And maybe we haven’t talked enough about what an absolute gift Ethan Peck is as a performer, or the intriguing ways he and Strange New Worlds have worked to differentiate his Spock from both Leonard Nimoy’s and Zachary Quinto’s versions of the character. But he’s consistently a wonder to watch—his …

From Picard’s choked-up inability to express what his Number One has meant to him over the course of their lives together, to Riker’s wordless telepathic goodbye to Deanna and Geordi’s wonder at Data’s enthusiastic embrace of the new emotions he’s only now finally experiencing, these are all moments that carry …

Thankfully, unlike “Dominion” last week, “Surrender” has enough other stuff going on that it’s a whole lot easier to overlook the clunky bits. A welcome reunion between Riker and Troi while imprisoned aboard Vadic’s Shrikeˆbrings the pair full circle emotionally, allowing them both a chance to finally work through some …

Yet, it somehow appears that Section 31’s secret experiments on Changeling prisoners of war (called Project Proteus) are precisely what seems to have helped them evolve into beings that can mimic human genetic material in new and undetectable ways in the first place, the same abilities that are now essentially …

Prior to the plane crash, Shauna had just begun exploring the idea of figuring out who she was outside of Jackie’s shadow. She applied and was accepted to Brown instead of Rutgers, the college Jackie had decided they’d attend together. She rejected the boy Jackie picked out for her (the …

The arrival of Worf and Raffi to the U.S.S. Titan finally unites the two initially disparate stories that this season of Picard has been telling, and everything is the better for it. (And not just because of Worf’s criticism of Chateau Picard wine or the easy way he and Riker …

However there’s additionally Captain Shaw’s bitter and traumatized recounting of escaping the Battle of Wolf 359 when 11,000 different souls perished, Riker’s confession of his lack of religion within the wake of his son’s loss of life that has almost destroyed his marriage, and Seven’s embrace of the truth that …

The pair solely share one actual scene with any dialogue and it’s an absolute knock-out, an prolonged sequence that fills in some gaps in regards to the pair’s obvious on-again, off-again romantic historical past (they went on shore depart collectively!) and affords Beverly an opportunity to elucidate why she stored …

In that regard, the Picard season 3 premiere most likely doesn’t assist a lot, provided that it looks like the beginning of a totally totally different present than the one we’ve spent the previous two years watching. And, to be honest, I believe this premiere comes the closest to what …

Leif sets out to find his sister and Harald when a bounty is placed on their heads by Olaf’s men and the group is forced to flee Denmark along with a group of Viking refugees who have been forced out of their villages by the advancing Christian army. But although …