STAR TREK PICARD SEASON 3 HAS IT’S MOMENTS

🎥🎞️Series Review🎞️🎥 - STAR TREK PICARD - Paramount. Showrunner Micheal Chabon, Terry Matalas. Stars Sir Patrick Steward, Jonathan Franks, Gates McFadden, Jeri Ryan, Michael Dorn, and Ed Speleers.

30 years after the Star Trek - The Next Generation [STNG] timeline and the frightening first two seasons of Star Trek Picard, the old crew of STNG slowly reassemble to first identify a new threat to the Federation; second, learn that retired Admiral Jean-Luc Picard [Stewart] and Doctor Beverly Crusher [McFadden] are parents to a now grown son [Speleers]; and that a new deadly weapon was stolen from a highly Top-Secret Federation base.

Being a big Star Trek fan myself, I got caught up in the hoopla about a review on YouTube, that Season 3 of ST Picard had fallen into the right hands of a lead director and writing team, and that the new season was a much needed rewrite with episode writers who were once legitimately part of of the production team of Star Trek Deep Space 9 and other more "fan favorable" Star Trek shows and movies, hired on to answer a lot of the fan based questions which were far too ignored. With a new production budget and visual zeal that brings traveling through the final frontier back to the original form, the show has received good buzz and there's word that this will be the last series with the old crew to ever be produced for fans.

THE GOOD - The visual effects and CGI are pleasing to the eye. Seeing the aged and dusted off Admiral Picard in the Captain's seat was a real treat. The battle scenes between ships is epic and some of the special effects in the series are far above the imaginable.

THE BAD - If you've ever been to a twenty-year reunion of your high school class and realized that all of the people you once knew were still the same, but just heavily sprinkled with parental problems and a burned out married life...well, then this show won't seem any different. The story lines drag on and on per each episode, with a touch of "Oh shit, this is so important!..." and "You once gave a shit about me, but now you don't" to "I can't do this anymore, I'm a senior officer!...", to "Okay, for old times sake, I'll step up and be part of the team again." Many of the cliche's are old, seem to work from time to time, but there is also a TON of dialog with mixed feelings about this and that, that the entire fluidity of the film just seems to drag on...and then BAMB, something hit's the ship and the entire crew looks about the room stunned and then someone cries out, "...they've found us!" Most of what's seen within the first four episodes could have been presented in a one hour special of STNG. The rest is just useless fluff that just wants you to scream out, "...C'mon!...get on with it!" - Yeah, folks. The show can be THAT bad from time to time; more often than not.

POST MORTEM - There's a scene were Admiral William Riker [Franks], Worf [Dorn] and third party member transport down to a Top Secret Facility and just calmly walk around some passageways, looking for chamber door. There are no standard hand scanners to help them on their search; something that was always seen in the older shows. For every good thing that ST-Picard brings to the table [including some badly designed star ships] another big FAIL falls directly following the BIG reveal which isn't as fantastic as the writers hoped it was going to be. It's certainly another jumbled mess of nostalgia, but way better than what was presented in the first two seasons. But this is a good send off for a bunch of actors who couldn't find good work after the biggest and most popular of the Star Trek shows went off the air. The actors are certainly getting a raise in their retirements without having to work to hard for it this time.

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫[3.5 of 5 Stars]

STAR TREK PICARD FAILS TO DELIVER A BELIEVABLE EXTENSION OF STNG!

🎥 🎞 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)