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I saw it as many times as I saw WOK. And it lead into my favourite Trek film of all time, The Voyage Home.
They are a truly great trilogy of films, I often struggle with the score to The Voyage Home though I understand they are going for a more literally down to earth light hearted tone.
:)) Shatner is a legend.
:-bd
It had no surprises, but sometimes you just want it to end well.
Agreed. I was starting to feel ill… I thought maybe some of my favourites would…. Ya know…. Go the same way as a certain other character….
I felt it was a real shame that the writers weren’t given a twelve episode arc.
My feeling was:
Instead it felt rather rushed that Picard and crew find the Borg, penetrate the ship, save Jack, and then the Enterprise quickly saves the entire landing crew, destroy the Borg, save humanity, etc., etc… This season was so large in scope the producers should have greenlit a twelve parter, not ten, to allow the finale to play out properly
But, I was still very very very pleased with this finale and was blown away by this season, period!
I hear you. My soul was still full of joy. I had a smile on my face as everything was wrapping itself up…
Oh absolutely. It captures that classic TOS feel in spades while feeling new and fresh.
Curious how you all would rank them , I am a casual fan as I haven’t watched these films in their entirety for years .
1) First Contact
2) Nemesis (holds up well I thought , at least after watching Insurrection!)
3) Insurrection (barely , I didn’t enjoy this or Generations very much)
4) Generations
1. First Contact - 4.5/5
2. Season 3 - 3.5/5
3. Generations - 3/5
4. Insurrection - 2/5
5. Nemesis 1/5
I’m looking forward to rewatching these as well ! Generations was okay , maybe I will appreciate it more after getting refreshed with those first films. Insurrection was the most TV-like of the 4. It could have been a two parter in a later TNG season.
Mine is very different!
1. First Contact - 5/5
2. Season 3 - 4.5/5
3. Insurrection - 4/5
4. Nemesis 3/5*
5. Generations - 1.5/5
*This is after watching Picard's finale- a full point was added now that it's not the final outing.
Speaking for myself (if no one else), that's what I wanted. I like TNG, don't get me wrong, and I've got fond memories of it in first-run on my local Fox station growing up and revisiting it in re-runs/Netflix/Paramount+ in the decades since. But the whole point of Picard was to show what came next. And to expand the Trek universe a bit by showing us what life was like beyond the gunboat diplomacy of Starfleet. THAT and the new cast of characters was what Picard seemed to be about.
Don't get me wrong, the first two seasons weren't perfect. Both had pacing issues with season one taking half the season to get going and the second starting off strongly and having to go into wheel-spinning mode (see that episode centered around the FBI agent capturing and letting Picard go 'just cause'). For its faults, it was at least doing something different. That and, in the case of season two, I'm a sucker for a time travel story.
Whereas this third and final season played it safe narratively. Every plot twist is foreseeable, you better be up on Trek from nearly 30 years ago to know WTF is going on, and returns for the sake of returns (I'm looking at you, Professor Moriarty). There’s an IGN video which makes a point about the familiarity of the nebula birth sequence, which gets compared to Farpoint's finale inside the episode itself, as a good thing. It left me cold and about ready to eyeroll. I'd call it cynical, but apparently it's giving the majority of the fans what they wanted from Picard.
Years ago talking about Doctor Who, someone told me that nostalgia and references don't equal a good story. I've never felt that be quite so true as my experience with this season. True, there's an episode left and there's a chance that it could wow me. For now, I'm rather missing the show called Picard that I originally came to and that I actually liked.
100% right on.