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If there was overt lesbian homosexuality in Voyager, it wasn’t Seven and Janeway. That was more mother-daughter rebellion.The overt lesbian themes were between Seven and the Borg Queen. The Borg Queen behaved more like psychotic ex to Seven than anything else. We explicitly saw those overtones...

Picard specifically called Q out in Q Who, asking if the lesson could have been taught without loss. Q pretty much noped that. Picard paid for his arrogance. Q kept it from being fatal, though. On the other hand, Tapestry was teaching Picard to embrace the virtues of his vices. The brash...

It’s not Picard’s morality that Q is looking for. It’s Picard’s ability to grow mentally and think non-linearly. That’s why Q breaks the rules and gives Picard the big hint, taking him back in time to show the anomaly works backwards in time, and is bigger in the past. In that moment, you see Q...

How much of that was the Romulans bringing it upon themselves? Tell someone you’re going to kill them and killing a lot of their fellows is a good way to get them to bring in allies. We don’t know if the Romulans were correct or not, because we don’t know what the advanced synthetic beings...

Picard is privileged, though. He gave Starfleet an ultimatum, stormed off to sulk when he didn’t get his way, dropped the ball on a lot of people, and got to sit at home at his chateau sipping red wine while things went to hell. Picard’s moral dudgeon was much more fashionable in the 2360s...

I can also see the Federation unwilling to impose law and order in the borderlands. My big question is just how the borderlands and places like Freecloud got going. The Fenris Rangers needing to fill the vacuum after Romulus goes boom and the Romulan empire breaks up implies they were former...

I can see it getting more stringent after Kirk comes back with multiple examples of Federation interactions with other cultures being a bad idea.

Depends on how much moralizing you do. Personally, I take thePrime Directive as a requirement to know damn well where you will land before you leap. Certainly our own world is full of examples of how meddling in the affairs of others is a bad idea, especially if you do not understand them...

Depends on which accounts you believe. The Gospels have Pilate finding no charge against Christ, but declining to acquit or release him. Matthew has the famous washing of the hands quote, with Pilate taking the least responsibility, while the other gospels have varying degrees of political...

Which, as you note, people with a different interpretation of the Prime Directive would be displeased about. The PD can be pretty evil a doctrine if you use it to justify the Pontius Pilate approach.

The Federation may be post scarcity (which is questionable given the extensive resources needed to supply things like replicators), but that doesn’t mean the end of either economics, differences in viewpoints, or disagreements about the aims to persue. Certainly the Feds are not, with a very few...

That assumes the Federation of 2385 or so is the same Federation of 2364 or so. I think it is plausible that a lot changed in the 2370s and 2380s to make the Federation different, though. The Federation won the Dominion War, but it came at a very high cost. We’d already seen the Federation...

Organic-synthetic coexistence, or lack thereof, is a common sci-fi theme, and we have seen other genres coppy the apocalyptic vein. I was very disappointed at the xB cube going down so early and pointlessly. The Borg or xBs as the cavalry coming to the rescue would have been a stellar...

And they didn’t see too many cancellations. Their earnings reports show the big losses in traditional cable, not streaming.

CBS was reporting they had major upticks in All Access streaming purchases in the Dec-Jan run up to Picard, so that is a clear indication that Picard was tapping into people who were not Discovery watchers.

It really depends on the episode. Season 2 is a lot stronger on rewatch, and Q Who is the turning point. Peak Performance and The Emissary are some of my favorite episodes (why did we only get two episodes with K’Ehlyr?), and the writing and acting get stronger, setting up the good Seasons 3 and...

Very much disagree. There's so many questions about the world of Picard. Each episode just offers us peeks into the lives we touch, leaving us wanting to know more. I had the opposite impression - Borg in the Alpha/Beta Quadrants were rare. Also, apparently, Starfleet is not out pushing the...

I have to agree with this. We have the wonder of Star Trek, and some spectacular worldbuilding. You can never look at the Romulans the same again. We have Romulan warrior nuns, and I so want a CSI: Romulus spinoff starring Laris and Commodore Oh. Romulans are being opened up the way Klingons...

It's the ultimate in show versus tell. Telling us something awful happens outside Federation space is far less effective than taking a beloved character and cutting him apart on screen. It had to be graphic to demonstrate how devastating it was to Seven. We had to watch, so it was devastating to...

I don't agree with that. Yes, Picard is disgruntled, but he's still a lot more of an idealist and, frankly, naive, than most of the rest of his crew. Picard's not very good at sub rosa in 2399. And he's extremely trusting, both with Starfleet, and Jurati, and even Seven. As Bajayzel states...