So, I wasn’t anticipating writing a review of Star Trek: Picard centered upon mass praise for Brent Spiner’s work this season. Sure, I had heard he would be appearing in the season as yet another Soong in a long line of Soongs, but I didn’t think that the series would allow him to truly flex […]
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Picard – Watcher Review
A sign of a good episode (at least within a serialized drama) is that it answers some questions while creating more – and with those new questions, creating a desire to find the answers. While not a ton happened within “Watcher” (outside of meeting at least the physical representation of Picard’s Watcher – more on […]
Picard – Assimilation Review
So, here we are. Like so many Trek shows before it, in the past. Will Picard manage to escape the common time travel pitfalls? Will someone be faced with making a gut-wrenching choice to lose what or who they love so that they can protect the future (I’m willing to bet this is an almost […]
Star Trek: Picard – Absolute Candor
Ok. That was more like it. While Picard certainly still has some growing pains to work through (more on that later), “Absolute Candor” was the most complete episode of the series to date, managing to integrate the Narek/Soji/Rizzo piece of the story into the much more robust Picard elements to satisfying effect. I actually found […]
Star Trek: Picard – Remembrance Review
After watching the previews for Star Trek: Picard, I was wary as to just what the series would be about. It appeared to be more concerned with rehashing the greatest hits of Jean-Luc Picard’s time in the Trek universe and less with charting a new story. Hell, there was a giant cube spaceship that looked […]