Picard 3x10- 'The Last Generation' ~~ { ** Spoilers Within ** }

It was a much better send off for the crew than Nemesis or the first two series. It wasn't perfect and could definitely have been pared down to about five episodes but it moved forward and had characters acting like older versions of themselves. I read somewhere earlier Matalas originally had a much wider net featuring DS9 and more Voyager characters but couldn't get the budget for that many legacy actors so he had to cut it down significantly. That probably explains why the Changelings feature so heavily.

OK, I've rewatched it this evening and am a lot happier with the finale.

I think maybe part of my hesitation yesterday was that there was a LOT going on in that last hour and it fairly blasts through two thirds of it on first viewing.

A few nitpicks (like the scale of the -D in the overhead shot seems WAYYY too small!) and I'm still not happy with the Titan rename, but overall it was a great wrapup to the TNG story, although I'm still not sold on the proposed Legacy teaser with Seven and Raffi.

One thing that I saw on Youtube was Dave Cullen's alternate ending proposal and I really liked it!

The idea of the -D being recomissioned following the damage to the fleet and needing to reactivate older officers makes a lot of sense to me, and I love the idea of the refit tying into the TNG "All Good Things" finale of a triple-nacelled Enterprise-D under Riker's command continuing the voyages of a ship and officers that clearly still have a lot to give.

That would have been a far better "Legacy" idea - familiar but still able to move forward with new stories and characters introduced as it goes.

You seem to hate any hint of nostalgia (curious if you have the same feelings towards the TOS movies) so that definitely colours your view but one of the largely agreed highlights of the season was Shaw, a new character. Jack wasn't bad and Even Raffi wasn't as bad as previous seasons too so it's at least possible they can write decent characters. Some of the little filler plots were good too and would have made more interesting stand alone episodes than to stretch out the the main lot.

I'm not really seeing what your seeing. If it was more discovery-like Shaw would have been fawning over Seven an deferring when he didn't have to, just because. Instead he relinquished command to go duct tape type ship back together or when he was injured. Even Shaw's little epilogue makes up for his apparent dereliction in the first few episodes he was giving her free reign on what should have been a milk run as a taste of what having your own ship is like.

Jack as Picard's son is a little thin and the inherited Borg bio transceiver is a huge coincidence but no one is really saying it's perfect but it's the second best season of live action Star Trek in the last decade.

Saved episodes 8, 9 and 10 up and watched them last night. Nostalgia or not, they were as good as I have ever seen. Overall Picard S3 was up there with the best!!

Oh yeah, true. I’d say Picard worked despite the problems. Even the idea that they would want to call the show “Legacy” rings massive alarm bells for me. Really nailing those member-berries to the mast.

I’m sure there’ll be some enjoyment and entertainment to be found going forward but overall I’m no more optimistic for Trek’s future now than I was six months or a year ago.

It was "who is chasing Rambo Crusher" who turned out to be changelings led by someone who for some reason smoked fags and was directed by Skeletor who she communicated with by cutting off her hand.

Where were Vadic seemingly unlimited resources coming from ? Surely not the Borg in their one rotting half broken ship.

Then it turns out it's actually the Borg with 2 episodes to go. Who convinced the changelings to infiltrate Starfleet at the highest levels to help assimilate humanity.

Data for some unexplained reason is the security for S31's most secret research facility that for some reason they can't put a few security staff in.

The entire fleet is at Earth and and linked up to the same "Control" system that almost destroyed the Federation in Discovery (and Prodigy and LD)

Oh ya and they are defeated by a rebuilt kit bash only meant for a museum that for some reason has working phasers, shields and a whole bunch of torpedoes.

And is everyone forgetting the weeks of Blade Runner planet we had to put up with and it's Vulcan criminals and shapeshifters who don't bother shape shifting to escape.

I still don't buy the bullsht reason Beverly had for not speaking to anybody for 20 years.

We know the portal gun did. We don't know about the eeevvvvviiillll bad guy ship but they could have traded that for something.

I was more thinking the ability to put all those changelings (there were only 10 of the new scan beating types) into the highest levels of Starfleet.

Enough to ensure that they had enough of the top brass to make frontier day happen. Enough to get all the transporters reprogrammed and replace absolutely every good contact Picard, 7 and everyone else had at the snap of a finger.

This show really should have been 2 different movies. The changeling thing and the Borg thing. Not 8 episodes of mystery boxes.

In the flashback the Shrike was docked at Daystrom when the Changelings escaped.

It was a little contrived that the ones they contacted were imposters but they were fugitives with limited options by then.

Yeah that was cool. Think it was Best of Both Worlds that had them on the cube.

Ah, I think you're going too deep, reading too much into it. For me it was just good fun and a pleasure to watch.

I'm just holding it to the same standards all the other new shows and the JJ movies were.