After giving this season's episodes all good grades, this one just reaked of too much fanservice. Its good to get some (weaponized tribbles anyone?), but we get Moriarty, Lal, B4, Data, Lor, Geordi, Troi, Picard's Body, Kirk's body(!), Voyager, the Original Enterprise, the ST4's Bounty, the Titan, and on and on. There's a difference between using fanservice as a feature and using it as a crutch.
Additionally, the amount of contrivances is pushing into overload. Geordi decides to sacrifice the Federation to nominally protect his family? Noone raises enough of objection to networking all the Starfleet ships and bringing them all together for a festival? The most heavily guarded station in the Federation has a security detail of a couple redshirts every hour?
Its looking more and more like STP will end up like Lost, with too many great storylines being posited with no clear resolution.
Additionally, the amount of contrivances is pushing into overload. Geordi decides to sacrifice the Federation to nominally protect his family? Noone raises enough of objection to networking all the Starfleet ships and bringing them all together for a festival? The most heavily guarded station in the Federation has a security detail of a couple redshirts every hour?
Its looking more and more like STP will end up like Lost, with too many great storylines being posited with no clear resolution.