We open on a pretty by-the-numbers villain speech from Vadic, who swears vengeance and destruction, kills a random underling just to show how ruthless she is, but most significantly, vows to track down every friend Jean-Luc Picard has left, as […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation could always swing between serious drama and silly high concept, and we follow last week’s meditation on impending death with a cold open in which Jack mercilessly kills the bridge crew… but it was all […]
We ended last week with a monumental cliffhanger, as tension comes to a head between Picard and Riker, when Picard overrides Riker’s instincts to play it safe, and blunders into disaster. The Titan was last seen crippled, powered down, and […]
At its best, Star Trek is a heady mixture of science, philosophy, and two-fisted action, and “Seventeen Seconds,” far and away the finest episode of Picard to date, delivers all three in spades. Our heroes on the USS Titan are […]
We try to keep our TV reviews as spoiler-free as possible here at Subject, but as “Disengage” is a slight episode that really only exists to give us a few dramatic reveals, it’s impossible to talk about this week’s installment […]
Full disclosure: I have not, thus far, enjoyed Star Trek: Picard. I grew up on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and was looking forward to catching up with Jean-Luc Picard, last seen in 2002’s dire Star Trek: Nemesis. The first […]
