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

[Bgt]

Gave it a 9.
I would give it a 10 if they weren't threatening us with a Jack Crusher spin off.
This fact alone almost ruined the whole experience for me.
He is an annoying brat and the whole age difference makes it even harder to endure him.
My only hope is exactly the age diff, either they recast him or find a way to get rid of him, cause it would be hard for him to keep looking 10years younger than he really is.. I mean he is not even looking younger now..
Just make a "Seven commanding the new Enterprise" series and assign Jack to be Q's personal assistant or something.

In other news, the TNG ensemble is one of the best ever on TV history.
The chemistry between them is just amazing.
I enjoyed every moment with them interacting with each other. And yes, during the whole poker sequence I was happily smiling like an idiot!

Worf was the MVP of the season.

I am glad they made Seven a captain, did not like at all the Micahel Burnham treatment... "she can't obey orders so give her a ship to command". SIGH...

And please, turn on the lights, I am not sure who told the NuTrek people that keeping spaceships dark adds to the experience. It doesn't. It is frustrating for our eyes and unrealistic. Just stop it already.

 

[DarKush]

I had my doubts as the season went on that they would stick the landing. But the season/series finale was fine by me. I didn't get everything I wanted, but there were still some nice surprises, and I thought the episode ended some storylines while also planting the seeds for new ones.

Right off, it was great hearing Walter Koenig. I'm guessing-hoping-that Anton Chekov is a nod to the late Anton Yelchin. I liked a lot of the special effects and action in this episode but would've liked to see even more. Though I get this episode had limited time to get through a lot.

Once again, this episode did very well with the character moments. The TNG cast has great chemistry and it's just nice seeing them hanging out together. I'm glad the new bloodthirsty Dr. Crusher was acknowledged.

This episode reminded me of Rise of Skywalker, but handled the resurrected Borg Queen better than Star Wars did with Sidious (that said, I wish it had been spelled out more that this was the Borg cube from VOY's "Endgame") and I also thought this season (and New Trek overall) treats their legacy characters better than Disney Star Wars has.

The Borg-Changeling alliance made more sense to me after the Queen explained it, and I saw how both were two broken halves that needed each other. I also really liked the design of this cube.

For the newer characters, I liked that the Titan's doctor got some redemption. And I did like Seven hugging Sidney, it felt motherly and was a nice kind of payoff to the bond established between the two.

I liked that Q is back. It felt like they just wiped away Season 2 entirely, which is fine by me (except for Annie Wersching's Borg Queen performance). When the TNG crew said they found the Borg in the Solar System I was thinking it was going to be Jurati's Borg and they would team up together, but after Shaw basically dismissed that storyline before, they were forgotten.

I do have some quibbles:
-I was expecting to see Janeway after they talked her up. I was thinking that the hologram that Tuvok (great to see Tim Russ back and that Tuvok made it), gave Seven would have a hologram of Janeway. Oh well.
-I was hoping to see O'Brien, if not Barclay, Ogawa, Pulaski, and Guinan. I also think it was appropriate to have Wesley back. (I also would've liked to have seen some DS9 and VOY cameos as well).
-I've been thinking for a while that the Titan should've been named the Yorktown and especially after it was renamed Enterprise-G. (I also would've been fine if the real Enterprise-G had been behind the Titan or just beyond it. If we are going to talk about going forward, bring in a brand-new ship. I think they jumped too quickly to put the Enterprise-F out there. Perhaps they could've held back on that and made that the newest hero ship. Shelby could've been on the Excelsior, Voyager-B, or Sutherland).
-I didn't catch any California-class vessels this season, and I think it would've been nice to have some of the starships introduced on Lower Decks in live action.
-I'm iffy about Raffi as first officer due to her personal relationship with Seven. I'm also iffy about Jack onboard. I was sort of hoping he would go his own way and not join Starfleet.
-I wish they had had Kestra on the Enterprise-G too or mentioned her. She got left by the wayside. It would've been nice to hear about Alexander as well.
-I would've liked to have seen La Forge's wife. I was guessing they might have had LeVar Burton's wife in that role, which would've been really nice.
-I'm not going to be missing more Ten Forward scenes. Paramount definitely got their money's worth out of that set.
-I didn't love the Picard characters much, but with this being the final Picard, it would've been nice to have the PIC actors back in cameos. Perhaps novels and comics will fill in some of these blanks. The biggest being what happens with Picard and Laris.

 

[The Commander]

Equally I think some of the more critical voices might revisit the series in the future and realise it wasn't so bad.

I think watching it as a whole will make it more enjoyable.

This is the final mission of the TNG crew. I didn't expect it to be groundbreakingly new SciFi. It just had to give the TNG crew the emotional send-off they deserved. And I think they accomplished that.

But I think the season would have been better without the balast from Season's 1 and 2. No Synth Picard, no Raffi...Both Data's return and the return of the Borg would have been much more impactful.

 

[Phily B]

I've liked Jack, I think as a character when he is being serious he is good but him being an ensign after a year of training and he seemed more like a child who had regressed was annoying.

 

[ashleytinger]

I didn't like the Titan renaming, even if it was played off well through dialogue. There were some great moments in this though.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

"When's daddy coming home?"

*whimpers*
*whines*
*scratches door*
*pees in cask*
*whimpers some more*

 

[Quantum21]

Equally I think some of the more critical voices might revisit the series in the future and realise it wasn't so bad.

History won't judge this season kindly, it's the one thing I'm sure of.

 

[FreezeC77]

Seems future humans keep their fertility for longer, given their medical science it's perfectly believable.

There are people in their later years fathering children today. Pavel having a kid when he was like 60 to 90 isn't implausible at all.

Hell there's a 94 year old grandson of the 10th President of the United States (John Tyler born in 1790) still alive because Tyler was widowed as President and remarried to a woman in her 20s and had children into his late 60s/early 70s. One of those later children also re-married and had children into their 70s.

Chehkov was born in 2245. It's 2401. Hypothetically give him a kid at 70 that's 2315. That kid would be 86 years old.

stuff like that has happened/happens today without 23rd/24th/25th century medical advancements

 

[Bad Thoughts]

I'm iffy about Raffi as first officer due to her personal relationship with Seven.

It would be prohibited in real life ... for good reason.

 

[Markonian]

Still vastly better than seasons one and two.

That’s a low bar to clear.

 

[Tomalak]

History won't judge this season kindly, it's the one thing I'm sure of.

Fair enough. Sorry you didn't enjoy it!

 

[FreezeC77]

It would be prohibited in real life ... for good reason.

The Captain Riker/Troi couple posting on Titan raises questions... but at least Troi wasn't his first officer. I would still think it ill-advised to have an executive officer under the command of a spouse/romantic partner (current or previous)

 

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

There are people in their later years fathering children today. Pavel having a kid when he was like 60 to 90 isn't implausible at all.

I know about this from personal experience: my father was 59 when I was born. My great-grandfather fought in the Civil War.

 

[Kirby]

I gave it an 8, but I’ll have to let it marinate a little before I know how I truly feel. There was plenty of stuff that I enjoyed, and some things that made me roll my eyes a little.

I like Jack a little bit less after his smug bit on the Titan/Enterprise bridge. I definitely don’t like the rechristening of the Titan to the Enterprise.

The scene between Seven and Tuvok didn’t feel right either. They have been friends for a very long time, and there was no familiarity or warmth at all between them. Tuvok could have been replaced by any no-name Starfleet officer and the scene would have played out exactly the same.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

The Captain Riker/Troi couple posting on Titan raises questions... but at least Troi wasn't his first officer.

Troi would have been medical corps, thus outside of Riker's hierarchy.

If there is a relationship that would also be prohibited, it would be Worf and Dax. This problem was at least partially addressed in Change of Heart.

 

[Visitor1982]

Personally, I liked season 3 better than I did season 2 and maybe even season 1.

For me, Star Trek - Picard is a bit of a mixed bag, just like Discovery is.

What I don't understand however is people claiming Terry is God and he has brought Star Trek back to the good olden days, whatever that may be. When you look objectively at season 3 of Picard, it still is very much NU-Trek or Kurtzman-Trek, which is fine, but it really isn't all that different from the storytelling of Discovery or any other recently produced Star Trek show. So I really don't understand what some of us are seeing what I'm not seeing.

 

[Jayden Dersch]

I am Really if they don't make another Season, Only because Q was back! I like how they had to Change the Enterprise G from Odyssey Class to the New Constitution Mark 2

 

[FreezeC77]

The more I consider my thoughts I really don't like the Enterprise being slapped onto the Titan. I feel like a ship's accomplishments matter and the Titan what they were up against and what they managed to do doesn't really deserve being taken away from it.

I mean obviously they have the bridge constructed, they have the corridor and sets so the intention would be to launch a series in the future and they want the Enterprise name and not the Titan name, but still feels lame.

 

[Cortez]

How's Laris getting on by the way? How about Troi and Rikers other offspring? Changelings were all on the one ship with Vadic? How's Starfleet? Appalling stuff.

 

[Tosk]

It's weird that they were retiring the Enterprise-F so grandly, but for the G they just said, "Um, that one over there! That'll do."