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Apparently we’ve hit the threshold of sharing our #StarTrekPicard takes!
Picard is the eleventy-billionth example of Hollywood correctly identifying interesting, engaging, juicy content and then completely failing to make a story out of it.
Picard is the eleventy-billionth example of Hollywood correctly identifying interesting, engaging, juicy content and then completely failing to make a story out of it.
Borg reclaiming their personhood? Awesome.
And then they jettison all the borg into space and, welp, I guess they weren’t important!
And then they jettison all the borg into space and, welp, I guess they weren’t important!
Seven of Nine has grown as a person? Awesome!
And that growth is… completely irrelevant to the “plot.”
And that growth is… completely irrelevant to the “plot.”
Data has a daughter! Awesome.
Wait… this feels familiar… but let’s not actually engage with that continuity.
Wait… this feels familiar… but let’s not actually engage with that continuity.
The Romulans suffered a huge interstellar disaster that threatened their entire civilization? Awesome.
Not that that changed literally anything about who they are, what they do, or how they interact with the rest of the Galaxy.
Not that that changed literally anything about who they are, what they do, or how they interact with the rest of the Galaxy.
A marginalized population is oppressed everywhere, even the Federation, unfairly portrayed as being potentially dangerous to everyone else.
…except apparently they really will gleefully call for the extermination if everyone else when given half a chance.
Seriously WTF?!?
…except apparently they really will gleefully call for the extermination if everyone else when given half a chance.
Seriously WTF?!?
This poor soul is tortured by the choices she’s made and when caught is told and agrees to face justice for her crimes.
Except no, we’ll just COMPLETELY FORGET any of that happened in the last scene so everybody has sail away as a happy crew!
Except no, we’ll just COMPLETELY FORGET any of that happened in the last scene so everybody has sail away as a happy crew!
Oh noes, Picard is dying!
Perhaps we’ll consider mortality, leaving a legacy, considering what is or is not a life well led?
Nnnnnope!
Perhaps we’ll consider mortality, leaving a legacy, considering what is or is not a life well led?
Nnnnnope!
A character whose tenacity at pursuing a shadowy conspiracy tears apart her family even in the middle of the utopian Federation!
…also let’s make her, the only black woman character, an ADDICT because…reasons. Also let’s make her family woes irrelevant!
…also let’s make her, the only black woman character, an ADDICT because…reasons. Also let’s make her family woes irrelevant!
ALL THE PIECES were really cool!
I really wanted to see a story about them!
Instead we got… I don’t even know. “Look! It’s Picard! You like Picard, right?!? And a cameo of Riker and Troi! This is what you like, right? They do things! Space things! Yay Star Trek!”
I really wanted to see a story about them!
Instead we got… I don’t even know. “Look! It’s Picard! You like Picard, right?!? And a cameo of Riker and Troi! This is what you like, right? They do things! Space things! Yay Star Trek!”
