Alright,
last night I was watching "Remembrance", the very first episode of "Picard" season one. I was very very thrilled right before I started. Quite some time has passed since I was that thrilled because of new Trek and especially when I'm aware of the fact that at least one of my favorite childhood heroes participates. Namely Jean-Luc Picard.
From the very first scene when the Enterprise-D is flying towards the audience and we zoom into Ten Forward I knew I was in for a fantastic piece of Trek. And I have to admit I really liked the scene. Well acted by both of them.
I thought that Spiner just looked fine as Data. The FC uniform did not bother me. And Ten Forward looked quite representative to the original set although we did not see the bar.
The shot of the Enterprise together with "Blue Skies" was kinda magical. That beauty of a ship never looked better, but "GENS" was very close to it. I love the D in "GENS".
The intensity of Stewart right away from his first appearence was wonderful. I loved every scene with him, because he is such a sensitive and lovely actor who knows how to sell an emotion or feeling to the audience. It was a delight to see him back as Picard on screen.
And I get what the producers meant when they said the show is going to be very lyrical. The pace of it hit the tone of the very best of "TNG", I think. Of course, in today's action scenes are totally different, cut faster and performed more professional. But besides that the pace was absolutely on par with "TNG" and the best episodes of consecutive Trek Episodes from the 90s.
The cinematography as well as the music are none of generic television standards. Star Trek has never been that beautiful and cinematic. The best word to describe it is WOW. Russos score fits to the episode and I loved what he did by spreading nuances of well known motifs to the viewer, e.g. a peace of the Goldsmith theme or the old Romulan theme from "TOS". Brilliant. The theme song will probably grow on me. It was okay. Not bad. Not perfect. The visual style of the intro is nice to look at but in the same vein like the "DSC" intro.
I absolutely loved every scene at Château Picard and everyone and everything that is connected to it.
Seeing Picard walking with a cain and N° 1 through the fields of his vineyard, the more intimate scenes between him and his Romulan friends and how they care about him. So lovely. I really hope they are no more baddies but trustworthy allies of Picards.
And I love his canin N° 1. Beautiful dog.
The scene with the reporter was also very intense and I had a serious sense of compassion for Picard while he was interviewed.
The scenes between Picard and Dahj were also very nice with crisp dialog and intense emotions. I'm really looking forward to how the story will progress and unfold now that she is dead and her twin is working on the Borg cube aka Romulan facility. What are the Romulans plans? We will see. And how will the Borg be connected to the story?
Picards visit at Daystrom was also interesting and we finally got to see it. I truly hope that Jurati is trustworthy. Will we see Maddox at sometimes later? Or is he dead already because of these evil androids? Someone here raised the question if they did make use of Lore's neural network and positronic brain when they created that army of "synths"? Hmm. Interesting.
So to put it in conclusion I say this is one of the very best pilot episodes in the history of Trek. Great exposition so far, wonderful cast, cinematic quality and storywise among Trek's finest. So much better than Discovery up to this point but also very different. I already love it and I can't wait to watch the rest of the season(s). My lady also liked this episode .
Make it so!
9,5/10
