The online hate that series got was totally undeserved and unjustified. It was great, modern Trek. I loved it.
And yes, that end credits scene was absolutely spectacular.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025
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I've been rewatching it for the first time since it aired and found myself enjoying more this run. 3 is still the best by far. Is it pandery? Absolutely. Getting the band back together is what we expected from the get go.
I enjoyed it, but it is definitely the least "Star Trek" of all the Star Trek series to date. Even arguably more-so than Lower Decks. I understand why some people would be disappointed, but I agree, some of the hate was too far.
Lower decks was a star Trek cartoon written by trekkies, it's lovely.
That's a good way to put it. The Animated Series was a Star Trek series that was just animated so they could manage to depict things that they were unable to achieve with 1970's live action special effects. But Lower Decks, on the other hand, was a wacky cartoon that just had as many Star Trek references shoved into it as possible because it was made by fans.
I loved it. Fight me.
The hate this show got, was totally deserved.
No one, literally no one, is going back and fondly remembering watching Picard. No one. Same with Discovery.
The music from this show, is wasted. It's great. The inner-light flute in the intro is a slap in the face to anyone who thought we were getting a love-letter to the character of Jean Luc Picard. I wish the music had been released and not the show.
I loved season 3, as the 10-hour long TNG send off movie. I’ll probably never rewatch the other two seasons. Even though the cast was fantastic (love me some Rios)- they were wasted.
Also loved S3.
It had roughly the same structure as any Muppet movie (we gotta get the whole gang together for one last show!) Say what you will about the Muppets (and by that I mean: choose your words carefully) but God damn it's a formula that works.
It's certainly the last time we'll see that crew together. Never in a million years could I comprehend they'd put them on the bridge of the Enterprise D.
Did it have the philosophical explorations that I loved from the series? No. Did I need it to be? No. Where my boys at, how they been? Did thier bonds stand the test of time?
It needed at least two courtroom episodes tho
Rios had so much potential, and instead stays in the past hanging out with Guinan, changing the future DRASTICALLY and dies in a bar fight... over medical supplies. While smoking a cigar.
Holy shit, that's some fucked up writing from a 12 year old.
Even more fucked up than Rios and the black flag directive?
Damn, this means I do have to go back and finish it after all. I stopped watching during season 2 somewhere.
You can literally just start Season 3 clean, it feels like a totally different show. The only thing you might need to know is who Raffi is, and a small scene with Picard talking about his body. IIRC, season 2 is only referenced once, and it’s a bit of a retcon. Enjoy.
Season 2 was so bad I burst out laughing multiple times during moments that were supposed to be serious.
The writing was so contrived and the backstories so tediously explainy it reminded me of fanfic I would write in middle school.
EDIT: And omg the whole Inception arc about his childhood abuse (but it wasn’t abuse, actually?!) was such a slog…
The writing was so contrived and the backstories so tediously explainy it reminded me of fanfic I would write in middle school.
It reads like middle schooler fanfic whose only exposure to Star Trek is MemoryAlpha
I do, my wife does, a couple Trekkie buddies at work do.
All you whining, terminally online dweebs need to learn to speak for yourselves.
You're making a lot of assumptions about me, for having an opinion that is different from your own.
If you can name Soji's sister without looking it up, I'll believe you.
How dare you speak for everyone here? Who the f… you think you are?
You’re entitled to your own personal opinion about this or that, whether that opinion may be shared with some other individuals, but in no way are you to speak on every other people’s behalf. Just because you may not have gotten a satisfying-enough kick out of those two series, gives you the right to do so.
I have fond memories of Picard, I loved Discovery, and will gladly rewatch them both once a year or when I am in a rut.
I’d swear, the nerve in some self-proclaimed obtuse fanboys…
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- Righteous indignation in a thread where my point is a parody of the comments made before, in the complete opposite direction
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Get fucked
Oh, you were sarcastic!? Are you still being sarcastic right now?
The Inner Shite more like.
That intro/credits was incredibly cool, and so much better than the weird abstract one. That show probably would have been alright if it was just Season 3. Seasons 1-2 were just a sequence of various “nobody asked for this”.
I’m seeing online ranking sites list Picard season 1 & 2 and Picard season 3 as separate shows.
I actually did love at the beginning of season 1 where Picard is shitting on starfleet.
As meh as S1 ended up being, and as poorly as pretty much everything was done in S2... what I was most afraid of was that they'd somehow molest Picards character itself.
They didn't do that
Season 1 of Picard started with such promise, but it's clear they had no roadmap. They meandered around not developing the main plot until they had to throw together the most slapdash resolution in the last few episodes.
But I liked the concept of Picard in a new setting with new characters, on the outs with Starfleet but holding up its ideals even while the actual organization fell behind. A much better premise than season 3's "lets just make everything like it was thirty years ago again!" approach.
The TNG movies already did by making him into a boring psychotic creep
Here is a cool article about the score https://www.startrek.com/news/picard-season-3-soundtrack-unlocks-star-trek
He wrote the Universal Pictures theme, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyqThsI6ghY
The hate that show got says more about the losers hating than the show itself.