Picard

The following episode discusses Star Trek: Picard, Season Three, Episode Five, “Imposters.” Efficient storytelling is not a strength you can traditionally attribute to Star Trek: Picard, which has often felt padded. Each of its three seasons have felt like one or two made-for-TV-movies' worth of story stretched thin to ten near-hour long episodes. Nowhere is this more evident than in this season’s fifth episode, where five minutes of plot is expanded to a full episode. Here, Team Picard learns that Starfleet has been…

Image: ParamountStar Trek: Picard’s final season is going all in on the nostalgia, bringing back the Next Generation cast for one last big adventure. But it’s quickly proven itself to be nostalgic for more than just TNG when it comes to Star Trek’s past... including with its major villain, who was almost replaced by another familiar foe.Speaking to Collider today about this week’s episode of Picard, showrunner Terry Matalas discussed the decision to make the major threat of season 3 a rather literal familiar face from the…

Image: ParamountThere was a time when Star Trek’s utopian future was meant to show people had grown beyond conflict and profanity, but as the franchise has been reborn in the streaming age and more mature material has become common, the creatives behind it have come to accept that, well: the occasional f-bomb is only logical.This week’s episode of Star Trek: Picard, “No Win Scenario,” saw none other than Admiral Picard himself drop a “fuck” in a heated conversation with his newly-discovered son, Jack Crusher (Ed…

Image: ParamountStar Trek loves itself a nebula. It loves itself a starship that gets stuck inside a nebula. When that nebula is actually a living being? It’s downright giddy. This week’s Star Trek: Picard not only did all three, it used that classic premise to give all its characters a choice: come together or crack under the pressure.“No Win Scenario,” the fourth episode of Star Trek: Picard season 3, builds on last week’s barnstormer of an episode where Picard, Riker, and everyone else aboard the Titan were having the…

Spoiler warning: The following article discusses the Star Trek: Picard episodes “Seventeen Seconds” and “No Win Scenario.” I was away last week and so didn’t write up last week’s utterly inessential episode of Picard, although if you’re curious, Darren Mooney at The Escapist’s feelings mirror my own. The whole affair only makes sense if you assume the whole crew had taken a big dose of idiot pills an hour before the episode began, and wish you’d had some as well. This week, there’s a lot more to say, especially since it’s…

Image: ParamountThe directors of the new Escape From New York are making it a reboot-sequel. Bruce Campbell wants to work with Sam Raimi on an animated Evil Dead movie. The Mandalorian drops two new posters. Plus, when to expect the final episode of The Flash. Spoilers, away!Escape from New YorkIn conversation with ComicBook, directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett confirmed their upcoming Escape from New York movie will be a “requel,” presumably ignoringthe events of Escape from L.A. I don’t think we know…

Image: ParamountWhile Worf was never quite the always-angry kind of Klingon in Star Trek—to give him that push and pull between his people’s warrior culture and his place within Starfleet—the version of him we’ve now met in Picard’s last season has taken this to a whole new level. But while the move may surprise some fans, it’s one the man behind the Klingon has long advocated for.Now that we’ve properly met Worf in Picard’s third season—after he came in like the Klingon cavalry to rescue Raffi from a dicey situation last…

Image: ParamountStar Trek: Picard season three has so far been, even with the promise of greater stakes to come, something of a relaxing, almost idealistic venture. It’s been about our heroes being the heroes we want them to be, getting things done consequences be damned, about the discovery of legacy, and so on. This week however shows just how easy that facade is to crack.After last week established that Picard and the crew of the Titan were willing to go to bat against Vadic’s Shrike—in the name of defending his…

We’re three episodes into the final season of Star Trek: Picard, and it continues to be a chaotic ballet of storylines. There’s a lot happening on this show. Beverly Crusher has become a frontier doctor / Robin Hood-style smuggler traveling the outer fringes of the Federation with her son, Jack Crusher, and has spent months being hunted by mysterious forces. Worf now works as a spy for Section 31 and has spent months anonymously working with Raffi to hunt down a new cell of terrorists who seem to be as mysterious as the…

Screenshot: Sony Pictures AnimationDune spinoff Sisterhood has hit some major problems. Get a look at Picard and Crusher together in new images from Star Trek: Picard. Star Wars: The Acolyte finds itself some new directors. Plus, what’s coming on Quantum Leap. Spoilers get!Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseAccording to THR, actor Karan Soni (Deadpool, Deadpool 2) has been cast as Pavitr Prabhakar, a.k.a. Spider-Man India, in Across the Spider-Verse. DivinityVariety reports Utopia and Sumerian have acquired the…