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Spoilers Is Picard season 2 a failure?

Star Trek's 20th and 21st Centuries have always been more advanced than ours.

Remember, TOS and TNG showed us they had working cryogenics and Sleeper ships in the 1990s.

True.... There is that.

Also on the whole Q thing. yeah I can picture their next meeting

"Oh Jean Luc, I got BETTER" in that tone
 
I'm saying that his dying would have been a better scifi story than what we got as S2. For an all powerful being like Q it really is odd that it is barely broached.

Yes, I guess better writers could have made this an overall better story, agreed!
 
I'm only 5 episodes in, and it certainly doesn't look like a failure to me.

Then again, the punchline of Bob Newhart's "infinite number of monkeys" bit doesn't show the monkey's failure until the very last word: "To be or not to be, that is the gezornenblatt."
 
I'm only 5 episodes in, and it certainly doesn't look like a failure to me.

Then again, the punchline of Bob Newhart's "infinite number of monkeys" bit doesn't show the monkey's failure until the very last word: "To be or not to be, that is the gezornenblatt."

Give it another episode or two. It took me several to realize what a loser Season 2 was. And as much as I didn't like the first season, I rate the second even lower because it started off so well and held such promise.
 
Yes but at least to have some kind of explanation beyond "I'm dying" when we know full well Q is capable of lying and does that often.

And, you know, Q are supposed to be immortal.

Any other race? No. A Q? Yes.

Of course they did not have an explanation, so we did not get one. The while thing was a conceptual plot point to tug on heart strings that went unexplained (or they did not even care enough to try and explain). Typical NuTrek.

And it is not like this stuff did not happen in earlier iterations. But I just think it hapoens more often (fewer episodes), and is even more jarring when it is the crux of a serialized plot line.
 
He was scared. I believe he was dying, but let's say he was lying? Why?

Was the season a failure? That premiere felt like a film. Cinematic from first frame to last. After that, it just fell off a cliff.


I don't know in all of TNG and Voy we never saw or heard of a Q dying of natural old age, only another Q can kill a Q that's what the show tells us.
 
I don't know in all of TNG and Voy we never saw or heard of a Q dying of natural old age, only another Q can kill a Q that's what the show tells us.
I did not get the sense that Q "dying" was some natural part of their life cycle. I got the sense that there was some kind of attack or externally-induced decay.
 
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