Editing Star Trek (section)

==''<strike>Retard</strike>Picard''==
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Set to be a continuation of the original timeline, featuring old man Picard with Patrick Stewart reprising the role. Hopes are not high, but at the very least Patrick Stewart's presence should make it watchable if nothing else. 

Update: Season 3 is the only part maybe worth watching.

In the first season, Picard ragequit Starfleet after they sat back and let the Romulans get blown up by the supernova mentioned in the first Abrams movie. This happened because some rogue androids orbitally bombarded Mars and blew up the rescue fleet that was being built there, so the Federation has banned all R&D on synthetic lifeforms and subsequently become [[Imperium of Man|isolationist, racist and xenophobic]] (does this remind you of anything?). Picard has been living in his family chateau ever since, making wine and hanging out with his dog and his Romulan housekeepers. Then a scared girl named Dahj turns up on his doorstep, and it turns out she's a highly advanced biological android constructed from the surviving bits of Data's positronic brain by the guy who wanted to dismantle Data in that episode "The Measure of a Man." Before Picard can really figure out what to do about her, she gets killed by a secret society of Luddite anti-android Romulan assholes, but it turns it that's okay because she has a twin "sister" named Soji who is working with some other Romulans on a derelict Borg cube. Picard decides it's time to saddle up and go be a hero again. He starts putting together a crew that includes Agnes Jurati, a former cyberneticist; Raffi Musiker, his last executive officer, [[What|who is now an alcoholic drug-vaping hermit]] after getting kicked out of Starfleet; Cristobal Rios, a scruffy merc pilot whose ship is staffed entirely by holograms of himself; Elnor, a Romulan warrior monk raised by Romulan warrior nuns; and Seven of Nine, who has become a kickass pilot and is no longer wearing her infamous catsuit. Together, they're out to save Soji, stop the Romulans, and be the good guys in a galaxy that needs heroes, etc etc.

Key storytelling criticisms of the show include the idea that the Romulan Empire should have had enough infrastructure to effect an evacuation without help, and that even if they didn't, the Federation would ''never'' abandon a neighbor who was asking for help- not even a former enemy, and not even when doing so became difficult or inconvenient. Another issue comes up when the show reveals that the Borg have assimilated transgalactic teleporters from a throwaway alien race that appeared in an early episode of ''Voyager'', but only for the Borg queen to use in case the cube she's on is about to be blown up, which begs the question of ''why in the hell aren't they using them to overwhelm the Federation's defenses with drone spam and assimilate everything??'' There's also an (abortive) space battle in the final episode where Riker shows up leading a fleet of ships that are just copy-pastes of the same CG model, which was derided for being cheap and lazy on the part of the showrunners and a failed chance to show Riker in command of the ''Titan'' or ''Enterprise''.

To make matters even more dumb and yet also more complicated at the same time, the showrunners are apparently under some kind of licensing agreement regarding the portrayal of images and concepts from the earlier shows. This means that they can't, for example, casually mention the Dominion War and its impact on the Federation, because if they did, they'd have to pay a licensing fee. This is why the show has been carefully crafted to look like a distant, derpy cousin of Star Trek, while only occasionally featuring cameos of things such as the Enterprise-D, or directly referencing arcs in previous shows: because if they use concepts from prior Star Trek shows, they have to pay for them.

Finally, when all has been said and done by the end of Season 1, Picard himself is reduced to a nearly-useless side character in his own show. Where once he commanded the admiration and respect of friends and foes alike, in this show he is consistently portrayed as a disrespected, disregarded, and often powerless caricature of himself, utterly reliant on the characters around him. {{spoiler|It doesn't help they legit kill him in the last episode and then made him an android after he also agreed to "kill" Data whose memories are basically in a server on a planet of Soong androids. The showrunners specifically came out and said their plan was always to kill Picard to make a point about how privileged he was being a captain in Starfleet. You can't make this shit up. Patrick Stewart himself claims that they hadn't written Picard's death until they were almost finished filming the season, so who knows what the hell was going on.}}

One other thing is certain. Whether you like the series or not, it's clear that this series is not taking place in Gene Roddenberry's noblebright vision of the Federation, and the fact that it is yet another grim, violent entry into the franchise is a point that has left many viewers with a bad aftertaste. If the rumors are true, then this show may have either killed the current grimderp Trek or has left fans so pissed that CBS is, once again, on the verge of financial ruin and possibly looking to sell the franchise since they aren't making the money they thought they would after the massive amounts of money they dumped into both this and Discovery.

Season 2 premiered in March 2022 after the Covid pandemic delayed production. They definitely listened to some of the major criticisms of the first season - Picard's been reinstated in Starfleet, many fan-favorite starship classes returned for the big space battle in the first episode, the gratuitous swearing and needless grimdark got toned down, and more deep cuts from TOS and DS9 lore show up. 

Q shows up and launches the gang into a hilariously over-the-top alternate timeline where the [[Humanity Fuck Yeah]] knob got cranked to 11 and as a result the ''Con''federation of Humanity has been going around [[Imperium of Man|exterminating all xenos scum]] up to and including the Borg, which is admittedly pretty badass. They're all appropriately horrified by this, and steal the Borg queen right as she's about to be executed so they can do a sun-slingshot move to go back to 2024 Los Angeles and <strike>save the whales</strike>fix whatever got messed up. Brent Spiner turns up as yet another Soong ancestor, morally skewed as always, and the punk from Star Trek IV returns, still blasting his boombox all these years later. Picard and co. save the future by ensuring that his ancestor Renee goes on a manned mission to the moon of Europa, where she discovers an alien organism that allows humanity to magically fix Earth's biosphere and make everything noblebright forevermore, apparently because [[Derp|the writers forgot that WWIII will arrive in a few decades]]. Rios decides to stay in the past because he met a sexy doctor and [[What|dies in a barfight]], Dr. Soong is revealed to be working on more Khans, his fake daughter Kore meets Wesley Crusher and becomes a Traveler, and it turns out that the reason Q did all this in the first place was to help Picard confront his deep-seated family issues so he could avoid dying alone, as Q is in the process of dying alone himself. In the season finale, the Borg (now being controlled by Agnes after [[What|she forced the Borg queen to bitch down by getting her to admit her ''own'' loneliness]]) ask to join the Federation so they can keep an eye on some weird transwarp conduit that some unknown entity just opened, which was why the Borg rocked up at the beginning of the season. Least it wrapped up well. 

Would you believe Season 3 manages to turn it around somehow? Essentially a 10-episode attempt to answer the question, 'How can we get all of the original cast members together on a starship in the least contrived way?', Picard, Riker, Troi, LaForge, Worf, Data, and the bearable Crusher all come together to fight the new Borg threat. The series is written and directed by people who truly understand what Star Trek is about, and as such is a welcome sight to fans of the franchise. Each of the original cast gets time to develop their characters further - Worf drinks tea, Beverley finally manages to raise a kid who isn't [[Mary Sue|Wesley]], and Geordi now runs the fleet museum and has raised an impressive engineer himself. The series is practically dedicated to ignoring or fixing the last two seasons of Picard, if not the last quarter-century of TNG-adjacent movie and television media, and somewhat succeeds. {{Spoiler|They even bring back the right bridge, even if the excuse as to why was [[Fail|pulled out of their butts]]…}}

The only sore spot of the series is the latest ''Enterprise'' at the end of the series, [[Derp|which looks like a horrible kitbash of the original Constitution]], and compares very unfavorably to its predecessor in the looks department. Other than that, it provides what was sorely missing these last few decades: a good send-off for the Next Generation ''after'' 'All Good Things'. 

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