🎥 🎞 Series Review 🎞 🎥
- STAR TREK PICARD [STP] - Amazon Prime/CBS All Access - Okay, most people know that I’m a
huge fan of Star Trek, but that I especially don’t like anything that has to do with the
J. J. Abrams rebooted crap or Kelvin timeline.
In STP, there’s a fantastic opening sequence with CGI lens
flares that bothered me, but seeing Patrick Stewart back on the little
screen was such a relief to my empty SciFi tank. It was great to see the old NCC 1701-D roaming through the cosmos again, even if it was in a dream sequence. Brent Spiner returned for a cameo as Data of sorts, but with an all new, unfamiliar look [probably due to him being older] just took the nostalgia out of seeing the old crew again; hence, there was a reason why the cast of Star Trek - The Original Series [STOS] stopped making movies.
Sir Patrick Stewart is looking frail in his old age and the studio has done very little to hide this fact, even using it as a tool in an action scene where he is barely able to gain the strength to help escape on foot. The pacing is slow and there's no real sense of danger throughout any of the performances where it needs to be. This will be a cause for concern for most fans of the old series, but the addition of new "unknown actors" is sure to bring more apprehension to accepting the new format of the show. I think there was an idea during the initial design of the show, but it just lost its course during the production and the clear message was lost about how important this is to the human race and not just the vanity of one man.
However the show took an extra step to be
too mysterious, too cerebral, too BLADERUNNER-ish, and filled too many
with old ideas; for its own good. The
whole “holographic technology” of on tapping glass or watching
projections in thin air are not awe inspiring anymore. In the series
following STNG, the perfect and clean setting of the series in the past
have been turned into a gritty, don’t comb your hair society that has no
class or structure for superior intellect. The is no explanation of how the future society
had fallen prey to social media again is totally not believable; especially as it
was told in STNG that the need for money, television, fame or social
media ran its course and that man had found a better way to spend its
time...well, apparently not.
Bringing the Romulans to earth was a nice
idea, but reasoning behind it was a little dry in its explanation, and also used as an excuse in J.J. Abrams crap-universe. It doesn't help that Picard's need to take action to save lives against orders seemed a little retrospective of
“ST-Insurrection.” Plus, I’m not sure what it is about today’s young female
actors having the bad habit of constantly adjusting their hair
behind their ears in a gesture of what “looks normal” to most, all while
the camera rolls on; the little lady, who plays Data's "daughter" does the gesture five to seven times in one scene.
Fans can also expect to see new characters being introduced that cross over "gender revealing" shock-jock scenarios which are planned to bring new and old fans to accepting how gender issues are clearly important in the utopian future that Gene Roddenberry designed well over fifty years ago...it's disgusting actually.
The trailers for future episodes looks interesting,
so I think I’ll wait for the entire season to load up before I even consider to pay to
see it again...you should too.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ (3 of 5 Stars)
