5150Joker
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It's not solid. It's better than Discovery and shows some potential, but it has a number of flaws. Not the least of which is that it's got a convoluted plot with way too much going on that makes very little sense if you think about it in the slightest.
So, here we go:
So, right out of the gate, the Romulans being refugees makes no fucking sense. The Romulan Star Empire was a vast and branching empire that was the Federation's only real threat in a post Dominion War galaxy. The Romulan Star Empire entered the Dominion War at the tail end of it, which meant that they lost very little in the way of ships and manpower compared to everyone else. The only reason why the Federation was still a match for the Romulans after the Dominion War was due to some technological advantages and being considerably larger and more vast than the Romulan Empire. Post-war, it's likely that the Federation had more ships than the Romulans did. We also saw that Starfleet began to seriously modernize and advance as evidenced in First Contact and Nemesis.
The idea that the Romulan Empire would come to the Federation for help when their sun was going to go supernova is absolute bullshit. Also, the star being close to a super nova is likely something they would detect and evacuation of Romulus and even Remus would likely have been underway for decades. Even if this was a sudden thing, the loss of the entire system wouldn't have been a crippling blow to the empire the way its portrayed in the TV show. It's a vast Star Empire. The name even suggests this. Again we have writers and show runners that know nothing of their source material.
The Federation building an armada of ships to evacuate Romulus makes no damn sense and even if it did, why would they be dicks to the Romulans after a bunch of androids attacked Utopia Planetia? It makes zero sense. An intergalactic government that's founded by and made up of dozens of species becoming isolationist and xenophobic makes no sense. Their attitude towards surviving Romulans makes no sense.
Then there is the crap about Data's daughters. What the hell? How can you clone everything he was off the equivalent of a single neuron. It would be like making a copy of me based on a single cell and that cell containing all my memories and experiences. It's bullshit and makes no sense like most of the rest of this plot. Lastly, watching Data's daughter clone thing talk to her diverse boyfriend was enough to make we want to grab a sword off my wall and fall on the point ear first so I'd never have to hear talk like that again. Star Trek is supposed to be set in the future. Why would these people speak like teenagers or millennials do today? Star Trek characters have always spoken in a way that we can understand, but was always a bit different than we do today. Common sayings and vernacular of the time the shows aired has never been in the dialog of any Star Trek show outside of cases where time travel was used as a plot device.
Picard also seems a bit off to me. He seems more like Patrick Stewart and less like Jean-Luc Picard. It could certainly be worse, but it could have been a lot better.
I agree with most of this except the Millennial commentary, not sure I saw that or even relate (not to mention Millennials aren't children but approaching 40 yrs old now). The biggest issues I had as you mentioned that it made no sense for Starfleet to rescue the Romulans, they aren't Syrian refugees (despite the writers trying to make that connection) but rather masters of a vast empire that spans several hundred planets. Even if Romulus died out, they likely had hundreds of colonies elsewhere and would easily survive this kind of disaster, just like the Federation would continue w/out Earth or humans for that matter. Them trying to liken Data's fragmented neuropathway to a live cell and cloning it (do they have PCR now for tech?) + retrieving his memory/personality all from that is the biggest BS I ever heard, technobabble or not. Data's daughter makes no sense either since he had trouble creating an iteration more advanced than himself yet Maddox or whoever managed to make one that perfectly resembles a human and even come in pairs (why?). Also, why would synthetics all of the sudden go rogue? Talk about a lazy copy of BSG's overarching story. In addition, the Federation always had a dark side to it, Section 31 anyone?
They're obviously focused on trying to make a connection to present day politics but rather than be subtle with it, they take a hammer and bludgeon you and expect you not to think of the obvious plot holes and lack of logic/reasoning behind what they're telling us. That said, I still think Picard is a lot better than Discovery and has some potential as long as they don't shove too much woke politics in our face.
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