After last week’s weighty (but fun) outing, Star Trek: Picard decided it was time to finally start pushing it’s relatively thin narrative forward at warp speed with the plot-packed “The Impossible Box.” After spending half the season talking about saving Soji and the extreme difficulty such a rescue attempt would present, that was shockingly simple, […]
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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 […]
Star Trek: Picard – Maps and Legends Review
The initial two episodes into Star Trek: Picard have made one thing crystal clear: The series will live and die on the strength of Patrick Stewart’s performance. Considering how Picard-heavy these two episodes have been, that hasn’t exactly been a problem for the series. In fact, I’d consider it quite the strength. But when the […]
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 […]