# Star Trek Picard Review **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, star-trek-paramount\ **Created:** [August 7, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458 "2020-08-07T00:47:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/281 "2022-04-12T20:23:44Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > [Guess who’s coming back for season 3?](https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/5/23011773/star-trek-paramount-plus-tng-picard-data-william-riker) > > The entire cast of TNG! Except Wesley. > **[Wil Wheaton responds to not being a part of Star Trek: Picard season 3](https://redshirtsalwaysdie.com/2022/04/07/wil-wheaton-responds-to-not-being-a-part-of-star-trek-picard-season-3/)** > > Wil Wheaton responds to not being a part of Star Trek: Picard's third season which will include most of the characters from The Next Generation ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/282 "2022-04-12T20:37:15Z")
Shut up, Wesley. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/283 "2022-04-12T21:39:50Z")
It is a fake out. At the end of season 2, we will find out that Wesley is the big bad, sort of like Scrappy Doo in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/284 "2022-04-12T21:41:12Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > …sort of like Scrappy Doo in that movie. _Anna Karenina_? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/285 "2022-04-14T14:51:34Z")
Well, that was about what I expected - ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/286 "2022-04-15T00:45:37Z")
Watch out Picard, that’s Gaius Baltar! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/287 "2022-04-15T06:41:47Z")
Yeah, I think we all saw that coming, more or less. Going into someone’s mind to bring them out of a coma. . .no new ground covered there in concept or execution. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/288 "2022-04-15T11:01:32Z")
Young head-Picard has an Australian accent. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/289 "2022-04-15T12:24:05Z")
I don’t know why they hired Alexander Siddig’s doppelganger. I spent the first few minutes wondering why Picard was dreaming about Dr. Bashir. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/290 "2022-04-16T23:48:34Z")
Well this season kind of went off the rails after a strong start didn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/291 "2022-04-17T03:25:31Z")
I was looking forward to more interaction with Q but that hasn’t happened. I think that this is about we can expect from Kurtzman-era Star Trek. Just not quite up to snuff. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/292 "2022-04-17T09:13:42Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > I don’t know why they hired Alexander Siddig’s doppelganger. I spent the first few minutes wondering why Picard was dreaming about Dr. Bashir. You know, I’ve never noticed it before, but the two actors, Alexander Siddig and James Callis, do look very similar, don’t they? They even have some of the same mannerisms and the same precise diction. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/293 "2022-04-17T14:41:45Z")
I have a hard time believing that Picard wouldn’t recognize his own father. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/294 "2022-04-17T20:39:18Z")
He was literally messing with his own head. Why is it surprising that he was repressing the memory of his father? ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/295 "2022-04-17T20:48:29Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Why is it surprising that he was repressing the memory of his father? Because he would know what his father looked and sounded like. Or are we supposed to imagine this was some other entity posing as his father? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/296 "2022-04-17T21:17:51Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > Because he would know what his father looked and sounded like. Or are we supposed to imagine this was some other entity posing as his father? Except it was all happening in his head. Everyone there (except for the Watcher) - old Picard, young Picard, his father, his mother, the monsters - were all constructs created by Picard’s unconscious mind. They were _all_ Picard. Why is it surprising that the “old Picard” construct couldn’t remember his father? He knew only what Picard’s mind wanted him to know. It’s dream logic. Ever had a dream where you didn’t know something you were supposed to know? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/297 "2022-04-17T22:11:23Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > It’s dream logic. Ever had a dream where you didn’t know something you were supposed to know? Only when the Romulan ancester of my current love interest - that, by the way looks exactly like her - is in there messing with my younger self creating the most interesting of Oedipus complexes. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/298 "2022-04-17T22:44:49Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Only when the Romulan ancester of my current love interest - that, by the way looks exactly like her - is in there messing with my younger self creating the most interesting of Oedipus complexes. I’ve had that dream too! Must be a Jungian thing. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/299 "2022-04-17T23:16:42Z")
> [@simster](#): > > that, by the way looks exactly like her We’ve now seen at least three generations of Noonien-Soongs who all look identical. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/300 "2022-04-18T04:52:44Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > We’ve now seen at least three generations of Noonien-Soongs who all look identical. And it was this show that whiffed it. Enterprise may have actually included a sneaky backdoor to explain why Arik Soong and Noonien Soong were identical. Arik Soong mentioned escaping to the Briar Patch, which is the area shown in Insurrection with the reverse-aging effect. And Insurrection mentioned that the Ba’ku had a pretty specific knowledge about how positronic beings functioned. It was possible that Arik Soong went to the Ba’ku planet, reinvented himself as Noonien Soong and started his work on positronic androids while he was there. But then this show came along to say that _all_ Soongs look like Brent Spiner. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458.md?page=16)