Five Things I liked about Star Trek Picard

STP was hardly “nothin’ but blue skies,” but for every cloud there’s a silver lining. In listicle format.

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1 — It moves forward with Star Trek aka It’s not a prequel!
Prequels are never a good idea. At best, you end up explaining things that don’t really need to be explained. At worst, you create something so infamously scarred into pop culture it’s known simply as “The Prequels.” Enterprise was bad— although it had an interesting premise that they never fully realized. Discovery is laughably bad, as we’ve covered in-depth. If they make a Pike series it will be bad because it will just be a dumbed-down TOS reboot. I thought we learned this lesson: stop making prequels, Hollywood. You’re just embarrassing yourself.

So, hey! Star Trek Picard wasn’t a prequel! Hooray!

For one glorious episode, this was the main cast.

2 — The first episode
Really, I did! I liked how they set up old Picard. I liked his Irish Tal Shiar housekeepers. I liked the dog. I liked the foxnews reporter trying to “gotcha” him and instead he launches into a Picard speech. I liked all of that. I even liked Dahj and how normal she was, contrasting with the Shakespearean protagonist. Then they ruined all of…