What is your opinion of season 3 as a whole?

[SantaEddie74]

^
This!

 

[Rahul]

On the topic of Trelane's machines, we also know that the Q apparently fought the El-Aurians to a stalemate from Picard, a species that aside from being long-lived and sensing temporal changes have no other Q-like abilities, indicating that at one point the Q were a lot weaker or have some weaknesses that the El-Aurians could exploit because everything before this revelation indicated the Q could genocide the El-Aurians if they wanted to (come to think of it, was that Borg assimilation of El-Auria in the 23rd century really just an unfortunate coincidence?)

Off-topic but - my (head canon) retcon/explanation is that the Q were exclusively fighting with the survivors from the Nexus:
1) They are "all" the El Aurians left after the Borg assimilation
2) Like Guinan, they have weird, Nexus-induced powers: Time-Travel for some of them, and importantly a sense of perception for time-travel & alternate reality induced changes.
Sure - the Q are basically gods & can do enormous tricks. But whenever they actually DO something with consequences, all along the timestream there are nifty little El Aurians undermining & reversing the Q-induced changes.

 

[Unionized Elf]

^^That isn't consistent with Picard S2.

 

[Rahul]

^^That isn't consistent with Picard S2.

I ignore the existence of PIC S2.
Being a TNG/Star Trek fan is so much more easier this way.

 

[saladdays]

Your dissections don't hold water, given you never watched the source material from TOS to begin with.

And trying to use AI to figure out what actually happened in TOS. I haven't watched every episode of TOS either but I'm certainly not going to rely on today's AI to piece together everything.

 

[KUWTC]

I was very disappointed in season 3. I thought there was one stand out episode (Ortegas and the gorn) and one pretty good one. I’ve rather enjoyed it but all the love stories and (for lack of a better phrase) dumbed down plot…I hope they course correct

 

[KUWTC]

They doubled down on everything I disliked about the second season, and almost entirely removed what I did like. The standout of the season was Sehlat, but even that was a very by-the-numbers episode and botched its ending.

My impression of the show overall is that the first season held a lot of promise, which the second season started to squander, and the third frittered away. I'm still on board for season four, but at this point the only thing pushing me forward is the scant remainig residual goodwill from S1, and a dumb completionist desire to see all live-action Star Trek.

The completionist thing gets me a lot too. However I thought Terrarium was excellent

 

[Charlie Xmas]

The completionist thing gets me a lot too. However I thought Terrarium was excellent

I thought so too except for the Metron at the end.

 

[Firebird]

I thought so too except for the Metron at the end.

That episode easily gets near a 10/10 if you chop out everything related to the Metron... which actually would be easy to do, since it doesn't impact anything else in the narrative.

 

[SantaEddie74]

I thought so too except for the Metron at the end.

Yep. My only strike against the episode. Even for Star Trek that was absolutely unnecessary fan service. It took a 10 episode down to 9.5.

 

[Charlie Xmas]

I gave it an 8. I penalized it a point for dipping the bucket in the TOS well so unimaginatively or I would have given them 9.

 

[Sim]

Season was a tad weaker than season 1 and 2, imo, although I can't quite put my finger on it why I felt less enthusiastic about it. But it was still pretty decent.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Season was a tad weaker than season 1 and 2, imo, although I can't quite put my finger on it why I felt less enthusiastic about it.

<Puts finger on all of the scripts for Season 3>

 

[Charlie Xmas]

I'm just wondering how they're going to syndicate 46 episodes.

<Puts finger on all of the scripts for Season 3>

Yeah, there's something going on. Since they're now working on season 5, we'll get what we will get. I hope it's magnificent. Send out some positive waves.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I'm just wondering how they're going to syndicate 46 episodes.

I mean... It's a streaming show, so I don't think that syndication is a consideration.

 

[Tosk]

I have nothing but dread for season four, and am full of hope for season five. Gonna be a real rollercoaster for me to get to the end.

 

[Santa Kang]

I have nothing but dread for season four, and am full of hope for season five. Gonna be a real rollercoaster for me to get to the end.

 

[SantaEddie74]

Someone on the production staff really needed to be fired for that crap.

 

[Dar70]

It mostly stunk....I like a couple episodes. But I will never rewatch any of this season again...

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

Oh no.


Anyway. I'm going to ride my turbo lift to Deck 78.