Except Wesley.
Shut up, Wesley.
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.
Anna Karenina?
Well, that was about what I expected -
Watch out Picard, that’s Gaius Baltar! 
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.
Young head-Picard has an Australian accent.
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.
Well this season kind of went off the rails after a strong start didn’t it?
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.
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.
I have a hard time believing that Picard wouldn’t recognize his own father.
He was literally messing with his own head. 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?
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?
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.
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.