It was just 1 stupid thing after another, with nostalgia-bait at the end.
The 1st 8 episodes were decent and the 1st few episode arc in particular was pretty good, on the same level as TNG.
Then it's like they let a retard write this episode. Every plot point was annoying and stupid and totally contrived absolute dumpster fire garbage. This is the twitter profile pic of one of the 2 credited writers. Some young chick who gets coffee for the writers room.
okay so just off the top of my head:
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jack crusher suddenly being treated like the enemy for no good reason
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jack crusher suddenly running to the borg for no good reason so the plot can happen
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borg reveal and within minutes, jack crusher is at the queen
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the whole concept of a "borg queen" is fucking stupid, anyway, they're not fucking ants, they're the ultimate space communists.
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changelings totally disappear from the plot the moment they served their purpose
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rogue changelings were 100x more interesting than this generic borg shit
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the whole concept of "frontier day" is fucking stupid & contrived just to make an excuse to put all Federation ships in 1 place for a ... parade? absolutely idiotic.
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fireworks in space are retarded
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transporter technology cannot be use to alter human DNA en masse, or at all. this has literally never happened in ST history, nothing like as depicted here
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the idea that a human can become a borg because of a few hidden genes is retarded. borg are cyborgs. they spread by injecting nanites. this has all been established over and over.
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borg "brown noise" that makes crew
shit their pantssuddenly have borg nanites in their blood somehow -
LET'S NETWORK ALL OUR SHIPS TOGETHER, IT'S NOT LIKE EVERY SINGLE TIME THIS HAS EVER BEEN DONE IN SCI-FI, THE RESULT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT 1 HACK WIPES OUT THE WHOLE FLEET. absolutely retarded, contrived. comes out of nowhere. every view immediately knows it means they're all fucked. It's like "scary movie" levels of retardation.
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literally no reason to network ships unless you're doing a drone light show
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the old ship was destroyed but Geordi put it back together in his free time like your dad working on an old car
>mfw someone watches something written by subhuman hollywood scum baiting them to consume their slop through the exploitation of nostalgia
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The fact that you even started watching it at all is bad enough. The fact that you've sat through nearly 3 seasons of it is abysmal.
Stop CONSOOMING. If you see the slightest whiff of faggotry on something at the start, it's set up to become full faggotry within 3 seasons.
This. Stop giving money to those who hate you.
chill. I only pirate. nobody is getting my money for this shit.
I was not going to watch it because seasons 1 & 2 were trash, but I watch Red Letter Media & they gave this season good reviews so I watched it.
You're still letting them into your brain. You're still keeping your emotional investment in their IP's.
Just stop.
Ghost the entire western media industry.
Hollywho? Netwhat?
I saw the same reviews and so was willing to watch it with family. It’s so bad though, dude. Just old-lady femme trek for hours on end, I honestly don’t see how it took until episode 9 for you.
TBF season 3 has been fairly decent. That last ep wasn't woke nonsense like all of season 2, it was mostly just retarded.
You could have skipped from "Picard" to "was trash" and still be as correct
I've only watched Picard in order to watch the GenXrs at RLM suffer. Sadly, it seems they've finally broken and can no longer realize they are consuming crap; now I'm just watching them tell me how the crap tastes ok. Its not as fun.
I enjoy watching RLM shit on star trek more than star trek itself generally.
They liked the early season but I think someone is going to be eating plate next episode.
I wish they'd do more TNG reviews. Mike's nostalgia is more entertaining for me than seeing them shit on modern shit. (or worse, gradually come to accept modern shit)
Agreed. Point to note, one of the larger naval reviews in history, that of the Royal Navy in 1897, was notable because the 170 warships present were only half the Navy's available ships. The other half were off doing Royal Navy stuff - Queen Victoria still had an empire to run, after all...
I think the entire thing was set up for failure from the beginning.
The entire mystery buildup thing usually fails even for shows that have multiple double-digit number of episode seasons. Picard S3 has that mystery element and it didn’t even need it; everyone would have tuned in without the high stakes bullshit. There’s a reason “Conspiracy” is seen as a mediocre episode at best.
I've been skimming episode summaries rather than watching the show and from what I remember episode 7 ends with a tease that Jack's past is going to be explained in the following episode.
Nope! More mystery shit, random killing of characters - including the one that was about to explain the aforementioned issue above - and then that episode ends with a tease that Jack's past is going to be explained in the following episode.
Which it was, but the fact episodes 7 and 8 both end like that is dumb.
Very true. "mystery box" is synonymous with trash because it always over-promises & under-delivers.
It's obnoxious how everything modern writers do has to end up with artificially inflated, contrived "stakes". Oh no, the fate of the universe is at stake... again... how boring.
The fact that shitty writers in Star Trek have to keep always going back to the borg reminds me about how shitty Doctor Who writers have to keep going back to the daleks.
Season 1 was awful. Season 2 somehow plumbed new depths of shitiness. I forgot Season 3 existed and didn't watch any of it.
Season 3 is a desperate attempt by those in charge to try and save the burning franchise from sinking more. It's popular but only because by comparison the previous two seasons were that bad, plus the other existing ST shows haven't been any better bar maybe SNW which is detached enough from most of the others.
S3 has actually been pretty good so far, for the most part. This ep would have been good if the plot wasn't completely ridiculous and made no sense...
What kind of fucking lunatic would have watched more than a few minutes of episode 1, season 1. Anyone who did, deserves to be shit on by the show.
Oh dear, did the sewage stop producing edible fare? How odd.
But muh nostalgia!
Brings back yet another random face from TNG just to kill them off in the same episode
D is back
Plot is now Battlestar Galactica and the cast is all boomers
As for your points,
Except that time it de-aged Polaski in TNG s02e07 'Unnatural Selection' from 1989.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Unnatural_Selection_(episode)
So the basic idea is there, it was just upscaled in reach.
I totally forgot about that episode. I barely remember Polaski at all.
I mean if you can manipulate DNA with a transporter so easily, it would be used 99% of the time to cure everything & be the ultimate in cosmetic surgery. The medical bay basically would have no reason to exist. Want a footlong dick or size DDDD tits or to be 6'6" tall? Just tell the transporter to give you the genes for it.
Let me also say that Captain Shaw is easily the best character of Season 3 & the writers just do him dirty and kill him randomly for absolutely no reason. Fuck them for that.
Also fuck Raffi. What a useless dumb bitch.
She was only about for season 2 so it's easy to forget her.
It's not even a new problem as transporters have been used to fix shit a lot, even in more recent times like SNW having the ship's doctor use it to put his child in suspended animation, similar to what Scotty did in the TNG episode 'Relics', so that terminal illnesses or whatever can be literally put on pause.
It's like just addressed, offscreen, in a similar way to how extensive and large scale genetic engineering is banned because it would solve far too many things, both in terms of plot and lore due to the Eugenics Wars.
Ah but how else would Seven be just given command of a starship and avoid going through the proper protocols as everyone else should be expected to, similar to how Burnham from STD managed to end up as Captain of the Discovery despite STARTING THE KLINGON WAR BECAUSE "MUH FEELINGS!".
Yes I thought that was ridiculous as well. I could understand a cryopod or some kind of suspended animation, but using a transporter for that was absurd.
There was a DS9 episode where Bashir was put in charge of a bunch of autistic psycopath geniuses, all genetically modified like him, and the implication was that genetic modification usually went horribly wrong or something and turned everyone into that. LOL it was pretty ridiculous.
It also chaps my dick how these bitches can just jump in and out of starfleet like it's nothing. Raffi & Seven were not even in starfleet the prior season. Seven was some kind of mercenary or something. You can't just join Starfleet super easily. It's a super-elite group where only a tiny fraction of those who want in, get in, and it's always been treated as pretty much a lifelong commitment in the various shows. Yet these bitches can go LARP as Han Solo then suddenly be the XO on a starship or some high level operative for Starfleet Intel.
I have mentally blocked her existence out as repressed trauma.
Pretty sure it's been used as a magic fix for whatever problem was happening in various episodes other than the Polaski one. Sure it makes sense in some regards such as GTFO'ing something that needs GTFO'd, but it does start to get weird when it starts crossing dimensions and reversing aging.
In the episode where Bashir is revealed to be genetically enhanced it does state that gene-tailoring is allowed but is limited to fixing defects, it's only when someone is enhanced in some way that it usually resulted in Khan and the ENT era Augments or the Brain Club from DS9.
Ironically accurate to many facets of real life, though. Richest women in the world are mostly rich because of who they married, then divorced. I think that Aussie mining owner might be one of the exceptions but then she also has a lot of complaints against her due to unsafe work environments.
Probably for the best.
Unfortunately, there's a good reason why those women get such jobs. Thanks to diversity inclusion women often get high paying roles even if they're nowhere near good enough to perform at such level. Any show that's going to take the female point of view is not going to have the women grind to get where they need to go.
But she's black and a lesbian!!!!!!!
The transporter helping with aging dna shit is also used when Picard & co are reduced to children when the Ferengis take over the Enterprise.
That said - while I haven't watched any Picard after S1 - going Borg is utterly shit. There is a TNG episode though that deals with activating some hidden DNA shit (Barcley turns into a spider, Worf in an old Klingon being, ...).
Has anyone really been following this show, though?
yeah it's one of the major releases this season
Dude.
STOP FUCKING WATCHING IT, RETARD.
I recall seeing clips from S2 and thinking the Borg queen sounded just like a Hybrid.
I really thought the plot of the season was going to be the Changlings bodysnatching people via transporter fuckery. Maybe Trek had gotten past its obsession with action movies and delved into horror. It was right there with the meaty Changlings and everything. But nope, it's the Borg again. We've literally flushed the Changling plot out an airlock. They just cannot let it go.
Dr Crusher: "The Changelings must have been working with the Borg this whole time!"
Ummm...why is she saying that like it's obvious? It makes no sense whatsoever, the Changelings have no logical reason to work with them (the Federation is clearly a better, more beatable enemy than the Borg- especially for a race whose best tactics are infiltration and creating division) and even less to trust them- they have access to all of Starfleet's data, including the Borg trying to screw Voyager after they helped save them from destruction by Species 8472.
I heard rumors this season would bring the bugs from Conspiracy back, at least that would have dealt with a loose thread from TNG.
Yeah the meaty changelings were actually a new villain that seemed threatening & like there had been serious effort put into developing them. There was a lot of potential there for some good & satisfying payoffs and a solid ending, but nope, they had to Shaymalayan that shit.
Excuse me, but Paramount found out exactly how much money to pay Dave Cullin to not hate the show, so it can't be bad. /s
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I watched S1 of Picard and did not enjoy it. I didn't HATE it, but I did hate parts of it.
Likewise, I watched S1 of Discovery and haven't watched anything since. I hated pretty much everything about STD.
Having skipped S2 of Picard, is S3 worth watching?
S1 & S2 of picard are trash.
S3 was good episodes 1-4 and pretty good 5-8. 9 took a nosedive imo.
S3 was good but not great, much better than 1. Probably you'd find it somewhat worth watching, the only plot point I think from S2 you need to know is that 7 broke up with black girl.
Raffi or whatever? She was about 90% of why I thought S1 was stupid as crap. She was mean, her actions didn't make any sense, utopian society and she's a drug addict living in the desert and somehow it's all Picard's fault? And how they suddenly, with no leadup, had RAffi and 7 holding hands in the last scene of s1? So stupid.
Just that one episode?
A key nonsensical point you missed- WHY WOULD CHANGELINGS WORK WITH THE BORG?
The SS (shapeshifters) are control freaks who distrust solids except the ones they genetically engineer to be loyal, why would they trust & work with half-machine solids and help them conquer the Federation? The Borg would be obsessed with assimilating the SS as that's a huge biological distinctiveness. The SS also know the Borg can't be trusted, if nothing else once they learned how the Borg turned on Voyager immediately after helping save them from being destroyed by Species 8472 you'd think they'd realize this was a bad idea for an alliance.
Also the Federation is clearly a better, more beatable enemy than the Borg. Even ignoring the Borg's military superiority, the SS are a race whose best tactics are infiltration and creating division. You can't spy on the Borg, and they're 1 mind so you can't divide and conquer. And the Borg have a clear mandate of assimilating everything while the Federation's is one of peace which they mostly follow.
But Crusher says "they've been working together the whole time" and nobody bats an eye as to how that makes any sense.
Now listen here, you little shit.
Everything else, sure. But that sounds like it would be awesome.
It was literally just bad CGI firework effects copy pasted around spacedock or something. it looked like total ass.
Look at this shit: https://dapsmagic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Star-Trek-Picard-Featured-Image-2.jpg
Yeah...that's not great.
I don't think any part of this episode was any worse than the bad parts of TNG. There was only one thing that made no sense to me (Starfleet being unable to detect the genetic changes to Picard) but even that is something that happened in TNG episodes when the plot called for mysterious (usually physiological) changes to happen to a character.
Everything else seemed to have been set up in previous episodes, or to be the same kind of bad as previous series. So while I'll admit that this episode was probably one of the bottom two episodes of the season (which is especially bad for a penultimate episode) It still feels (relatively) like a TNG episode to me.
You would watch that shit. No wonder all your posts are pants on head retarded.