Good. Works for me.
Let's get on with nitpicking other crap.
Let's get on with nitpicking other crap.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x01 - "The Star Gazer"
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And for that matter, I'm pretty sure ship designs didn't evolve much for hundred of years at a time in the pre-Industrial eras. Sometimes technology can be stable for decades or centuries before entering periods of rapid evolution in response to paradigm shifts -- technological punctuated equilibrium.
Rather than switching back and forth between designs in-universe like crazy ("Q&A">"The Cage">Disco/SNW>TOS), maybe it's better to think of them switching back and forth between starship "actors"
Like they did Borg Queens, back in the day.
Yeah, this is just how SNW wants to depict her, much as how Dalton played James Bond one way and Brosnan another but both were meant to be the exact same man with the same history.
I like the Discoprise and so I prefer to imagine that the ship always looked that way. 
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Don't be silly! Star Trek does romance just fine. First there was the grab ass guy in the original series, and then the grandma ghost sex candle in TNG, and don't forget the lizards having sex in Voyager! Enterprise was full of romantic entanglements that were healthy, like the aliens who got Trip pregnant, or totally not gay Malcolm and his many exploits with women! There were so many great romances in ENT that I refuse to name them! Then you had Michael and Ash in Discovery, Michael and Book, also in Discovery, and that worked out really well, so you can't tell me Star Trek isn't a great place to look at terrific starships.
I actually thought this was great. The best episode of this show and probably better than any single episode of Disco. That would make this the best of live action Bad Robot Trek so far. New Show Runner seems to really have meant something this time.
I will agree on the romance angke, though. Kira and Odo were good. That is about it.
You forgot Kirk and the Enterprise.
Talk about unrequited love.
I'd give it 9/10. This was a fantastic launch for this season and an improvement on last season's first episode (though I still enjoyed it). I love that Seven will have an expanded role this season. And I can't wait to see how Picard interacts with Q in the upcoming episodes.
I'd disagree about it being necessary - this could have just as easily been something like two friends talking about roads not taken due to a development in Bev's offscreen life troubling Picard, and having Laris making her observation of his troubling isolation from there. I didn't hate what we got, it gets the job done, but I thought it was clunky writing to tell the audience Oh, btw, Zhaban's dead, then swerve into potential romance a half-second later, when comradely love/concern works just as well to get the plot moving.
OOH! A new Akira, but hopefully one that looks good from every angle.Lancelot Class.
Is he though?
Looked to me that he froze in place immediately when the Borg Queen (?) beamed onto the bridge and barely managed to issue the self destruct order.
Composure and facing the danger looks different to me.
