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
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.