This is sort of a review of Star Trek Picard, season 2. Sort of. It’s actually notes I took while watching Star Trek Picard Season 2: What the Hell Happened?. Spoilers.
Beats:
- Episode 1 👍🏻
- Answers some questions and critiques after season 1.
- More positive Federation.
- A lot of cool spaceships.
- A mission: What’s up with the Borg?
- Q! Looking older!
- Episode 2 👍🏻
- Skull Dukat.
- What’s up with Q and Picard?
- Goal: Go back and fix the timeline.
- Picard being evil.
- Theme introduced: trauma.
- A society choosing darkness or not.
- Once we get to 2024, we start meandering. 👎🏻 Running in place, going nowhere. 👎🏻
- Climbing a tower to scan.
- Rios being injured.
- Rios in hospital.
- Rios in jail.
- Picard and Guinan in jail.
- Actions without consequences. 👎🏻
- Once Rios is away from ICE, nothing.
- Rios falls in love, then nothing.
- Guinan and the fight against fascism. 👍🏻
- The gala is a heist, done wrong. 👎🏻
- For a long time, we don’t know why Renée is important.
- The right way: Clear expectations and goals, but then the original plan fails.
- Rios smoking, Seven chatting, why?
- The plan was for Picard to talk to Renée?
- Jurati singing a song is a great distraction?
- Are changes to 2024 important or not? 👎🏻
- Butterflies.
- Rios’ badge.
- Borgified humans being killed.
- An agent being fired.
- A bar having to replace its window.
- ICE detainees running away.
- The bullet holes.
- Soong runs over Picard and nothing more? 👎🏻
- Supervisors. 👍🏻 But does Tallinn really do a lot? And does it make sense that she looks like Laris? 👎🏻
- Easter eggs.
- Guinan’s new bar’s name. 👍🏻
- Mention of Janeway. 👍🏻
- Prejudice against Seven. 👍🏻
- Guinan’s 2024 bar’s name. 👎🏻
- Project Khan. 👎🏻
- Did “Time’s Arrow” happen? Did Voyage Home happen? 👎🏻
- Renee living/dying hint. 👎🏻
- A lot of smaller plot points are quickly resolved in the end, just because. 👎🏻
- Looking at trauma. 👍🏻
- The PTSD Seven suffered.
- Jurati being suicidal.
- The Borg queen experiencing genocide.
Stuff from ommadawn.dk (Lise Andreasen) 