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Give Terry Star Trek Legacy. No Kurtzman drek!

Loved this episode and the whole season so far. I've been waiting years for lore and data to merge. The emotional beats between data, laforge, picard, riker, etc. Were all there. I want more of THIS story. Not the nonsense Kurtzman is doing. No discovery, no lower decks, no academy; who gave that hack any control. Give the reins to Terry people! This season was a joy. We haven't had real trek in almost 30 years. This is a start.

The threads Terry has woven are excellent. I want more of this. Thankfully the abominations that were season 1 and 2 are being erased or overridden.

This series hit a high from the start. And it keeps hitting every episode. Can´t wait for the next one. All of the cast of TNG superb. Seven perfect, Rest of the cast perfect. All the characters from past star trek series a perfect addition to the story. The mighty enemy from Deep space 9. The mystery about Jack. Why do they want him alive? New aliens, new worlds and the new Worf. His deadly calm and subtle humour. You know he still just loves killing and he kills alot. The dark atmosphere grabs you. Well done!

Very well written. We were blessed with Strange new worlds and now this. Star Trek is back!

Last week's episode wasnt as great as the ones before that but this week it's spot on again. The story continues to move forward and we finally got to see Deanna troi in the flesh! So 8 episodes in and this is really an incredible season, the writers and also the actors did a phenomenal job. I'm not going to spoil anything but this is the episode that puts the entire The next generation crew together at the briefing table as seen on the trailers. Pace of the episode was great, I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. And yes... It ended with a huge cliffhanger again. Next week we'll see another familiar face guest starring I can't wait to find out. Go watch and enjoy!!! This is real star trek!

Picard comes back with another well written and acted episode. We move the narrative forward organically and witness great twists, although I saw most coming. That doesn't dull the pleasure since it's so well acted. Some mysteries are sorted and others are near revelations and that just ramps up the anticipation.

The overarching theme this season is solid and gives us the well earned feel of classic trek. But it's slightly askew and feels more personal. Every week we learn more about characters we have spent so much time with before. And each deepening of these characters feels earned and appropriate.

I thank the writers from the bottom of my heart that you found a way to give Deanna Troi a real feeling of being a integral part maybe even a all important part of the narrative this time. When I grew up, Troi felt like almost a joke character, a Troi episode would either be some silly thing or just outright one of the hardest to sit through because it was something psychosexual. Her idea of character development was to say something painfully obvious like "I think the angry alien is angry Jean Luc" And I was afraid here its happening again she's apart from Riker and offering just a few jokes in the first few episodes.

However, now that she is with the crew you've really given her a real purpose to awaken Jack Crusher and unlock his mind and memories and comfort Riker so he can stand up against his foes. You also gave Beverly Crusher new life and that is also amazing. Each of these characters has come into their own and finally feels important to the plot equally.

Also I love the little things you are doing with musical cues this season. When Worf saves the day, you hear his theme song remixed to be like a heroic Lone Ranger type jingle! It was so cool.

And what you have done with makeup and styles is leaps and bounds away from Seasons 1 and 2. Everyone is very old by this point yet you are making them so handsome and beautiful. Its heartwarming to see the ending scene around the table and everyone has nice facial hair, nice hairstyles, well arranged makeup and looking as good as a 60-80 yo person can.

I would recommend after this, you put these makeup artists at work on Tulsa King since Sly has often looked a bit fakey and bloated and I would love to see him back to his movie star status!

Anyway, you guys deserve the best score for what you have done to rescue Picard, you not only rescued this show, you rescued every actor within it from career ignominy and gave them the greatest ST product they have had yet (imho if this season was a movie it would be by far the best movie and as a season of TNG might be in the top 5) and they can all retire head held high.

One of the things I appreciated most about this episode was the way it skillfully balanced action with character development. There were plenty of exciting moments, including an intense space battle and a daring escape from a hostile planet, but these scenes never felt gratuitous or disconnected from the characters' emotional journeys.

Overall, I thought this was one of the best episodes of Picard so far, and I can't wait to see where the story goes from here. The pacing was excellent, the acting was top-notch, and the writing was both smart and emotional. I highly recommend this episode to any fan of the series, and I can't wait to see what happens next!

What we are witnessing is a great justice for what I consider to be the prime Trek cast. If this show wraps up with the same quality in story and production that is being shown here, I think a lot of fans will feel content. Now if they could've made this a three season arc, that would have been ideal. Nonetheless, this episode and all of the others of this season have been highly enjoyable. I'm assuming this will be one of the highest rated seasons in Trek history when looking at the episode ratings (already 3 ep. Over 9 rating, and 5 ep. Over 8 rating. Even though it's not episodic by nature, I hope the studios can sift through and see the elements of production, writing and story that make this Prime Trek.

The first half continues vadic's take over, thankfully the writers did a good job of getting our heroes out of it, with only a couple of fatalities.

Only problem i had with it was the incesant monologue from vadic, which took up way too much time and didn't even have a point to it, just usual cliche tropey villain posturing right out of negans play book. Which i find profoundly annoying and a poor excuse to fill out runtime of an episode.

Thankfully the episode redeems itself with riker and de'ana being held captive and datalore and geordie sub plots being resolved.

This episode was high on drama, a little action and ends on an annoying cliff hanger.

Probably predictable for a lot of tng fans but still enjoyable !

Produciton / bts is usual high quality.

The Titan crew suffer under the captivity of Varic.

This is a good episode with enjoyable character moments.

For me the highlight of the episode is seeing a group of characters on stage together and this should provide enough of a dopamine hit for most TNG fans.

The plot is questionable in how certain plot lines are being dragged out and even repeated from the previous episode, but I think it can be forgiven when you see certain emotional payoffs as the episode climaxes.

There needs to be a worthwhile reveal regarding the Jack Crusher arc soon, because it is getting frustrating to see him self-obsessing in every scene.

Several characters have enjoyable moments such as Data, Seven, Riker, Troi, Worf and even Raffi.

All actors are on great form, especially Brent Spiner and Amanda Plummer.

The production values are excellent once more with strong cinematography, editing, art design, and sci-fi effects.

Loved this episode. This all season was what we wanted from Picard and every episode just keeps getting better and better. Won't go into details because of spoilers but the story for this episode is great.

This season is a great send of to the TNG cast. I didn't belive it would be done after Nemesis but wow. Hopefully there will be a Star Trek Lagacy spin-off and that we will continue to enjoy some of the characters like Seve and Shaw.

So make it happen. :)

Had a tear in my eye and was just enjoying the reunion through all of the episode.. Can't wait for the last two episodes. Enjoy it all of you. :)

This is the feeling we've been searching for and haven't had for a couple decades.

The writing is able to mesh with the friendships this crew formed early on so that we're able to truly feel the joy at the characters' reunion.

Maybe we're old and sentimental but there's much more than sentimentality going on in this episode. The story is compelling and of course there's no issue with the acting. And although I've had issue with the writing of modern Trek, the writing gave me what I wanted from this world, maybe even what I didn't know I needed given the occasional lesson harkening back to TOS.

If you enjoy it, you're in great company!

This season is everything this series should have been. Nostalgic and brilliant. The end of the episode features scenes any fan of the next generation would be hard pressed not to enjoy. I have enjoyed every episode of this final season, a great hurrah to end it on. This season has only got better and better and I cannot wait for the final two episodes. It's well written and choreographed, and sensitive to the time that has passed since the next generation. This episode is excellently done. While I did enjoy the first two seasons, this season surpasses both, although builds nicely on the first season.

At least her ship, the Shrike, was aptly named... Vadic is a kind of Shrikish figure. A Shrikish, orange, goo person figure.

And, we still can't figure out who/what Jack Crusher is. Captain Honeybunny seemed to know everything about him/it. Indicating some kind of elongated, mysterious existence that possibly even extends beyond his own birth. And in the previous episode, it was suggested that Jack Crusher never was intended to be "for Picard or Beverly". And then he started doing these freaky red eye things. Where have we seen those red eyes before? Where'd you get those eyes?

I have considered Armus, Nigilum, The Crystal Entity, even Ardra- if she were not a sham. Maybe she was completely faking not really big a god thing and just having a little bit of fun? Can you explain it, Picard?

Or, some other than Q member of the Q continuum? Maybe Suzie Plakson, Q's (and Worf's) ex wife, who wants revenge for season two? Or maybe it is even Q2, but he would not be going after Picard. He would be going after Janeway. Janeway and Icheb, although itchy is no longer with us, unfortunately.

Hm, what could it be? Well, since changelings were introduced in Deep Space Nine, maybe it is something that we saw there? What did we see there?

Well, we saw some unusual things happen in at least three DS9 episodes... The Assignment, The Reckoning, and Tears of the Prophets. There were a couple more in the seventh season, too.

And, I keep on hearing rumors that The Sisko is going to be involved, somehow. So far they are simply rumors, I have seen no story elements that would suggest the Emissary's appearance. Yet.

But whoever this Face is, the changelings are afraid of it. And so should we be as well. Consider: Vadic lops off her hand, which somehow becomes fire-face? What else can the Face do?

So... I just wanted to discuss this appearance of Captain Honey Bunny, Amanda Plumber, the daughter of General Chang, who has been even more sinister than Chang was. But, in an almost likable and humorous way. We know that this gooperson is pure rotten evil, but we just can't hate her, only what she was does, at the behest of some mysterious face surrounded in flames. I have enjoyed every minute of her screen time in this.

And a face surrounded in flames. "A whole Galaxy, surrounded in flame".

I am starting to get a kind of idea of who or what this thing is. But I am not going to say it. I don't even want to think about it.

There is another confrontation in this episode, but it happens inside of the new Data, whatever he is. What is he? An android? A real person? What is Picard? And why is his Irumatic syndrome an issue?

Surrender, but don't give yourself away...

It even has been suggested that Irumatic Syndrome was indeed a misdiagnosis.

After all of the things Picard has gone through... being absorbed by the Borg, being beamed away and duplicated by unnamed aliens that all looked the same but could perfectly duplicate his appearance and even memories? Who did not like to be trapped in a force field... Being whisked away by Q Time and again? Being accosted by Nausicans, accidentally materialized as a teenager, tortured by Gul Madred, connected to Dr. Crusher by the Pritt, worshipped as a god by a pointy eared Ray Wise, combined with a space-cloud entity, having his brain scrambled by DaiMon Bok, having to phaser himself so he would not make the same mistake once, pretending to be a smuggler, and finally having to play Cortano to Data's Masaka. Just to name a few...

Somewhere in that mess, might be the answer to this conundrum. But what is it?

I highly anticipate the next two chapters.

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.

Just lousy. Hostage standoffs, Miracle Worf, wine jokes, and couples therapy. This is a writer's room who spent more time arguing over who got the vegan tuna salad than what the overall goals of this series might be. Is it Ninja Drug Addicts? Lonely Changelings? Beloved Characters ironically making jokes about tedious monologuing? Sounds in a vacuum?

Oh, these are all trivial criticisms! What's really important is that the Changelings have infiltrated Career Day! And only a ragtag bunch of Nostalgia can stop them! Even if it means suffering through bad dialogue, painfully stale tropes, and cheap Spot cameos.

"It can't be that bad," you say. Oh, it's actually worse. After spending the entire first season of Picard wandering the galaxy on the off-chance that Data might be resurrected, Picard's first question for the newly-minted Data "was it ethical to bring you back?" Perhaps THIS is what was really going on in the writers room: an argument over the ethics of bringing back these beloved characters and not really having any reason or purpose to doing so.

The mystery of Jack Crusher is about as interesting as aforementioned vegan tuna salad sandwich. It isn't real fish - it's an approximation of something created by an artificial hand to suggest real meat that someone ate long ago. It also suggests an even deeper cynicism that Wesley Crusher was only interesting enough for a brief Season 2 cameo, yet a brand new trope needed to be invented to fill in as actual familial angst. If the genesis of Jack has actually been explained, I simply wasn't paying attention. Instead, I was trying to fill in the rationale of bringing back all of these characters so that they could do nothing. There really is no story here. No overarching thread that suggests a thesis. Because what we've been shown again and again is that death is for tertiary characters. Everyone else can be resurrected at the drop of a hat.

If the show seemed cheap before, it's now teetering on self-parody. See the gang race to save San Francisco from the identity-fluid invaders! How will they stop this? Nostalgia for a by-gone era!

In a way, it's a good thing that Rene Aberjonois passed away before Odo could be dragged back into this. Oh wait! You forgot Odo? The character who forever changed the nature of the Changelings by introducing a complex morality that extended beyond retribution, threat, and domination? Yeah. Not that important.

None of this matters. None of it is very interesting. But you better believe the chances of Wesley and Tasha Yar showing up in the finale to do a dance number with Q, Guinan, and the Outrageous Okona are increasing by the minute.

I was admittedly hesitant to first watch this series. Now we are on Season 3 and I cannot wait for the next episode ! I Love all of the characters. It's simply incredible.

I have loved all of the Series. This one is "Picard" is going to be as eternal as the others.

Loved the story line and how they interact with each other. Family having fun and they know each other so well as characters on the show from previous working relationships. It is such an incredible fit. They have all aged so well.

The story line takes one on a journey that is never ending twists and turns. I obviously do not want to give away any spoilers. That is hard not to do. LOL

I will say this though and I know it may come off as a spoiler, I don't think it is. It is more of an observation.

The "F" word made it into Star Trek script. I guess we had better get used to it. I have heard it on so many shows. I hope it never comes down to "Calvin" telling "Dave" on "The Neighborhood" to go "f--- himself." That would lose me as a viewer.