A big part of Picard's ethos and storylines for the past 35 years is that he doesn't want a family and him coming to terms with being the last Picard. The shows and movies have gone over and over this. You claim canon is extremely important to you yet giving Picard a son messes up what they spent all those years building.
I don't have a problem with it because the season very much addresses his earlier attitudes, and shows how meeting Jack changes his mind and is the climax for the finale. I'm not one of the people that wants TNG in stasis 20 years later.
Having nuance and positive energy is not characterization. Lots of people make a good first impression and have positive energy. The doctor had positive energy and made a good first impression. Did she have a great characterization also? What exactly do we know about Sidney that makes her such a great character? Cause it's basically nothing after ten episodes. And again, I liked her! I'd be happy to see her again, but they gave her basically nothing character wise outside of crushing on Jack and beefing with Geordi. That's not good character world.
She's listed as a guest star. She overperforms what she was hired to do. Within those confines I think she's a great character and would like to see more of her. And yes, Dr Ohk is great as well.
Same. They are TV shows. It's why I can watch an episode of SNW followed by an episode of TOS and have no problem believing it's the same ship with many of the same characters. I don't have to wonder why the ship looks different. I don't even give it a second thought. It looks different because one was made in 2022 and the other in 1966.
But it's not just the way the ship looks, the Discoprise has technology the Enterprise-D didn't have over 100 years later. And they can't even bother to keep continuity with what happened in DISCOVERY. So if what they do doesn't matter, and I can't stand the tone of the show anyway, why keep watching SNW? Unlike with Terry Matalas, I'm not a fan of any of Henry Alonso Myers' past work (minus his brief stay on CHUCK at the beginning of his career) so have no reason to stick around expecting something better.
Terry worked for Picard for well over a year as co-showrunner before season 2 started filming. He had a major part of developing the season and has said the major story ideas (minus Picard's mom) were his ideas - including spending all season in the past which people hated. Yvette's mental illness and suicide was Akiva. We really don't know when Terry left to work on season 3 but considering most of the season 2 and 3 writers are the same I would think it was after season 2 was already broken down and written and then they started working on season 3 when season 2 was in production.
But the difference is Terry was the sole showrunner for season 3, and Goldsman always outranked him in season 2. The main difference between the seasons is Goldsman being in one and gone from another. Imagine your boss's boss changes at work. The new guy is far better than the old guy... if you were weighed down by bad policies, and suddenly those cleared out, would your final work product improve?
You know with absolutely certainly that had it been Discovery doing these things, they would be eviscerated by certain fans.
DISCOVERY is built on a foundation of bad decisions atop bad decisions. It would be just another eye roll in that department. They had their chance to reset after season 1... instead they made a worse season. They had another chance to reset after season 2, but instead completely botched their far future. I've dropped that show as of the beginning of its third season, and see no reason to give it yet another chance. I won't feed their viewing numbers further by hate watching it.
PIC S3 is certainly a big win ratings-wise, but ST wasn't losing before then. It was doing fine.
As the critics of the Canadian charts guy kept pointing out, we have no reliable source data for prior ratings. And those earlier efforts proved divisive with fans and resulted in mixed critical reception.
Maybe, but DIS, SNW, and PIC S1-2 did not move too far away from being ST.
Season 2 wasn't too bad. The others did move too far for me.
We already had that in Star Trek Beyond, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard Season One, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Star Trek: Prodigy.
For you, maybe.
I've always qualified my criticism of NuTrek with "live action". PRODIGY is far better than I'd expect for it to be. STLD has some incredibly bad early episodes, but by the middle of its second season, the episodes are consistently good. But again, that series can't be treated as strictly canon.
