Five Things I Didn’t Like about Star Trek Picard

After reviewing five thing I liked about Star Trek Picard, it’s time to get critical, critical. Yeah, let’s get critical. Let me hear your keyboard talk… ok, joke’s over.

…and the sky’s the limit.

This is a difficult one to write because I can’t just go “the entire premise and the execution and every creative choice.” Clearly I wasn’t in the writers’ room and this isn’t a show I would have written. A lot of people get caught up in this mode of thinking — that’s not the show I wanted! — especially with Star Trek because every single Trekkie has had their entire life to imagine the show they would make. For example, I would write “The Adventures of Captain Jack Pierce and the Quest for Bettering Humanity”; Kurtzman and Chabon wrote “The Adventures of JL Magoo and His One True Love, Data.” To each their own.

It’s not fair to say “this show isn’t what I wanted.” Instead, let’s single-out individual things that ruined the show as-written.

We live in the worst timeline.

1 — The entire premise and the execution and every creative choice.
What was the point of Star Trek Picard? I know what Kurtzman thought the point was: brutal bodyhorror and superkewl death sceenez. I know what the sfx team thought the…