Confession: Early in pandemic, while everyone was working on their sourdoughs, I lost my mind over how much I hated Picard S1. Literally spite-scripted screenplays for a series that used the same elements in service to something that felt more "Trek". (Hey, we all coped differently. 🙃)
I didn't watch S2 & S3, while my fellow #Trekkies hatewatched. I plan to pour my love of Trek into more new SF material, but... I think this review also neatly sums up the ongoing problem:
https://observer.com/2023/04/star-trek-picard-finale-review-to-not-so-boldly-go-backwards/
@holon42 I wouldn't call that disillusioned! The flaw of Picard was nostalgia. Art is meant to build on the past, not linger in it.
E.g., I was underwhelmed when I first saw Soylent Green, because the concept had already informed so much else I'd watched before it that the ending *couldn't* shock me as it did its first audience, freshly experiencing the idea of people being indifferent to their food source.
You're exactly right not to glorify the past. Trek *should* be something we build upon.
@MLClark yes, you're right about that, but it's disappointing when i can, for example, find ever new and currently relevant interpretations of, for example, Hamlet, which shed light on today's world in a fresh way, while too many Trek messages remind me of Polonius, pompous and superficial.
perhaps i just expected too much from tv writers.