Here are all the reasons why ‘Star Trek: Picard’ is just bad

Thank you for writing what needed to be said.

lol nostalgia for episodic plots is amusing

just get ready to be let down over and over again, cause this is the format they’re gonna use going forward

or you can embrace the good, and accept that the episodic format is mostly dead for the moment

Everything about felt like bad fan fiction. Picard himself didn’t feel like Picard, it felt like Patrick Stewart using Picard’s name. And so much wasted potential.
“Oh my God, Seven just woke up 10,000 Borg drones to wipe out the- oh, all the Romulans openned an air lock and they all got sucked out? The Borg that we’ve seen can operate in space?And who built that ship with massive doors for some reason that they have no security overrides on? And not a single Borg, I don’t know, held on to a railing?

Then there was Picard’s doing that absurd fake french accent in their ‘undercover’ operation that lasted all of twelve minutes. Picard is French. Why was his accent so over the top? Why did he need one? Why would anyone still have a non-English accent when French is supposed to be a mostly dead language by the 25th century?

Did bringing back Hugh have any real purpose? Did killing him?

Why set up the former Tal Shiar agents (and only real characters) living with Picard only to leave them behind? With the dog. Even Arc her took his dog with him.

Why bother killing Soji to set up the whole Twin thing when they could have just stuck with her through the series?

Why have the Soji like android be the villain spotted from ten miles away?

Why write a line as bad as Narissa saying “Did you REALLY think we wouldn’t… insert generic bad guy boast.”

How did Rafi manage to be the only poor person in a Galaxy where money wasn’t a thing anymore?

Why did Picard take a TAXI to see Rafi when A) transporters B) Taxis are already on the decline thanks to Lyft and Uber? Just to show a TNG shuttle so we can say “Hey! That’s a TNG shuttle!”?

Why have an elf warrior- sorry, Romulan warrior, with a sword an toted as the best of the best warriors in the galaxy, basically do nothing but stare wide eyed and get left behind?

Bad story, poorly handled characters, poorly handled established universe and the hackiest writing on tv in a long long time.

Do better, Season Two.

Thanks for a truthful review. This violent, badly-written showneeds to go away forever.

I agree with you. Was so excited for this, and was so disappointing. But what I feel makes it worse was Michelle Hurd’s acting. She is over the top and unbelievable. Needs to go back to acting classes and play Raffi a better way.

Picard is awful. It is not Star Trek. Great article, thank you.

Episode 3 was some of the worst editting in a professionally done series I’ve ever seen. Around the 28 minute mark, the fight scene was…comical. The editting made no sense. Spec ops entering 3-4 guys through same door, one after another getting laid out. Major part of the fight that stood out was the woman romulan (who looks like an average white person with elf ears rather than a romulan), gets rifle butt in the face by the next guy coming through the door. Cut. His rifle disappears and he pulls out a knife after knocking her to the floor. She goes from on the floor in one cut to standing upright in the next cut and lays him out with no explanation of how she got up. Terrible editting, too much emphasis on action and exposition in Star Trek and just overall a horrible series. Star Trek Picard is the death of the franchise for me.

I could not get past the first 20 minutes of Discovery, it was that bad. Truly awful. I endured through all the episodes of Picard. I will not be watching season 2. Horrible, horrible show. Meaningless murders every 20 seconds it seemed. Why bring back Ichep and Hugh, only to kill them off? And I absolutely hated the captain, rafi, and that blonde scientist chick. Shame on everyone who was a part of writing this ilk.

I agree with you. Star Trek Picard is rather disappointing. I was in the middle of reading this but then a bunch of ads just filled up my screen. Not even that much to read here anyway. A picture is worth a thousand words. Making the picture bigger doesn’t make it worth more words. The quality of this article matches the quality of the show it is criticizing.

Star Trek Picard is so unfathomably awful because of the writers and whoever had creative control.

Everything that made Star Trek special was thrown away for whatever it is the writer’s think they’re creating here. It isn’t Star Trek. It isn’t a novelization of Star Trek. It isn’t good storytelling. It is junk TV.

Who allowed this and Discovery to be done to the Star Trek franchise? Was it a room full of fraternity-bro assh**les in suits with big egos and undeserving confidence? Feels like it.

I have a sneaking feeling the writers of the show did not watch Voyager before starting on this project. If they had, they would not have found a need to rehash in 4 measly episodes was handled brilliantly in 4 seasons, namely the the whole Borg-to-human storyline. And why revisit Picard’s PTSD? Didn’t we resolve that with I, Borg and First Contact? Furthermore, cortical regulators are located above the right eyebrow, not behind the left eyeball. The Borg transwarp conduits were destroyed by Captain Janeway in Endgame, and it certainly does not take 15 minutes to travel 25 light-years in one. Finally, why are all the former drones maimed and handicapped? Wasn’t the Doctor in Voyager able to give Seven an ocular implant? Is that the best they can do with all their 24th-century medical technology? Most egregious of all: they completely ruined Seven. I understand that 20 years have passed since Voyager, but this Seven is a completely different character. A scotch-drinking, vengeful bountyhunter? Really?

Now, on to another problem: the characters. I like that they didn’t simply recycle the old crew, but the character exposition was just terrible. We get a flash-back, and then meet a new character. Another flash-back, and a new character. There was no emotional connection. It also didn’t help that everyone was getting killed off. Dajh had a whole 20 minutes of screentime. Dead. That villain lady. Dead. Maddox. Dead. Hugh. Dead. We meet Dajh’s sister on the planet, the next scene she becomes a murderess, and then is deactivated. And the worst of all: poor Icheb. They take a wonderful character of the older series developed over many episodes only to give him an undignified and pointless death. And for what? To justify Seven vaporizing that woman? It’s lazy writing and disrespectful to the fans.

Next, the tone of the show. As others have said, Star Trek is about optimism. I don’t mind a darker show, but this is just depressing. Ripping out eyeballs, gore, smoking, and pointless cussing is not Star Trek. It’s juvenile.

Lastly, I never sympathized with the android girls. Lal had more depth in one episode than they achieved in 10. They just naively wander about asking “Am I real”, pulling fits, and seem to know things that they cannot possibly know (“Data loved you”).

You hit on most of the points that put this show in the trash bin, but there was one more which irked me to no end. Star Trek takes place in a post-scarcity future where money has ceased being useful to those in the Federation. This is mentioned over and over again in TNG. It was what Gene Rodenberry originally envisioned for Star Trek.

But suddenly in Picard everything just looks like 21st century capitalism again??? We have haves and have-nots in a world where machines can literally rearrange matter into any meal you can think of??? That shit is simply unbelievable and a huge step backwards.

Sad, Patrick is such a brilliant actor and the plot could have been so much better. Sorry to oofend but Agnes makes me ill, shocker!

It just suuuuuuuuucks so much and then OH! theres’s season 2 and oh it suuuuuuucks too

So far Season 2 is actually worse for many reasons, but not least of which is destroying the legacy of one of Trek’s most interesting characters, Q. But I propose a solution: The Dallas solution. It’s lame, it’s the lamest narrative solution next to Deus Ex Machina, but for a lame show it could work. It refers to the way the the writers of the 9th season of the show Dallas brought back a character by having someone wake up from a dream, thereby resetting the show. Picard has a brain disorder, that has been established for a long time, This could all be going on inside his mind, he could come to in a hospital or something, thereby nullifying the entire bucket of dreck that is Picard.

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They took everyyhing Star Trek out of Star Trek. I have seen more sci-fi in a big bang episode. Did they run out of budget so much they had to move the shoot to LA, from Outer Space? Why not have the episode be in the studio back lot? Why didn’t Q meet up with Picard at the craft table and fight him over a shrimp. I mean just have the show shot in a empty cubicle and it would be more exciting. Bizarre, writing is worse then bad. You now become a borg when some eye liner is put on your face? Trade a borg laser for a machine gun scope Yikes, man, the props dept was like our budget is…. What 100$? Sadness.

I see what the writers tried to do I just don’t care. We didn’t ask for 21st century rhetoric or even revisiting Kirk era rehash, what did they really discover by the episodes end? Killer whales have returned, they can now bridge realities. Oh and Q dies….. Good riddance should have taken the whole damn franchise with him!

Picard was so bad. I paid for two episodes from amazon. It cost me $4. I had to turn the second one off after laughing at the abysmal script. I want my $4 back. I felt like the people who wrote this didn’t even like or watch Star Trek. Most of the actors were terrible at acting, with the exception of Patrick Stewart who apparently was told to walk around looking vaguely sick to his stomach in every scene. And the whole propagandistic “let’s sell everyone on the beauty of artificial humans” was totally unappealing.

it’s a choppy awful mess that focused so briefly on anything in it that I got mental whiplash from the constant abrupt changes.

the whole thing reminds me of a random story generator fleshed out by bad writers. Start with a set of lists: characters, trek themes (even bad ones that have perpetuated like Brent Spiner playing all Soongs) , roll up a scene create a random problem and play it out. Themes are created: unresolved goals but they’re often unrelated to each other. What you end up with is fast paced scenes full of nostalgia with very little depth and logic. It’s just a fireworks show that blinds the viewer to the fact it doesn’t make sense, the pace, shallow depth and often black and white morality makes it cartoonish.

The CGI was like a cartoon, star trek ships have never seemed big or massive since The Motion Picture and perhaps the first few films and I wasn’t keen on the LGBT warp trail in the credits.