User Reviews

To be honest, I'll probably have to watch the episode a dozen more times to take it all in and not have tears in my eyes for once about halfway through the episode.

I thought after Võx it couldn't get much better, this episode proved me wrong.

How well the episode is staged, how often you fear for the beloved characters and how great every single one plays their part is just extraordinary.

A great conclusion to the adventures of the TNG crew, I'm dying to hear more of these stories, be it through Star Trek Legacy (post credit scene?), a potential Voyager spin off or whatever else Terry Matalas has in store for us.

Make it so 🖖

Why couldn't we have gotten three seasons of this?! Immeasurably grateful for this season.

Started crying right off the bat for Anton Yelchin's tribute and Walter Koenig voice.

Cried tears of absolute pride and joy watching the D back in serious action against the Cube and Seven using the Titan like the Defiant.

Felt way more emotion when Spacedock fell...I love the fact that they made that station so tough it took the entire fleet to bring it down.

The return of the original Borg Queen, Alice Krieg.

From a lifelong Trekkie, Thank you to all those involved for giving us the first true Star Trek taste in a very long time with this season.

This last episode took me back to my childhood and made remember a time when anything seemed possible. The writing this season was superb. There were some flaws but it made us all realize why TNG was such an amazing show. It is unfortunate that this seasons writers didn't write the previous two seasons. The chemistry amongst the cast was obvious and seem like they enjoyed their last hurrah. If no more Star Trek shows were made, this would be an excellent tribute to the legacy of Gene Roddenberry. The nostalgia packed into this season was simply delightful and it made me miss Majel Barrett as the ever present voice of the Enterprise. Bravo and well done!

Still kind of in awe at managing to cram so much nostalgia, actual story, and tied of numerous plot threads hanging off trek shows and movies in the process..

I mean goodness. After the brutal insults from JJ Abrams and others in the form of so called fan service, calling this refreshing is an absolute understatement.

Every easter egg and chunk of fan service managing to actually serve the story....

What happened to the remains of the enterprise D saucer after star trek generations?

Why could Picard hear the Borg in First contact What happened to the dominion after the way ended?

What happened to what was left of the Borg after voyager returned home?

It has often felt like the franchise wanted to avoid revisiting the implications and consequences of these stories and just kind of moved on. What Terry managed to do was not just give me Trek I have been craving - but even solved shortcomings of the Berman era along the way. He provided what I now consider to be the best trek finale ever (and that's saying something) - but one of my favorite TV show finales in general. And I don't think that's a fluke seeing as I thought 12 Monkey's was masterfully concluded.

If they don't make use of Terry moving forward, then there will be no defense left for Kurtzman. Starfleet academy and section 31 absolutely pale in comparison of significance to Terry's proposed Start Trek Legacy.

I sat through this with a perpetual grin from the opening speech given by the Federation President voiced by Walter Koenig, to the last credits where Q makes his appearance. There's so many moments in this that were obviously written by fans for fans that it makes up for the dreadful first 2 seasons of Picard.

The Borg are on their way to assimilating the federation fleet and earth by assimilating the young and its up to the oldies to save the day on a starship relic Enterprise D, that is not linked to the fleet. Seriously you would have thought that the federation would have learned from the past, but no! The Queens true intentions for Jack are revealed and he is a willing participant in assimilation.

Shades of Star Trek 4, where the crew of the Enterprise save earth, again. So many other Easter eggs in this episode and homages to previous captains and crews, and of course, the renaming of another ship to become the Enterprise. Not the Yorktown this time but the Titan. Wonderful episode that sets up a new series featuring the new crew and characters, as Jack says to Seven, she's setting up a new legacy. I can't wait.

While I applaud the effort to at least watch some legacy Star Trek, the writers (under Terry "Twitter" Matalas) present a season that consists of two seperate Kirk-era movies with the TNG cast. If that is the same mistake that Berman & Braga made when writing the finale of ENTERPRISE is open for discussion.

The characters at least feel right most of the times and I didn't cringe like in seasons 1 and especially season 2.

The season is full of references to old Star Trek. I mean really full.

Many people call them easter eggs - but those you have to look for. Here they are presented center frame accompanied by a musical sting. Like Worf listening to the same opera while training that Picard did in First Contact. There is no connection between those scenes and Worf would listen to Klingon Opera anyway.

There are, at time so many references that they got on my nerves.

Three quarters of this season consists of a mystery plot that is completely irrelevant in the last two episodes. I felt cheated. Vadic just gets spaced and apart from two sentences in the Borg Queen info dump, nobody seems to care anymore about Section 31, how long this conspiracy has gone on for or exactly how this alliance between the Borg and the changelings even worked. What was the benefit for the changelings if the Borg "not just (want) to assimilate, but annihilate"? Why did I have to endure Vadic and her shenanigans for 8 episodes?

But these things get drowned out by explosions and a ridiculous scene where Picard can free his son that he knows for a week because he hugs him. It gets really pathetic when they show flashbacks of these few days when they drank at the holodeck or had an argument. Ah! The good times!

And this is the antithesis of TNG. Yes you can reproduce the bridge or render the old Enterprise-D but when love makes Borg nanoprobes go away, we are indeed not in the Star Trek universe anymore.

The reasons I loved TNG were not because things exploded or it felt like the Kirk movies - I loved them because of the moral and ethical discussions, the rational view from different sides on certain problems and the determination by the best people who kick ass at their jobs.

Terry Matalas knows Star Trek - which makes him a better showrunner than the last two. But he and his writing staff forgot over all those memberberries to write a consistent plot.

Like that stupid secret Section 31 station/horror warehouse full with doomsday weapons and crazy creatures where the only security measure is a defunct AI with personality disorder that conjures up a Sherlock Holmes villain who shoots at you with bullets from a revolver. And the only way to stop this is to whistle a tune that only one person in the universe might know. This is the level of writing that we got.

This is just insane.

Worf and Raffi disappear for an episode with only the flimsiest excuse, only to make a "surprise" appearance later and stab at changelings that somehow suddenly also fight with swords and somehow can be hurt by them. It really boggles the mind!

It is the season that started with Beverly Crusher shooting a phaser pump gun that runs out of ammo after 6 shots!

There are so many half baked ideas in this season, I can't put them all down, like the vulcan Mafioso or Starfleet turning into Russia holding military parades. An old Klingon cloaking device gets stolen off-screen(!) and seamlessly integrated into ships systems without the chief engineer complaining. The compromised fleet is shooting at a starbase for half an hour but why not fly around it and attack Earth from a different angle? Jack looks exactly like Picard did when he was Locutus. Why? Don't know. Maybe they think we are idiots.

I just can't understand these knee-jerk 10/10 ratings. Does nobody think about stuff anymore? Yes they recreated the Enterprise bridge and let the actors play poker AGAIN but what about the story of the season? Or this episode?

Does anyone thinks about all the young people who turned murderers when they were borgified? OBE YEAR LATER and everything is fine? There is even a monologue by Riker to tell the audience not to think about it! Even the changelings were not that bad-after all they didn't kill all their targets!

Pulling the overused Borg out of the hat at the 11th hour was really a lame idea. It's very uncreative because we have seen enough of the Borg. What? Should we be excited because NOW THEY ARE REALLY DANGEROUS? Come on.

Yes this season was way better than the clunky film student season 1 and leagues better that the abysmal stupid low budget-y season 2, but a 10/10? No way.

I just can't believe that all these ratings are by real people. But if they are real, I hope they got paid enough.

Picard has come to its conclusion. There should be no season 4, this is a fitting end; but of course, who knows, as the studios may try to milk more out of it. That would be a tremendous mistake.

It's just a damn shame that Season 1 and Season 2 of Picard are utterly rubbish and could easily be skipped in their entirety. It's almost as if Season 3 was specifically designed to be standalone. Despite a far better and much improved Season 3, Picard remains a flawed show with persisting issues in plot and writing that bled into Season 3 from the prior ones.

But there is no more fitting end than the one that was given as the Last Generation bid farewell and a new one takes up the mantle.

I'm not sure how to feel about ST: Legacy. A prominent character that I dislike (Raffi) will seemingly continue to be a feature of the show, and she has just not grown on me since her introduction in Season 1.

There's also a notable absence of Janeway. The Showrunner has expressed the reasons as to why (budget and studio overheads) but if there ever was a fitting moment for Janeway, season 3 was it. With her name being dropped on more than one occasion, it seemed almost too much of a tease and ultimately led to disappointment when she did not turn up.

Despite this, the episode was a thrilling one and saw expertly well-done fan service deliver what was a very good finale of Picard.

Exciting, suspenseful, fast paced, well written in story and dialogue. Great special effects for a series. I was so worried it was going to be an end and now I am now so excited about the future. The sexy new Enterprise and her charismatic crew 7 of 9 at the helm, Raffi as Number One and Jack Crusher (Picard) and Sydney LaForge on the bridge. This is diversity done right! Strong and interesting characters to bring us into the next season or series. Ed Speleers reminds me if a young Captain Kirk (Shatner or Pine take your pick. Congratulations to the show runners. Looking forward to the next mission. Take us out, engage, execute, punch it , let's just do it. Go....

This whole season of Picard, I believe, has been the most significant event in Science Fiction television for a long while. It was a reunion of epic proportions that stands on its own merits, in my opinion, as the best single season of all of Star Trek. As for the finale of this season, I am without words. I will articulate my thoughts as best as I can, but the fact remains that I am utterly speechless after having seen this truly brilliant work of art. Never have I seen a finale that so masterfully ties everything up and does not leave the viewer with even an ounce of dissatisfaction. It is full of amazing, beautiful action, especially when Data is plunging the Enterprise-D into the heart of the Borg Cube and dodging the defense system, but that is insignificant compared to the true emotional punch this episode delivers. To see such dear friends which have graced our screens for countless episodes, 4 movies, and countless rewatches depart for good is a truly sad thing indeed. It is only fitting that this final outing take place on the ship that started it all, the Enterprise-D. To see them on that bridge once more, the very same bridge where so many legends were made, brought tears to my eyes.

Thank you, Terry Matalas and crew, for making this season possible. If things were more democratic, and if us fans had any say in who the next creative head of Star Trek should be, Matalas would definitely have my vote. Unlike Kurtzman, he is a fan, and he knows what the fans want, and it is this. He honors the legacy of Star Trek, paying respect to the tremendous wealth of material that came before him, while at the same time weaving this material into a tapestry of things both new and old.

This finale is too perfect. It gives the TNG crew the proper sendoff they deserved and did not get in Nemesis. It gives true closure to the legacy of the Next Generation, the generation that brought so much joy into my life and the lives of other fans. I am eternally grateful that this was made, and am so sad to see it go.

The entire season has been amazing imo. I do get the feeling they squeezed a bit to much into this standard length final episode though. There was a lot to wrap up in not a lot of time left at the end so I think a slightly longer episode to alow for better pacing and time to tie up the loose ends. It was still an amazing specticale though and that score! The score was extremely well done.

Like ep9 there was a lot of fan service and like ep9 I spent a lot of the time geeking out with a silly grin on my face. To see Enterprise D go absolutely ham on what is admittedly the second Death Star run star trek edition was silly fun.

Imo fitting send off for the TNG crew and the ship. And they said she wouldn't look good in wide-screen too 🤗

After decent season 1 and god awful season 2, Season3 was excellent........UNTIL the final episode.. Average writing, and direction for what should have been a great finale. But plenty of fan fair for true trekkies.... Questions: 1. Where are the rest of the federation? If galaxy at risk they just sit this one out? 2. Borg locks on targets then just waits...? 3. Dr Krusher is suddenly a weapons expert. 4. Borg queen was over the top. 5> Picard simply brings back Jack by telling him he loves him. Many other silly not thought out details. Again still better that first 2 seasons oand overall enjoying, I just left feeling unsatisfied with finale.