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 […]
Tag: Jonathan Frakes
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 – Disengage Review
Well, there it is. Jack Crusher appears to be Picard’s son. Even though there’s no way in hell that man is under 30 years old and the timeline doesn’t line up at all. Which is why I’m still holding out hope that there’s some other explanation coming (perhaps another clone of Picard, who Beverly discovered […]
Star Trek: Picard – The Next Generation Review
I think it’s safe to say that Picard has had a shaky run thus far. The main culprit has been uneven storytelling and character development, taking a universally beloved character in Jean-Luc Picard and saddling him with a story that doesn’t work alongside new characters who don’t pop the way his former crew members of […]
Star Trek: Picard – Nepenthe Review
I’ll admit “Nepenthe” was the one episode of Star Trek: Picard that I was the most wary of watching this season, largely because I feared it would just turn into one giant nostalgia bomb – stalling out the plot and making me wish for things (characters, plotlines, more nostalgia) that the series is never going […]
Star Trek: Picard – Stardust City Rag
A sentence I never thought I would write: I want to see a Seven of Nine spin-off series ASAP, CBS All Access. Holy hell, was that great hour of television. This is the kind of episode I was expecting when Star Trek: Discovery launched: dark, moralistically murky, but still fun. It’s what I hoped to […]
Star Trek: Picard – The End is the Beginning
After last week’s episode of Star Trek: Picard, I said that the series would live and die on the ability of the cast to perform at the same high level as Patrick Stewart. “The End is the Beginning” once again drove this point home, as every actor who shared a scene with Stewart rose to […]