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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Strange New Worlds (2022)
This "feels" right. Finally.
There's likely a couple things that people more politically charged are going to get angry about, but by doing so, they're missing the point. This episode went as good as it possibly can for the first entry of a new series. It's absolutely the best episode of Trek I've seen in the last 20 years.
Star Trek: Picard: Monsters (2022)
People need to stop trying to associate things in the show with real life
This is a very different episode in a good way, with an excellent cameo from a famous actor from a much loved sci-fi franchise.
While the focus is on Picard himself, it begins to shed light on what we've seen in past episodes as well as where this is going.
Star Trek: Picard: Penance (2022)
TNG Mirror Universe-style episode we never had. But, they used a word that will trigger negative reviews...
Already one written review says the show is back to season 1 norms. I beg to differ, just because they used the word "confederation" doesn't mean they're making a political statement. Chill out and enjoy the show. We're only two eipisodes in and already I feel more taken into the plot than last season, or even all of Discovery.
Star Trek: Discovery: Rosetta (2022)
Besides the comments about Dust, two points ruin this episode:
1) "Team A" is perfectly fine with thinking a race of super advanced multi galactic aliens communicates using emotions.
2) "Team B" after miserably failing it's last plan where they are somehow able to reproduce an exact copy of this alien technology to know how to destroy it... somehow think it's new plan that is literally just "hey, let's go in that big bubble thing and shut it off" is actually going to work, and even manage to convince the leader of PLANET EARTH that it's going to work.
This is just...bad. I'm so glad the first episode of Picard S2 was actually quite good.
Star Trek: Picard: The Star Gazer (2022)
Enjoyed this episode more than all episodes of Season 1 and Discovery combined.
I don't write reviews, and this isn't one. Simply put, this episode has tons of elements that any TNG fan would enjoy. Tons of Easter eggs and ship p*rn that is for once presented in a manor like TNG and not a bunch of copy
and paste ships.
Just watch it.
My only problem with this episode is I'm worried it set the bar too high where it's all down hill from here...
Star Trek: Discovery: Su'Kal (2020)
Ignore the haters, much better than average Disco episode
At first glance I'm not thrilled about this "child" being the cause of The Burn, however, they aren't done telling the story yet, so I'm considering this a nitpick.
Everything else about this episode is great. Stunning visuals, nutty holograms, decent acting. The people complaining that this is Harry Potter also probably complain that this isn't true trek, however they're literally going someplace no one has gone before, so why nitpick?
Seems like Michael might get the chair though...
Watchmen (2019)
Chill out people...
Don't judge one or even two episodes in. There's obviously more going on with the plot than modern day political statements.
Long story short, so far it's entertaining, and there's a ton of mystery and deception going on. They're just building the world for us before everything is clear. We don't need to keep comparing just two episodes to the source material or the movie.
I'm a time where most shows are incredibly predictable are just simple reboots of things from the past, I'm cautiously optimistic about this, since I'm two episodes in and I have no idea yet if this is all smoke and mirrors.