I know this is just a “It’s not that deep” moment and it very clearly tries to emulate the kind of humor they had going with Data in the TNG movies era but like,

This is your friend Data. He has been dead for the past twenty years, and his death shattered the found famiy you had going with the rest of the crew. Your captain spent decades holed up in his vineyard feeling heartbroken and guilty.

Somehow your friend Data has been back from the death, and not only that but he now has within his reach what he dreamed about his whole life - the capacity of feeling emotions. It’s his ultimate dream made reality, something he talked with you for decades…

…. and you can’t be bothered to pay attention to what he’s saying without like, checking your ipad in the middle of his session??

Wondering if Troi and Riker forgot they have a whole daughter. Like, where is Kestra all this time that their parents barely bother to mention her

Anyway this review I read last month about the sixth episode could be applied to the whole season. Grave robbery, indeed, the finale and the decaying Borg cube making it quite literal

You know, I used to hope that some of the new series would bring back a DS9 character for a cameo or another, but watching what it could be like in this third season of Picard… if it were to be anything like this then I hope they never ever ever again bring back any DS9 character

It just occurred to me that Star Trek: Prodigy did the same plot of Star Trek: Picard; an enemy of the Federation used Starfleet technology against Starfleet itself in a way that they would destroy themselves. But Prodigy not only did it before, but did it in a way that made more sense and that was better executed lmao

It actually bothers me SO much in this season of Picard that they’re completely ignoring any of the characters of their previous seasons. S1 was all about saving Soji, that she was Data’s daughter and his legacy, and now that there’s a version of Data back no one bothers to mention he has a daughter. And their whole plot is apparently about the Borg but somehow NO ONE mentions the Agnes Juratti/Borg Queen thing despite being a MAJOR thing just last season? Like damn, as messy as it was at times, I think these characters did deserve better than this

Since I doubt there’s a ten year gap between the two seasons, does the whole Agnes/Borg Queen secret was kept like a big secret or what

 I spoke about this before in my liveblogs, but I do think that, as sad as it is to witness it, the estrangement of the TNG crew does make sense, in-universe.

In the Trek universe, the two most tight-knit crews imo are the TOS and the TNG. These are the ones who stuck longer together - decades - and had very impactful relationships with each other.

And then we see them again in Picard, and they have this air of estrangement from each other, like they really didn’t get together for a long while, and I get why.

It’s because they lost Data.

Data’s essentially immortal nature was talked about several times in TNG. It was a constantly worry of his, that he would outlive all his human friends and stay alone. Everyone expected Data to be the last one standing, and suddenly they had to face the reality that he was the first one of them to go.

Grief can sometimes pull people closer together so they can share the pain together, but the problem here is that, well, this is not in Picard’s nature.

He blamed himself for Data’s death. Almost two decades later and he kept dreaming about Data, wishing their time together wouldn’t end.

He’s haunted by Data’s death, and spent over twenty years feeling this way.

And ultimately, he was haunted by the guilty of Data sacrificing his life for his own.

And in true Picard fashion, what all this guilty, all these feeligns of grief made him do?

It made him pull away from everyone who had essentially become his family for twenty years.

We saw bits of it before. He couldn’t even remember well the first time he saw Will and Deanna’s firstborn, and apparently he only saw him twice since his birth and him being five.

In this season, we learned that he and Beverly spent over twenty years having zero contact with each other, and Worf also remarked recently about Picard’s distance:

When he first saw Geordi’s daughter, it had been so long that he didn’t even recognized her.

And having Picard distance himself from them like this obviously made something shatter involving everyone else. First they lost Data, and Picard, everyone’s surrogate dad, pulls away; this is the family breaking up.

Will and Deanna had their son and his disease to worry about; Beverly was afraid of having her son involved with the trouble that follows Picard everywhere and pulled away from everyone else in her fear.

Geordi had lost his best friend of well over twenty years and resolved to dedicate himself totally to his work and his famly, too afraid to lose this family like he lost the other one.

It all goes back to Data, and how his death utterly shattered the sense of family they gained over the years, how it made Picard feel guilty and distance himself from everyone else, and how the literal loss of a member and the emotional loss of another made this once tight-knit crew become strangers to one another.

I’m still wondering if Star Trek Picard will at any point explain why Geordi had such a huge problem with his daughter wanting to be a pilot, considering that he himself started as Enterprise’s helmsman

You know, I actually do miss the first season of Star Trek: Picard. It was very clumsy at times and stumbled in its way, but it felt like they were trying. I liked the original characters (and I miss them now) and the melancholy of Picard learning once again how to trust and how to make new friends, it was about consequences and about legacy, about his love for Data and his loyalty to his daughter…

Season three really feels so far like a TNG revival that doesn’t /quite/ work to me. Like, take a character like Shaw - he’s presented to us like this huge asshole that refuses to even use Seven’s chosen name - but episode after episode he becomes more and more… rational?

Like, if in an episode of TNG an Admiral showed up in the Enterprise with some hidden agenda that would endanger permantenly the entire crew, Picard would be royaly pissed, and with reason. I don’t blame Shaw for being so, too.