Yes, Seven of Nine is shown to be jaded. What about Picard? Isn't he starting to summon his moral strength more and more with each episode? Is he not still on his "Search for Spock," but doing so in part out of feelings that are both noble and familiar?
If I see extremes then I'll judge it. I don't see it as extreme.
Any real lasting impact its quikly forgtton in the movie along with teh distrcution of the enteprise and has no room to breath, nope were walking
The first episode seems to contradict this. He was resigned, not just from Starfleet, but from life. He holed himself up in his mansion and wrote books. He became passive. He became a spectator, not a participant.
The show, so far, has been Picard learning the limits to that moral strength and the cost to people when things didn't work out Picard's way.
Not for me it wasn't.
This has definitely been the theme of these first episodes. I think there are also dimensions to Picard's rediscovery of himself. I think we are moving away from the man who accept being turned down by Clancy and could summon greater rhetorical force.
Which makes it worse and cheap if that happened. But, David's death, and Icheb's both carry impact on characters in the story. So it serves narrative purpose.
I guess we all have our things that set us off
The morality Picard displayed in TNG ... and increasingly is this series ... is not a catechism. It is something to be put into practice.
Im going to be fair and say Picard tended to be full of shit alot
Indeed. One doesn't ever stop improving in that regard.
You mean, like Maddox and Icheb? (jk)
Heh. I was about to say... TNG was my default Trek when I was a kid, but DS9 became my default as I got older. Now, the older I get, the more TNG is becoming difficult to watch. Also, I became a Whovian pretty much instantly when my local PBS station began showing Series One in 2007 (two years late is better than never, right?)