Considering the idea that Patrick Stewart has say in the ideas of Picard and that so many current aspects are depicted in the show, I'll go out and say the romance relationship makes sense given the fact that Patrick Stewart is 81 and his wife is 43.

How can a robot picard be given picards house and job and all his life long possessions without anyone raising an eye brow especially when galactic treaty banned syths

Wine is sunlight held together by water. They are making wine because they love the craft. There was a great episode where Picards family criticizes him for losing his palate for wine due to replicators.

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19:10 did auto-destruct require two or three active senior officers? Picard alone had codes and authority to destroy a ship he's not the captain of?

Q wasn't TOO bad in TNG. Most of his episodes did NOT, I think, count as "Deus Ex Machina", because he WAS the plot. He didn't often swing by to resolve conflicts; he appeared to create a conflict for some particular purpose (possibly just his amusement). I didn't always enjoy the change in tone and aesthetics that accompanied him, even if he was played well, but then I did like some of them, exploring ideas in different ways. And I don't particularly mind if the setup to explore those ideas was "lazy" because Q just did it; it gave more time to focus on the actual plot and was at least internally consistent because Q COULD do it--it wasn't like some shows where characters develop powers or methods of doing things that call into question previous stories (Why didn't they do that before?) and also forever being asked in future stories (Why aren't they doing that thing we know they can do?). After all, TNG mostly focused on exploring ideas, with the plots oftentimes being just ways to stimulate debate and discussion, so why not take a shortcut sometimes?

He has a vineyard because he enjoys growing grapes. The workers are there because they enjoy picking grapes, and they would rather have wine that they literally had a hand in than in something that was replicated. There is probably some sort of barter going on where Jean-Luc gives a case of wine to each worker. In a post-scarcity world, the rare things are the things that are bespoke by a person.

5:00 The vineyard thing was explained in Tng… when he went home after the borg thing. Basically, he appreciates the work and attachment to the land

In the mean time Gene Roddenberry is turning in his grave....

Thanks for this video, I just watched it for the first time right now. Well at this point I am like seven episodes into Picard season 2, and somehow it has managed to get worse and worse and worse with every passing episode. If they were making star trek like they did in the old days then this entire season would have and should have been condensed into one single bad episode that we have to sit through for one hour and then move onto the next week to a completely different and hopefully better show. But no, it just keeps on going. I can’t wait for this season to be over. I am genuinely impressed by how much I hate it.

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Love the cursor apearing at 5:39, it adds so much charm. 🙂

It took real effort for Voyager to keep the Borg from taking over the amount of the ship that was using Borg tech. Whoever wrote this show didn't realize that.

About the only positive things I can say about _Picard_ is that it had the first ever appearance of the Sovereign Class in a tv series (previously only seen in the movies), a long list of new ship names for the previously mentioned Sovereigns (previously only the Enterprise from the movies was known), and the addition of several Star Trek Online ships into the canon. Also, fuck what they did to Hugh and Icheb.

I just watched the trailer for the second episode, and I think I know what they're doing here, TLP. They're basically using Q as a means of retconning the first season. There is a seventh season TNG episode called Tapestry which I would recommend you watch, before episode 2 of this, if you have time. Basically I think they're going to try and claim that the grimdark mess of the first season was Q showing them a dark nasty alternate future, and now they're sending Picard and friends back to the twenty first century in order to change things so that the TNG timeline gets back on track. Depending on how much wokeness is involved, I may actually be interested in watching that.

This show is hoisted by its own Picard… Also, Picard as an Android is almost literally exactly the same as fleshy Picard. He is told he was given a new body, however no upgrades, no expanded life, he will die within the timeframe he would die without the body approx 20+ years if I remember correctly. It’s infinitely aggravating to kill off Picard then bringing him back within 5 minutes….it encapsulates everything wrong with pootrek

I thought nothing could be worse than Discovery but here comes Picard season 2. I wish they could inject far left politics into it just a bit more.

I really like the work you’re doing on this channel. I found your channel the other night after some of my friends and I saw what I consider one the worst movie at least I’ve ever seen, that horrible new Jurassic World movie. Nothing made any sense, many times it seemed like it was made purposely bad and sloppy, and I at one point was half-convinced that it was some kind of weird parody movie or it was delving into some kind of a high level form of self-referential satire that I’ve heard that new Matrix movie tried and failed to do. I quickly realized that it was just horrible and any kind of higher level thinking was giving them way too much credit. Anyways, I found your video on that first, and you perfectly described everything I was thinking the whole time I was watching it just in a more succinct way. I like Jurassic Park when I was a kid and watched all the sequels but its been bad for a long time and was never a big deal to me personally. Then I found your Star Trek stuff. Star Trek is very important to me and starting with Discovery and going through this horrible show, I’ve never felt so disenfranchised and intellectually insulted as trying to watch this crap. You’ve done a perfect job of describing exactly what the problem is without getting down into generic nerdy continuity errors as the main complaint or some of overtly lazy clickbate “they’ve ruined my whole childhood” takes you see on some review channels. I really like the style you approach this with and how you set it up so succinctly what the real core problem of the show is and how it is so anti-Star Trek in it’s delivery. I think you are right & it is more than just bad writing (even though that’s in there for sure.) I didn’t catch it exactly or at least recognize it when I was watching it as it came out, but there’s 100% an underlying nihilism and cynicism built into this show that I can’t really believe anyone when they say they enjoy it. It’s easier for me to believe that everyone that’s ever told me online or in person me that Picard is a good Star Trek show or even just TV show in general is lying to me for some unknown reason and are all apart of some part of a Grand Inside joke on me. That is easier and more pleasant for me to believe than that someone really likes this trash. And I know that sounds crazy and can’t be true but my brain just can’t process it. It really feels like this is objectively horrible and I don’t see anybody can honestly feel any other way. I’m sorry for the long post, I just wanted to tell you I’ve enjoyed your channel so much over the past few days and keep up the good work.

I came to the conclusion that I will live longer without romantic angst when I was in my 40s. But I do know people who keep bumbling around the edges of romance well into their 80s. And I HEAR that retirement communities are rife with sexually transmitted diseases. So there's that to think about in the dead of night.

I love that season 2 demonstrates how completely incompetent the writers are where they did the exact thing I knew they would and basically retconned the idea that Picard is an android. Most the time they avoided addressing it at all costs. Now that could have also been the studio telling them, "Hey people are really pissed off with that ending, let's not make that mistake worse." Either way I had a feeling at the end of season 1 that it would be an embarrassment to keep that story element and they would like scrap it. Time travel also allows them to avoid the embarrassing controversies of Star Fleet while also allowing them to retcon the first season. I don't have any hope for season 3. I won't be fooled by these shit writers.

Really looking forward to the second part of your Picard review, I quite enjoyed the philosophy deep dive of part one.

There is this documentary called The Captains, Shatner did, that actually goes pretty in-depth interviewing the other captain actors, and Stewart was happy, living alone in his manor home, and finally coming to terms with his legacy.. I just wonder what really happened in between, that made him decide to marry someone half his age, and return to burn that legacy down

06:10 their excuse for the Victorian Era clothes is because that was in his Utopia in Star Trek Generations. They're stealing from something they don't understand. The writers Google "Star Trek Picard Child Clothes" and saw the cliche vision of his imaginary offspring.

That cursor on the screen is a character of it's own now. I even added my own next to it, so they can be buddies. Ahh such an interactive video, well done.

i must give the show the little credit it deserves in the few places where it's due - how does synthetic picard work, why he was replicated to be 80, that he still ages (and why) and is still going to die was explained at the end of season 1 when the procedure was discussed and decided.

I watched Star Trek since the beginning. Watched it with my kids and grandkids. I am not watching anymore. TOO WOKE! I will continue to watch reruns.

It did get worse, a lot worse. I just finished watching episode 4, I guess the writers made it so TNG never happened. Everyone hates Picard for no reason. F this shit show, remember when Star trek made great allegories and had poignant topics that they don’t hit you over the head with. All they do is go this thing bad, they bad, no shit. I know the writers hate the fans but geezusss!

I don't really have a problem with Picard owning the Vinyard and dressing like an old school English child, because that fits pretty well with the description of his childhood that we get in TNG. Very prim and proper, very anti-replicator. Of course, The Picard Show is awful, but that's one of the few bits they actually got right.

Small correction. This is the second of three seasons but they filmed 2and 3 at the same time or shot them consecutively. With 2 having priority for effects ect. Oh and federation membership doesn't work like this , it takes a at least 7 years and has a number of steps and you need to be accepted the a majority of the members like the European union or the United states. There is no rule that triggers membership. Especially as they are technically at war with the borg its so stupid

Irony is that season 3 completely forgets everything that came before as well.

13:25 The writers forget that in the 24th century they have advanced medicine, implants, etc that allow humans to live much longer. The Romulans and Vulcans live much much longer than Humans. The "I'm 80 and going to die in 15 years" is stupid.

Love your yes minister and the thick of it clips. This...'trek' is beyond hot garbage Shaka. When the walls fell

Thank you for this long awaited Picard season 2, episode 1 review!!!

OK, a second comment on the same vid. Your sense of humor is delightful! Especially liked the Chinese tech in the White House bit.

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Watching the second part of this review, especially concerning Patrick Stewart's involvement in creating this lousy show, I'm reminded of the epic line from Robert Altman's M*A*S*H - "Painless is a dentist and a dentist shouldn't read". Likewise, actors should never be allowed into the writing room. They're not suited to choosing direction but rather taking it. As Jhonn Balance from Coil put it, "constant shallowness leads to evil". And I got your Zaphod reference btw. Excellent video.

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That review of the Book of Booby Feet was quite enjoyable to read. Thank you.

, but yes, i agree. i'm a big fac of TNG and DS9, and i was pleasantly surprised about the first... even first few episodes of season 2. besides the pitfalls of modern writing, it really did feel somewhat like startrek, or at least, significantly more like st than any oher of the new ones.

Q was an interesting idea and character, he just overstayed his usefulness as a character. There really only needed to be three episodes with Q, the Pilot, the first introduction of the Borg and the Final episode.

It wasn't terrible! Expectations EXCEEDED! ... only because I expected a shitshow.

I always hoped you'd actually review Picard fully because I think you'd do the best job.

Hahahaha. I was literally opining about how some random anomaly would call out for the doctor, but not likely Picard, and then you said it.

12:08 trin tragula is impressed; zaphod welcome Picard to the club; *meanwhile thousands of miles away* littlekuriboh is happy his y got as the movies is being referenced. I ‘member, I’m ember ^-^

"the Borg have fucking WIFI" Hahah! we see Picard's old dear dragged away in the beginning so the Borg queen on the bridge is his mum, and yes this had a bit of Trekyness floating around which is encouraging at least, it's hard to believe it will be worse than season one but this going back in time to save us all is a fucking tightrope for the writers to walk and I doubt they will pull it off...cheers.

Oh, the first episode of PIcard season 2, when for a short moment, it looked as if they actually could tell some form of acceptable story. And then it got worse and worse and worse and WORSE. I managed only the first few minutes of the show's third episode, then I gave up, episode 2 had already shown what was in store for the viewers.

One of the interesting things about the Borg is that the same ones that are attempting to victimize YOU are victims THEMSELVES. Investigating that is a goldmine of story possibilities.

I was surprised how bad Patrick Stewart's acting is in this show compared to the next generation show and films.

12:15... Nice Hitchhiker's reference.

If I were allowed to remove one thing from this season but had to leave everything else intact, it'd be that awful kid-Picard backstory, complete with 19th century costumes on the kid.

Yes minister is pure genius.. yes i am quite sick of anomalies. I swear doctor who did this ( anomaly in every language a message for the doctor) and bty irish maid orla brady guest starred in that episode ( time of the doctor , matt Smith's final episode) Christmas special.

It would appear that land ownership is allowed in cases of generational ownership. The picard family has owned the land for a while. The workers there are there strictly for the satisfaction of the work and creation of the wine. Im assuming the product is "sold" without currency across the federation.

Hold da fk up! They turned 7 into a damn leezbeun?! What in the entire fk?! Great job breaking this down. But I'm a GenXr who grew up watching Star Trek on actual TV. We (fellahs) were crushing on 7 (and the empath from Next Gen) . My Dad was crushing on 7 and he's an OG Trekkie he was crushing on Uhuru (RIP) when he was young and he passed on the legacy and I crushed on Uhuru (she was classy natural dope, even in the movies ). And here we are in the BETA quadrant where 7 is damn leezbeun! Lawd.

04:40 there's an in-universe explanation that hand-made kitch is prized BECAUSE everyone has access to replicated everything. It's still basically a class structure where some people have disposable wealth to barter for handmade goods. Benjamin Sysco's father ran a restaurant on earth where he served freshly grown vegetables and farm-raised livestock cooked by hand to those that paid in gold pressed Latium. So yes, a bottle of Chatu Picard wine made from naturally grown grapes and naturally fermented over time will still have value.

This is good, but still anticipating the next in your big Picard opus, sir.

"Help us Picard!" Who is he? The Doctor?

Great video as always my good man. What intrigues me most is why Q is going for the Tom Jones look?

Let’s consider the captain and his Romulan made. First of all, we know this is not the real captain. This is the Robo captain, so I can only assume that if she is intimate with Robo captain it a whole new meaning poor love doll? I wonder if she would have to recharge him or just pop in some Duracell or energizer batteries. But I digress. She can’t have a real relationship with him because he’s a machine now. Although I’m sure he’s anatomically correct much like they do was it still seems weird. Maybe she disappears because she decides that relationship with a toaster is not the way to go. I’m just throwing it out there to consider.

Wow I hadn't thought of Giles doing the "previously" in a long time. :D

Reverse engineering tech, and recreating it, does not make it susceptible to someone who created it, unless you literally lift and shift it, including any backdoor. Starfleet has grown incredibly stupid since TNG.

Love the Yu-Gi-Oh abridged references

No, no, it is "save the cheerleader, save the world"; not "save the 21st century, save the 24th century". Get it right Picard!

It took me two watches to remember the total perspective vortex. I think my son has my copy of the hitchhikers omnibus.

In regards to your comment about Borg tech being installed, some people might argue that Voyager had Borg tech installed as well but the difference is the borg were the ones who installed it after being stranded on Voyager after their cube was destroyed. The fact that Starfleet thought it was a good idea to use Borg tech is completely idiotic for the reasons you stated.

Star Trek has always included private property, private industry, and private trade. There's just no currency. (which is itself a retcon, one the franchise itself has lamented and contradicted numerous times) The Sisko family restaurant was very heavily featured in Deep Space Nine. It's one of the ways it never leaned so far in one political direction as many people think.

Much science fiction has a United Earth as a premise, or what in the real world we would call globalism. Modern writers hewing to this perspective would also consider subsidiarity as not only wrong but evil.

Lettuce b real. Picard is awful. I know season 3 has already been completed, but I'm terrified that it could potentially get worse.

Ummm ok so is the Critique of Picard Pt 2-4 still coming? Cancelled or am I going blind and can't find it ?

The answer to the vineyard is pretty simple. Those are wine snobs that are of the opinon that grown is always better than replicated and therefore want to grow there own wine.

Does anybody know what Raffi's job was? I was wondering WHY she existed at all until the last episode... Seven's woke love interest. No wonder why it was banned by CRTC in Canada.. It wasn't woke enough.

I believe real wine of food is a luxury item. And is preferred to fake stuff . I believe the vineyard is a family estate. Inherited property rights still exist. They appear to have some form of social credit system, but the more you contribute to society the more you receive, they dont have money but credits. ( based on dialogue)

Almost feels wrong to mention shows like Battlestar Galactica and The Expanse in the same vein as this show... even if it's just to reference a better show...

the tech installed, authorized by a figure with a single digit IQ

Crew: "Admiral, the ship will self-destruct in 10 seconds!" Picard: "Yepp, let's make it happen!"

q episodes are very hit or miss. for the two actually very good ones, i recommend Tapestry, and Q Who.

wrt elder relationships: As an old fart in his mid 60's... I, personally, do not want to break in a new model wife. As you mentioned, I want to avoid all of that angst involved a new relationship, Plus sorting out the details of which way the toiled paper unrolls - again - among many other details. It's simply too much work. That said, I do know a few elderly people who do start new relationships with people who are more or less their own age. More power to 'em.

I'm ready for a fresh crop of creatives and writers who didn't take they're collage professors rants seriously . ''The message'' has been cliché tripe since 2016 I can only hope the so called ''creatives'' involved in these projects look back on these products in 10 years and die from cringe

IDK. Is there anything worse than the microbial bacteria growing on the week old faeces that is Star Trek Picard?

I think Picard is actually 95 in the show (or one year in android years), Nonetheless, he's programmed to die soon, and this makes the romance more problematic. Nice review BTW. Your best so far.

I know you are working your ass off on this channel right now, especially with Rings of Power, but I hope you will finish this someday. Please 🙏. ...someday...

Well, Picard always had that house. It belongs to his family. People still own things it seems, eventhough money doesn't exist. Don't ask me what the logic of that is.

I know I’m a year late on this so I hope you see it. First and foremost, I love your videos. But two corrections: 1) the aging of Picard’s new body was addressed very directly in the S1 finale (albeit poorly), including the specific fact that he’d probably die within ten to fifteen (or twenty?) years. 2) The TNG episode “Family” also addressed the existence of vineyards specifically in a society with replicators. There are still traditionalists on Earth who’d prefer what Picard called “the genuine article.” He himself suggested synthetic food heightens his appreciation of the real thing. This principle and others can likely be applied to other products.

I just realised something important, which I think a lot of people don't understand about Star Trek's hypothetical economics. The way I think it really works is:- Step 1. Build an insane number of Dyson Spheres and solar collectors of various kinds, around all of the stars which warp drive means that you are able to visit. Inventing other fun things like tabletop cold fusion and antimatter annihilation will also really help, although no matter how sexy and exotic your first phase might get, your second is inevitably still going to involve a steam turbine with a rotor and stator. Infinite energy may not actually exist, but believe me; if you are able to build large enough antimatter infrastucture, (and again, that is only one of the technologies which are being worked on as I type) then you will need to ask Siri to set up periodic reminders of that fact, if you don't want to forget. Step 2. Slap automated mining facilities in every available asteroid field, and on every barren, airless rock you can find. We don't currently have much appreciation for barren, airless rocks, or methane oceans; but I predict that in the future, we will realise just what truly glorious things they really are. Step 3. Learn enough about nuclear fusion and chemistry that you are able to use said solar energy, to convert said asteroid dirt and minerals into whatever other substance you might need. Post scarcity is primarily about knowing how to turn close to anything, into anything else. If you'd like some experience with the above, I recommend the Zacktronics computer game, Opus Magnum.

Hate to say it but. ...this was 1 episode broke down into 10 installments, I hope season 3 is better,

It's sad. Just like old George Carlin.

How the hell did they go from the dressing style that we see in the original series with Kirk to young Picard wearing 1920s clothing?? It's truly amazing the lack of thought put into this show.

did anyone else try to move the mouse cursor🤨

Please keep the Picard critique in the queue. And then release it. I really enjoyed the philosophy video. #RedFlags

Through the filter of a british accent 'car crash' parsed as something completely different in my head.

You know, as far as most things in Picard Seasons 1, 2 and 3 were shit, this episode on its own had a promise of a good premise. Picard facing off against Borg probably for the final time, having to deal with the unsurmountable problem of them wanting to join the Federation which should raise a lot of moral, political and philosophical problems for them to address, Q reappearing to give the twist that Picard's and humanity's trial never ended and this is possibly a culmination of it meaning they have to show their best side despite the weird premise. That sounds like a banger hook for an entire season of storytelling. Sure, it's a bit derivative with TNG's greatest hits being reheated after 30 years and served to you again rather than Trek going somewhere new and exciting, but at least it's more engaging than everything else in Picard up to that point. Unfortunately, the series doesn't live up to this hype and falls flat on its face. Such a great premise squandered by mediocre writing about ICE deportations and consent before being assimilated...

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Should of called it star trek Patrick Stewart and people

God, NuTrek is a complete abomination.... Such a shame.

22:40 yeah I too was never the biggest fan of Q or his episodes in either TNG or VOY. Don’t get me wrong, de Lancie is both great in the role and a great actor, but a do-anything character like Q in Star Trek has never sat well with me; mostly because it both undermines the one of the premises (becoming wiser as a species due to rationality) and weakens the stakes by having a character that can show up, snap his fingers, and either make a problem appear or make it go away. I will at least concede that the TNG writers understood this on some level and made Q episodes self-contained as to not completely fuck up the stakes in the entire show, but Picard season 2’s usage of him has *immense* implications for the setting. Like the Borg queen will now both perceive and understand the threat that the Q Continuum pose to her, thus will change how they go about their business, for example.

Yay can't wait for the rest of the Picard stuff. I love hearing good breakdowns of this garbage.

When I read they made Seven of Nine a lesbian, I've decided immediately, that I won't watch a second of it. Good job, writers! 😆👍

I think one of the main problems that haunts both Picard and Discovery equally is having a good teaser. Teaser in this case doesnt mean the teaser of the episode, more that the first episode, or first few episodes, are a teaser for the full season plot. The premise being set up during that time most of the time really feels intruiging, mysterious and epic. But then they drop the fucking ball in the development of discovering what it is and the resolution of doing something about it. The Burn was a fucking intruiging thing. But the resolution was that it was a traumatized alien child crying too hard that caused it? The DMA was a genuine unknown and very threatening. And in the end it was a bunch of aliens mining who apparently just missed the sentient life in the area. You know, the people with fucking spaceships who hailed the thing, shot the thing, warped all around the thing, went inside the thing. They missed all of it. Whoops. Putting in the Borg in Picard Season 2 really could have led to a lot of great stuff. But instead we get a cheap fascist parallel universe, going back to the present, which is also cheap, and the end resolution is that there is a second voluntary Borg collective out there? And apparently Picard is a dick for not foreseeing his own not-yet-happened time travel fuckery creating this second collective and instead deciding to fight the Borg queen who....couldve prevented the entire thing by introducing herself? Every season has this problem. Good premise. Shit resolution.

Well, another Kirtzman Trek abomination i won't bother with, by the looks of it.

What are your thoughts on the cartoons? I haven't watched prodigy yet but Lower Decks is pretty good (First season is meh, S2 was pretty good and S3 was better than S2)

The wife and I kind of liked the first season, it was interesting enough to cover for the wokeness, the second season however, we only made it to the 3rd episode before giving up on it. Too bad, I had high hopes, but the writers would rather push the political narrative rather than providing good content.