Star Trek: Picard Season 3…Is this what fans have been hoping for?

It’s shit.

-“STAR TREK” brand title drop. Trying to follow in the footsteps of modern Star Wars is just embarrassing.
-Crusher’s phase rifle holds about 20 rounds when Kirk-era phasers could be used on “thousands”.  Also, why does the weapon of war announce to enemy combatants that its rounds are exhausted?
-It was smart of Paramount to retitle the series “Star Trek Picard” at the last minute, general audiences probably wouldn’t understand the subtleties of the Starfleet naming convention “1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1”. (Ha ha ha.)
-The mementos during Picard’s house cleaning were all chosen specifically to reference Red Letter Media.  The Generations review is over a decade old at this point, but referencing it is akin to the Juggernaut line in X-Men: The Last Stand.
-Raffi’s script got mixed in with an old episode of 24.  At least they had the decency to not put her in Section 31.
-Was there a huge budget cut this season?  The starbase and some establishing shots aren’t up to previous quality.
-Transwarp factor nomenclature would have an in-universe revision if ships were to accelerate to warp 9.99 out of space dock.  Cute reference to Threshold, but the idea doesn’t feel lived-in.
-Frakes deserves an Emmy for stepping back into the Riker role.  The man is single-handedly carrying both Stewart and Ryan through this series.
-Are they really bringing back Picard’s brain disease despite the fact he’s a robot?  Does Paramount think its audience so disposable that they are ignoring everything from the first season?  The dramatic sting in the score does not inspire confidence.
-Raffi, when Nordberg said “The Red Lady”, he was telling you the name of the ship.
-Shaw wakes up from the auditory rumble of the cloud.  In space.
-“Quantum tunneling” is a well-defined concept in physics and has nothing to do with sling ring portals straight out of Doctor Strange.
-Picard made a classical music mixtape for Crusher consisting only of songs from one single decade.  I had a good laugh at this point formulating an improv where Jean-Luc imparts on Beverly the auditory beauty of Skrillex’s Purple Lamborghini.
-Picard’s British accent is apparently hereditary.  One rung up the ladder from “Picard’s son is also bald”.
-Main credits right out of the MCU.  They REALLY wish they were Disney.
-Should they get credit for including the classic soundtrack?  Even though Rings of Power‘s music didn’t always work, at least they attempted to make new tracks.

4/10.  7/10 as a sci-fi soporific for senior citizens who want to be swaddled by a multi-billion dollar media company.

I think TNG and DS9 were peak Star Trek. But this is pretty good so far.

As someone who loved TNG as a young man (and still do as I rewatch it every so often) I loved every minute of it. I feel like TNG is now complete.  I will rewatch Season 3 of Picard every so often as I do TNG and DS9.

Watching that season I feel like I was able to jump back in time to the late 80’s for a brief period and and experience TNG again.

I enjoyed waiting each week eagerly for those 10 episodes just as I did for TNG so many years ago.

Call it nostalgia, call it me commiserating my aging with theirs.

I don’t care what you call it.  I loved it.

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by Vknid.