Picard 2x10 - 'Farewell' ~~ { ** Spoilers Within ** }

That queen is the same one that was there when the ship self destructed in the first episode.

How the rest of the borg stuff happened if she was in charge, I don't know. Unless there are 2 borg factions, but she waited until now to reveal themselves which doesn't make sense.

Very weak. I noticed they keep using old TNG and FC music like a laugh track to tell us when we have to feel sad but I was mostly numb.

The only actual sad bit is Rios and the hard life and death we know he had ahead. Even worse they killed of Treks best character in years and is a crime comparable to making Lorca eeeevvvviiiiilllll.I also like Jurati even though many dont so that sucks too (CGI Borgati looked awful too)

Why is Q dying ?

I said after season 1 that I could happily take 10 episodes of 7 and Picard having a slowchat about the Borg, humanity and the XBs. This season I would happily have watched 10 episodes of Picard and Q debating humanity. We just didnt get nearly enough Q

Finally SHUT UP WESLEY

I liked it but im sentimental by nature. I loved Q saying "Even God's have favorites"

Why Is Q dying?

So was the whole thing set up by Q to help Picard deal with the past??

More than any other reason I watched this turd of a show so I could laugh along to the Redlettermedia reviews. They've decided to no longer do star trek reviews because they don't want to be responsible for people watching it.

RLM are about as far from angry neckbeards as you could get.

I really disagree. It ain't that bad

It was... Fine. I enjoyed Wesley's cameo (but don't want a spin-off of Wesley's wacky adventures through space and time) and sorry to see Rios go. I enjoyed his character a lot (I thought initially that he would be a one note Han Solo ripoff). Thought he was the most human this season.

But the end? Yeah, could have done without the whole "Right, now you're back let's save the quadrant in five mins"...bit. plus, thought Jurati just looked silly. Because of the makeup and clothing it looked like they had (very) poorly superimposed her face into a dummy body.

The season started well and then faded (as did season one). Orla Brady was great but I'm aware that that may be bias. And Jon DeLancie was also great.

I'm glad we are getting one last season. Make it a TNG farewell and let's never see any of them again apart from Riker rare cameos in Lower Decks (He's hilariously OTT Riker-mode in that)

Edit: Fixed some phone autocorrects and typos

After a promising first episode or two, that was pretty immensely disappointing. Almost all stories, big and small, end up a convoluted nonsensical mess of disparate things all just haphazardly smushed together. Just so so poorly written and assembled, who the bejesus is hiring and paying these people!?

Some of the basic concepts could've been interesting enough if massively tightened up and repurposed as a single episode idea, or maaaybe a two-parter, but no more than that. Like a Tapestry meets Future's End sort of thing. But as a season - a whole bloody season! - just horrible.

I have this pet theory that Q really wanted Picard to get together with Laris.

He spoke a lot of missed opportunities and not ending up alone and the fact that it was deliberately kept obscure at the end if they did hook up really points towards this in my mind. Who else here jumped up and yelled at the screen "KISS HER YOU FOOL!" in the first episode of the season?

And really love the fact that Raffi and Seven got together.

I certainly not a fan of romance movies, but I am always a sucker for a good love story with a happy ending. 😁

Did I miss a bit where the whole Q Continuum died before Q (original)? If not how was Q (original) dying alone when last time we saw him he had a family. What happened to Q (female) and Q (junior) besides a GoT's D&D style "Q kind of forgot he had a family"?

I liked it overall and so did seemingly a lot of critics bar the internet ones cited.

That being said I didn't think they needed Dr Soong really. Could have written around him.

Why did they need laris to play two characters?

It's not the best trek. I knew it was going to be a nostalgia trip especially with an 80 year old Picard.

I think though I have had enough of it. Two seasons is enough for me. Especially if Brent spinner is dragged up again.

Same for discovery. I will wrap up with that with season 4. Its too Burnham focused.

I will give brave new worlds a shot though.

I will go back to the expanse as a lot of people praised it here.

Yeah. Would have LOVED to have seen their next season of DS9 as outlined in their roundtable.

As for dragging in Brent Spiner. Yeah, it really smacked of desperation: "Hey, remember we made Data's creator have a similar name to Kahn? Welllllllll let's use the actor in everything. Those nerds will LOVE that sh*t". PLEASE don't use him in Strange New Worlds. PLEASE!

This constant re-use of the same actors/characters makes the whole universe see small and inbred. Without meaning to go on a tangent, I thought the most interesting thing about the second of the newest Star Wars movies was that Rey was NOT a Skywalker or Solo or from some other known lineage but was just a random person. It REALLY opened up the world outside of basically this single family (Of course we know what happened there)