The scene with Data’s consciousness was the most thematically interesting part of the show but it was shoehorned in, seemingly while they had Brent Spiner there. I wish they had used that idea more effectively.

I think the problem any Star Trek show going forward has is that it doesn’t just have to be good, it has to live up and outdo the expectations of any Star Trek fan. An episode of Picard, or Discovery isn’t compared to the actual quality of your average episode of TNG or TOS, it’s competing with the concept of ‘STAR…

Unfortunately it’s really quite bland and poorly written. Having recently seen the complete TNG in Full HD again I highly recommend you skip this one and watch TNG again. Star Trek: Picard is not worth it. I’m watching it and am sad to have the experience that it actually taints the memory of Star Trek as a whole.

It’s perhaps a marginal improvement over Discovery. If you liked that, you will liked Picard. Personally, I strongly dislike Discovery, and Picard shares a lot of its weaknesses, and is just as inept in building a serialized story.

I’d watch it if David Simon were writing. 

That is very on brand for them.

We’re just going to ignore that a Catholic group was playing very close attention to a teenaged boy's bulge?