact story line forward, I’m gonna have to shoot someone.  With a phaser.  Set to wide-angle mangle.

Still crushing on Isa Briones, though.

Seriously, this show has gone from ‘wow, what a great pilot episode!’ to ‘WTF are they doing with the sliding barefoot on the Borg cube?’

And how many episodes until Picard gets his crew together?  Are we done?  Are we going to see a French or Italian or Russian hologram aboard the La Sirena soon?

And what’s up with the pseudo-incestuous Romulan couple?

Dr. Jurati is bordering on Tilly-level annoyance.

All that said, it’s still intriguing enough to pull me back every week.  So far.

I’m just concerned that they may not stick the landing when the series ends.

I liked it.  A lot.

I daresay that, IMHO, it’s the best TV Star Trek series since The Next Generation.

It’s no secret that I was never a huge fan of any series that followed TNG.   I thought Deep Space Nine was okay, Voyager was meh, and Enterprise was simply bad TV, except for the Mirror Universe episodes.

Discovery, like Enterprise, was bad TV.

Picard felt like TNG had morphed into something else, as a result of the movies, which technically it had.  It even referenced the Romulan supernova event from the 2009 film.

After one episode, it just feels right to me.  There was enough backstory to bring us up to speed with the state of the universe and how Picard relates to it.  There are some very intriguing characters, and that ending was a surprise, for a first episode.  But not TOO much of a surprise, all things considered.

I recommend it, but be aware of my personal Star Trek tastes.

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