Yeah no, the rest of the season was just as bad as the first few episodes. Possible even worse, actually.
Yeah, no, it wasn’t. A few hiccups here and there, but to proclaim it one of the worst Trek-shows of all time (the way some of the melodramatic Twitter-neckbeards have done) is utter hyperbole.
It’s weird; it seems that as I get older, I’m getting -less- grumpy.
Or maybe everyone around me is getting grumpier.
At any rate, I enjoyed season 1. I enjoyed season 2. I’ll probably enjoy season 3.
After the horrors of a trash-bag-monster eating a major character, miniskirts that were dated a decade before the show aired, and a beardless Riker, I was happily surprised to get a 2nd season of TNG. Getting another story 1175 years later is a treat.
I think too that with only 10 episodes per season in which to tell their story (as opposed to 26), the producers today have far less wiggle-room to fall down compared to the old Roddenberry-Coon-Freiberger-Berman-Piller-Braga days, and so when one episode out of those 10 doesn’t quite live up to its potential, the sense of failure is far more pronounced than it used to be, and the stakes seen as much higher. But even then, still hitting 8 or 9 out of your 10 at-bats isn’t anything to sneeze at either, in the bigger picture of things. The Internet has unfortunately conditioned us to expect either absolute, total perfection or absolute, reeking failure in our entertainments, and it seems like some people now have to interpret things through either one extreme lens or the other, when it’s usually somewhere in between.
New interview with showrunner Terry Matalas, where he makes some big revelations about the upcoming final season, including:
- Dr. Crusher will be the very first character we encounter in the season, and she’s in the middle of a firefight (which I think the trailer shows bits of).
- All episodes will have onscreen-titles (for the very first time in the CBS All Access/Paramount+ era), and in the “classic” 1980s TNG-font, to boot (similar to Lower Decks).
- The fallout from DS9 and VOY will be extremely relevant to the storyline (in addition to Moriarty’s presence). DS9’s events in particular will have a driving force upon the season.
- A possible spinoff (Seven and Raffi?) is in discussions, to be potentially set in the unfolding 25th Century.
Of course we meet Dr. Crusher in a fucking fire fight.
Obviously, we do. These guys don’t know any other way.
^ I dunno, maybe Gates McFadden requested it? From the article, that sure seems to be one definite possibility. And she’d certainly be interested in not playing Dr. Crusher the exact same way she did for 15 years on TV and in the movies, if she were to commit to something like this.
She’s in command of a medical ship out on the frontier and the plot line of the season is someone coming after Picard and the Enterprise crew. So…her being in a firefight makes sense.
They would find any way to put her in a fire fight, making sense or not. Boringly predictable.
^ OK, dude. Whatever.
No not whatever. Specifically what I just said. Pay attention.
^ OK, dude. Whatever.
The story they came up with pretty much necessitates a fire fight at some point.
I’m sure it’s justified in context, I’m just saying I don’t get the sense this creative team could come up with a story that wouldn’t require firefights.
The stories they come up with are one of the major problems with this show.
This show is just so utterly fucking clueless.
**Maybe Dr. Crusher could be the one who trained Aunt Beru into being a guerilla fighter?
Um…how about we wait and watch the actual finished show before we jump to conclusions, here? Holy crap, y’all.
Just throwing that out into the universe, and whatnot.
I mean, I get the hesitation. Picard S1 wasn’t great (although it’s better on re-watch) and while overall better than S1, S2 starts and ends strong but it sags big time in the middle. They probably could have lost 2-3 episodes and not missed anything.
If the Trek formula holds, S3 is where everything turns around and the shows find their footing…or at least start to. Everything with TNG just clicked, DS9 had been building to it in S2 but in S3 they introduced the Defiant and the Founders/Dominion, Voyager finally ditched the Kazon and introduced Seven of Nine and Enterprise had the excellent Xindi arc. Even Discovery turned a corner with the jump to the 32nd century.
Really the only two exceptions are TOS and Lower Decks…but they were both great from the start.
It’s not like we’re making assumptions from nothing. Picard has previous seasons. Discovery exists. We REAAAAALLY know how modern Trek writers think. This cynicism isn’t sprouting out of the ground and based on nothing.
Hell I’m the dumbass who got hyped for BvS and was cautiously excited for the Rise of Skywalker.
Have you watched SNW because it’s very much a different show than Discovery and Picard. There is cynicism there but it’s way more optimistic and a lot closer in tone to Classic Trek.
also, consider this…I despise Disco S1…I still think it’s the single worst season of Trek EVER. S2 isn’t much better (save for Pike). But it really has turned a corner. S3 was fine and S4 was actually mostly good.