I just became a little more disappointing in Picard.
I'm watching Star Trek Enterprise, season 4 ep Boarderland, with the augments. I don't mind the episode, but what bothers me, and that we have Brent Spiner playing Dr. Soong and his desire to take his augments to start a new civilization.
This is when it just hits me, that in Picard, we have his ancestor Dr Soong, taking his augments, I mean synths, to start a new civilization.
I'm sure someone probably already noted the similar story line, but I just did, because I'm on that episode, and it really did just make Picard so much more disappointing.
They HAVE so much time to prepare a storyline for their year long arc, and with so few episodes, I just don't get how they can be so sloppy. A lot of the actors have been saying we need to give them a chance. Story telling is different now. But that's not the case exactly. Enterprise had year long arcs, and if you dump down the number of episodes to match Picards, they pretty much are in line. Older shows had long arcs as well. Notably X Files, if not to the same degree, but pretty damned close.
My point is, that it just dumbfounds me that if we complain about anything, we're just trolls. Praise everything and give everything a chance? No. They're supposed to be smarter than 80's and 90's TV. Learn something and give us something decent.
But no. They rip of the worst of the JJ Verse. They use the series to prop up Discovery's garbage trek. They rip off Star Trek Enterprise's augment premise AND use Soong again as a way to bring back Brent. All to give us a Data Swan Song ending that we NEVER needed. Picard got his closure over Data decades after the fact. That's a pretty pathetic future.
Sorry about the rant. Clearly it pissed me off LOL