Frakes is solid gold.

@JustinU235

ok it's pretty good

ETA: "It's so dark she couldn't see her research so she accidentally cloned her dead husband."

Oh man I was hoping they would chime. Going to watch now!

I like the feel of this season already.

Decent start, with some caveats - for perspective I grew up on TNG then DS9, so they were my favorites. Voyager was "okay", and Enterprise had a neat spin on it, and I was apparently one of the few who didn't mind the Riker/Troi appearance in the ENT series finale. Tied nicely into a previous TNG episode.

I liked the JJ-Trek movies, mostly due to excellent casting.

Discovery, ugggggghhh... I watched a few episodes to see what it was about and wanted that time back.

Strange New Worlds, ehh first season was okay but I likely won't continue watching.

Then Picard Seasons 1-2 (spoilers, oh well, you're in a Season 3 thread):

Picard Season 1 started off decent, even though PStew is way past retirement age, plus the whole SHEER FUCKING HUBRIS scene. A Romulan has infiltrated Starfleet Intelligence. Bunch of Synths go haywire and kill thousands... oh and a retcon about (some) Romulans hating AI/cybernetic life even though that's never been shown before. More Soong androids, including Cylon-like models that are TOTES undetectable even though Trek medical scanners can see down to the DNA. In the end, Picard DIES but then is reborn in a cybernetic golem, buttttttt out of respect they made him the same age and programmed in an end-of-life cycle so he doesn't live forever. How convenient. Soong Synths want to send a signal somewhere to call upon Cthulhu or something to destroy humanity, but Picard's sacrifice convinces them PEOPLE GOOD. Oh the Borg were involved somehow, but only an almost-dead cube. Seems like a great idea, what could go wrong.

Season 2, while fun to see Q again (first TNG era with decent de-aging for a TV show, then aged up to make Picard feel better, liked that part), of course it was going to be a time travel season with the BORG. Oh but Geordi/Jirati (sp?) outsmarts the Borg Queen and becomes the new Queen, wants to make an alliance with the Feds to save the quadrant. There was more retconning in there somewhere, and the cigar-smoking Capt who speaks Spanish even though everyone has Universal Translators stays behind in the 21st century even though he knows WW3 is coming and hundreds of millions are going to die. No way he'll try to change the timeline, nope.

Season 3 looks to be a return to TNG era (especially going by the font and music choices), soooooooo here's hoping. I've been hunting for spoilers, since the first 6 episodes have been released to early reviewers, but haven't found much. Amanda Plummer, who plays Captain Vadic, the villain of the season (so far), is the daughter of Chris Plummer, who played Klingon General Chang in Star Trek VI. However that seems too on the nose. I'm guessing she's related to the Son'a from the Star Trek: Insurrection movie; ships seem similar, and her face resembles the makeup from that race. Other people have guessed she's a survivor of a Borg attack from when Picard was Locutus.

A few gripes so far: a (retired) Admiral and active duty Captain agree to go after Dr. Crusher, who says NO STARFLEET. So their only plan is to tag along on Riker's old ship and politely ask the new Capt to divert course with no official orders? He has a ship full of a people to keep safe. I know there was a scene about Riker/Picard chartering a ship but I blanked out. Couldn't they borrow a runabout or something? On DS9 they let an Ensign and civilian take those out all the time...

Good summary. Thanks for summarizing season 2 since I haven't seen it.

I also agree with that plot point that was glaring about not trusting Starfleet but then going directly to starfleet. What I have gathered from all the posted reviews, though, is that this guy is going to end up growing on us and being, as RLM put it (or was it Drinker, I lost track?), a "neutral good guy."

I'm hopeful and they've set a very low bar on what could be considered improvement.  Would have liked to have seen more plot development in the first episode.  

Bets on the episode number when they take the 1701d (and maybe the voyager) out of the museum?

I'm tentatively optimistic for this season. Season 2 started out not terrible the first 2 episodes then quickly took a nosedive from there. We shall see how this season goes.

I liked the tail end of Season 2.  The flashbacks were grating, but once that was done, the last couple episodes I thought were very good with Q.

This first episode of S3 is alot of fun.  Echoing what others have said, Jonathan Frakes is great, I like that they let him let loose with the humor and cockiness.

So I dont remember if Brent Spiner is supposed to be in S3, is he in any of the posters?

Ha - apparently Q was dying, and with Picard moping about being old, wanted to show the Admiral a "what could have been", ala the TNG episode 'Tapestry' (where Q sends Picard back in time to his academy days and never received an artificial heart).

S2 starts in the current day, but it's similar to the Mirror Universe where Picard is an evil General, and showcases a trophy room of kills, including some interesting ones from TNG/DS9 - https://trekmovie.com/2022/03/15/get-a-closer-look-at-the-dark-timeline-skull-collection-from-star-trek-picard/



Picard teams up with his crew from S1, who have all retained their memories, and concoct a plan to kidnap the Borg Queen being held hostage and travel back in time to un-do whatever was done. I skipped several episodes so my summary is not very complete...

Bunch of 21st century shenanigans (I think it was 2029? Too lazy to verify right now), including the FBI arresting Picard as an alien, a younger but totally different looking Guinan (Whoopi supposedly couldn't fit through the doorway of the studio), the Borg Queen getting loose and assimilating Jirati but OH it was a trick... ugh. Almost as bad as Janeway out-smarting the Borg Queen on multiple occasions...

1701-A is in the museum, 1701-D crash-landed on Veridian III (thanks to a woman at the helm).

I actually liked strange new worlds so I'm going to give it a chance for second season. As for Discovery no that was a steaming pile of shit from the get-go although I did like Capt Lorca...

I'm hoping that snw lays a little bit off of the estrogen the second season although they probably won't. But I will give it an opportunity cuz I do like Anson Mount as Captain Pike

Actual Drinker main channel review.

I think I've watched the first 15 seconds of this about 100 times now.

"F bombs as appropriate as a drag show at a kindergarten."

I thought it was meh. Trying too hard and not focusing on the things that matter. Just because they make references to past episodes, doesn’t mean it makes the current episode a good one.

Seemed like it was trying to be an action movie. Not necessarily bad, but the communicator thing was silly, not involving starfeet and then involving starfleet was silly. Why not just say why you can’t trust anyone? The shotgun phaser was silly. The ploy to just arrive on a ship and get it to change course was silly.

I know it’s not hard science fiction or anything, but making so many silly things just makes it completely unbelievable.

The rag tag gang once again single handily saves the universe! Look we brought back old characters! Focus on that! You can’t say it’s bad because old characters are good!

Per Picard 2x01 the saucer was recovered and is in the museum.  You know Geordi has a spare star drive laying around to pair it with.

Ah, I skipped most of S2 so didn't catch that.

That means conceivably the Ent-D could make an appearance to help the crew... millions of fanbois would jizz their pants.

I would.

I like Enterprise E better. Or Enterprise refit from Wrath of Khan

I'm warming up to the Enterprise from Star Trek strange new worlds

I liked E better also. Not sure why it gets so much hate.

I don't either I always thought the D was more like a luxury liner than a Starship.

The Sovereign class just looks almost like a predator sleek like a shark

They built quite a few Galaxy-class ships, and as far as I know, only 3 were lost: Yamato, Ent-D and Odyssey. There is a star drive section around somewhere at a Zakdorn scrapyard, most likely.

They had to lose more than that especially with the Dominion War. At that time the Galaxy class starship was still the most advanced one they had. Second would be the nebula class starship. Pretty much anything after that was either small like the Intrepid class or older ships like either the Excelsior or Miranda Class that they drug out of mothballs for the Dominion War.

I don't know what time frame the Dominion War fell in to but I don't think the Sovereign class was in service yet

Also destroyed Galaxy class:
USS Asgard (from one of the books)
USS Monitor (from one of the games)

Voyager is there too, I think they'll dust them both off.

The Intrepid class is a cool little ship. Not quite a sexy as a Galaxy class or a Sovereign class but it's actually a cool little ship that I could see myself on. Either that or a Defiant class...

Is this the same Brit that does the TrekCulture reviews?  They sound a lot alike.

Before the Dominion war 3 of the original 6 were destroyed.
More were built during The Dominion war.

I'm not sure, I haven't seen those reviews.

Dang. I'm loving it.

The voices are pretty close.

Really? It's just not doing it for me yet.

I actually found myself less interested after E02. I feel like it's still trying to be too cinematic and action movie-ish, IMHO.

Also had a hard time taking the "big bad" seriously. No where near the chops and gravitas of her father, whom I regard as maybe the best Trek baddie.

I'll keep plugging away given what I've seen some folks whose opinions I respect say about it though.

I'm loving it so far, reminds me of my favorite TNG and DS9 episodes, but in high def. That silent scene between Jean-Luc and Beverly at the end, WOW, not a fan of PStew but that was damn fine acting.



You gotta admit, getting the Georgia grand jury person to play the baddie was spot-on casting.

I'm really interested to find out the backstory about Vadic - I hope I'm wrong but seems like someone from the future, as she immediately knew who the Titan's CO was.

Also:
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Another really good episode!

It feels like an 8th season of The Next Generation, it's so great... The interactions between people who have known each other for DECADES are fun to watch.

"I thought I could protect mine (Bev's son), I didn't know... if I could protect YOUR'S (Picard's)." Oooof.

The battle scenes in the nebula:
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And the big baddie for this season (so far):
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This episode was directed by Jonathan Frakes (Riker). Last scene was tough to watch!

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Too bad René Auberjonois is gone...

Yup..

Can't watch until next week.

This show feels like a misfiring engine. It wants to run but it just won't.

1) Quantum torpedoes are a pretty common thing in the period this is happening in, why doesn't the Titan have any? Apparently nothing was learned fighting the Borg or Species 8572 in terms of armament or tactics.
2) In the 21st century (and even the 20th) we managed to have IFF but, in the 25th we're still rehashing the Hunt For Red October "You arrogant ass, you've killed us!" weapons antics?
3) Please stop trying to make Raffi happen. It's not going to happen.
4) Please stop trying to make Star Trek 11 cinematics happen. It's not going to happen.
5) Please stop trying to make the stupid humor/quips happen. It's not going to happen.
6) Can some one please replicate a fucking light bulb or two?
7) Any chance we can stop and take a breath to allow for story development at some point? Not ever scene needs to be break-neck action/shaky cam.

I don't want to shit on anyone that''s enjoying it but, sorry, still not living up to the hype.

I'm not up-to-date on my Trek technical specs, but IIRC quantum torpedoes can't be launched from a regular photon torpedo launcher. At least in DS9 era they were limited to certain ships (Defiant, obviously, Enterprise-E, Exceslior-class USS Lakota had been upgraded with q-torps to stop the Defiant). It's been over 40 years in-universe so you'd THINK they'd make sure all new ships could fire them.

They keep saying Titan-A is an exploratory vessel though, so..

I agree about Raffi, if it wasn't for Worf I'd be skipping those scenes.