To reiterate, the third season of “Picard” is, total, a lot sturdy, particularly when in comparison with the horrendous first two seasons. The storytelling is evident, the tempo is tolerable, and the characters are now not all violent murderers. As said in a earlier overview, this season of “Picard” appears like a extremely good “Subsequent Era” film. 

It’s value noting, nonetheless, that not one of the “Subsequent Era” films had been stellar. The movies had their moments, after all, however they had been largely replete with inappropriate “badass” film moments with a forged that was by no means chosen for his or her capabilities as motion stars. Maybe not content material to inform cerebral, talky tales, the filmmakers behind the 4 NextGen movies panicked and fled into the style that “Star Trek” is least ready to inhabit: motion. In “Star Trek: First Contact,” as an illustration, Picard is seen carrying a tank high, a gun strapped throughout his again, swinging on tubes to flee a room filled with flesh-melting gasoline. In “Star Trek: Nemesis,” Picard drives a dune buggy throughout a machine gun battle. The moments are dumb, and Picard is totally out of character. 

Picard’s attitudes in “Seventeen Seconds” cement this season as intentionally cinematic and action-forward. Sure, the season nonetheless appears like correct “Star Trek” — characters are nonetheless in uniform, there’s a chain of command, and many of the motion takes place on a starship — however a Trekkie can lament the identical issues about this season as they might in regards to the films. “Seventeen Seconds” declares brazenly that audiences won’t be getting a posh sci-fi story or an moral dilemma. This will probably be about battles, mysteries, and resolving long-held private points left over from 1994.