I’d prefer a Titan spinoff in the style of Lower Decks though. Give me warp in the factor of: 5, 6, 7, 8!
Ohhh, Titan as commanded by Riker from Lower Decks, so animated? I would also watch that!
I enjoyed this episode as well. Seeing one of my favorite TNG characters return just surprised the hell out of me. But in a good way, it turns out.
You know what this season is reminding me of? The Deep Space Nine two-parter Homefront/Paradise Lost. Except this time the paranoia is real and the lesson is probably different.
One thing that is bugging me: isn’t this the second time in three years that Starfleet has been taken over from the inside? Wasn’t that a big plot beat in Season 1? Am I misremembering this?
Oh hey, I watched season one, I can answer this! Yes, there were Romulans impersonating Vulcans at high levels in Starfleet.
Anyway, I am glad to hear season three is going well but I still think I’ll wait til all the episodes are released to watch it myself.
This is my stance, both because I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop in terms of word-of-mouth and because, in the happy event that it doesn’t happen, I’ll want to be able to watch at my own pace.
In the interim I’m rewatching Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks (and showing the latter to my wife for the first time, who’s really enjoying it).
Ah, Battlestar Picard, in more ways than one. Still mostly liked it.
Jesus, stop reminding us what happened in Season 1. No one wants to remember that mess!
(Sorry, that sounded harsh, meant to be tongue in cheek). :)
As for waiting to watch, at least half of it is damn well worth your time. If it somehow goes off a cliff (I’m feeling pretty good about it, but knowing Moriarty is still on the horizon is keeping my caution level up), those hours are still solid entertainment and full of great spaceship porn too.
I wish that Lore hadn’t been in the trailers/teaser info, because that really clues into why the Daystrom station is a destination/target here.
The writing was so sloppy in Season 1. Seriously, head of Starfleet Security isn’t going to get the deepest background check of any job in the quadrant? So government efficiency is so unfixable that even in a Roddenberrian utopia it still sucks?
Never underestimate the ability of the latter part of a narrative to retroactively make the earlier parts worse. Battlestar Galactica taught me that.
Picard Season 1 and 2 did that too.
Ugh. Good point. I was in love for the first three seasons of BSG, and then Starbuck Jesus and All Along the Watchtower left it as a relationship I regret.
I can’t speak to 2 since I skipped it at the recommendation of essentially everyone I know who saw it, but yeah season 1 was certainly another good example of this.
Well this season is better than the previous ones but… they sure like leaning on overused Star Trek tropes. The mystery box vision stuff needs to stop. Fortunately, there is enough good this season that it overshadows the tropeishness. The Worf and Raffi road show has been the pair up we did not know we really wanted
I really enjoyed episode 5, this season has been the great.
Also I did not know this, the name did not register.
Amanda Plummer.
Only the Season 2 stuff with Q at the bookends is really worth watching; the rest is garbage.Season 1 went off the rails real quick and was horrific.
I hate some of the tropes in Season 3 but still, it’s by far the best season.
— Alan
I really like Captain Shaw. His roast of Picard and Riker in the turbo lift was amazing. And he’s totally right. They create the problems they solved to become “legends”. Like seriously. Did Picard put into his report on the Borg that he provoked Q, a known unstable entity, into throwing the Enterprise into the Borgs path?
How many people died because Picard mouthed off to Q?
Haha, I thought I was the only one who liked him. They made him too much of an asshole at first (during that dinner/greeting and issue with 7 of 9) but mostly I enjoy his ying to Picard/Riker’s yang and that he calls them on their plot-armor.
He’s a great foil, and the actor is knocking it out of the park, but I still dislike him.
I’m expecting him to die in a redemptive moment and give the ship to Seven (in which he’ll call her Seven as he dies) and that’ll be our Titan spin-off.
Dude I am all in for a Captain Seven show. Give us a proper Star Trek series continuing the TNG era, please!