Star Trek: Picard Season 3, Episodes 2, 3, and 4 - re:View 

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**** you

SCIENCE THIS SH*T, YEAH!

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The fact shatner hates RLM and Picard continues to be mediocre at best is truly a time to be alive in

@@justtheaverageone3840 It's very very slightly above mediocre.

The new showrunner, Terry Matalas, did claim to be a fan of RLM around the time of the premiere of Picard season 2. Make of that what you will.

Mike and Rich have to hate on their own adlib fan fiction for this episode since they liked the episodes of Picard lol

They know how to cater to their entire fan base👍

I agree. I hope the RLM bois have him on one day

Anyone have any idea how much Wheaton is being paid for his 'role' in these shows? It's almost like Paramount is throwing him a bone not to be complaining on social media about how he has had no role in any of the new Treks (other than that lame walk-on at the end of S2).

​@@Vicos I bet he'd do it for free lmao

It makes me both happy and sad

​@Beth Jim I don't hate you, I'm just... Disappointed. Why did you say this? I was TRYING to be HAPPY!! 🤬😂

I finally watched the show. I was confused because it was spoiled so thoroughly that i swore i had already seen it.

Well if Red Letter Media is giving this Season the OK, than I guess I'll give a good 15min shot.

*"Star Track"

Same. I watch RLM Star Trek videos despite never having watched more than a couple episodes of TOS because I've never been as devoted a fan of any series as they are of ST, and I find their passion endearing.

Same

To be fair, that's wicked clever, and as clever as they can be sometimes, you can't expect them to come up with every clever comment possible at a moments notice. I guess what I'm trying to say is: kudos to you on a brilliant nickname.

RIGHT THERE

That's seems more like a Ricardo from newbie star trek type joke 😆

He may not have had his coffee yet.

Wouldn't really call it good, but it's certainly better than Season 1&2 together.

Time fire! :D

they were joking?

I imagined they were yelling at each other out their car windows whilst driving to the bank.

I’m just afraid Kurtzman is watching and taking notes.

@@dougkinzinger I burst out laughing in public because of that.

Yet dark mode is de rigor for any computer application and RGB everything for style. It's just a reflection of current times.

@@quintessenceSL True, but that's because the computer screen is where the work is done, almost everything else in the room doesn't matter. In star trek people aren't on computers, they're doing other things and moving around. They only use them when necessary.

In enterprise d, you know which panel is screen and buttons and which panels are just walls. I really do not know how anyone in disco or picard ships where the screen ends and where the "lean against this for support" begins

Seriously, I hate how the ships look in nu-trek. Mike is 100% in that they're barely distinguishable from each other. Places being way too fucking dark is a modern Hollywood problem in general really that goes well beyond trek.

It's because they're all drunk all the time

Seeing Rich looking better and better is cool as hell.

They have been assimilated by the Kurtzman cube.

the story arc isn't over yet... Rich be like "[Star Trek] promised he won't beat me anymore, but do i take him back?" this arc isn't meant to end in reconciliation if you follow the trajectory of parallel stories.

Who gives a shit about their thoughts? Seriously.

@@asdffdsa541 It reminds me of game of thrones where the only thing it really had going for it was sex, violence and a wise cracking midget then as soon as they strayed from the book formula it went from mediocre/passable to dogshit garbage. I mean seriously go to the earlier seasons of game of thrones, cut out the sex and violence and ask yourself if you think its a good show or your brain got tricked by appealing to base human desires.

Sorry got possessed by an idiot for a second.

Yeah, but unfunny. Here's hoping the second half of the season sucks.

​@@johnnyjohnny-cg7np😘

You mean so beaten down by bad content that they consider the third season of Picard 'good enough to watch the rest of the season veeery cautiously'. So wholesome -.-

@@johnnyjohnny-cg7np Oh, no worries there. The sociopaths in charge have zero idea what Star Trek is.

THAT was cringe worthy.

That did feel like Picard, I agree. Patrick Stewart is so friendly and warm that people forget often that Picard is not warm and not friendly. Even when he's being diplomatic there is still a distance.

A lot of Picard's dialogue this season feels like authentic Picard. The way Picard confronted Beverly, the way Picard interrogated Jack Crusher, the way Picard handled Shaw's rant, the way Picard argued with Riker. All of it feels like the Picard we all know from TNG.

Yet it still sucks.

@@greggasiorowski1326 I disagree! Definitely better than S1+2!

"They say time is the fire in which we burn." 😂

Please don't give Kurtzman more ideas

the nature of humanity is just that every so often...

In "All Good Things" we had an eruption of anti-time, so "time fire" can't be far behind...

"HOW DOES A TIME FIRE WORK? IT BURNS TIME, YOU CAN'T BURN TIME!"

me too🤣🤣🤣

What an unexpected character to be likeable in Star Trek... Did NuTrek break us?? I am so confused...

@@maidros85 Star Trek really has an underrepresented number of curmudgeon Captains.

Star Trek:dipshit from chicago

@@uscdave1124 yeah! Like capt. Jellico. Damn, what is that old bastard up to these days...?

Memory Alpha has a foot-page.

​@@DaanDobber How Daan found the foot page on Memory Alpha without having to go through every Memory Alpha page is the most astounding aspect of this comment

I think he actually uses these clips as a justification to watch through every episode once again.

I was struck by that as well! I wonder how much time was spent tracking down and inserting the shot which only lasted for like a second or two. And these reviews are filled with small clips like that. Must be a lot of work to edit.

@@ketchup1993 It has a ketchup page too.

yeah well the thing about that is...

As are many of us. So far it's pretty good and an enormous improvement over seasons 1 and 2 of Picard, there is though still plenty of room for improvement, not only with the writing but some of the very sloppy editing too. I'll give it a 7/10 so far.

@@SlartiMarvinbartfast 7/10 is harsh tbh.

I think Rich and Mike are at the "everything has fallen apart so we're gonna ram the ship" level. Everyone is basically already dead and the ship is falling apart, everyone already knows we're in danger, so they don't bother with alerts, they probably don't even work anymore. This is Year of Hell, except it's been going on for over half a decade at least now.

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 It's not pointless? It's to get people to be at the ready in case something goes wrong, as opposed to just sleeping in their room or playing cards or something. Yellow alert is to make sure that when you suddenly need to go to red alert, your people are already where they should be, not scrambling to get to their posts.

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 It's not a 100% on duty alert all the time rigid wartime military operation. It's also an exploration/science/diplomacy ship extremely often. Crews have morale, people aren't drones who do nothing but what their boss tells them. The Enterprise regularly had off-duty activities, the crew did not work and sleep only. You don't need a fully operational battle stations ready ship at all times. It's even detrimental to do so because you need to save resources. Yellow alert says "we're not currently in a totally safe area, make sure you're available should something go wrong". Or "we're now entering a potentially dangerous situation, be ready, don't be messing around with your side projects right now". Otherwise from the crews perspective it's "everything is exactly as it is every day, nothing to worry about" to a sudden jump of "WERE UNDER ATTACK NOW FIX IT". Pretty sure yellow alert is also a shorthand for ensuring weapons are online and shields are working. I understand the impulse to think they're all just perfect beings who are on 100% of the time, but that's not how actual human beings operate.

The key to fixing what's going wrong in media right now is recognizing that the franchise name is meaningless. If we could truly get people to grasp this, it would solve -studios rehashing old IPs despite them being unrecognizable in the final product which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't meant to be that IP -people trusting anything with the name on it -people mistrusting anything with the name on it, causing the studios to consider the IP poison somehow, instead of the idiots that ruined it etc. We've gotta look at the creative team behind stuff, and not the fact that it's technically part of the same program. Comic book fans have been doing this for ages. They understand "the (name) run" is the best part of a given superhero team's story, not just anything with those characters in it. And nobody looks at "ooh the latest drop from (record label)!" they care about the actual specific band. and not so much, once that band's members die off and get replaced.

Those are the best friends to have. Watching the fall and downward spiral is always entertaining.

​@@KairuHakubi This is contributes to why so many shows don't end when they should and instead drag on until they stop being good. In Japan, animation studios have a reputation, so they get to end a show after 1 or 2 seasons because they can just make a different show similar to that one, without losing the name recognition. If the writers/producer for a hit TV show in the US end a show and start a new one, no one will have any idea and they need to build up the show's reputation from scratch. This is hard to replicate in the USA because the average job tenure at Japanese companies is almost 3 times as long, which means that consumers can rely more on the studio name; also, Japanese companies are less aggressive about using the same name on all their subsidiaries, so instead of everything being "Disney/Pixar" or (France's) "Ubisoft [city name]", each team gets a distinctive brand that can become known for a particular style of work. It's not a perfect system (Companies that last long enough for veterans to retire, like Blizzard Entertainment, will be subject to long-term shifts) but it works a lot better than whatever the USA is doing.

@@Mr_Wallet yar, you get it.

It helps when the show doesn’t suck.

Hearing his utter defeat with Star Trek and even saying it was ruining the old shows was legitimately disheartening, seeing him genuinely enjoying Star Trek again is a treat in these dark times

The frog is getting used to the temperature of the water in the pot .

@@may14ification I mean season 3 is absolutely terrible. The fact that they haven't watched Strange New Worlds, which is the only good New Trek, is kinda hilarious.

@@hannibalb8276 If you're skipping Lower Decks, you're missing out. It's wonderful, and by far the Trekkiest thing going. :)

I think it's extremely saddening that they both have to feel so cautious due to fear of being let down again. That's gotta be horrible.

Yeah, I hope they go back to Strange New Worlds. The first couple episodes are just okay, but when that show HITS it hits. The Gorn episode was amazing and the finale where Pike gets to see the future if he was Captain instead of Kirk was great. Just to see how their difference as Captains isn't that one is better than the other, but how they handle situations.

@@Radb707 I love SNW so so so fucking much. I find it, frankly, impossible to believe it came from the same morons who gave us 4 seasons of DSC and 2 of PIC.

​@@MadSpectre47 It didn't. Different showrunners. Even Picard S3 is like a reboot with different writers.

@@occono3543 New showrunner for Picard too. He did the first two episodes of S2 and then left to start work on S3 so they are technically independent productions.

I had the same thought. Came here to see if Mike picked it up.

i think i saw like 5 episodes of voyager when i was a kid i couldnt tell you anything about the show other than red haired lady was boss

Same. ✋ 😂🍻

I have no interest in New Trek but will drop everything to watch these poor, tortured souls talk about it.

Same

This comment is so god damn annoying it’s almost a copy pasta. Why not enjoy their takes you have little to no idea why or how they feel as they feel if you don’t do the decent thing to watch the show. For fucks sake

Even the impersonation of the poetic ramblings of Season One Picard

The episode where Mike imitated Akiva's voice was spot on.

Hours? Give me several days of it

Spoken like the time laser red angel you are. Who put you up to this?? The Borg-Section 31 alliance? or the Dominion-Pakled force?? Talk or I'll stab you with a space-time crystal!

Their disdain for Kurtzman and his crew deserves its own video by now. The lenghty Picard monologue, the Akiva Goldsman impression ("Who's the biggest threat in Star Trek? The Borg."), the various Kurtzman impressions. They're all hilarious.

For fuck sakes I didn't even know Rene was dead. I was excited he may show up when the changelings were revealed.

Man, I finished watching through DS9 for the first time on the day René passed away

Garak was my favorite but he never got enough screen time. Odo is deffinetly one of the best characters written for star trek

@@jameshutchinson3672 Agreed. DS9 was one of the best Star Trek shows. It had the most character development in it, IMO.

If you can stomach the early 2000s legal drama nonsense, Boston Legal has fantastic peformances from Auberjonois, Shatner, James Spader, Armin Shimerman, Betty White, Katey Sagal, and many others.

Does he have a problem

It's dangerously close to being a podcast.

Yes please

Third that

@@luckyspursjust don’t tell Shatner

I thought this was that Podcast with effort Ole Man Shatner was mentioning about all those years ago

Give it time

I don't understand it. Picard season 3 is terrible, Strange New Worlds is the only good new Trek and they haven't even watched it...

I’m torn because I enjoyed the utter hatred and contempt for the first 2 seasons much more, but it’s cool they seem to have made decent new TNG finally. Might have to actually watch this season eventually. I still prefer when they’re destroying new media tho! Can’t lie

Yeah the bait and switch is coming

@@hannibalb8276 One of them I don't remember, couldn't get past the first 1.5 episodes of Strange New Worlds.

Very cool.

VERY cool.

Loved IT.

Holy shit! Spot fucking on! And D'Onofrio always sounds like he's trying to do an impression of a human.

He's so enthusiastic it comes across as sarcastic.

He has the flowery energy of a straight Paul Lynde.

Every cut away to Will, makes me feel bad for him.

@@JiriTrubac Every time I remember that Wil Wheaton has to spend all day every day being Wil Wheaton, I feel bad for him. Then I remember what a dick he is and I laugh because he is stuck being Wil Wheaton.

@@JiriTrubac You can tell that he's just happy to be involved in the franchise again. He seems like he has a real desire to be liked and wanted.

It's weird when you read a comment at the exact same time it happens in the video

RLM does tons of snide dismissive jaded (and yeah, funny) material, but it’s when they let their guard down and admit things matter to them that they’re at their best.

@@muddlewait8844 Truth.

They’re gonna blow up time

They Say Time Is The Fire In Which We Burn.

Chekhov's Time Fire

That got me unexpectedly in the feels…

Such a great moment of dramatic irony. That would have been a heartwarming line from Picard in any other episode.

@@SenorBigDong69 Layers on layers on meaning and thoughts and emotion in such a simple scene. As you say, heartwarming in practically any other context, heartbreaking for Jack. And for Picard, not even probably what he'd say in a private conversation. His answer was a very canned response because he was in the throes of young Starfleet cadets looking up to him and excited about their pending careers. He's playing to the crowd, wanting to give them all an upbeat send-off. Prior to remembering Jack in the background, you get the sense that this was a memory that he cherished for the swell of respect and awe from the cadets. The cadets will later tell that story to other Starfleet personnel, "I actually met Jean-Luc Picard in a bar once, and he said..." Jack now realizes that his father wasn't turning from him and his mother, that his career with Starfleet was more of this experience he just had with him, the challenge, and the being a part of this team of star-hopping do-gooders risking their lives for the sake of one and all - a life that he can understand was worth living. Picard sees the road he didn't take, the infinite possibilities therein, the road that he never really considered. I thought the scene conveyed Picard accepting that Dr. Crusher was right in her thinking. He did put Starfleet first. This is one of the best illustrations of the downside of being a hero. As Nigel Terry said in Excalibur as King Arthur, "I was not meant to live the life of a man, but to be the stuff of... future memory." Seasons one and two of Picard were terrible to me, but this bit here at least was exceptional writing.

@@justinamerican8200 I quite liked Picard season 1 and thought there was a similar good emotional payoff of the regret and wondering for what could have been as a father figure in his relationships with Elnor, Hugh, and even a bit with Raffi. I wasn’t too impressed with the first three episodes of season 3, but hopefully episode 4 is a sign that they are almost done with setup.

I loved that

End of Episode 2 for me.

Picard so desperately wanting to attack the Shrike felt way out of character. Picard always uses violence as an absolute last resort. We aren't even given a real reason why he believes so vehemently that a surprise attack is more viable than an escape tactic. Worf going around massacaring people is also out of character. He's been violent and killed people yes, but never like that.

Not really, when cornered, Picard has been known to strike back in some violent way.

​​@@Scripture-Man thanks for reminding me why I shouldn't read the comments

@@Scripture-Man I think you need to rewatch more TNG episodes, because you seem to just be remembering the bridge encounters where Picard has to put on a serious face for his adversaries. He was quite a gentle and caring man in the small moments throughout TNG. His hobby was theater and the arts after all. Tapestry specifically shows how his TNG personality is evolved and tempered from his maverick, macho youth and seeing that trend continue should be no surprise. And All Good Things ended with his progression to opening up his personal relationship with his crew leading to his current friendliness that wasn’t present earlier in TNG. And all through Picard he is taking initiative to face danger for his missions, so I don’t think you can call him meek.

This metaphor needs far more likes.

Funny how he didn't seem distraught about it when he was making pizza in season 1.

@@samuelshafik2778 That was the antidepressants.

I feel like Riker is a secret bad guy…maybe not even Riker really.

He's really holding RLM together. Wish they'd let him do something for Picard. (That was sarcasm. For real though Frakes is a staple of TNG directing for a reason.)

He can actually act.

He has great chemistry with Jeri Ryan.

I badly want a riker jack crusher enterprise series now…he’s so compelling and weirdly was never my favorite on tng but now I can’t get enough

Indubitably. I've been going across social media saying he should get his own show; Star Trek: RIKER

Holy shit, he called it exactly.

Genesis!? Is planet forbidden!

REMEMBER

​@Bear is Driving YES! GENESIS! How can you deaf with ears that big!

Oh, that's tasty. I googled it and found some D&D thing about alternate reality fantasy worlds. So, either a reference to the holodec or that we're in the Moriarty simulation...

*tastes the scene for random Star Trek II: TWOK flavors*

It was a breath of fresh air

Kind of funny considering he personally made changes in that same script.

Which captain?

@@greggasiorowski1326 lol, Shaw.

We all did mate. At least we have got one decent season so far.

Picard was always going to suck. But two shitty seasons lead to someone asking themselves ”maybe this ISNT what fans want”

Yes, such a waste when you consider its not like they can do more 4 seasons of this to recover it. But I suppose at least the TNG crew will go out with a bang now, nit a whimper

It could’ve been this good in Season One had smart people thrown the Woke a-holes into the Grand Canyon.

@@FallenHellscape you don’t think the ”woke a-holes” are working on this season as well? Because they 100% are lol

Not angry, just disappointed.

To boldly go, where no real writer has gone before.

Picard: "Enga-eh-aaaa-ummmm-gage?"

Too little too late would be apt as well.

Boldlyish going.

Maybe they hired someone to jiggle car keys in front of Kurtzman every time he's about to open his mouth?

They replaced his meth with roofies.

He IS a special, special boy...

God I hope so.

rumors are he's locked out till 2025 when the license expires. sadly the future of Trek might be on rocky ground, till then and after when the rights change hands. i can only hope that the competent writing and righting of season 3 brings people back but the chances are the damage has been done.

Ah, so the Star Wars “mind hiding” technique could work here too

Exactly. He and Troi being on the rocks on its own is eyerolly and predictable, but specifically tying it to her empathic perception of his mental state was a unique and interesting way to do it. So, kudos.

I'm VOMMING

But why are they on the rocks now when their son died years or decades ago and they were just fine a year or two ago? Riker says he left home and went back into space to deal with this trauma but I thought he went back into space to save Picard from the evil AIs in season one.

​@@FanboyFilms season 1 and 2 never happened.

Everyone had ideas for Voyager. The actor who played Chakotay hated the later seasons so much, and nobody listened, so he said either pay me more or I quit. And they upped his salary. Several times. And the idiot fans at cons ate up that garbage. Lots of videos of him at cons going, "You like that episode? Are you an idiot?". Star Trek fans have been trash for a while now. Like when everyone was jerking it to 7 of 9 because it was a blonde in a bodysuit. She's not that great of a character. Just like people watch T'Pol on Enterprise for her "plot". That's some Harvey Weinstein bull. I've been done with it for decades.

Ron Moore's ideas for Voyager also basically ended up being BSG.

@@ericjohnson9623 Only some of them. He also wanted Voyager to have aliens that are much weirder and different than previous shows. He wanted Voyager to feel truly far away from the Federation by having them discover things that are really unfamiliar, and not just old enemies like the Borg or meeting a new alien that's a slightly different version of aliens we've seen before like how the Kazons are just crappier Klingons.

@@KevinJDildonik Well then it's nice to meet you here! Slumming with the trash, right?

@@KingOfMadCows VOYs biggest weakness is in being too much like TNG in that way. Too often had "wow what is this thing from the Alpha quadrant doing here" episodes. I even kind of groaned when the Borg were reintroduced since First Contact neutered them and were not scary, then of course Janeway in her tiny ship is just kicking their ass ironically with no resistance really., and yes I also hate the damned time travel / Borg stupid ending

“Youuu are withOUT honor.”

@oommoo187 that really did sound just like him

"Enrage."

Thought it was "make it so."

Nah, that's Pakled Picard's line.

" Coffee , Columbian .... and make it a frappé" . Classic Picard .

​@@deathsdoor07 That's the joke. The sweatshirt is cropped so it looks like it says "Make it go"

DS9 didn't end until 1999 though.

Mike also liked Star Trek 09 and Star Trek Beyond

@@jasonfenton8250 I've always had the feeling that he doesn't particularly love DS9.

@@mikesmith3397 I get the impression he likes DS9, but his favorite star trek series is Next Gen. Nothing wrong with that. I know a lot of fans who feel the same. There are people who love Enterprise ffs...its been a long road....

@@jameshutchinson3672 Slaps? What is that supposed to mean?

I've watched EVERYTHING about Star Trek by RLM... yet I've only watched like 2 scenes from one of JJ's Star Trek movies

I’m so fucking gleeful at this being an entertaining show that I shouted “it’s like Galaxy Quest it’s a Galaxy Quest homage” at the screen

@@wabznasm9660 Star Trek homaging Galaxy Quest homaging Star Trek, it's like poetry. Actually loved ep 1-4, it's like a movie within the series with a clear enough beginning and ending and even character arcs (for all but Raffi and Worf I guess)

Mike hates video games? Why?

@@Summoned-Nightmare He just doesn't play them. Just not his thing. Rich talked about it on PreRec.

@@MrJellytonhe gave a new origin story in the finale review that makes it even more on brand

Seasons 2 and 3 had the same writing team. It's funny how different the two seasons are.

@@Tuskin38 someone must have been fired

@@lolcats987654321 A couple writers are missing from season 2, but everyone on season also wrote on 3. However the showrunner for Season 3 was only showrunner of Season 2 for the first few episodes, he stepped down to concentrate on Season 3.

@@Tuskin38 He also got full creative control over the season. No Kurtzmen looking over his shoulder. He brought some of the people back from TNG/DS9 as well. I don't know if he reached out to any writers but he brought in some of the fx people and costume designers. Some of the people doing the makup were the same people doing Worf's makeup 20 years ago.

@@Bitchslapper316 none of the writers are from the old shows. One one of the make up artists worked on DS9, he just never worked on Worf while he was there. He’s also worked I think on all 3 seasons.

Observing insanity has it's pleasures I guess. 🤷‍♂

@@greggasiorowski1326 I love how insecure you people are because you expected them to hate this season and they actually liked it lmao

@@NeroSparda99 I love how you misconstrue insecurity with taste.

Yeah its very deep plot, exactly like old ST.... NO IT IS NOT its just something 15 year old could conjure or ai these days :D

Love the way Frakes delivered that line when asked about the asteroid though. He was always a very natural actor.

It was straight out of Galaxy Quest.

@@thel1355 On and on 🙂

I choose to believe that it was a shout out to Galaxy Quest, when they threw the magnetized mines at Saras.

I was thinking of Voyager too and how much different episodes like "Year of Hell" would have been if you didn't have the bright day to day ship to contrast the dark and brutalised damaged version in those episodes. The perma-dark bridges that look barely functional have never done a service to Star Trek, and I wouldn't say they even look that particularly good unless the purpose is to hide a set that's underdeveloped/unfinished.

say what you will, the lighting on voyager was top notch

@@davidbates3057 yeah I don't think this season of Picard looks good at all. Dark does not equal cinematic to me.

@@FanboyFilms It looks like the opposite of Star Trek 2009. Like Picard could be a mirror-universe of that Trek.

The Voyager bridge was fucking lit tbh, and the NX enterprise bridge got the job done since as well.

When Shaw tells his crew to get some rest because they've pulled a 36 hour shift, I immediately thought of the pilot to Battlestar Galactica.

Apparently as of a few days ago they've gone back on that policy change, claiming they somehow didn't realise it would become so unreasonably strict...

@@rade-blunner7824 From what I understand, they used to just demonetize you if you swore in the first 15 seconds of the video.

He is the reason I had any hope for this season. One of the very few people aside from the actors who was actually involved in Star Trek prior to the reboots as a writer on Enterprise.

@@ODSTGeneralYT I understand he worked on DS9 as an intern apart from being a fan of TNG. I don't want to lay too much on the poor man's shoulders or hail him as the second coming; but even as a baseline, after all these long barren years of "new Trek", it is so good to get someone who appears to understand the show and the fans to showrun. We've had phony after phony for show after show and movie after movie since 2009.

They've really done a number on these RU-vid reviewers, that's what I find most impressive about all this, and it's totally worked. it's a real case of emperors new clothes, this season has been awful.

@@abucketofelves You are certainly entitled to your opinion. Personally I think this is the best live action Trek we have had in ages, not perfect but a vast improvement. I am curious, why you dislike it so much

@@ODSTGeneralYT it's an improvement for sure, but a marginal one for me - a lot of which comes down to occasional feelings of nostalgia from seeing more of the original characters (although it was very jarring to hear Troi reverting to a cockney accent, I could almost hear the bow bells), I feel however the dialogue is often stilted, awkward and unrealistic. As has been pointed out the overall style is apocalyptic rather than optimistic - it's all far too dark, the lack of attention to detail for the fans who have watched star trek is also puzzling (the only changeling who used to sleep in a pot was Odo and he did so for a very specific and personal reason - is one of many examples of this) It's very much a nu-trek season in style and substance. /// I'll just add that their media push and how they've treated the "toxic fandom" has been genius - and I'm sure will be used as a template for future shows, by not treating them as the "enemy" and giving them early access/perks etc it has had a big impact on the overall general impression in people's minds, influencers are named as such for a reason, get them on side and you're halfway there.

I cried.

@@nicolewilson8891 "A T S Ts, A T S Ts..."

@@vonPook83 I remember those.

Very cool .

I clapped and clapped, until I could clap no more.

There was a deleted tweet from LeVar Burton that all but confirmed at least a visit to the D's bridge. Patrick Stewart also made what seemed to be a comment he shouldn't have made (at SDCC) where he said we would see both the old Enterprise and the new one.

What I’m hoping is that it’s a mothballed Galaxy Class that gets renamed Enterprise for nostalgia sake. Especially since at the end of Generations during Picards Captains Log he specifically states the Enterprise is “unsalvageable”

@@uchihaitachi181 Maybe Picard just _assumed_ it was unsalvageable, the way he assumed the Defiant was "adrift, but salvageable." But really, I am okay with them salvaging the saucer section after like 30 years in spite of a line of dialogue in a captain's log. Picard was probably thinking in terms of the practical needs of the fleet, as in it would be more resource efficient to just build a new ship, especially with the new ship designs like the Sovereign class that were coming into production. Unsalvageable for the short and medium term needs of Starfleet doesn't necessarily mean unsalvageable to someone with a historical and sentimental interest in the ship, who potentially has access to technology that would help with the salvage effort, technology which may not have been available at the time that Picard made that statement.

@@RTukka A fair counter argument, especially considering the lack of urgency at the time, this would be a pre-Dominion incursion, at least a few months before the Klingon invasion of Cardassian territory. It was likely labeled a non-priority, more likely so if the planet was uninhabited

@@uchihaitachi181 You can write that off easily. Picard: "Geordi, how is this possible?" Geordi: "They said she was unsalvageable. Who's the miracle worker now?"

I love their review vids, but they feel like they're so few and far between

It’s a direct copy of Cisco experience at Wolf 359! Seriously why can’t people see this season is (again) just miss-mash of memberberries from Old Trek. The writing is abysmal.

​@@aldunlop4622 lots of people died at Wolf 359. Half the fleet. It's actually odd that Picard hasn't had to face this more often.

@@aldunlop4622 Yeah it's rehashing the Cisco thing. And it sucks but it's better than the last two seasons lol. And it was acted well yeah so I'll give it a pass

It was actually one of the worst parts like in season 2 where Raffi blames Picard for Elnor death.

Actor did well, but the speech was written way over the top, IMO. Less is more, I think. Looks like I'm in the minority though.

It was either that or killing him off off camera...

@@matthewbowen5841 Will Wheaton died on the way to his home planet.

​@@d3nza482 are we ever going to get to the fireworks factory???

Since watching that episode I've gotten a lot of To Catch a Predator clips in my recommendations.

​@@RettMikhal the true predators were the Riches we watched along the way

I think I did that wrong

@@RettMikhal Dang!

they already did it TNG 1st season...

That felt like a pure Kirk moment. Loved it.

@@robertulrich3964 It's like poetry; it rhymes.

Not as good as Riker channeling Colonel Jessup from "A Few Good Men."

was ruined a bit by Crusher calling it out

I really wonder what involvement Terry Matalas had in season 2 if he was also showrunner then - this feels completely different. A showrunner would have far more involvement in the show than someone like Alex Kurtzman (who is more of a franchise overseer, like Rick Berman).

@@ffnbbqI think with season 2 there was more than one showrunner whereas with 3 there’s just Terry Matalas.

I mean the writing is still atrocious for S3 so.. Why are Starfleet officers, let alone captains, talking like that to other officers (or even admirals)? Terrible writing from people that never watched previous Trek shows, that's why.

Let the past die. Kill it if you have to.

@@hannibalb8276 The scenes where what's-her-name is alone talking to nothing (a giant text messenger) are awful and big bad warrior Worf looks frail AF. The sub-plot is bad but the stuff on the ship, so far, is ok.

seeing the phrase "two seasoned" under a Picard video is triggering me.

"Seasoned? That's a horrible thing to say to a man."

“Contagion”…one of the best of S2!

@@destroyer84 that is a good episode. Pretty crazy when they watch the fellow ship blow up with all of those people on board. Poor mr crusher.

"Can we have him throw a sun at them?"

The man doesn't want to do the layers of make-up, so what are you gonna do?

​@@Bloodlyshivaalso he's very old now and Data is supposed to be an immortal android so having Data look older makes no sense

I feel like they probably needed the two stinkers of season to get to this point

Remember season 1-2 of TNG? They just had to get into the groove of things.

@@popermen694 they should know what they are doing within the first few episodes.

@@broceliandeforest7420 both first seasons were horrible. They are not Star Trek.

Oh well never mind ...

Sounded like Marge

No, no... Let them squirm.

Yeah it's a shame we didn't get this kind of quality from the beginning.