Star Trek: Picard

Jesus Christ I forgot about Kes. I swear that bitch was stoned every day she was at work by the tone of her voice. And they tried really hard to make her a thing, but it was night and day once Jeri Ryan replaced her. Ryan could act, had good comic timing, and was extremely fap worthy. And the Tom Kes Neelix love triangle had to be the cringiest shit they ever wrote in Voyager, bad enough that it made him banging Mexican Klingon rage bitch more believable.

Izo, you cannot count STD or Picard as real trek. It is known.

Ok Wombat, here is a challenge for you. See if you can sit through the Trois loses her powers episide, Trois gets aged by a power leecher episode, and my personal favorite the Trois gets pregnant with alien baby episode. If you can make it through those, more power to you.

As far as her mom goes, she could be interesting mostly in how Picard played off of her and (like many characters) got improved by the writing on DS9. But arguably the second worst episode ever is her in the holodeck nude bathing with Worfs kid and doing HR Puffinstuff creepy shit. And the all time king of bad trek has to be the Beverly Irish Ghost episode. Trois episodes were consistently bad, though, even if they were not the peek of TNG suck. She even dragged down the otherwise good Barkely and Holodock episode of Voyager.

Frenzied Wombat said:

Man, I don’t know how you remember all that detail. I’ve watched every single TNG episode at some point (it’s been years) but barely remember those episodes, though I do vaguely remember the losing her powers episode and the baby one, but it’s more one of those foggy abused repressed memories coming back.
Now you made me remember Worfs son, fuck.

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The entire reason I am refusing to watch Picard or STD is that I have a ridiculous memory for useless knowledge. What has been seen cannot be unseen. If I watch that shit it will stain my good memories of Trek even more. Plus SJW Trek taking a giant shit on cannon is not something I would want to validate by watching in the first place.

On the topic of Avery Brooks, part of that was it took them a bit to find their way with him. He wanted to be bald out of the gate (bald Cisco is best Cisco) but they wanted something to distance him from his Hawk character on the show he just wrapped previously. His acting when he was doing his Emissary bits and generally just trying to show joy was hit and miss the first couple seasons. Very wooden. Once the Marquis arc started and gave him something to be pissed at, the character picked up and so did his acting. And when he was pissed about something, there was no one better on the show.

I personally feel that Janeway was the worst captain in the franchise, but after seeing Mulgrew in other things I do not think that it her fault mostly. The character was written very inconsistently, probably owing to Ron Moore noping out of Voyager early on. Her queen bitch routine with 7of9 was some of the most annoying shit on that show to watch. The only time I genuinely liked her on the show was when she was either busting Tom's balls or her interactions with Tuvok. But again, having seen the actress in other shit (fun fact, she was the military ally in Remo Williams), I think that is on their writers. There was also a lot of people showing up to collect a paycheck going on on Voyager once 7 and Holodock took over the show. The actor for Chekote basically checked out for sure because everything they were intending to do with him got dropped. He had some good stories with 7 and that one episode where he had to tap into his families genetic mental illness to communicated with aliens, but they basically gave him nothing to do once the writers got tunnel vision with 7 and Doc. Looking at what Moore was able to do with BSG and what Berman has shit out with SJWTrek, I wonder how much differently things would have gone for Voyager and and Trek in general if Berman had lost that power struggle instead.