Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x10 - "The Last Generation"

[Campe]

Okay, so that was better than it’s been since the Ro episode.

Generally, this season for me, has been mixed to not great. Plot contrivances and nostalgia for the sake of nostalgia, too many characters, no real stakes, no sense of urgency. It just fell flat in a lot of places. In this episode, we still saw a lot of that but the resolution save one bit actually worked for me.

The Ugly: The Borg Queen. Most definitely.

The Bad: I still don’t buy the changeling/Borg team-up. I was hoping for more cameos. DS9 has been pretty heavily ignored in CBSTrek (save LDS) and I really was hoping they’d be represented here somehow. The continued low-stakes of all of this. I mean, show of hands… How many people were actually worried for either Earth or any of our heroes? No. Me neither. Special Counselor Ensign Jack Crusher? Yeah, that didn’t work for me. Q — I love Q. I love DeLancie. This was unnecessary. Whole season two was pretty meh, I liked his resolution. I don’t think we needed to go here. Needle drop musical cues, too many references to old things, poker, blah, blah, blah. I don’t need to go through my list of general grievances against this season again. I did that above.

The big Shaw-level no for me was renaming the Titan Enterprise. Stupid, stupid fanfic level bullshit. Titan saved the fucking day in the end along with the Enterprise. Renaming her steps on Titans legacy. Dumb.

The Good: Anton Chekov. Real Tuvok. A lot of the character stuff here. Captain Seven. First officer Raffi. Worf and Riker’s banter. Worf sleeping. Worf and Raffi. Deanna and Data. Shaw’s performance evaluation. Someone above mentioned that it seemed like Beverly and Picard were together. Thankfully I did not see that. I’m still hopeful he’s with Laris even though we didn’t get to see her. Oh and goodbye to the fucking Borg! Let’s never use them again.

Overall this season was fine, passable entertainment if you turn your brain off but nothing to write home about. It’s a better ending for the TNG crew. I honestly don’t need to see any of them again. This was sufficient. But the concept as an end all of this era? I don’t know. There are some aspects I’d like to follow up on, primarily Bajor and Cardassia. But I don’t need a whole series to just follow up on these things. Maybe a movie. Maybe a miniseries.

Overall I give this one a 7. The season as a whole a 6. Au revoir Jean-Luc Picard. Au revoir, TNG.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

I was afraid they'd have the E-D zipping around like a fighter plane, and while it wasn't as bad as I'd feared, that was a bit too...nimble for the old girl. My only head canon explanation is that Geordi replaced the original RCS thrusters and impulse engines with more powerful, maneuverable models. That and the camera moves may have also made it seem a bit more Millennium Falcon-esque but I'll have to re-watch to be sure.

The Titan-A should have become the Voyager-A or just stayed the Titan-A. This will mark the first time the Enterprise has been a smaller, older ship than its predecessor. I was half expecting it to be the USS Picard.

I thought Jack's switch from acceptance of being one with the Borg to ripping himself away from it happened a bit too quickly. All it took was a hug from his dad and a memory montage? I'd have bought it more easily had the realization of what he had outside of the collective had happened a bit more slowly.

Those minor quibbles aside, I loved it.

 

[gweeps]

Well, I felt all kinds of things watching this. Got a tad choked up in the middle. Laughed a bit. Sighed in annoyance a little. Reasonably satisfied. I mean, for what it was, everybody did the best they could with the series finale.

There should have been a scene with Geordi and his daughters. Unless I missed it. The episode moved very quickly.

I kinda wish the post-credits scene was related to Season 2 events. They could have gotten his son instead.

The scenes of the Enterprise inside the Borg cube were fantastic.

Riker to Worf, "Do you even hear yourself?" got the biggest laugh from me.

No mention of Elnor all season? Ridiculous.

I take it that was Walter Koenig as Earth's President? Loved it.

This one gets a 7.5. Too many callbacks. But they were enjoyable, so...

 

[Isolar]

Not to bring real life into this, but men now have been having kids in their 70s and 80s now so that's not really an issue.

Including Jimmy Doohan himself!

 

[Racefuel]

Well, I felt all kinds of things watching this. Got a tad choked up in the middle. Laughed a bit. Sighed in annoyance a little. Reasonably satisfied. I mean, for what it was, everybody did the best they could with the series finale.

There should have been a scene with Geordi and his daughters. Unless I missed it. The episode moved very quickly.

I kinda wish the post-credits scene was related to Season 2 events. They could have gotten his son instead.

The scenes of the Enterprise inside the Borg cube were fantastic.

Riker to Worf, "Do you even hear yourself?" got the biggest laugh from me.

No mention of Elnor all season? Ridiculous.

I take it that was Walter Koenig as Earth's President? Loved it.

This one gets a 7.5. Too many callbacks. But they were enjoyable, so...

It was Walter Koenig, Trek royalty as it were

 

[DaveyNY]

Male sperm decrease in number as we age, but they never disappear entirely unless some disease is involved.

It is usually the delivery system that fails us, not the package itself.

 

[Quinton]

Naming Chekov's son 'Anton' was fantastic btw.

 

[Captain_Amasov]

For those who were expecting Janeway, just a note - Matalas expressly stated, out of a desire not to get anyone's hopes up, that Janeway would not be in the finale. At the time, there was some pushback - 'you never know with producers' - and I'm not saying that's a bad reaction or anything, because I get it. A lot of producers are like that.

The thing with Matalas is, he seemed genuine in his anxiousness that people were going to go in expecting it, and I could kind of tell he was electing to cushion the blow for Janeway fans. No doubt he recognized on some level that some fans were going to reach this point feeling like it was a surefire thing, which I guess speaks to a potential problem with the writing, but whatever.

My point is simply that if, in the future, he does get his show (or whatever form it takes) and repeats the song-and-dance, if you should happen to hear ahead of time that he's cautioning against expecting a certain legacy character, I'd say take him at face value on the matter. If I hadn't seen that tweet, and bought into it as genuine, I would have been disappointed as well.

To be fair to people, Matalas also said the Borg weren't in this series and that the Enterprise-F would be okay (in relation to STO) and we saw how that turned out.

 

[Quinton]

To be fair to people, Matalas also said the Borg weren't in this series and that the Enterprise-F would be okay (in relation to STO) and we saw how that turned out.

I'm a little lost on the issue with what he said about the Enterprise-F - it wasn't actually destroyed in the show, was it?

The Borg thing I didn't know about!

 

[firehawk12]

For those who were expecting Janeway, just a note - Matalas expressly stated, out of a desire not to get anyone's hopes up, that Janeway would not be in the finale. At the time, there was some pushback - 'you never know with producers' - and I'm not saying that's a bad reaction or anything, because I get it. A lot of producers are like that.

The thing with Matalas is, he seemed genuine in his anxiousness that people were going to go in expecting it, and I could kind of tell he was electing to cushion the blow for Janeway fans. No doubt he recognized on some level that some fans were going to reach this point feeling like it was a surefire thing, which I guess speaks to a potential problem with the writing, but whatever.

My point is simply that if, in the future, he does get his show (or whatever form it takes) and repeats the song-and-dance, if you should happen to hear ahead of time that he's cautioning against expecting a certain legacy character, I'd say take him at face value on the matter. If I hadn't seen that tweet, and bought into it as genuine, I would have been disappointed as well.

I understand the reality of not getting Mulgrew. But to me it seems odd that the Borg Queen would feel compelled to basically have her Bond villain moment with Picard when it was Janeway that basically left her in such a pathetic state.

Heh ... perhaps a future novel will play that scene out for you.

Is this a thing? lol
I mean it's too late, but I'd like to think Wesley would at least care about his brother and his first posting, even if he's happy to ignore his mother. lol

 

[Roald]

Absolutely loved every second…!
I think in 10 years, people will look back at season 3 of PIC as one of the greatest Treks of all time… I think -for all it’s praise- it’s still underrated…

 

[Anduinel]

To be fair to people, Matalas also said the Borg weren't in this series and that the Enterprise-F would be okay (in relation to STO) and we saw how that turned out.

I thought that was in reference to the S2 Borg - Queen Agnes' little splinter group. And I mean...we didn't see the E-F get blown up or anything, so the ship could be fine. Her crew...well...

 

[Quinton]

I understand the reality of not getting Mulgrew. But to me it seems odd that the Borg Queen would feel compelled to basically have her Bond villain moment with Picard when it was Janeway that basically left her in such a pathetic state.

Here's a positive spin on it that just popped into my brain: after all those years of suffering, the Borg Queen doesn't even get to complain to Janeway. She has to settle for Picard.

 

[Racefuel]

I'm a little lost on the issue with what he said about the Enterprise-F - it wasn't actually destroyed in the show, was it?

The Borg thing I didn't know about!

supposedly the E-F had a problem with its computers which necessitated early decommissioning. It wasn’t destroyed, it just…wasn’t there anymore

 

[mattman8907]

while i have some minor gripes with the Titan-A being rechristened the Enterprise-G (think it should've been its own ship), this was a great finale. love the call back to All Good Things...

 

[Racefuel]

while i have some minor gripes with the Titan-A being rechristened the Enterprise-G (think it should've been its own ship), this was a great finale. love the call back to All Good Things...

Yep. It feels settled and comfortable

 

[Captain_Amasov]

I'm a little lost on the issue with what he said about the Enterprise-F - it wasn't actually destroyed in the show, was it?

The Borg thing I didn't know about!

Not that it matters to any of the series going forward, but STO started in the year 2409, and is now in 2411. The Odyssey-class Enterprise-F (now in its Yourktown refit state) is still in service in that timeframe in-game. With the end of Picard, the F has been decommissioned, and we now have the Constitution III-class Enterprise-G in the year 2401. The issue for those that play and like the game, is that STO doesn't line up with the canon series in this regard anymore.

 

[GothicPudding]

To be fair to people, Matalas also said the Borg weren't in this series and that the Enterprise-F would be okay (in relation to STO) and we saw how that turned out.

I don't think Matalas said that the Borg would not be in Season 3 not being in this series. I've seen this asserted many times, but I haven't seen any proof that he ever said this.

I think this misunderstanding may originate from this Tweet:
https://twitter.com/TerryMatalas/status/1630345390162866176

The Jurati Collective does not play a part this season and the real Borg I imagine are still licking their wounds from the #StarTrekVoyager finale in the Delta Quadrant.

I assume the Enterprise-F survived the battle, but it was being decommissioned.

 

[The Commander]

This will mark the first time the Enterprise has been a smaller, older ship than its predecessor.

Although they call it a "refit" it's pretty much a new ship. The Enterprse F was launched in the 2380ies.

 

[theonering]

Don't get me wrong... I thought the whole of S3 of Picard was a fun story and it was great to see my childhood heroes in the saddle one last time. But as somebody who would say that TNG was "my" Star Trek growing up... I think SNW has been the superior series of the Paramount+ Treks and don't understand the love for Matalas' version of it.