Picard Season 3 has this amazing ability to keep me excited with nostalgia and Easter Eggs while inching along the plot. I was very happy to see LeVar Burton again, and then so many of the ships from Trek's past (though I wish that the NX-01 had gotten a shout out. I read that the NX-01 refit was there, but I wish it had been one that Seven and Jack talked about). I also would've liked to have seen an Einstein-class, a California-class, Enterprise-B, as well as some DISCO ships and something from Strange New Worlds as well to get as inclusive as they could. I very much liked the use of the Klingon cloaking device, from the Bounty no less (which I wasn't expecting to see again).
There were a lot of little character moments that I enjoyed in this episode-and entire season really so far. I liked when Crusher just hugged Worf, and how she and Geordi greeted as well. It just felt right. I didn't care for how casually Geordi called Picard by his first name, but I could allow for the passage of time, and also La Forge was pissed at Picard for putting his daughter and his family in danger. I didn't care much for Sydney going off on Geordi, though it was well set up. I'm not a fan of kids telling off their parents in a lot of Hollywood entertainment these days, but I am glad that they bridged their divide before the episode was over.
I liked how Shaw was geeking out about La Forge, the very opposite in how he reacted to Picard and Riker. It was like he was meeting one of his heroes.
I liked a lot of the Easter Eggs on Daystrom Station, with Kirk's body being the most intriguing. I hope this is a way they can bring Shatner back as Kirk in some way for some story, though they might bring Chris Pine or Paul Wesley in instead. I'm not a fan of the Section 31 retcon, but that cat has been out of the bag for way too long now to get too miffed about it.
I hope that there's a good reason for why the Changelings stole Picard's body. I don't see why Picard would be the greatest weapon against Starfleet. Even in his prime, under Borg control, the Enterprise crew found a way to beat the Borg (with his help to be fair), but still, making the big weapon be Picard's corpse feels right now like contorting the story to keep it about Picard when they don't need to because of the interesting things they've done with Picard and Jack, and the TNG reunion. There's a lot already to play with. If they got his body I wonder if they are going to give us the Nemesis that we should've gotten where Sir Patrick plays both Picard and his evil twin.