'Picard' offers a new kind of vision for Star Trek stories on TV

'Picard' offers a new kind of vision for Star Trek stories on TV

Picard has a message for the Star Trek series as most of us know it: "OK, boomer."

The opening three hours of CBS All Access' Star Trek: Picard make it clear that Starfleet, the peacekeeping and exploration force that was built around the basic idea of preserving life throughout the galaxy, is rotting from within. Even if there are outside influences at work, they're only chipping at the all-too-familiar cracks of fear-induced hatred and intolerance.

Does any of this sound familiar to you, people of 2020?

Picard immediately gets to work on unraveling what has always been Star Trek's rosy view of humanity's future. Starfleet's idealistic mission is allowed to crash against a much more complex reality where good and bad people end up on the same side and even the greatest of heroes have their flaws. Read more...

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