Weirdly enough you aren’t responding to *any* of my points.

“maybe except for Picard’s two Romulan housekeepers (who we never saw after what, episode two?) and Hugh (now dead)...”

It really wasn’t.

Gatekeeping? I’m afraid I don’t know what you’re talking about.

My feelings exactly. Horribly disappointed. Not sure why I held out hope for Picard after the brutal shitshow that was Discovery, but yeah, 18 years of hoping and waiting to see the TNG cast again, all for nothing.

John De Lancie who played Q actually still looks really great, he aged amazingly well.

Yeah, the budget of this show must have been next to nothing. Say what you will of Voyager, but their Borg sets looked elaborate and suitably menacing. Picard's Borg set is just shiny black hallways.

They had Akira class ships, Galaxy class, Steamrunner class, a whole bunch of (admittedly ugly) kitbash ships.. That’s just off the top of my head, but it means a show 20 year ago had a cooler looking fleet with at least 4 more types of ships than the show that aired yesterday.

Well said. Such a massive disappointment.

Knowing this show, and based on the fact that Seven basically said she has no family or friends and might as well put a phaser to her head, it's safe to say the entire Voyager crew died gruesome deaths. I'm sure if the writers get their way they will show a few in S2 flashbacks.

That might have cost them royalties or something? Who knows. This entire show was a dumpster fire from start to finish.

Well said. After this massive disappointment it's at least a bit satisfying and reassuring to see that there are other people out there who didn't fall for this trash, and who are equally shocked and appalled.

“And yeah, Riker’s fleet was all of the same ship. That irked the hell out of me. And we didn’t really get a good look at them either. All of the shots were at weird angles and I really wanted some slow panning shots of them so I could geek out a little.”

“You know what didn’t movie me? All these characters (that, after ten episodes, I still have no connection to because their sole purpose is to advance the plot”

We might be one of the very few sane people left, it seems. How anyone can love this show and this episode and not get a brain aneurysm from the starship sized plot holes and glaring mistakes is absolutely beyond me.

Because Alex Kurtzman is a talentless hack and this show was written by people that either flat out hate or at best don't care about TNG and are just in it for a quick buck, that’s why.

“Who is this show for exactly? I can’t imagine anyone who never watched Star Trek would see this and go “wow, amazing television here, I’m hooked!” But at the same time I have to think that most Star Trek fans were underwhelmed by this.”

Mr Whitbrook, I’m sorry, but what on earth are you talking about? I really don’t want to sound too combative, but I’m genuinely baffled.

Late to the party, but here goes anyway.

“Using the JJ Abrams school of production, in which everything is thrown against the wall, little use of logic, no consistent character behaviour, action sequences that hopefully distract you from bad writing, twists that replace plot development. For crying out loud, there is very little deep thought going into the…