The "Rutherford's implanted memories/Admiral Buenamigo/Texas-class" arc from LD S3 says otherwise. The Picard S1 arc had far more depth and growth, despite some believing that it (like PIC S3) dropped the ball at the end.
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I forgot to add 'live action' to my point about best arc based season. (Which I did say a few posts before the one you quoted.)
LOWER DECKS is the best series of the current era, no question. And season 4 of that show is its best.
That was Season 3, Season 4 was the Locarno arc.
Oops. Thank you for the correction. Fixed.
I think the plot held up fine until maybe the very end. Bringing back the Borg was not needed.
Remember how early TNG was paradise and bliss and then later they retconned it so the Cardassian Wars were going on during it?
The Federation has had lots of wars but they never started any of them. That I believe is how the Federation is allowed to be written as utopia despite the wars.
The Tholian War, the Tzenkethi war, the Talarian War, among others.
Plot??? Is that what that was?
I enjoyed Season 3 and there are porn movies with more coherent storylines than it has.
A pizza delivery would have actually improved things.
"And I shall make it a threesome."
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Yeah, as bad as some of the Berman Era humor could be, Matalas and the showrunners of streaming Trek should probably stop trying to make the jokes in the new live-action shows "edgy." LD gets away with stuff because it's already tongue-in-cheek or outright surreal.
As often as you guys are bringing it up I really want to do a complete rewatch of Picard at some point, because I’m wondering if my opinion of it has changed now that a few years have passed. In retrospect I think I appreciate much more what they were trying to do in the first two seasons, especially after seeing them lean so heavily into 90s era fanwank in season three. I appreciate the effort and love that went into getting them back on the Enterprise-D bridge, but almost nothing else worked for me that season. None of the characters ring true, and the attempts to do something with bits and pieces of Deep Space Nine lore were IMHO rather embarrassing.
Watching season three had that effect on me of retroactively reassessing seasons one and two, where we were getting all those new characters, some — heck, most — of which I really liked. And even with season two, which had some utterly baffling plot developments and ill-conceived character arcs, I now think the whole portion of the show taking place in Earth’s past was surprisingly charming. Again, mostly because I really liked the characters. I think they massively dropped the ball on Laris, but at the same time they absolutely did right on having Rios decide to stay in the past.
Watching season three had that effect on me of retroactively reassessing seasons one and two, where we were getting all those new characters, some — heck, most — of which I really liked. And even with season two, which had some utterly baffling plot developments and ill-conceived character arcs, I now think the whole portion of the show taking place in Earth’s past was surprisingly charming. Again, mostly because I really liked the characters. I think they massively dropped the ball on Laris, but at the same time they absolutely did right on having Rios decide to stay in the past.
Beverly's out of character nonsense starts immediately after Nemesis. Riker and Picard are wildly out of character even compared to the previous seasons of Picard itself. Data, too.
I can actually kind of buy Worf having become this completely different person. But that still begs the question if 'great fanservice' or 'doing justice to the tng characters with a much better swansong' is the point of the season as folks keep saying then what the hell is the point of making him feel like a completely different person thanks to 20 years of nameless adventures that we learn nothing about because it doesn't matter to the story? Him being a changed man doesn't even at all affect the story (or its themes) moving forward.
If 'great fanservice' was the point then he should've just been the same Worf everyone remembers.
Hope the plot didn't get in way of the porn. "Where is the boobs! All I am getting here is a nuanced character story about humanity's desire to be loved and embraced while facing down the traumatic impact of social injustice!"
But enough about the ENT decon chamber!
i still wonder if starfleet academy will have its trademark star trek intro speech
You’ll find out on January 15.
But, you know, no CBSTrek shows have had an intro speech, so I’m not sure why you’d think this one would. The only two shows that actually had one was TOS and TNG.
