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He didn't seem like he "gets the show" when he made season 2 of Picard.

He had said before that he is a huge TOS movie fan and that's his Trek which is why s2 had a lot of Voyage Home stuff and s3 was very Wrath of Khan.

Chabon was still on staff for season two too so I'm just going to blame him for it being so poor. I have no idea how involved he actually was but I'm still going to blame him.

Kurtzmann seems to have stepped back big time and Goldsman was a terrible fit who is hopefully gone. My problem with both of them and Paradise too is they are obsessed with Trek games, fan fiction and books most of which are crap and full of stupid plots.

Matalas is obsessed with the movies which are exactly that movies. The Picard seasons 2 and 3 could be distilled down into movies.

I'm kind of wonding if there's a good way to re-cut Season 1 into a TV-Movie that can decently explain why Picard is an android now. Beyond the whole "Picard is an Android" thing, you really don't need much of Season 1.

• Raffi is surplus to requirements, her introduction in Season 3 isn't all *that* different to how we met her in Season 1.
• LaSerena is essentially a Random Runabout by the time we get to Season 3, so we don't really need Rios (he is missed, but not needed).
• Soji isn't really needed at all beyond some stuff in Season 1.
• We can drop the creepy Romulan siblings
• We already know Seven, so we don't need as much reintroduction. Season 2 doesn't really change much, and she chould just choose to join Starfleet without Raffi's odd encouragment in Season 2.
• Jurati can simply go to the New Zealand jail after needlessly murdering Maddox...because that's a crime usually....and if we drop Season 2 we don't even need her anymore.

Season 3 appears to have completely ignored Season 2, to the point of even nearly retconning it by saying the the Borg "hadn't been seen for over 10 years". So I feel that Season 2 just gets dropped entirely.

Retool Season 1, fix the ending, and then go right into Season 3. That would be a decent enough Trek mini-series to finish off TNG.

Well that's all coming from the premise that season 1 is somehow there to service season 3 which it is not. Season 1 was its own story with its own cast and unrelated to s3 other than the protagonist.

All 3 seasons I think can be cut down into movies. They all have 5 or 6 pointless meandering episodes between set up and finale (which often has nothing to do with the set up)

Some shows stand out as being really bad at the format though. The 3 Picard finales were pretty much unrelated to the first 8 episodes. It was like an even sharper about turn of the Discovery mid season twists.

I gave up on the Walking Dead after I realized I could just watch the first and last episode of each season and miss nothing.

Ideally yes, but Season 3's plot makes a major point out of Picard's original body being stolen and used by the Changlings. You'd need some way to explain why Picard is in another body. Season 1 covers that story, but it could be done a different way. Would rather drop Season 1 too...but the Picard body problem prevents that a bit.

Stargate was good though and originally was all standalone episodes or two-parters. That said the do have the unlimited filler episode in 200, the one that was never intended to be part of continuity.

Can't speak for the post O'Neill stuff but the original run was no more or less filler than a Star Trek season.

Does it make a major point out of Picards body. What did Picards body actually do in the end other than act as a macguffin to find Data ?

Picard's body was used to extract the "Locutus of Borg" encoding from his parietal lobe. That was needed to turn Starfleet trasporters into mass-assimilators of the younger officers. This needed to be done long before Jack got turned into "Vox of Borg" or they'd have to then start with the trasporter assimilation plan after the Queen had caught him which wrecks the whole flow of things.

I suppose you could potentially find a way for Picard's parietal lobe encoding to have been stolen from a current living Picard as part of flashback triggered by the arrival Vadic. For some reason they didn't kill him...potentially to keep him as a backup plan in case Jack died.