The toughest pill to swallow is that Picard did indeed apparently just up and quit (cutting off all personal relationships in the process, just...cuz). That’s a terrible misread of the character and a needlessly cruel way to get him to the emotional place they wanted him.

I actually think I like Disco better than this. The trope-y-ness of Picard is just killing me. I enjoyed this first 3 episodes, but as this one went on a voice in my head just kept getting louder and louder shouting “this is so DUMB!”

Lower Decks really sounds like a blast.  Here’s hoping!  

I find myself at least mildly entertained during each episode, but then left with major disappointment seconds after the episode ends.  Four times in a row now.  Sigh.

Agreed and I also just don’t buy that Picard would get pissed at Starfleet, resign and then literally just retreat to the Chateau to never, ever make ANY kind of additional effort at saving lives, would cut off his friends and would never bother going back to check up on all the good he was doing with the refugees.

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.

I think that recreating his chateau down to the smallest detail would be repellent to Picard. I don’t think this show really understands the character.

For the first time, I empathize with those knuckleheads, even though TLJ gave us far more legitimate reasons why Luke gave up.  (and we also have to give TLJ at least some leeway since it had no choice but to follow up on the nonsensical plotting of TFA.  The Picard writers have no such excuse.)

I agree with everything Zach wrote. Which is why this episode deserves a C at best. Can’t imagine with the B+ is doing when the review is full of legitimate criticisms that strike to the very core of the show.

I’m rapidly losing interest in this show. Here’s another episode that exists entirely to....just add one more member to the ensemble!

Agreed, the best episodes of Discovery (albeit a low bar), were the more self-contained ones. I think Star Trek does better with story arcs (dominion war) than they do serialization.

It’s pretty damn hilarious to me that GoT’s most lasting influence on television is likely to be the acceptability of incest plots in mainstream entertainment.

I’m enjoying Picard more than Discovery, but I do miss the tone of TNG era Trek. Sure, it could be a bit stodgy at times, but there’s probably a middle ground between that and the sometimes over-the-top edginess that characterises modern Trek. Everyone here is cranky and likes to smoke and wear leather. 

This show is really suffering from the serialization. There is clearly not a lot of story they plan to tell, so they’re really stretching it out slowly, but they also aren’t developing the characters very much along the way.

When Picard answered Elnor’s question about why Picard needed his blade ‘Because I am old and you are young’, I groaned so hard. Seriously, J.-L., how did you see that one playing out. However, it really worked with the presentation that Picard is still so focused on himself and his own failings that that is the first…

Picard and Discovery both employ a modern “edginess” and “naturalism” that was suuuper not present in any Star Trek to come before it, so of course it feels different. I can’t say definitively if this is a good or bad thing, but it definitely contributes to the feeling that we’re watching something totally new rather…

That’s a pretty small ship to have a holodeck.... And it’s quite some effort to recreate his damn chateau for such a short trip.

The show needs more characters and situations involving people talking about what everyone else is saying and doing.