Star Trek Picard should be erased from canon because it actively taints everything you love about TNG and Star Trek in general.
Did you like Measure of a Man? Let’s not only kill off the robotics scientist who Data had a friendship with after that episode, but also undercut the message by having Starfleet actively create a race of Data like androids anyway.
Did you like the intrigue of Romulan Subterfuge and the Vulcan peace talks with Spock? Tough shit, Romulas is gone and exploded.
Did you like the reformed Borg Hugh and his story of trying to de-assimilate Borg drones? Tough shit, he’s dead.
Did you like 7 of 9’s journey of becoming human again? Let’s show her murdering her former queer lover at Star Trek’s equivalent of Mos Eisley.
Speaking of hurting queer coded characters and minorities. Let’s also give 7 of 9 an alcoholic romantic same sex love interest who constantly breaks up with her through the series and is a mess. Let’s also have the first death in the series be Data’s daughter’s black boyfriend.
Did you like Troy and Riker coming together and their relationship? Tough shit, Troy is dealing with a dead child.
Did you like Q? Fuck you, he’s dead now too.
Did you like Lore? He’s absorbed to bring Data back.
Did you like Ro Laren? She’s dead now too.
I mean for fuck’s sake… did you like PICARD??? Guess what? HE’S DEAD TOO! He dies at the end of season 1 and is replaced with an android!!!!
Like OH MY GOD… EVERY cool character you like in TNG is killed off in some stupid absurd unsatisfying way in this show.
The ONLY thing Picard did right was bring back the Enterprise D… and even then they have the damn ship doing Tokyo drifts through a Borg ship like it’s the millennium falcon. That ship is MASSIVE, it shouldn’t be zipping and barrel rolling like it’s in a Star Fox game.
I’m okay with canon being a little wonky from time to time. Discovery did a lot of weird things and that took some getting used to but I’m okay with it. But Picard? That show ACTIVELY HATED being a Star Trek show. It hated all of the characters and killed them off any chance they got for “shock value.” Season 3 is the best season of the bunch but it’s still riddled with all of the issues the series had from the start.
I just… I just hate that kind of writing. If you’re not going to do anything but kill off a character, don’t bring them back. If you can’t think of anything bad happening to the universe outside of destroying established races and planets, then don’t do universe destroying plots. I thought Star Trek was supposed to be optimistic and about what we need to do to fix things to have a utopia, Picard is the most cynical resentful hateful black and depressing series out of the batch.
I hate feeling like this but the longer I dwell on the absolute mess that Picard is, the worse it gets and the worse it drags down the rest of the series I love. I’m not opposed to killing off characters or shaking up the lore. But Picard went full Dalek extermination mode on everything it even remotely touched.
