In “Picard” season 3, episode 6, Sidney La Forge (Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut) tells Geordi, “I grew up listening to your adventures, all of the occasions you and Picard stood up for what was proper.” Geordi insists that it was a unique time, and Sidney, talking in stilted dialogue with out contractions, exclaims, “No! It’s you and I which might be completely different.”

“You constructed superb issues,” she confesses. “I simply wished to fly them.”

Once more, we hear the “Picard” season 3 writers personal themselves in dialogue. They simply wish to fly the superb issues “Star Trek: The Subsequent Era” constructed. A fair deeper self-own comes once they reduce to Riker, Raffi, and Worf on Daystrom Station.

Riker: “So Starfleet put in an insane A.I. to defend its deepest secret?”

Raffi: “They used him as a result of he is a one-of-a-kind murals, actually extra good than the rest they will give you.”

“Star Trek: The Subsequent Era” was a one-of-a-kind work artwork. As “Picard” continues flying into darkness, countervailing Gene Roddenberry’s utopian beliefs, it is simply utilizing that collection the best way “The Supply” (additionally accessible to stream on Paramount+) and its many Easter eggs used “The Godfather.” That film was about capitalism, the actual not-so-creative drive behind the present glut of legacy sequels. Positive, it brings a tear to the attention after we see fan-favorite characters reunited, however there additionally comes a degree once you want extra of that and fewer explaining of issues in dialogue in essentially the most asinine means.

Whereas “Star Trek Past” might have gone Mutt Williams and included a bike, this franchise isn’t Indiana Jones. On the finish of the day, the deepest secret Daystrom Station might maintain is that “Picard” and its warehouse of references are bereft of originality.