#Picard spock mind meld series#

While I’m okay with that approach in theory, in practice it quickly became a brooding, exhausting, overstuffed basket filled with Star Trek Easter eggs.

#Picard spock mind meld series#

This year, series showrunner Terry Matalas decided to give fans exactly what they wanted from the Day One- an eighth season of The Next Generation with a definitive ending. The first two seasons of PIC, for all their obvious flaws, at least tried to introduce new characters and take the character of Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in different directions, with frustratingly mixed results. This season of PIC seems to have been an excuse to reunite the TNG cast on a picture-perfect recreation of the USS Enterprise-D bridge set. And, of course, the ( not-pictured) Brent Spiner as “Data”–more accurately a combination of Data, Lore, Altan Soong, B-4, et al.

It’s too bad that it took such a dark and murky path to get here… The episode is little more than a reunion tour for (left to right) Marina Sirtis (“Deanna Troi”), Jonathan Frakes (“Will Riker”), Patrick Stewart (“Jean-Luc Picard”), LeVar Burton (“Geordi La Forge”) and Gates McFadden (“Dr. Deciding that I didn’t have the energy (or patience) to review all ten, I went with focusing on the finale for a simple reason “The Last Generation” is everything this third season has been leading up to, giving a big splashy sendoff for these characters that TNG never quite achieved with its four feature films ( “Generations,” “Star Trek: “First Contact,” “ Insurrection,” and “Nemesis”). The season (and, presumably, series) finale of Star Trek: Picard (PIC), titled “The Last Generation,” has streamed, and I debated whether to do a recap of the entire season, or just a review of the final episode.