I was content with Picard's series finale

[fireproof78]

Thr best ending for TNG was ALL GOOD THINGS.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

That would have been nice. I always liked Pulaski, but the impression I got from the "Chaos on the Bridge" doc is that the actress didn't along well with the cast.

I also enjoyed S3 of Picard and might do a rewatch again soon. It's a far better ending for the TNG cast than Nemesis was.

Beverly meets Laris. Picard turns to the camera with a cheeky smile stretched across his face.

Fade to black.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Thr best ending for TNG was ALL GOOD THINGS.

The more time goes by and the more I watch it I realise what an absolute masterpiece it it.

When it came out my very young self was disappointed that it didn't have enough explosions and felt the finale should have been more like what First Contact gave us. Now I can see both are brilliant.

 

[DonIago]

I wish AGT hadn't been quite so Picard-focused at the expense of the secondary characters, and that the writers had thought through the (fairly creative!) puzzle they created a bit more carefully when it came to the execution of it in the episode, but otherwise, it's pretty great. I'm not sure there's a better finale other than possibly WYLB (though that has its own set of issues).

 

[DonIago]

Beverly meets Laris. Picard turns to the camera with a cheeky smile stretched across his face.

Fade to black.

As the theme song from "Three's Company" begins playing.

 

[SpockOfNine]

The TNG crew had three endings and none of them really top All Good Things but Picard S3 was definitely a better ending for the crew than Nemesis.

 

[somebuddyX]

I keep going back and forth if the Enterprise-E should have been in Picard, if it had been the one getting retired. On the one hand I think it would have been cool to see both ships from the TNG-era celebrated, but on the other would the E's appearance have made the D's appearance less impactful?

 

[SpockOfNine]

I keep going back and forth if the Enterprise-E should have been in Picard, if it had been the one getting retired. On the one hand I think it would have been cool to see both ships from the TNG-era celebrated, but on the other would the E's appearance have made the D's appearance less impactful?

The season was built around nostalgia, so the D was always going to beat the E. If anything, the F should have been the E. It would make more sense for Starfleet to give the E one last hurrah in the big fleet gathering before decommissioning it due to critical damage sustained in the mission prior to the gathering. Which would then better algin with the STO timeline for when the F originally launched. The only issue with this is that the Titan would need to be named something else, if you even bother to rename it at all.

 

[fireproof78]

I keep going back and forth if the Enterprise-E should have been in Picard, if it had been the one getting retired. On the one hand I think it would have been cool to see both ships from the TNG-era celebrated, but on the other would the E's appearance have made the D's appearance less impactful?

Seeing them work together would have been more interesting.

 

[Quinton]

I like "All Good Things..." slightly less as the years go by, but I recognize that's hardly a commonplace opinion. It's a very good episode of television. It's a reasonably strong note to go out on. But it's not even my third-favorite Star Trek series finale.

Back when PIC S3 aired, I refrained from saying this out of concerns over personal recency bias. But I'm now certain. I genuinely prefer "The Last Generation" as a TNG finale. Three years later, and I'm still ride-or-die on PIC S3 on the whole, too. Nostalgia-drenched salad that it is, it's still absolutely delicious to me.

 

[The Wormhole]

I keep going back and forth if the Enterprise-E should have been in Picard, if it had been the one getting retired. On the one hand I think it would have been cool to see both ships from the TNG-era celebrated, but on the other would the E's appearance have made the D's appearance less impactful?

If the E filled the F's role of being the ship that was retired and then lost, it would things more poetic, as you could have had the D be the proverbial phoenix rising from the ashes to avenge its fallen successor. And when you get down to it, the E was still a part of TNG, it deserved to be present for TNG's last ride.

 

[SpockOfNine]

I like "All Good Things..." slightly less as the years go by, but I recognize that's hardly a commonplace opinion. It's a very good episode of television. It's a reasonably strong note to go out on. But it's not even my third-favorite Star Trek series finale.

Back when PIC S3 aired, I refrained from saying this out of concerns over personal recency bias. But I'm now certain. I genuinely prefer "The Last Generation" as a TNG finale. Three years later, and I'm still ride-or-die on PIC S3 on the whole, too. Nostalgia-drenched salad that it is, it's still absolutely delicious to me.

Which is why I have always found it odd that they started the show as a new thing and then back tracked to a nostalgia salad, rather than the more logical - reunion nostalgia salad, with a spin off focusing on a reinvigorated Picard.

 

[fireproof78]

Which is why I have always found it odd that they started the show as a new thing and then back tracked to a nostalgia salad, rather than the more logical - reunion nostalgia salad, with a spin off focusing on a reinvigorated Picard.

Because fan feedback that was the loudest was clamoring for the familiar.

 

[DonIago]

Cynical Me will cite this as one more reason not to listen to the fans.

 

[fireproof78]

Cynical Me will cite this as one more reason not to listen to the fans.

You might be right.

 

[DonIago]

I usually am. #citationneeded

 

[Qonundrum]

I never made it to the end of the second or third season. The showed bored me to tears.

Wasn't my thing either...

I still see Picard Series 3 as TNG Series 8. And I'm pretty happy with it. Bringing back the D righted a wrong and the final scene around the card table with Jerry Goldsmith's music was about the best finale a TNG fan could ever have hoped for.

It does make a nice season 8. TNG ended at the right point in 1994, to think of an 8th year at that time would have been a drag, IMHO of course. After the 1990s reunion parties movies that really didn't one-up or even remain on tier with the Kirk era movies (IMHO), there definitely needed to be revitalization - and PIC/3 delivers, as well as moving the characters forward in largely compelling and credible ways, making up for the occasionally excessive self-referential gag.

I don't think the Borg were needed and I liked the idea of the critters from "Conspiracy", but the Borg were actually done justice this time - even if their entrance and then resolution were too brief, enough dialogue and narrative felt right.

The "D" and all the thought put into repatriating the ship was, in a word, magnificent. Still is. And PIC/3 touches on the movies the same way "The Measure of a Man" and later stories touched on "The Naked Now" - turning lemonade out of lemons. Much respect.

Not really a nitpick, more of me recognizing a dropped plot-point. I was watching someone's review of the "Encounter at Farpoint" episode when they talked briefly about the scene where Dr. Crusher was shopping. She purchased a bolt of fabric and.... that was the last it was ever seen. For the entire series, and subsequent movies, Beverly hasn't shown any interest in fabric making. And furthermore, I don't recall seeing her wearing anything with that fabric pattern. So, it could be said that it is lore that Beverly Crusher has had an unused bolt of fabric just sitting in her quarters for the entire series. And at least the first movie.

Obviously, it was just a dropped character point for her, but, one I noticed as a weird point.

Maybe she bought it for Tasha! Or could have knitted mittens for the invading crawdads...