Star Trek: Picard Season 3: The Finale

[zarius]

Decided to put together a discussion/highlights thread for the final two episodes of the most 'engaging' rollercoaster that is the third and final season of the troubled Trek spin-off 'Picard'

Reunited with his old crew aboard the U.S.S Titan, Picard discovers he has a son with Beverly, Jack, who is haunted by visions of a red door and posseses the ability to read minds and sycornise with other people, allowing them to share his abilities. As the Next Generation comes together, they discover that the remnants of the Dominion, a rogue Changeling faction, are working in tandem with another antagonist to infiltrate and bring about the downfall of the entire federation on their 'FrontierDay' ceremony. With the very youth of Starfleet under threat from these enemies, can Picard, Riker, Troy, Beverly, Geordie and Data defend the federation one final time as a family?

Basically a ten hour fifth entry in the Next Generation movie franchise, Picard's third season has seen many highs and seldom lows. It is a series that has surprised and enthralled me, none of the usual b.s messaging, and indeed the message it goes with speaks to a great deal of generations in today's world and how we deal with those above or under our age. I already saw one 'woke' Trekkie dedicate a video to it, but they also find the show too enjoyable to detract anything from it.

Have any of you watched it? If you're willing to give it a go, I recommend it, here is Dave Cullen's non-spoiler overview of the series 



And now, on to the spoiler highlights of the penultimate episode, Part 9: "Vox"

SPOILER: Click to show

The reveal of the red door:



Jack Crusher meets the Borg Queen (voiced by Alice Krige)



The U.S.S Enterprise F leaves Spacedock, commanded by Admiral Shelby




The crew board the restored Enterprise-D

[iank]

Have no access. Will probably buy the DVD when it eventually comes out since it's got mostly positive reviews (unlike every other bit of NuTrek).

[rushy]

Season 1 has a few bright spots (namely Data's death, the reunion of Picard and Hugh, Captain Rios and his ship), but is mostly a convoluted clusterf*ck.

Season 2 has an *amazing* setup and a terrific performance by John de Lancie, but drops the ball way harder. Mostly unforgivable trash.

Season 3 is very heavy on the memberberries, but it's also the best TNG film we never got. And obviously way better than the first two seasons and the rest of NuTrek too if I'm honest. I hope Terry Matalas' star continues to rise. He's shaping up to be the Filoni of Star Trek.

[zarius]

Finale dropped today...overall it was fine.

Power of Love resolution as I expected for Picard and Jack. Very conventional wrap-up with Jeaun-Luc plugging himself into the collective to retrieve Jack, respecting his choice to remain and willing to stay with him which of course snaps him out of his funk.

I sort of wish Jack had wilfully submitted to the Queen to act as a trojan virus, but maybe it's better that he did just sort of surrender, otherwise it'd have been a repeat of Endgame

Speaking of Endgame, the Queen went on a spiel about how she'd been run down and blaming Picard for it all, but I'm like "Picard's name isn't Admiral Janeway", and...alas, no Kate Mulgrew cameo. It should have been her giving Seven the promotion.

We also find out Shaw was always going to promote Seven before the Titan left spacedock. So retroactively, he didn't have a journey of accepting her.

Worf was way, way too jokey. I felt like I was watching Red Dwarf.

Riker didn't do anything on that cube.

Matales names a system after himself, the narcissist. And we get an allusion to "Star Trek: Legacy"

I was so hoping Seven would say "that way" like Kirk, but that would be someone else's legacy. I like how we'll never know what she said to mark her own unwritten chapter.

Of course it ends with the poker game.

The trial never ends....see you...out there Jack.

I suppose from what he says here, Q here is from a different point in time and was aware of his death in the future

episode rating: 7 out of 9...I mean, 7 out of 10. A bit too heartwarming and you never felt Earth was in any danger.

Season rating: 8 out of 10. Lived up to it's hype for the most part, but the threat levels diminished towards the end and it became all too comforting