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So I'm going to out myself as a big nerd here, if playing EQ didn't already do that, but I was pretty disappointed from having just seen the pilot. I was hoping for another TOS / TNG style explore the galaxy type show, but it seems like this one is going to have a more linear plot. Old Picard and a rag tag group of misfits taking on the evil Romulans just doesn't seem like Trek.

I loved the largely stand alone episodes of past trek series. Sure there were some weak ones, but if you didn't like the episodes one week, next week was usually something completely different. Trek differentiates itself from a lot of other sci-fi because while space politics and conflicts played a role, exploration and discovery was always the over arching theme, and I suspect that will be lacking in this series. I suppose there is some potential with the whole AI stuff, but it just seems like they've set it up to be really limited with a narrow and linear storyline.

I am not sure what the parallels are between the world of the 80s and 90s with TNG and how that translates into "Picard" in the 2020s

What were the Klingons a response to?

Kirk and Riker getting space pussy was a response to what?

Patrick Stewart: ‘Star Trek: Picard’ A Response To The ‘F***ed’ World Of Brexit, Trump

Sir Patrick Stewart has become so incensed by Brexit and President Trump that he is willing to taint a beloved franchise with his modern political sensibilities.

Speaking with Variety, the acclaimed actor along with the show’s producers said that the much-anticipated “Star Trek: Picard” series on CBS All Access – a quasi-reboot of “The Next Generation” – will be a response to the Trumpian world of Brexit and nationalist populism.

“In a way, the world of ‘Next Generation’ had been too perfect and too protected,” said Stewart. “It was the Enterprise. It was a safe world of respect and communication and care and, sometimes, fun.”

However, for “Picard,” Steward wanted a show that reflected today’s world by centering the drama around how the Federation – the union of planets – takes “an isolationist turn.”

“[The show] was me responding to the world of Brexit and Trump and feeling, ‘Why hasn’t the Federation changed? Why hasn’t Starfleet changed?’ Maybe they’re not as reliable and trustworthy as we all thought,” Stewart said.

Stewart went to lament how both the United States and Britain are “f***ed” under President Trump and Boris Johnson. “I’m not sure which one of us is in the most trouble,” said Stewart. “I think it’s actually the U.K. I think we’re f***ed, completely f***ed.”

It's like a fanfic side show. The age of Reddit.

Hard Pass.