Review of Star Trek: Picard

I resisted watching this for a long time. The first season had been a disappointment and the second just terrible, with poor plots and the new woke characters just didn't work and were intensely annoying. But eventually I gave up and gave it a try. Hey, I watched three seasons of the appalling Star Trek Discovery. (Season two gave me a sliver of false hope.) Well, maybe I'm talking from the viewpoint of having low expectations exceeded, but the moment Worf turned up in the third episode, my hopes rose. Gradually the whole team was reassembled, even Data, who was killed off back at the start of the Picard series. What we ended up with was an excellent Next Generation series. Sure, there are plot holes and crazy leaps and the surprise (though, I suppose, inevitable) revelation as to who the enemy is, but it was just a fun ride for anyone who loved the original Next Generation series. If you aren't hooked after the first couple of episodes, stick with it. I wasn't, and it was a week or two before trying episode three, but then binge watched the rest.