😂😂

I've been unironically more invested in this journey over the 3 seasons than I have been any TV show or movie to drop in the last 10 years.

Red Dead Redemption

They've earned it. After all they've earned themselves a nice little closer/cleanser.

now this is how you subvert expectations

There's hope for the Stoklasa clan yet

And now we get Section 31 to kill it again!

it reminds me of that one episode of _Star Trek: The Next Generation_

He reminds me of a young Dr. Noonian Soong! He'll revert back to reminding me of an old, decrepit Dr. Noonian Soong in no time.

MATALAS AND STOKLASA, AT TANAGRA! MATALAS, HIS EYES OPEN

Everything aligned for that joke. The line from Mike, implying that Riker benefited from their deaths, the montage of Shelby and Laren giving Riker shit and getting killed in Picard, the close-up shots of Riker's expressions, Rich's cackling on a loop in the background. Perfect!

It takes some true nerd knowledge to put all of that together. If the writers did that intentionally I want them to write Star Trek for the rest of their lives.

48:10

Chekov wasn't the only cameo. In episode 2, it's referenced that a lawsuit has been made to a toilet. Sue loo

Yes you do, we all do. And it is hilarious.

Died in Iraq. Sad.

@@wattsvilleblues The actor?

@@TaCo0oCaT The character. Just being sarcastic.

Matalas has said he didn't write him to be on the Excelsior(i.e. he forgot about him) so he might not be canonically dead.

LMAO

Twilight years? What are you, twelve? They're in their thirties, aren't they?

​@@markspyrison9659 No! They're ironic teenagers you hack fraud!!

@@markspyrison9659 They're in their early 40s, it's a joke ya dingus

@@markspyrison9659 you mean like Picard guessing his son's age a few episodes back? lol

This also explains why Mike tortured Rich at the end.

It precisely is.

@@OCDustin 🖖

Global space communism lol

“I want the D” -Rich Evans

“I want the D” -Rich Evans

All those member berrys, Crusher's child, and no Wesley in sight...

@@sladewilson9741 There were episodes I liked him in. Esp when he was at the academy and there was a big drama. Then he grew up and became a disgusting neckbearded blob that sounds fake every time he talks.

I’m so glad he was left out of this. You know Will the total bell end was devastated by it and that’s a sweet image to think of.

The only way they could have made it better would be to give Wil's parents cameo roles to rub salt in the wound.

Shill Wheaton

Word!!

"Made Mike and Rich happy" is a higher achievement than winning an Emmy; Terry Matalas has basically won at creating Star Trek.

How long have you been holding on to that bingo card young one👴🏽👴🏽

It's shocking that a franchise that took the stance of alienating and hating on their fanbase actually took a 180 and actually gave the fans what they wanted instead. I mean it's like the first one to do it I think, cause all the other ones I can think of are just doubling down on hating on their fans.

​@@Too_many_thoughts I mean he said it was a 2023 card... So 4 months

It's beautiful though- when an ape can communicate so poetically through editing

Considering he turns friend into a sociopath space cop and a movie loving serial killer, this is just par for the course.

Underrated comment

They're Sam and Frodo, but they're both Sam & Frodo.

@@mat778 touche!

@𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧 someone else said "underrated comment" way up in the replies of something generic and this is actually the winner i get this vibe every episode i've watched since the fallout of the last big star wars trilogy started midway through (so for like the last five years) but i keep watching RLM because if you don't think about that it's not there and the guys are always as entertaining

It's kind of sad though considering how bad Mike's takes are on this show. It's awful, but he likes it? So strange. Meanwhile he hates Strange New Worlds despite it being the best new Trek show since DS9..

@@hannibalb8276 He’s being consistent. He’s always pointed out the inconsistencies, illogical decisions by characters, and occasional plot holes of the Star Trek he likes. You can’t really be a ST fan if you get hung up on these things.

"I sure hope old faild movie school graduates love me"... sure bro

@@sparkpenguin you legally have to point out any paid endorsements. Conspiracy theorists everywhere! Like, sure guys. You're saying they're getting paid to say good things about this show (late to the party, on top of it) while also shitting on CBS's more focused investment of every new Kurtzman show coming out next? It's a big ol' plan or something? Right. Are the Dimlumaniti involved too?

Would he understand that it did?

bang

Chekhov's Chekhov

This post is top tier literary humor.

Isn’t it weird they didn’t even mention that combining Anton Yelchin and Pavel Chekhov is also a reference to Anton Chekhov

@@Spaecefaeries I mean these are the same guys who didn't realize the Northman was based on the same source material as Hamlet and were comparing it to Gladiator instead, not like we can expect them to know what Chekhov's patronym was.

this and the moment Rich gave a multiple choice answer to Mike when he failed to answer to a question about Wes Craven new nightmare

His kindness was repaid with this 1:14:28 poor Rich.

@@Mckadow You befriend a Rich Evans so you can make it roll down a hill 20x wearing a t-shirt for maximum forearm injuries.

While we're being wholesome, Mike's love for Rich is shown in all the jokes he carefully constructs just to make Rich laugh. The "Riker's fanfic" is just one of many, many examples.

I like the comment but will not like because it's at 666 and I don't want to ruin that

Rich might be a cynical bastard but you can tell he has a good heart deep down.

wow what a cool fact. thanks for the info!

I thought you were going to say she had licked one of those plates...

The show within a show trope learned so artfully from the Menagerie

Five of which were an argument about where and when we had a Mugato sighting.

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

Classic Mike 👍

...and totally misrepresent it as somebody who wasn't alive at the time would.

What is with that? Why is he talking like that? It's so obviously fake and performative. I can't watch anything he does.

You know at least a few cast memebers roll their eyes with him. Always calling it “his family” “his friends” if you watch the interviews they never even mention him. He acts way to fake excited about everything, I don’t understand how he keeps Getting shows.

@@jeffosoft he’s hard to watch because he is so fake.

Is it a faux personality if it has completely replaced his personality and it's all he knows now?

@@Kasaaz He even acts with that faux sincerity voice now. I could not watch his scene in the 2nd season finale because it was so cringe.

Its fucking crazy how little Paramount Executive direction understands their golden IP. Giving Kurtzman the helm basically illustrates that people that run the show watched "Lost" and actually liked it. Giving Matalas the helm at the 11th hour is history repeating itself. SMe way Enterprise S3 had Many Coto attached, and that was the best season as it was cancelled. Fuck.

Is there any reason our boys ahvent talked about Strange New Worlds

@@lucamagnani5243 they just don't seem interested.

Yeah they need to just give him the keys to Star Trek. He gets it. Picard season 3 felt like proper modern Star Trek and not just because of the familiar characters

He didn't save it. As a fan of Berman era Trek Picard season 3 was abhorrent. The actors are too emotionally expressive ( in stark contrast to TNG), there's too much violence, and ridiculous things like that portal gun. It's unwatchable. ST:Prodigy is the only good new Trek.

That sounds like required viewing for Trek fans to me.

They're paid for praising Matalas. Like they all praised John Logan until after the run of Nemesis was over.

@@humankirk9196 or maybe they liked it and thought he did a great job? 🤷🏾‍♂️

@@humankirk9196 Who's paying you to be a bucket of misery?

@@humankirk9196 While I’m normally the Debbie downer, they would have been paid to praise both of them, not leave one completely out.

Ro slept with him in at least one episode. He wasn't rejected by them. They just gave him lip like others never dared to.

@@noneya3635 tbf, the whole crew had amnesia when that happened

@@noneya3635 to be fair she didn’t know why she slept with him she thought she had lust for him but she just couldn’t stand him

Did they hire the guy that does the fan remixes to actually produce something for this review?

na, they acted on their mutual attraction in that episode, since they had memory loss and didn’t know the implication it had

I was scrolling to see if I was the only person who noticed that... definitely on purpose

Homage to the late Anton Yelchin who played Chekov in the reboot movies. Very nice touch.

It would be awesome if RLM could do an entire series intercut with Wesley footage - it could be named 'The Journal of the Whills'.

Agreed

Great pallet cleanser. Next week it's back to unholy schlock.😈

Yeah, I’m just pretending that season 1 and 2 were a bad dream induced by too many death sticks (sorry-wrong franchise) and the show known as “Picard” is simply a mini-series consisting solely of Season 3!

You know, back at the academy....

RIGHT?

@@jamesphillips4599 Too bad it still puts money in Kurtzman's pocket. And caused Section 31.

A little nod of recognition to the D bridge set crew working hard for six months to get two days of shoot with the TNG crew.

I did too 😢

Yeah I totally cry nerd tears too when I hear AI facsimiles of Voices I Know™ too

​@@synnovevikstrom9841 Pretty sure that voice clip was ripped straight from TNG? She has had plenty of lines as the ship computer, over the years.

@Synnöve Vikström you must be super enjoyable to be around. Someone tells you something they like and you shit all over it. Amazing attitude

@@IrisCorven if that's indeed the case that's great, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was some AI corpse pilfering

... any warrior like Worf prefers the best weapon or ship so ok to criticize old Enterprise..... . Only hobbyists value charm over firepower... Rich clearly is not a warrior... Rich is whatever Phlox was, a excited weirdo who stays away from hi pressure situations....

It seem in character to me too. Technically if you look at TNG history, Worfs ideas were hardly ever considered and usually a bad idea due to his impatients. Even though they made him wiser now amongst the inexperience, its a funny callback that he is still probably not the wisest amongst his peers. Also it took his crew to grow more patient in the first place.

jmjm

Who gives a crap about in character. I don't like all the stuff I love being replaced, and then being told how the new stuff is so much better. It aint.

I couldn’t take anything Worf said seriously because he looks like that dude from Kill Bill making fun of the old wise kung fu master trope with his eyebrows and sword behind his back. Totally took me out of it Season 1&2 was so terrible it makes Season 3 passable

Wil Wheaton is just a collective hallucination of two elderly mental patients.

I like how he played an arrogant asshole nerd kid with a smirk that you wanted to punch him in the face in original TNG. And he still does that now and I still feel that about him. Really good acting :)

@@cyberiankorninger1025 Remember the episode where everyone was playing the hot new video game, Worm Discs Harrier, and were like "hey Wes, wanna be cool and play this game with us?" and he was like "nah fam I don't like video games. I'm going to go sit in the dark in my room and do some math instead!" What kind of teenager in the 90's didn't like video games?! What kind of teenager didn't want to fit in with everyone else?? They wrote the poor kid to be hated. Remember the "shut up Wesley!" line Picard yelled at him for doing what Picard asked him to do? "Data seems sus, Wes keep an eye on him." "Roger sir!" Then later: "Sir, I'm pretty sure this isn't Data." "SHUT UP LITTLE TURD BOY!"

@@BMoser-bv6kn your correct my main point was I hate his actual persona and WW today not Wesley Crusher :)

I'm so glad she got such an impactful hero moment

Deus ex betazoid.

This time she DIDN'T crash the ship after being given the keys!

She's also one of the most unethical counselors I've ever seen. And that is saying a lot

@trisolaran Nah. Troi feels emotions ... and Riker's emotions at that moment would have been incredibly strong and directed towards her. I can totally buy that she would sense his location due to this.

Well he’s very jovial and energetic in interviews, so I think it was intentional

I feel like I missed something. What was the plate and pizza thing all about?

"And cancer" lmao

@@ChrisLayfield It was the previous episode they made a bet that Rich had to eat pizza off the plate if the show didnt end up going all Kurtzman, and Mike would break it if it did I think.

Wil Wheaton, is that you??

Don't forget aids

48:08 for the replay. I was on the floor when first watching this.

For real, I was laughing so hard at this… SO GOOD 😂

Best new trek in decades.

The first 2 or 3 times I laughed with it, 4-5 I started saying “that’s enough”, and by 6 I was laughing again. Well done.

Incredible

I loved how Geordi spat out 'Fire" for fire torpedos, like saying the word physically hurt him cos he knew he was killing his closest friends. Great acting by LeVar.

LeVar’s performance was my favorite.

That was a great moment for me too.

The only quibble I have with the Enterprise's return is that they didn't use the bridge design from Generations since that's the way she was before we lost her (with the additional stations along the walls as opposed to the empty space from the TV show). Unless I missed something, I thought that the saucer was salvaged and the secondary hull was what was piece milled together...not that it was a total rebuild. So while it was good to see her again, she felt like an older version of her past self as opposed to what she was when she was cut down in her prime.

I actually love the EE.

@@samueltheprideofafrikarobi9319 It's how Geordie (and the fans) most fondly remembered it. He removed the stations during the refurb.

It wasnt artificial stage lighting the old show had, but its the lighting the bridge would have had had it have the budget for it, while not going overboard like Generations.

To be honest, I was waiting for someone to comment about the lighting. Maybe a "You know, I forgot how nice it is to see where you're walking..."

Well, its nutreck. Nothing matters anymore, Shelby and Ro laren die - who cares? Thousands of officers are killed even more are assimilated? Lets make a carpet joke and a happy reunion…

How would you start on this review and not all the previous reviews leading up to this?

@@cruvensilverwing7948i watched their early reviews and then they started saying that it got bad again so i stopped watching and then saw this come out just recently. Also there’s plenty ppl watching who’ve never seen Star Trek and will never see it so i dont rlly mind

Lol yea I’m pretty sure that was what they were going for. I knew he was gonna die the second he lunged ahead of the others guns blazing. He was a good character kind of sad they killer him off.

@@chrisd6736 He could have had his own show. I would have watched it.. Pity!

If they do Legacy Seven should make a Hologram of Shaw that constantly shits on everything she does.

I feel sorry for Shaw all the same. He got involved in season 3 events through no fault of his own. He was tricked by Riker & Picard and was betrayed by his first officer. In the beginning I didn't think he was much of a captain but my opinion of him improved over time. Poor guy carried a tremendous burden for decades with him and deserved to find peace in life. A pathetic half-witted junkie made it all the way to the end of the series and found a new beginning. It's a shame that Shaw's character wasn't given the same opportunity.

@@Dichtbringer lol I’m in!

I'm probably spoiling some low budget youtube magic for you, but Mike probably has a monitor pointed his way.

For better or for worse, in the 90s, the idea of 'Fitting in' and "blending' was very important. That was the narratrive angle taken for Data. In modern days. we'd tell him to just be himself and not worry about pleasing others through copying them. That's why Lall's argument that if we'll never BE human, why try so hard to emulate them might have sounded silly in the 90s would be received in an entirely different way today. What I'm getting at is Data's urge was always to be more human. Aging is human. It makes perfect sense he'd want to experience/experiment with the idea.

There was also a season 7 episode that said he could age

"looks like a bloodeh skunk" Plus he grew a beard in that one episode so he might be more biological than we think

Or even just handwave 'Dr Soong included programming where, once I had reached a certain level of emotional and mental development, by body would then start to mimic ageing.

His mother aged.

Comparing how I despised Patrick Stewart's and Jeri Ryan's performances and characters in Seasons 1 and 2 and loved them in Season 3 is a prime example of how much actors are reliant on good writing and direction.

I feel like the writing was more concise and intelligent, like the best of TNG. Moreso than the first season, anyway. I watched the first ep of Picard season 2 and noped out.

despite the missing formula of being episodic, it still was a well written serialized story.

I feel like Jeri Ryan and Patrick Stewart were playing Jerri Ryan and Patrick Stewart in Picard Seasons 1-2.

You just hit me in the feels there mate...takes me back to collecting the figures of TNG back in the day as a kid in Ireland waiting every day on Sky One for the show...taping DS9 on a Sunday...cheers mate 👍

Are you one of the legendary OG fans that discovered them through NSFW furry forums?

Same

@@ElArto95 what? huh? i dont want to know do i?

right there with you. Its sad but good at the same time. Kurtzman will fuck up again soon though.

Tuvok was also fully Vulcan, unlike Spock.

And I do agree that most actors miss the mark on playing a Vulcan. Personally, I felt like Nimoy and Russ were the only two to actually nail it, with an honorable mention going to Mark Lenard as Sarek.

@@ShaunRF I also thought Gary Graham and late-series Jolene Blalock did admirably as well. Admittedly, she was pretty stiff at first and the producers clearly just wrote her to be Seven 2.0, but she was pretty impressive during and after that AIDS episode.

@@warmlycalculated390 personally, I wasn't a big fan of Blalock's performance, even though I've liked her in other roles. I don't really hold it against her or other actors though, as I view playing a Vulcan as a significant challenge for any actor.

My favorite thing about Tim Russ's performance and the writing of Tovuk is showing "Vulcan logic" as a practice. As a process. As a thing you do because you believe in it. I thought that was much more interesting than most of what has been done with "Vulcans don't have emotions".

He means there's factions and the ones that want to assimilate humanity are still alive

I get it, it had also a double meaning of telling the audience to forget the prior season

@@chrispekel5709 Yes. I particularly like the use of the phrase 'weird shit' which is a nod to the terrible writing of season 2. That's exactly what it was. It made zero sense.

Yeah because he correctly remembered that they were an offshoot of the Borg

It burns

So, do I have to suffer through season 1 and 2 to enjoy season 3?

@@niemanickurwaNo, maybe look for a recap to see how bad it got before it turned around, but don’t waste the lifetime.

Eh, you just know that if they go ahead with Legacy (God willing), there will be some kind of "Jack is the Borg King" cliffhanger at some point.

I'd think they'd remove that from Jack too, as far as the Borg specific organic technology. Just because it doesn't serve a purpose doesn't mean that it couldn't become active in the future.

I cried butterfly tears!

Did you stand up while you clapped though? Cos if not......

@@davidkymdell452 I did not 😞 but for the sake of improv yes and

Janeway is badass.

I always kinda wanted Janeway to pee on me. I've been bad, pee mommy.

The part where they focus on that had to be cut for time so Mike could ramble endlessly about a background Vulcan and a completely unrelated TOS episode.

or that shitty subplot where she was mindraped by the Reman in Nemesis, so now she gets to use her mind powers for good to find the boys and does a F&F: Tokyo Drift to pick them up

@@mdmn-ARCA As it should be.

She also crashed the Big-E, that was on purpose though. I was joking that when Picard gives the order through the console, he wrote to Deanna "do what you do best" :D

Good call

Not gonna lie, I have watched this whole season several times since it ended, and it gets me every time. I LOVE this season.

as long as it makes 1 good thing opposed to 0, consistency be damned imo

@@nameynamename3758 Either way, watching JJ and Rian piss away hundreds of millions of disney dollars shitting all over each other's scripts was equal parts fascinating as it was hilarious. Passive aggressiveness is such an insanely powerful thing.

Yeah, just spitefully burning their own house to the ground to say F-you! to the other guy is hilarious!

@@gebeme11 It is if it's not your house. And I don't have any stake in Disney or Paramount.

​@@Rex-qf7enAs someone who never gave a shit about Star Wars, it was absolutely amazing seeing JJ shit all over TLJ.

Terry Matalas is the Nic Meyer of TNG.

Hopefully the show runners take notes from this season and learn what makes Star Trek good. It's not about the pew pew action of Star Wars. It's not about the violence of Predator. It's not about the dark and gritty of The Dark Knight. It's about the values of the Federation and the moral dilemmas of the Captains implementing it.

@@One.Zero.One101 Ethical dilemmas and using knowledge, wisdom, and diplomacy to solve them is really the big part of it.

I could listen to them talk about anything, but I really wish they'd squeeze some other content in-between their month-two month Trek videos.

sounds like you should watch season 3 by the sounds of their discussions of it!

If we were talking about the first two seasons: I honestly wouldn't blame you, especially S2. Season 3 was simply amazing though.

I'm sure it's perfectly fine especially given their review but I'm happy with Lower Decks for when I need to scratch the TNG/DS9/Voyager itch

I'm worried this one is going to be less funny because season 3 was actually decent

"Sir yes sir!"

They're only a couple of years older than me, oh no :(

That’s actually a wonderful sentiment.

Sums up the vibe of Season 3 Picard

Nowadays kids are hanging out at the TikTok on their (cue David Lunch voice) FUCKING TELEPHONES... GET REAL

not true, where do you live? It still is a thing..

It absolutely does exist. All major cities in the US have thriving malls. I'm in Los Angeles. Malls aplenty packed full of teenagers. The dying mall phenomenon is a middle America thing.

Most teenagers are hanging out taking hormones and cutting off their genitals. But they still sound as vacuous and stupid as the generations that hung out at the mall.

​@cleftintwain Not even. I'm in Middle America and we still have malls. Not as many but still do

So as a cook, what does he do? Dump organic mineral molecules into the replicator supply bins?

​@@ZagnutBarno he cooks like chefs today do. On Earth there are lots of traditional restaurants. Replicator food isn't always the most popular. Sisko's dad runs a restaurant. Neelix on Voyager cooks meals for the crew. Replicator can't even make real alcohol.

No it’s from working in a deli that is tough

What a Star Trek story arc! Average or above-average people doing extraordinary things when the situation calls for it and with the assistance and encouragement of their team.

@@sth128 Neelix cooked on voyager because of power rationing and limited replicators, it was very much a luxury cruise liner enterprise D thing for every room to have a personal replicator, so I suspect it fits the titan quite well to have a cook. It is Kinda dumb that a tiny little constitution class ship is the flagship now though considering how big and well equipped they have all been /since/ the constitution.

so you mean hell?

But, at least they were well-dressed before the explosion.

Think of them all as tragic victims of editing.

Later, a damaged datarod was found containing a recorded meeting with Kurtzman et al laughing around a table saying "Let's see 'em try to fix THIS garbage fire! Ha ha ha"

Garak the Cardassian Spy took them out? =O

​@@Solarnova Plain AND simple Garak? He is just a humble tailor, though.

riker really looks like a confused dog after shelby walks out of that turbo lift

I would have loved it if he'd said that XD i liked the scene, but that version would have made me laugh

Perfect!

I would love for these new, actual competent writers to give Voyager this same treatment. Bring back the cast. Tie up loose threads. Give us an actual proper epilogue. Hell, even find some way to resolve Kes situation (even if actor is out of the loop, it can still be attempted via other narrative methods).

Except for Mike laughing at the elderly until he can't breathe

I don't know, Mike worrying about Rich's diabetes was pretty wholesome.

@@OhManTFE i was about to say the same for DS9, but as much as I hate to admit it, the ending they got was perfect as it is.

Whilst I disagree with then on this series I defend their right to say it. The Enterprise G reveal had me swearing at my screen at the sheer laziness of it. The endless member berry stuff was awful.

@@democrrrracymanifest Nah, the Picard Maneuver is how they ended up with Jack in the first place.

@@SomeOrangeCat heeeeyyyyooooo

Next season will be Picard saving the Q daughter he had with Vash.

@@evanbelisle8464 After Naris kidnaps Picard's new daughter and tortures her because he stood her up for Crusher. Let's will this into existence! /s

Oh nice. That's actually "cool as fuck."

Omg same!

Me too, bro.

Sometimes multiple times a day. I'm so glad they're finally enjoying a Star Trek show.

"We must have faith. That the universe, will evolve, as it should." - Spock, Star Trek VI

Besides, it wasn't the only ship that was bolstered for battle. The Defiant was built specifically to be a battle ship if I remember correctly.

Don't forget the Dominion War!

Totally agree

I believe this to be true

Yes it almost makes up for Mike ruining the Sequel Trilogy

Matalas secretly created a TrekGPT to write season 3 and used RLM videos as the reward function during training.

I'm too cynical to think that Star Trek writers were hired that actually like RLM content but I would like to think that.

With his buddy Bashir!

It's f dumb that the whole plot revolved around transporters and O'brien wasn't in the show.

Oh fuck yeah

@@paddmeister6752 If Bashir's there, Garak's gotta make an appearance.

I wanna see a spinoff where Jake Sisko is a cynical independent journalist exposing all the fuckups that Starfleet covers up. ;-)

"Life Forms... doo doo doo doo do."

Love this. Thank you!

This is great.

Thank you, you put into words how I feel. As much as I love Trek, Nemesis left such a bad taste in my mouth. It killing off Data and no mention of Lore, Beverly and Picard’s relationship not being ‘a thing’, the whole film feeling so dark and depressing, wasn’t the send off I needed them to have - it basically made me want to ignore the 4 films and pretend TNG ended on All Good Things. (I still feel sad they killed Kirk in Generations…) All the films damaged the TNG legacy, they even had to kill off Picard’s brother and son… But then along came Terry! It’s as if Matalas went through as many injustices as he could, and fixed them for us - and as a result, I genuinely feel that he’s mended my broken heart. I can watch Nemesis now, I can enjoy my TNG boxset now and feel content my beloved characters will have a wholesome, happy ending. I imagine Kurtzman really bregrudges and doesn’t ‘get’ Matalas’ success and I really doibt Kurtzman can take his ego out of the way and pitch Star Trek: Legacy to his bosses at Paramount. Kurtzman will continue to push his weird Dystopian 35th century Trek or whatever he is doing. But we got something lovely that we can hold lnto forever - I will buy Picard Season 3 on Blu-ray for my collection, my FIRST NuTrek purchase. I loathe SecretHideOut and bregrudge them having my money. I love diversity and represenstion, but their writing and lack of understanding of Trek, lack of respect for continiuty, makes me sick. I can’t believe season 3 of Picard was allowed to happen! Something good in a world which feels increasingly bad. We sre so lucky. (I wish they could have somehow retconned Trip’s conclusion… established a happier ending for him and T’Pol, but appreciate that was hundreds of years ago by this time period!)

I kinda feel the same way. I wouldn't go so far as to say it redeems them or makes them better, but it definitely recontextualizes them enough to make them feel relevant to the over all arc of the TNG/Picard narrative.

Theres a lot of these "deep cut" detail-retreads in modern films. Kinda like the whole howard stark thing being a dud in iron man 2 then getting revisited in infinity war with tony meeting his papa. At least someone's chewing the cud here, with star trek.

I just love the way he looked at all the crap that was done in Seasons 1 and 2 and apparently said NOPE. Not doing that.

Its so rare to actually have a genuine fan of an IP, that knows how to write, be responsible for said IP, and fix decade old mistakes while the aging actors are still alive and capable to perform. This was a lightning in a bottle situation, we should count our blessings that this even happened in this modern mediocrity and profit driven media industry.

Hey Terry

@trisolaran Peoples like you deserved only Kurtzmann Trek.

The Matalas Manuvere?

As long as no one's getting hurt, passion tends to be infectious.

Yup, plus, they have an awesome sense of humor and are pretty sharp/knowledgable about films/storytelling

sure, but these fellas are losing their minds, the season still sucked

​@@backwardthoughts1022 not this season their losing their minds, they loved it.

@@backwardthoughts1022 L take, this season was good.

By Grabthar’s Hammer, yes.

Then a Three Amigos re:view with Jay and Jack, since it's basically the same story as Galaxy Quest. Hopefully Jay has watched the Three Amigos by now.

Don't worry they'll be forced to watch the Galaxy Quest TV show that Paramount apparently thinks is a good idea.

I was crying laughing at that. Hilarious!