Tagged: Star Trek: Picard
Picard season 2 is in the books and puts a beautiful bow on almost 30 years of history. The Star Trek franchise continues to find ingenious ways to fuse what has come before while blazing a new and exciting path...
Back when Star Trek: Picard was first announced, Patrick Stewart promised fans a show that would be very different from what they’ve seen before. While in many ways that has been true, the first season didn’t capitalize on its bold...
Star Trek: Picard has largely been about choices. Picard makes a choice resigning Starfleet that alters his life forever. The Federation makes a choice, banning synths, that leads to catastrophe for the Romulans. The season finale asks Soji to make...
With just two episodes left in its first season, Star Trek: Picard arrives exactly where it should – on the doorstep of answers. There’s only one problem. Thanks to the feast or famine structure of the series so far, there’s...
For most of the season, a chief complaint about Star Trek: Picard has been that it’s been too vague with its mysteries. Why did this person do that, or why is any of this happening? In “Broken Pieces,” the answers...
What we believe about ourselves dictates a great deal of our life. Confidence, justified or not, can propel a person to great heights, or abyssal lows. Star Trek: Picard has been a study in the myth of the self, and...
Star Trek: Picard has come under some fire recently for how much the Federation and Starfleet have appeared to change since we last saw them. In this week’s episode, we discover one thing is still very much the same: Jean-Luc...
Patrick Stewart promised Star Trek: Picard wouldn’t be the Trek we’re used to. That hasn’t stopped critiques on its direction, particularly regarding recent dark turns. Executive producer and show runner Michael Chabon took to Instagram to address those concerns. His considered...
Can you recover your humanity? That’s the question at the heart of the halfway point of Star Trek: Picard’s inaugural season. Despite the pulpy setting on INSERT CASINO PLANET HERE, ‘Stardust City Rag,’ by novelist Kristen Beyer, features some of...
You’d think the return of a beloved fan favorite character after nearly twenty years would be the headline of any review of a Star Trek episode, but nope. Regardless of all the tremendous things in this fourth episode of Star Trek:...
