Three episodes in, and I think I'm safe to say that Star Trek Picard is the best Trek we've had since 1994... (That's the year The Next Generation finished in case you need to Google.)
[Warning before you go further; I'm not planning on dropping massive spoilers here, but if you've not seen it yet and want to go in completely clean, possibly best not to read...]
It works both as a series in its own right and as a continuation to Next Generation, despite not really being anything like that show. It's got the right level of references to the past, and of building its own new additions to Trek lore.
It's a single story that's being told over ten episodes, with a number of strands weaving together. The show is pointing in a direction at the moment, but I'm sure there will be plenty of twists along the way, and where the story ends up will be in an unexpected place.
The nods to the past have generally been subtle; it would have been very easy to have brought the whole of the Next Gen crew together for one last mission, but that would have been the easy way. And it really would have stretched all credibility. 20 years on, everyone from the Enterprise crew would have moved on with their lives. Been doing other things.
Heck... is there even an Enterprise still in service? Would NCC-1701E still be flying, or would be be on NCC-1701F by now?
Oh... will we get to see it? I hope so.
But, of all the nostalgic elements of TNG I most want... the one more that ever is Q. At some point - whether this season, the next, or the third, or whenever - Jean-Luc has to come in to contact with Q. To see Patrick Stewart and John de Lancie sparring one more time would be joyful. The biggest mistake they made with the TNG movies was not doing one with Q.
Still, at least we know that season 2 sees Whoopi Goldberg returning as Guinan...
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