Star Trek fans I make it no secret that i'm not that big of a Star Trek fan i'm honestly more of a Star Wars fan I always have been and I always will be. However like alot of you I found myself excited for the show which i'm about to talk about because it looked so good and the fact that a great character actor like Sir Patrick Stewart was returning after years pf saying that he wouldn't only had me more interested and so here are my first impressions of Star Trek: Picard and yes there will be spoilers..
The plot of this episode called "Remembrance" picks up years after Star Trek: Nemesis and find Jean-Luc Picard long retired but all of that ends when a young girl enters his life and he now must go on a quest to find her sister and find out why people want them both killed. Yeah this is honestly a really great story to open the season since it does a great job of reintroducing Picard as well as introducing all of the new characters and it does it all with such great pacing.
Of course reprising his role is Sir Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard with Stewart also serving as the shows executive producer. Also starring in the episode is Isa Briones as Dahj and Soji Asher , Alison Pill as Agnes Jurati , Harry Treadaway as Narek and Evan Evagora as Elnor. Now I will say that there is a cool guest star in this episode which i'm not going to spoil here but when we get into spoilers all bets are off.
In terms of what I thought about the acting in this episode it was honestly alot better then what I was expecting it to be. Simply because the acting in any pilot is never as good as the acting in any of the other episodes since the actors are still trying to find their characters here tho since the characters are so well defined they don't have to find them at all they just know what the character would say and that really does help with the performances in my opinion.
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Now this might not be considered a spoiler but i'm playing it safe but guest starring in this episode and also reprising his role is Brent Spiner as Data. Now I do know that the character died at the end of Nemesis and so don't worry they don't retcon that film how they bring him back is by having him appear in Picards dreams which is really they only way that they could have brought the character back at least without retconning the film.
However I will like to add that he doesn't really get alot of screen time in this episode in fact I think in total he's in it for around five minuets but i'm not exactly sure on that. For some reason Brent Spiner just looks sad in this episode and it honestly makes me wish that the character doesn't appear in future episodes just simply because I don't want to see a sad looking Brent Spiner i'd much rather they introduce a new companion for Picard.
Now I really liked the character of Dahj I thought by making her the daughter of Data let alone one in a pair of twins was both predictable and yet at the same time a great way to link it to Next Generation. Most continuations hit you over the head with the connects like for example the Star Wars sequel trilogy but here I felt that it was done in a way that was rather subtle and not heavy handed plus that connection is seemingly important to the plot of the show unlike say Kylo Ren being Han's kid which isn't important at all.
There is one thing that I really didn't like about the character and that's the fact that they really didn't give her a character at all. Which is a shame because she's only in this one episode and is the catalyst for the events of the show and so you'd thing that more of an effort would have been made into giving her an actual character but they don't so all we get is the typical person who doesn't really know what's going on until she dies.
Now there was one scene which not only sold me on the episode but also sold me on the entire series and that's the interview scene near the start of the episode or more importantly Picards speech that he gives during that interview. That one speech was so well done and I felt was very in character at least from what I could gather during the episode that I decided right there and then that I was going to watch as many episode of this show as I can because I want to spend more time with this man and it was such a bada*s moment as well.
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Now I have no idea who's doing the titles for this show but I will say that imagery and the music by Jeff Russo came together to form something truly beautiful. I'd honestly say that the episode is worth watching just based of the opening titles alone just because they are so stunning to see and i'm not going to lie I came close to crying during the opening titles that's how moved I was watching them.
Overall guys and girls just go and watch the episode right now I don't care how you see it just go and see it. So far i'd say that this is the best first episode of the year and we're not even a month in that's how confident I am in that statement because it is so good and so entertaining if this is what Star Trek is like at it's best then I might have to check out some of the older episodes and as you guys know I never give ratings out when I do these first impressions and so I will once again say just go and watch the episode right now.