In the end, the season arc for Picard was not up to snuff. The resolution felt rushed. (How are they replacing all the dead older Starfleet members? Did the transporter Borg tech impact anyone who used them on a ship and returned planet-side? Is there still a command structure in Starfleet? Did the young Borg […]
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Star Trek: Picard – Dominion Review
Oh god. Poor Tuvok. For some reason, until that reveal – and the rather graphic description of just what torture Tuvok was being forced to endure – the true danger of the Changeling infiltration hadn’t really hit me. Sure, they might (read: almost certainly will) try to blow up the Fleet at Frontier Day (along […]
Star Trek: Picard – The Bounty Review
If there’s one clear theme in this final season of Picard, outside of the delivery of fan service by the truckload – done in such a way that it neither feels like it’s pandering nor like it’s simply checking a box, no small feat indeed – it’s family, both in the Fast and the Furious […]
Star Trek: Picard – Farewell Review
And with that, we bid farewell to Star Trek: Picard season two (while we wait on pins and needles for the highly promoted Next Generation reunion to come in season three – although Jeri Ryan has gone on record saying that she will be making at least an appearance in the final season of the […]
Picard – Fly Me to the Moon Review
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 […]