The episode opens with Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) on the ground, bleeding from the mouth. 34 minutes earlier Picard and Tallinn (Orla Brady) are waiting in the security line for the gala looking absolutely gorgeous. He clearly keeps seeing Laris…
It’s a Jonathan Frakes-directed episode! Only 41 minutes though, boo. The pre-credits scene bounces back and forth between an astronaut in distress, and Picard (Patrick Stewart) getting to know not-Laris (Orla Brady), AKA The Supervisor AKA Tallinn. While the astronaut…
The episode opens with a long recap because this is already a complex story! Seven (Jeri Ryan) and Raffi (Michelle Hurd) arrive at the clinic far too late and an assistant tells them they had better find Rios (Santiago Cabrera)…
The last episode of Star Trek: Picard ended with our favorite Romulan getting shot before the gang could travel back to 2024. Seven (Jeri Ryan) really has the most annoying husband ever! While she tries to talk their way out…
Q (John deLancie) is here, and that can’t be good. And judging by the state of the planet in the opening shot, it isn’t: A hexagonal grid activates over Earth to sweep what pollution it can from the atmosphere. Q…
To be honest, I’m not sure if Picard Season 1 ever completely found its footing. It had a lot of important emotional moments, but something about the pacing, or maybe something else, just seemed a little off to me. I…
“This is going to be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time. You have to learn to live with it.” ~Robert Picard to brother Jean-Luc Picard, “Family” Spoiler alert: This post contains spoilers for the first four episodes…
“The Perfect Mate” (Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, Episode 21), is infamous for two things: Famke Janssen guest stars as a powerful psychic mutant almost a decade before doing it in that other franchise, but also, less positively,…