There were endless moments in season 3 that would have been solved by reaching out to the progressive Borg collective from the season 2 finale. Not to mention that a few character arcs and character development moments that just seem suspiciously absent in season 3. So, is the entirety of season 2 not cannon or am I missing something?

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    1 year ago

    On the whole, i enjoyed S2, but if I was to give it a numerical rating, I'd say 4/10, below average for Trek.

    One of my bigger complaints would be with how watered down the Borg Queen was in terms of threat. We've previously seen Borg assimilation happen in mere seconds, and the assimilation of the Dr. took multiple episodes to resolve.

    As for my biggest complaint, it'd be the setting. A jump to the past is a nice trip for a 2 or 3 parter in Trek, but a whole season just didn't jive that much for me.

    On the other hand, S3, that was some of the best NuTrek I've seen so far.

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      1 year ago

      I recently watched it and didn't regret doing so. Picard was way more fun for me than Reddit had me thinking it was going to be.

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      A jump to the past is a nice trip for a 2 or 3 parter in Trek, but a whole season just didn’t jive that much for me.

      Same. To me, a sci-fi series or season set in the past just screams, "Somebody is over this shit." Whether that's the actors, writers, or (most likely) the money, somebody didn't want to build a bunch of god-damn sets, or get up at fuck o'clock to go into prosthetics, or pay for any of that nerd nonsense.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly, I enjoyed the portrayal of the Borg Queen outside the context of the collective. She got the sort of character development that I didn’t know I needed. And frankly, she was practically holding S2 up after they arrived in the past.

      Then she got the villain ball and ran off with Jurati and my interest fell flat.

      The Borg Queen worked as a character. She didn’t work as a villain. It was impossible to balance her being a galactic level threat against a crew that had no resources, and Doyalistly wasn’t allowed to deal with her until Picard had time to spare to concentrate on her.