1. Way to rip off Avengers with the alien worm things and the portal. A little originality, guys?

2. Riker should have been on the current version of the Enterprise. That would have been really cool and a nice shout out to the TNG finale. Oh well. And nice job letting the Tal Shiar bitch who infiltrated the highest levels of Star Fleet and was responsible for tens of thousands of Federation deaths off with a warning and her fleet intact. Great work, Will. :shake:

3. What the **** happened to the male Romulan baddie? Unless I missed something, the last time we see him is when he's physically pinned down by the androids, and then nothing for the rest of the episode. Did he just wander off and go pout somewhere?

4. I wonder if the female Romulan baddie is actually dead. Never heard a thud or anything. Probably had some Batman-like grappling line and latched onto something before she hit bottom.

5. Lame at the beginning, promising in the middle, meh at the end. But assuming we survive another year, I'll probably watch season 2.

But the way the story was built, wouldn't it have made more sense for Picard to sacrifice himself for Data to come back (recast, new body)? Narrative symmetry and all that. They could rename the ship USS Picard so the title makes sense.

To be clear that wouldn't be my preference for the show going forward, it just seems like that would be a more sensible ending for the story they told. My preference is that the new writers give us something better next year with Picard, who is my favorite TNG character.

Also they need to get over this idea that the space battles need to be 10,000 ship cluster****s. They did the same thing in Discovery. It should have been two or three Romulan ships vs Riker on the Enterprise-E. Not a new Enterprise. It, like every other ship on the show, would just look like a half-ass ripoff of the Enterprise-E anyway.

They've got to find someone besides John Eaves to design these ships, by the way. I'm sick of all the harsh angles and contrasting patterns. Go back to some of the subtlety of the refit/A and D designs.

And were Seven and Rafi holding hands at the end? Like, what? I'm actually fine with Seven being a lesbian, but there was no setup for that relationship at all.

I think my biggest issue (aside from the plot/character issues that plagued the whole season...) was the entire federation fleet made up of only one model of starship.

Which I'm guessing was a post-production necessity and not what was originally planned. Although Frakes did have a line about it.

Seven and Rafi was out of nowhere, but Rafi sucked as a character the whole season, so I just let that one go. I wasn't a big fan of half the crew coupling off, in a general sense, though.

I do like, however, the way the ending sets the second season up to be a more Trek traditional ensemble show. Picard has a crew, and they have dark uniforms that shadow the original TNG design.

resurrection of Picard

death of Data

Riker about kicking treacherous Tal Shiar ass, and the presentation of the ships positions was very comic book splash page and done to fit on our small screens, and it is very much Star Trek to resolve a big confrontation like that without combat as much fun as a cool battle would have been to watch.

It ended decently enough, I suppose. The first half of that episode was pretty awful, so I'm actually kind of thankful it ended up even as good as it did (Riker's appearance and the Data/Picard convo being the high points).

I think it would have made more sense to have Picard sacrifice himself for Data than the other way around after what happened in Nemesis, but the show is called Picard after all.

Also Lore as villain would have made more sense than evil Soji (what was the point of introducing her in the first place anyway? She did nothing in this episode and then we don't see what happens to her). Also, did they just forget to write an ending for the Romulan guy or just not care to show it?

I'm sure I'll watch S2. I hope they can do better.