By: John Baker March 8, 2020

Star Trek: Picard – On Nepenthe, Picard Finds Safety & Old Friends – Review, Ep. 107

Man, there’s just something kind of magical seeing old faces re-emerge in new shows. Yes, they are playing the same characters we remember from ‘back in the day,’ but they are older, wiser, more grounded and like so many characters in Star Trek: Picard, carrying pain and sorrow with them. And so it was in […]

 
By: John Baker February 28, 2020

Star Trek: Picard – There Are Ways In & Out Of An ‘Impossible Box’ – Review, Ep. 106

As Star Trek: Picard has ramped up, I’ve been very interested to see what would happen when Jean-Luc Picard made his inevitable way to the ‘artifact’ – the reclaimed Borg cube. In episode 106, titled “The Impossible Box,” that moment, at last, has arrived – and I enjoyed how it played out. Yes, yes, the […]

 
By: John Baker February 6, 2020

Star Trek: Picard: The ‘Beginning’ Offers Clues, A New Crew – Review, Ep. 103

I couldn’t help but wonder as I watched episode 3 of Star Trek: Picard, “The End is the Beginning,” just how many bridges Jean-Luc Picard had burned during his time in, and with his resignation from, Star Fleet. Oh, I’m sure it’s not that extensive, but it seems as we’ve moved through the first three […]