I just finished Picard S1. Since its been more than 2 weeks, hope no one minds if I post some spoilers.
Pros:
Stewart’s acting . Even at 80, the mans still got it.
Spiner as Data/Frakes/Sirtis had great material. It as good to see them as equals and friends after the relatively buttoned up atmosphere of TNG. Seeing Hugh return as an XP was great. (I would skeet to 7 of 9 or 2 of D lol)
Ships /special fx./makeup were good.
Saying goodbye properly to Data in the final episode after the craptacular ST Nemesis movie.
Rios and Raffi have potential of the new folks.
Cons
Allison Pill as Agnes. Sometimes shes ok and sometimes shes trying to hard to ber quirky/likeable. Mary Wiseman as Tilly on Dscovery does this better imo. Her expertise doesnt really help them. Her romance with Rios felt forced. Also, I dont like that she killed Maddox but that is just handwaved away.
Elnor needs some more character stuff. Hes not that interesting except for action scenes.
I liked Dahj more than Soji.
In only a 10 episode season, Narek’s attempt to get in Sojis head was really him trying to get the Robo-pussy. Also the sister seemed jealous that she wasnt getting her brother’s Romulan dick from her brother more than anything else. I hope they dont return next season.
Picard dying and being transferred to a new artificial body that doesnt have the brain anomaly but will die at a normal age is a big copout imo. Like change it up a bit or make Picard have augmented abilities would have been a neat twist.
This sort of"resurrection" worked only in Wrath of Khan with Spock but didnt with Data and B-4 nemesis. Plus, none of the TNG homies were with him when he died which is lame imo.
Like Discovery season 1, the last episode tied somethings up too quickly. Synth ban is lifted just like that? lol
I like it. It’s pretty wild especially when you acknowledge it’s Canon. It’s hard to explain it without spoiling anything. But when you get into it, it’s fucking nutty lol. It’s more voyager meets the new movies? I think I dunno lmfao
TL;DW: alcoholism, dog’s anal glands, bots and sex toy disguised macguffins. Great selection of clips from the previous StarTrek shows, DS9 is still the best
I want to know if they’ve really been blocked by CBS on social media lol
I get that the whole of the story was about Burnham’s redemption, that’s cool, and what not. But man I’m I glad that steaming pile of booboo is over. I didn’t grow to like Michael. Evil Lorca got on my nerves every episode I saw him. The Ash/Voq arc was weird as all get out. And alternate universe stories do nothing for be except wish some things in my life were different. At least we got the classic theme at the end - very goosebumps including moment. Watchable but not Star Trek’s best. 6.5/10
That’s fair like I said the show has Def split the community. It’s weirdly divisive. I guess what got me is how they were gonna connect it all to the Canon of star trek. Because the tech made no sense so I knew something big had to happen to explain where everything went to. Season 2 starts to play with that where I can begin tj understand how it may fit into the Canon
