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2025/XX/XX
It had been four years since I’ve last seen the first season of Picard where I also wrote a rewatch blog for it. Because I was really looking forward to Picard’s 3rd season, it meant I had to rewatch the first two seasons also…yeah, that is how my brain works! If you go back to my rewatch blog for Picard’s 1st season, you’ll see I was excited about the first season, but I was curious if my views had changed after my disappointment with NuTrek altogether. Plus my disappointment with Picard’s second season, because the only reason I purchased season two of Picard on Blu-ray was because of my anticipation for the 3rd season! Again, this is how my brain works.
What I didn’t really like about Season One:
Well, honestly I still enjoyed season one for the most part, but I now am less enthusiastic as with my first rewatch of season one. First of all, I don’t like that the show is sort of a continuation from Star Trek 2009 because the Romulan disaster from the 2009 movie, which still happens in prime universe, is continued upon in Star Trek: Picard, which supposedly is the prime universe also. I just wish it wasn’t connected to the Abrams movies at all. I realize that Patrick Stewart is 80+ years old, but it meant that the Jean-Luc Picard from The Next Generation was gone somehow, the Jean-Luc Picard from this show is a fragile man, no longer that strong, no-nonsense but fair captain from before.
He also lost his authority, he was yelled at, belittled and not taken seriously by people around him. Also his Romulan caregivers treat him like he is no longer capable of making up his own mind. Especially how Admiral Kirsten Clancy talks to a man who saved the Federation from the Borg and many more incidents: Clancy to Picard: The sheer fucking hubris. You think you can just waltz back in here and be entrusted with taking men and women into space? That women should not even be allowed to tie his shoes!
Most of the characters did not interest me enough to really care about them, I did have a soft spot for Rios (Santiago Cabrera) but didn’t care much for his holograms. I also liked the characters Dahj/ Soji (Isa Briones) but other than that, it did not really cared for the other characters. There was no real interesting “bad guy” either. Seven was a favorite character of mine on Voyager, but she has changed a lot over the years, which certainly is possible. However those favorable character traits from Voyager are virtually gone in Picard. And why does she needs to be turned into a lesbian? I didn’t understand why the new uniforms, first shown in the movie First Contact, aren’t the standard but more the ones that were used before, slightly updated. And if the Romulans really had a strong adverse against synths or androids, why did we never learn of this during The Next Generation era when Data was a prominent crew member? Talking about the Romulans, why do these Romulans look so different from the TNG era? I mean, this is set only 20 years after Nemesis. I can understand that this has been updated to these current times, but change them like this is a bit too much in my opinion. And well finally, Picard becoming a synth, wouldn’t have been my choice.
What did I like about Picard – Season one?
Well, I really liked how Picard still misses his friend Data, he genuinely cares for his android friend, this I thought was heartfelt, every time we got to see it. I also really loved to see Riker and Troi back, as a family, a family with a tragedy but they still were together and seemingly happy. I thought it was a nice touch to also bring back Bruce Maddox, would have been even nicer if the actor Brian Brophy would have been brought back for the role, but I am not sure if he still is an actor at the time of the first season. I also liked the Dahj/ Soji storyline, being ‘daughters’ of Data, I thought Isa Briones did a good job. I also was very positive about the fact that it was one season storyline, as you may know, I prefer story-arc to episodic. It does not need to be so heavy, I mean, I love how it has been done in Babylon 5 and DS9, which also have many episodes which only touch upon the story-arc. The CGI also looked very good, very convincing.
Final Word:
All in all, I still enjoy Picard’s 1st season, although I also do see some issues with it now, which I didn’t see, or didn’t chose to see with my first watch or my first rewatch of the first season. I mean, I am a sucker for Star Trek, and I tried it all, the JJ Abrams movies, Discovery, Picard and Strange New Words, but it is just not Trek as I know it, as I want to know it. Indeed, not to mention that Section 31 movie, the less said about that, the better. So, yeah, I leave my original rewatch blog on the website, I did write it back then because at the time, that is how I felt about it, misguided perhaps, but still.
Screencaps taken from TrekCore
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