“If Beyond and Discovery killed the franchise, then Picard resurrected its decaying corpse, bent it over a table and had its way with it using the teddy bear from my Doctor Who analogy” - Critical Drinker

I hate this show so much that I love listening to people who hate it too. It's like hate squared, or even cubed.

DS9 was how to create darkness in Star Trek. Characters have deep developed backgrounds, the show is often dark, Characters die and yet the optimism of Star Trek is still present and there is hope.

Honestly, Stewart could've had his grittier star trek if it took place in the Mirror Universe. Then all the trauma, the "federation" would make sense for being evil, and Picard would've had a reason to move beyond some darker past. We'd simultaneously get an entire show set in the always fascinating Mirror Universe, whilst also getting a darker and edgier trek at the same time, without trampling on the mainline trek themes.

LOL, more like what *didn't* go wrong. That series was a dumpster fire.

Ironically the "sheer fucking hubris" line perfectly sums up the problem. We have showrunners now with such arrogance and hubris that they think THEY alone know what the show is about, and the millions of other fans don't.

Seven’s lesbian fling at the end of the season made zero sense whatsoever.

STD: "Watch me turn Star Trek into a botched millennial abortion of a disgusting mockery." Picard: "Hold my earl grey"

Unstoppable awfulness colliding with irreversible narcissism and galactic spanning fecklessness

Everything woke turns to shit.

I get kind of a laugh out of the fact that The Orville's audience score is almost the same as Picard's and Discovery's audience scores combined.

I’m so glad there are people like you out there setting the record straight. The modern world is a bit depressing, we’ve lost the inspiration of Star Trek.

Clearly the people that created this show DO know what Strar Trek is all about, cause I don't think it's possible to screw every single of its essencial elements just by chance. The went straight for the jugular, so to speak. Also, the parody section with Picard and Rafi was on point XD

I have not watched a single episode of Picard and from what I’ve seen and heard, I’m gonna keep it that way!

Stewart missed the point of the show that made him famous. Star Trek is NOT supposed to reflect reality; it's supposed to be a model of how we SHOULD be.

LOL your conversation between "JL" and Raffi was fucking hilarious.

It changed from a science fiction show with characters and stories that us fans knew and loved to woke political properganda. From a utopian vision of what humanity could be and achieve to a dystopian nightmare of where we're at now. Modern Star Trek is dead, it's soul removed, just an empty husk of what was.

It was laughable when Patrick Steward says he doesn’t want to play a starship captain because he might get type cast. Sir, you are 80 years old!! There are no tomorrows for you. This is the end. You’re out of time. Your character is who he is in the TNG series. Duh.

'You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain…' this sums up Patrick Stewart

I remember watching the first episode of Picard when it came out and when I heard the character say ‘dude’ I checked out. And then there were some karate kicks and I never watched past the first episode.

Title: "Star Trek: Picard - What Went Wrong?" Answer: This series exists. [DING!]

After seeing _Picard_ I was deeply saddened with the realization that Patrick Stewart either didn't understand the character, or outright hated him. So grateful that Netflix is still streaming _The Next Generation._ It's like a warm, fuzzy blanket of thoughtful writing.

Member when Trek was an escape into a scifi future full of wonder and hope from our day to day...I member.

Your Patrick Stewart impression is bang on.

I’ve lost complete respect for Stewart and everyone who went and quickly signed up to unravel the mythos of Star Trek. 🤮

The other night, I watched a ST:TNG episode I hadn’t seen in a while, The Masterpiece Society. It was great. The Enterprise comes across a planet society with a problem, Picard makes some excellent speeches, the characters are faced with moral DECISIONS to make and ultimately, they all learn something about the human condition. It was everything Star Trek was envisioned to be. The opposite of this Picard flaming garbage.

The moment the word ‘fuck’ was uttered we turned it off and never went back. I have nothing against the word ‘fuck’ but it didn’t feel like Star Trek after that. We will never go back.

You forgot Patrick Stewart specifically stating in an interview that the show was going to be a reaction to "Trump's America" and Brexit. Pretty much stating from the get-go that this show was going to be pushing a political narrative over all else. I don't mind a political message, as long as it is done artfully, woven into the story so that the intent comes across organically. Patrick Stewart's statement told me this show would have all the subtlety of a club over the head. Pass.

Pissing off or provoking people is one hell of a business model.

This is why I'm glad The Orville exists. I haven't seen Season 2 yet, but Season 1 really gave me those classic Star Trek vibes that have been missing from the modern series like Discovery and Picard.

We want a Light-Hearted Star Trek that Solves Contraversy that Follows Roddenberry's Vision of a Brighter Future.

Thing is, you can have a show that examines the "human condition" without being graphic or profane. GR wanted to state that while humanity has grown, the values that allowed humanity to grow could be challenged, using alien encounters as a stand-in for whatever subject that was being explored. The writers don't seem to understand this.

Dave, your Picard impression is on point, u should really consider doing a parody series w voiceover, that would be funny as hell.

The Orville is more like trek for me. Even that one good scene was kind of pathetic. There’s a “fixed” version of the scene with Riker that has the real ships show up. It’s a sad day when randos on KZfaq have more skill than the “real” franchise.

Star Trek isn't The Expanse. If you try and make it that, you get Discovery and Picard. Star Trek isn't Red Dwarf. If you try and make it that, you get Lower Decks. Star Trek isn't Star Wars. If you try and make it that, you get the JJ Abrams movies.

Thank you for this. I agree with everything you've said here. I have friends who love Picard, and I just don't get it. This is not Star Trek. Neither is Discovery. How can you call something Star Trek when it ignores the most basic concepts of that world? Are people so jaded that they don't understand how off this show is? I'm tired of Paramount destroying this franchise.

I was at the Star Trek Day event yesterday for Paramount and…it was awful.

"The mandate was to make it a more psychological show, a character study about a man in his emeritus years... It'll be very different than Discovery. It'll be slower, more meditative." -Alex Kurtzman, the "architect behind Star Treks franchise resurgence"

Remember how people used to argue whether Kirk or Picard was the better captain? Remember when it used to be a competition?

The NOOO! Noooooooo! Timing was perfect dude

You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. I fear that today...

It's incredibile how a random Person pops in and Just says "forget old Trek, this Is the new One because i decided so"

Remember when Kirk and co went back in time, and they had to explain to Spock that humans USED to use "colorful language" since they didn't do that anymore? At least the JJ films had the decency to be an alternate timeline. Like the Mirror Universe.

Yes. Yes. 100x Yes. This review/examination is spot on. You vocalized very well most of the major issues I have with Star Trek: Picard, everything from the dark premise, depressing tone, and meaningless deaths of recurring characters to the over-use of violence, gore, murder, suicide, profanity, alcohol, and throwing up. About the only thing I disagreed with was the aliens with Earth accents. I can totally deal with a Romulan who has an English or Irish accent if they get everything else right. You didn't get into the nitpick territory like the giant space flowers, the contradiction of Romulan philosophies about cybernetics (they supposedly hate & avoid cybernetic study, but they're also heading up the ex-Borg project???), Raffi's out-of-place attitude about 24th/25th century economic statuses, etc. But, you articulated very well the really big issues with the show. And, you stayed away from the common "wokeness" complaint, a complaint I don't share with most critics of Picard or Discovery, because diversity on the new shows is something I'm actually okay with. It's...just about everything else...that's wrong with Trek's new direction. Diversity? Bring it on, but make the characters likable. Darker storylines? Sure, sprinkle them in like DS9 did, but let there be some hope & optimism mixed in too. Take Trek in some new directions? Of course, but don't make it feel so different -- and don't so *intentionally* tick off part of the fanbase -- that a show or the franchise as a whole seems almost unrecognizable.

Where does one begin? With the intention to "humble Picard"? With writers who clearly know nothing about his character or science fiction? With the failure of Discovery and the desperate need to do something that gets ST fans watching again? With the decision to hand the franchise over to Alex Kurtzman? With Les Moonves cancelling Enterprise?

How good would it have been to see a real star trek Picard show. Written by the TNG writers. Even with a young Picard played by Tom Hardy in season 2.

Omg your voice overs between raphie and Picard made me guffaw. Brilliant.

Thanks Dave, that Picard and Rafi dialog was absolutely amazing. Man if only your version was the show. I can’t wait for the 3rd season of The Orville.

"He wanted to piss off and provoke people" Mission Accomplished

I wasn’t aware of the article Chabon did. Yeah he accomplished his goal of pissing fans off. I’m one of them. The best parts of the series is where they reminded me of what Star Trek was with the Nepenthe episode and the finale with Data. I’ve watched the series 3 times through including the original air date, and I can say it’s a mess absolutely, the Icheb scene serves no purpose other than to enrage fandom and break their hearts; of course narratively give 7 a motivation. It felt like Picard throwing that French accent as they get ready to beam down in disguise, was making fun of fans. Of course at the end, Picard gets put into a Golem, what a perfect metaphor for Star Trek under Secret Hideout. Star Trek dies as we knew it in 2005, only to be downloaded into a puppet built by people who call it Star Trek but have no idea what that means. But hey; it’s called Star Trek you should like it. It’s a lifestyle brand!

"Dark and edgy startrek" DS9 exists.

Thanks for bringing back the bit about Raffi, J.L., and the Meryl Streep lookalike. Too funny!

So what was wrong with Star Trek: Picard? *EVERYTHING!*

What went wrong ? The first mistake was letting Stewart have so much influence, each subsequent bad idea compounded that initial bad idea until the show got lost in a maze of nonsensical writing, poor acting, shitty sfx until it collapsed under the weight of all those egos. But it's Alex Klutzman so what did we expect ? At least Clarice was cancelled so he can't mess up Hannibal Lechter.

Your final words are right in point! Star Trek endet with Nemesis. Full stop!

In my head canon, the Star Trek franchise still ended with Star Trek: Nemesis. It's true that the TNG films weren't great and already showed signs of abandoning what we love about Star Trek in favor of more action-oriented stories, but at their heart they were still Star Trek, even if they were unfortunate missteps. Abrams-trek and the Kurtzman shows don't even resemble Star Trek on a superficial level. There's nothing in common with Star Trek here.

Star Dreck: The Next Degeneration

Season 1 was a complete cluster... and i wont watch any more of this mixture of Woke Politics and bad Storytelling that ignores all canon.

Brilliant review. Summed it up perfectly why this is not Star Trek.

Ok your ending little back and forth was hilarious!

Love how Chabon says "anti-SJW" as if that's a bad thing. I think HE didn't get the memo on reality. SJW anything is, of course, pure poison.

The season 2 trailer was the biggest heap of shite I've seen in some time!

I’ve always put Michael Chabon up there as equal or even worse than Alex Kurtzman. Chabon has always been openly hostile to fans and quite vitriolic in his mocking of them as can be seen if one looks at other statements he’s made not mentioned in this video. From what I’ve heard, the latest batch of shows coming out no longer have him in a forefront role, but merely a background one.

There is something so wrong about hearing someone swear in Star Trek. Even when they go back in time the people of the past don't really swear. Aside from Star Trek IV I can't think of characters swearing in a Star Trek property.

I got to the bit where she called him JL and I turned it off !

Acted far more intelligent than it was. That Dunkirk speech is one of my most hated pieces of TV ever made.

I 100% agree with you, Dave. Hopefully, STD and STP will be de-canonized in the future. But I'm afraid that Kurtzman and his hacks will do a lot more damage until then.

I've taken Chabon's advice and totally ignored Picard and Kurtzman "star trek". To paraphrase Picard from the episode Tapestry, "I'd rather have picard's onscreen time die with nemesis, than watch the picard I just saw"

Dave, your dialogue around the 9minute mark here was awesome. Especially the homage to First Contact, and then the clip from that same scene! Your work was so much better than those of Picard, thank you for bringing a smile to my face! I'm also with you on the one positive moment, with Riker in acting command of a ship. Though, I didn't really like the Nick Offerman look he was sporting earlier in the show.

That was great, Dave. Dumping on Kurtzman Trek never tires. Looking forward to your horror and disappointment in season 2.

"Dude" is universal and Timeless! 😁

It's a good idea for ALL businesses to "piss off or provoke" their customers. Pure wisdom there.

Got you beat: One word - Stewart! 😸

DS9 was dark but in a way that completely worked. It examined aspects without burning them down.

Your recap of the whole first season while doing all the voices was hysterical! Keep it up!😂👍

Right on all points. The tragedy of how bad this show is, is compounded by the fact that it proves Patrick Stewart had never really been paying attention to the story, the whole time he was portraying that character. Turns out Stewart never understood Star Trek, he just read his lines.

Honestly the thing that annoyed me most in Picard was the very tired and reused plot of "Synths rebel, kill the synths"... I'm not sure if it was because I was playing through Mass Effect Legendary Edition by the time I finally bit the bullet and watched this but ooft the parallels were stark and lame...

Where do you want to start? Just pick any horrendous part of this dumpster fire of a spinoff and run with it.

LOVE your Picard impression, Dave. Cracks me up every time

Thanks for making this video! ! !

I've been a Trek fan since before most of the people working on this show were probably born and I can tell you in my humble opinion that every Trek incarnation since JJ got his hands on the franchise has been straight hot garbage.

This looks nothing like any of the STs my dad used to eatch when I was growing up. I remember thinking "Oh hey, Picard is going to play Professor X! Perfect choice!" Now I'm just sad. They turned these loving father type figures into junkies down the street who can't stop fighting all night.

I'm currently watching Star Trek TNG and it is a nice pace of change in terms of writing. I haven't watched any star trek series before and the writing is just brilliant in how it tackles problems by conversing and debating. Its so cool to see a series just confront head on with reason and not have to have an ultimatum to either kill or spare lives. The new stuff definitely didn't attract me at all lol

It's the same trend happening in all these franchises. The creative classes, especially in the arts, have been taken over by a particular type of person. This person despises the rational gentile.

"If I die, I hope they download my mind into a body that is as old and weak and wrinkled as the one I left, instead of the younger me."

I would have to disagree with "They were freely allowed to create" No they weren't. Rodenberry was very strict about how stories were created. And the writers always complained that it was too difficult to write stories that way. And it's probably why we have to garbage star trek we have today, on top of the political narratives.

This was tough to watch. I can only imagine watching the show. My hat's off to you man for taking one for the team.

FYI: Michael Chabon's father died during production of Star Trek. That's why Picard is so bleak, dark, and violent. Michael took out his grief and misery on Star Trek Picard's writing. While I don't wish anyone to suffer, I think taking out his grief on Star Trek Picard was a terrible thing to do.

Star Trek was a way to escape our depressing reality to enter a world of wonders and discovery. But not anymore. New Trek is just a big ball of _woke_ depression.

How many times had this guy saved the world or the known universe and Starfleet treated him like dog poo on their shoe. Wtf.

Summed up perfectly! Very good impersonations btw!

Please do a full abridged version of the show; that was great.

what went wrong? hollywood decided to make everything a commentary about trump, thats what went wrong

I started watching Star Trek TNG a few years ago precisely to escape the doom, gloom, horror and violence of most modern shows. Game of Thrones is an example of a show that could have been great to watch but the sickening gratuitous violence instead made it traumatic and unwatchable for many. They need to either leave Star Trek in peace or continue it in line with its original ethos of peace, positivity, hope, problem solving, collaboration and creativity.

I actually subscribed to Netflix in order to watch Star Trek Discovery, but was forced to wait months until the show finally materialised due to 'production delays'; after three or four episodes, I realised it wasn't worth the wait and cancelled my contract. Thanks to Picard airing on Amazon, I managed to completely dodge that bullet. Right now, I'm revisiting the original show, which I've been a fan of since it reached the UK in 1969.

Everything. Thanks for asking

From what we've seen of Season 2 7 of 9 was never a Borg so 100% human now which means Picard could be 100% human again, kinda defeats all the writing but that's very much like Discovery where they forget or ignore the past season

Star trek DS9 is my favorite!

You nailed every feeling I had watching this show. ty

I don't know about you guys... but I had a horrible time as a teenager. Bullied at school and beaten at home. My dad's alcoholism was at it's peak, I was having these feelings of being attracted to other guys which caused guilt and feelings of self hate. I did badly in all my classes because I just wasn't able to retain information like other kids, I feared I wasn't intelligent enough to amount to anything in life. I swung between hating myself and hating the world around me. Then came along TNG, then the amazing DS9 and then Voyager. I watched every day after school on BBC2 at 6pm on the dot. Star Trek provided escapism. Star Trek gave me comfort. The enlightened world of the Federation showed me there could be a better, brighter future - which celebrated intelligence and calm and fairness and there might be some point to this chaotic ride called life. Then came along Alex Kurtzman. PEW PEW, camera shake, crying for no reason, men are bad, PEW PEW