Stardust City Rag

Formulaic modern television without the critical point of difference that made Star Trek: Optimism for humanity.

Human beings today are already better than the people in this show. It's not remotely believable.

Do you have any idea what you're taking away from people? Star Trek is an inpiring part of many modern humanist's lives. Watching this feels like watching a family member going off the rails and messing up their lives.

I don't normally write reviews but after reading the opinions of all these whining trekkies, I thought I needed to balance it a bit. I'm enjoying it for what it is. It's not a continuation of TNG, get over it! It's darker and set in period where there are troubled times and the Federation aren't so supposedly wholesome. Do these people even remember TNG S01E24 - Conspiracy, it wasn't all rosy then was it. Oh and for all the wannabe writers claiming the scripting it so poor, take off your rose tinted glasses, crack out your old VHS box sets and trawl through all of the 80's/90's series'. There's plenty of dodgy episodes amongst them.

I don't like where this show is headed. There is Too much unnecessary violence. Beheading? Showing a person's eye getting ripped out? What's wrong with the creators?

Star Trek has always been about telling a positive vision of the future. Episodes had a moral, they had a STORY to tell.

Episodes like the inner light, the first duty, even family reunion. They all told a story, each of them had a message.

This show is just a dark vision of the future.

And I must say: I don't enjoy watching this anymore.

Two basic principles out the window: no blood and gore. A positive atmosphere. Both are gone in episode 5. It's not that I can't handle blood & gore but it I want to see that I'll put on The Walking Dead. To me ST has a certain vibe that's totally missing in Picard.

I was enjoying the first few episodes. Fine it is darker and more depressing than I like my Trek, but there have been hints that the Federation is rotting from the inside and the violence was done only when it suited to move the story forward, and was generally non-gory. This episode suddenly seems to be a patchwork of Discovery (which I hate), Blunt Talk (which I love, but has no place in the Trek universe) and a Tarantino bloodfest. I am going to give it another week to see if they get back on track, but this one was right on the Negan/Glenn level for tipping me out of watching the show.