Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Retrospective Notes

Issues:

• writing: Wouldn’t Jack be held accountable for his actions? He literally went to the Borg Queen and got himself arrested and as a result many people died because of that. (New Star Trek tends to reward bad behaviour like Michael Burnham)
• Murder: not as many people are blatantly murdered on this show however I still don’t like how Worf is casually dispatching people
• Doctor Crusher: didn’t like her ‘Sarah Conner’ take this season. She literally was a completely different person as compared to her TNG portrayal. Dr Crusher was adamantly against murder and terrorism but now she seems to have no issues with killing. Couldn’t her and Jack have been living a quiet life on Earth when the changelings start coming after her? 
• Raffi wasn’t needed: her role should have been portrayed by Ro. 
• Inconsistencies with the Changelings powers. Several times they could have used their stretching abilities to catch people but they do not. And how many changelings are there? From what I understood these changelings were ones captured and experimented on during and following the Dominion war by Section 31 and NOT changelings from the Great Link. So how many were there? 
• Isn’t Section 31 supposed to have been a super secret organization? When Bashir exposed them to Sisko Sisko says Starfleet denies all knowledge, so how does Picard & Dr Crusher know of them? 
• Renamed the Titan-A the Enterprise-G: did they do that to save $ by not building a new model/set for the G? 
• Jack looks like he’s 40 and not 20. 
• What happened to Picard’s girlfriend? 
• Shaw was introduced as a dick, then he turned out alright except when his crew was being held hostage. I think a Starfleet captain would fight harder to save his people. Had he been killed off then I think it would’ve been better instead of being killed off randomly in a hallway fire fight. 
• Why not use the Enterprise D as a ship in the fleet while they rebuild? It could have been modified into the Dreadnought Galaxy Class (like we saw on the TNG finale with Admiral Riker commanding)

Things I liked:

• I actually liked how they brought Data back this time around 
• Bringing back the Enterprise D!! I was completely shocked. I thought we might see the E but never the D
• I actually liked Worfs development prior to this season. 
• Seeing Ro, Tuvok and Shelby back (RIP Shelby). Wanted to see Janeway or Robert Picardo show up. 
• Great acting from everyone especially Jonathan Frakes. 
• Also great to see all the main characters contribute considerably in the final episode: Dr Crusher’s bad assness pays off as she takes the weapons console. Troi uses her imazdi connection to find Riker and everyone and takes the helm AND does not crash the ship. 
• I liked to humour, especially when it involves Worf
• Liked the memberberries: President Anton Chekov voiced by Walter Koenig, seeing Voyager/the bird of prey from ST4/the Stargazer and original constitution class ship at the fleet museum.