Retired Starfleet Admiral Picard receives an unexpected visitor.
I enjoyed this episode for the return of Jean-Luc Picard and a strong hook into an intriguing story.
The plot was fairly slow paced but it drew me in with some decent scene setting for Picard's character and the introduction of a fairly compelling mystery. There are a few sequences of pure exposition, but they are handled well. I liked the sci-fi concepts and the final reveal was pretty cool.
It touches on themes of grief, loneliness and xenophobia, but nothing is thoroughly revealed at this early point in the overarching series narrative.
Visually it is much stronger than the Treks of old, as to be expected, with cinematography and general production values so much higher nowadays. All the martial arts felt a bit forced, but aside from that I have no complaints.
Patrick Stewart looks a little bit frail but his performance is as compelling as ever. He is an ageing, haunted Picard, searching for purpose in what's left of his life. I always pictured him ending up this way when watching TNG.
As first episodes go in Star Trek, I found this to be one of the better ones.
I enjoyed this episode for the return of Jean-Luc Picard and a strong hook into an intriguing story.
The plot was fairly slow paced but it drew me in with some decent scene setting for Picard's character and the introduction of a fairly compelling mystery. There are a few sequences of pure exposition, but they are handled well. I liked the sci-fi concepts and the final reveal was pretty cool.
It touches on themes of grief, loneliness and xenophobia, but nothing is thoroughly revealed at this early point in the overarching series narrative.
Visually it is much stronger than the Treks of old, as to be expected, with cinematography and general production values so much higher nowadays. All the martial arts felt a bit forced, but aside from that I have no complaints.
Patrick Stewart looks a little bit frail but his performance is as compelling as ever. He is an ageing, haunted Picard, searching for purpose in what's left of his life. I always pictured him ending up this way when watching TNG.
As first episodes go in Star Trek, I found this to be one of the better ones.