He’s 100% right this week.

The trip to the Borg ship in this episode was very weirdly edited.

It just points up the injustices of life and art, because Mike, Rich and Jay are so smart and so interested and so creative, and so steeped in Star Trek...but of course nobody like them is anywhere near the production of new Star Trek shows. (And you can extend the comment to their critiques of superhero movies; Star…

I think the review are harsh but basically fair. I’m enjoying the show more than Zack, but everything he cites as a problem is pretty much legit. The story is being told very sloppily.

Man, Avery Brooks really killed in that episode. You feel his agony. If you have seen the DS9 documentary (so good) the cast tells about how Avery took a long time to come out of character after that scene. When they all lay hands on him to soothe him that was real. He should have won all the awards.

It’s shit.  Even as a generic sci-fi show, it’s really shit.

What if Alton Soong is Lore in a new body? He was deactivated and dismantled at the end of “Decent pt. II” in TNG, so his body would have presumably ended up with Agnes and Maddox as B-4's did. Lore being behind some of this would explain the evil vibes (and sort of TNG-era skin tone) from Sutra.

My respect for Far Beyond the Stars has only grown with its refusal to hide behind the franchise’s usual cloak of allegory and just say “Yeah, we’re talking about racism. Anyone got a problem with that?”

I’m currently binging DS9 and it aged like fine wine. The themes and explorations of issues like slavery, trans rights, civil rights, capitalism felt like it was written yesterday and remained relevant than ever. If they wanted to make a new Picard series, why not just make a DS9 with Picard instead?

At this point, I think it’s safe to say ‘a disappointing Star Trek: Picard’ is a bit redundant.

I love that episode.

But you’re all in on her being with Regular Size Rudy, right?

In addition to “Brother From the Same Planet”, the Bart and Ned bonding was Bart’s plot in The Simpsons’ Movie and Homer mentoring Nelson was also reminiscent of that episode where Marge is upset that Bart might not need her as much, so she mothers Nelson.

This episode was like one of those “We fed a bot every ________…

Call me reactionary, but whenever I see someone use the term SJW unironically I kind of assume they’re an asshole.

There’s a nicely allegorical story that could be told about a Starfleet that is corrupt to its core: captains recieve kill orders following first contact, admirals tell octagenarians to shut the fuck up, etc.

It will be just Mike talking to a beer bottle.

He just doesn’t feel as if he should display emotions in front of his crew, not that he doesn’t have them. There’s plenty of episodes where Picard shows emotion, just only in private settings. The finale was him realizing he doesn't need to put that mask on for the crew and can be a person around them instead of just…

It is implausible to me that anyone would not want a hug from Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, if that is at all an option 

I can’t wait for the next Red Letter Media Re:View videos after this.

On the plus side, we got the perfect statement encapsulating Picard’s fondness for Data: