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I think all of it combines to make things worse.

For me this is a different Picard, just because Picard isn’t the awayteam guy.

I just don’t buy how pissed off everyone is at Picard for over-promising, and then being let down by a giant bureaucracy. Years have passed, but no one has moved on? And they all blame him, specifically?

Previously on Star Trek: Picard, Picard talked about what previously happened on Star Trek: Picard, where Picard talked about what previously happened on Star Trek: Picard, where Picard talked about what previously happened on Star Trek: Picard.

And it’s not just the scenes with Narek and his sister.

It is not good.

I don’t know what they’ve got planned, but I’m not sure how can they keep this up?

Oops. Typo. But honestly, “Space very is dangerous” would be pretty on-brand for what we’ve seen so far.

With half of the first season done, I’d be okay if the end of this season was just “And then they died. Space very is dangerous.”

“We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity” works as an ethos whether it’s coming from Picard or from Jake Sisko. (or Mot, or whoever peels Joe Sisko’s potatoes).

There’s always been the question of why anyone would be a barber on the Enterprise, or would anyone work in Joe Sisko’s restaurant? Why are all those miners, colonists, and farmers toiling away out in space?

I imagine that the Federation News Network must have a section for Holodeck Deaths, where they list the hundreds of people who die each day in various holodeck malfunctions throughout the UFP.

Yup, the problem is that Tarkin is probably the 4th or 5th most talkative character in the whole movie.

Yeah, I have absolutely no idea what the story was originally supposed to be. It’s amazing that what we got works (generally) as well as it does.

I’m okay with the idea of Raffi as a Ro/Kira character (it took me a whole season to like Kira).

When they sat down in the writers’ room to break the season, someone should have scrawled “End of Episode 2: Engage!” in big letters on the whiteboard. And they should have written towards that.

I liked Rogue One a lot when it came out. Then I liked it a little bit less on rewatch. But I just re-re-re-rewatched it, and now comparing it to Solo and Rise of Skywalker it’s a masterpiece.

I thought the first part of Season 1 of Discovery was really interesting, because everyone followed Lorca - who was clearly sketchy if not outright evil - just because he was the captain. The crew was complicit in a bunch of questionable stuff, but he was their guy, on their team, and that was all that they needed to

I’m being a little unfair to fantasy, because this is probably all Lost’s fault as much as anything else.

I feel like scifi writing today has inherited a bunch of tropes from fantasy and videogames that aren’t a great fit.