I'd heard that Picard in season 3 wasn't quite the stinker that 1-2 were, and this is definitely an improvement but still not what I want to see from Star Trek.
I'm not at all nostalgic for the old TNG crew. Now that I've seen them all together, the only one I'd keep is Worf. Age has not dimmed his battle prowess or comic timing one bit. Riker too, maybe. I'm liking him here more than I did in the original series. The rest, just lose them and give us new characters. Dragging back poor Data was a real mistake. A robot should not have wrinkles.
As for the new characters in this series, I can't stand Raffaela or Jack Crusher. Sorry to say it, but it's the actors' fault. Usually the fault is bad writing but both character concepts are good. The actors both have an annoying style that renders them unwatchable.
Seven is solid and Shaw is a real joy. Sidney is okay. There's a good follow-up series that could be crafted around the USS Titan with Shaw, Seven, Sidney, Worf, bring in a couple more newbies but hopefully not Jack Crusher please. Of course I haven't seen the final episodes to see who lives and who dies.
So this Terry Matalas guy seems to have a finger on the pulse of what Star Trek needs to be. If he wasn't saddled with TNG nostalgia anymore, and with more care taken in the casting, I think he could finally drag Star Trek out of its doldrums for good.
Once more note: I've also been watching Star Wars Ahsoka in parallel with Picard and although Star Wars is now better at being Star Wars than Star Trek is at being Star Trek, the Trekkies got em beat all hollow for dialogue. The dialogue in Picard is creative and even operatic at times. The dialogue in Ahsoka was written by Pakleds on an off day. Dave Filoni should hire some of the Picard writers away to punch up his awful dialogue.
I'm not at all nostalgic for the old TNG crew. Now that I've seen them all together, the only one I'd keep is Worf. Age has not dimmed his battle prowess or comic timing one bit. Riker too, maybe. I'm liking him here more than I did in the original series. The rest, just lose them and give us new characters. Dragging back poor Data was a real mistake. A robot should not have wrinkles.
As for the new characters in this series, I can't stand Raffaela or Jack Crusher. Sorry to say it, but it's the actors' fault. Usually the fault is bad writing but both character concepts are good. The actors both have an annoying style that renders them unwatchable.
Seven is solid and Shaw is a real joy. Sidney is okay. There's a good follow-up series that could be crafted around the USS Titan with Shaw, Seven, Sidney, Worf, bring in a couple more newbies but hopefully not Jack Crusher please. Of course I haven't seen the final episodes to see who lives and who dies.
So this Terry Matalas guy seems to have a finger on the pulse of what Star Trek needs to be. If he wasn't saddled with TNG nostalgia anymore, and with more care taken in the casting, I think he could finally drag Star Trek out of its doldrums for good.
Once more note: I've also been watching Star Wars Ahsoka in parallel with Picard and although Star Wars is now better at being Star Wars than Star Trek is at being Star Trek, the Trekkies got em beat all hollow for dialogue. The dialogue in Picard is creative and even operatic at times. The dialogue in Ahsoka was written by Pakleds on an off day. Dave Filoni should hire some of the Picard writers away to punch up his awful dialogue.