Well, I don’t absolutely hate this season yet.
Things are looking up.
Spoilers ahead…
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Picard S03E01 Watch Notes
Here we go. Star Trek: Picard, Season 3. At this point Star Trek has become a really great relative you had growing up who was sweet, compassionate, funny, and loving, but at some point became bitter, resentful, and misanthropic. You carried forward the lessons they taught you as a kid, but now they seem to hate everything about you, and everything about who they were then. Alas, the end has come. And now they’re on their deathbed in hospice and you feel compelled to re-visit them one last time.
Goes without saying: Spoilers Ahead… for a series that was already pretty spoiled… like uncooked scrambled eggs, mixed with raw ground beef, left for days in the summer sun.
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I gave up keeping notes on Star Trek Picard after the second episode. Never even posted my second episode notes because I began to despise the show. It was the right call to not even bother documenting how absolutely terrible it was.
However, here I am two episodes in to Strange New Worlds and I have to admit I’m kind of enjoying it. I don’t have any notes for the first episode, because I assumed I’d hate it and didn’t bother, but that was a real mistake on my part.
As I’ve already stated I don’t think this is a bad show. I’m surprisingly ok with it. The characters are all terribly written, but the plots so far feel like Star Trek plots. Albeit, Star Trek plots written by dim wits who have watched some Star Trek, and understand the structure, but just don’t quite get the core idea.
On with the comments…
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I started the new season of Star Trek: Picard, against my better judgement. I made it 10 minutes in before my brain was so confused I had to re-start it and begin taking notes.
This is nothing but spoilers. If you haven’t watched the episode, and actually care, don’t read on. It also requires some context for most of my comments. So if you haven’t seen it; some of this might make zero sense.
Also, a lot of this is just plain nerd nitpicking bullshit.
REVISION: One of my comments about Guinan has been updated. There was something I missed, apparently.
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Summary
The Enterprise visits a planet called Haven, which legend has it has mystical healing powers. A strange message comes for Deanna Troi, she’s going to be married. Enter Lwaxana Troi and Deanna’s husband to be, Wyatt (and family). Shenanigans ensue. The Enterprise gets a message from the planet that some vessel is approaching and not communicating. Is it a threat? The vessel is Tarellian, a dangerous species believed to be extinct that carries a biological plague. Everywhere they go they infect the local populations and wipe out everyone. On board the Tarellian ship is a woman that Wyatt has been having visions of, and likewise she’s been having visions of him. Wyatt beams over to work to heal the Tarellians. Troi’s arranged marriage is called off and everyone lives happily ever after, except Wyatt who probably dies of a horrible plague.
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Summary
En route to help a colony that’s suffered a major catastrophe the Enterprise is stopped by Q and shenanigans ensue. Q gives Riker Q powers and tempts him to join them. He uses his powers to gift his crewmates, and they refuse. And so Riker refuses. And Q is taken up never to be seen again… until the next episode he’s in.
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Summary
The Enterprise has agreed to a meeting with the Ferengi, possibly a cooling of relations between the two powers. After two days of orbiting along side a Ferengi vessel they agree to the meeting. They present the Enterprise with The Stargazer, Picard’s old ship, which was thought to be lost in battle. The Ferengi captain gives it at no price, much to his first officers chagrin. Picard has been experiencing headaches, which intensify into flashbacks of the final battle of the Stargazer. These are brought on by a device used by the Ferengi captain, who it turns out lost his son when Picard destroyed the “unknown vessel” before having to abandon the Stargazer. Onboard the Stargazer they find falsified logs that make it seem like Picard knew he attacked an unarmed ship, which conflicts with his official report. Finally Picard is totally driven mad by the Ferengi device and is prepared to attack the Enterprise with the Stargazer until Riker gets through to him and he destroys the mind control device. The Ferengi first officer relieves the Ferengi captain of command on the grounds that he lead them on an unprofitable mission.
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Summary
While taking shore leave on an Earth-like world Wesley runs afoul of the locals’ harsh and random laws. In orbit above a vessel populated by powerful beings threatens the Enterprise if it interferes with its “children” on the planet below. Picard has to go down and sort things out by convincing the god entity that its laws are dumb and then beaming away with Wesley.
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Summary
The Enterprise is bringing two difficult alien species to a peace conference. They encounter a strange space phenomenon that “infects” the crew and ship systems. It eventually takes control of Picard who orders the ship to return to the phenomenon. The entity got trapped in the ship and now seeks to go home, but the only way to do that is to take Picard with him. Picard vanishes into the transporter and is presumed lost, but his energy sneaks into the ship the same way the original entity did and they re-create him in the transporter. Also it’s implied one of the alien delegates eats another one.
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Summary
An engineer and his alien boyfriend come aboard to improve the Enterprise’s engines. Something goes wrong and the ship is hurtled across the universe, eventually to its very edges. It becomes clear that the engineer’s partner is the one that makes things happen. He is some kind of inter-dimensional being that can move the ship with thought. He is weakened by the trip, but can get them home if everyone just thinks happy thoughts. He also tells Picard that Wesley is special and that he should nurture his growth. With the happy thoughts the Enterprise makes it back to where they were before things started, but the mysterious inter-dimensional traveler has disappeared.
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