10 Most Frustrating Star Trek Moments Ever

The finale of Picard’s first season was meant to offer a fist-pumping, cheer-inducing moment towards the climax. Unknown to the Romulan fleet, which has apparently been hiding just, eh, over there – Picard has requested that the planet Julion IV be given Federation protection. Having done this, acting-Captain Riker arrives to save the day. The groans were heard around the world.

The fun part of the episode is of course seeing Riker in uniform, totally in control, storming to his former captain’s aid. The ship that he’s on, the Inquiry-class Zheng He, isn’t even a bad design at all, depending on how you feel about deflector dishes.

It’s the fact that there are hundreds of them, almost all identical, dotted through the scene. This is coupled with a similar situation on the Romulan side. To put it simply, there were absolutely no stakes to this face-off at all. As the title suggests, it really does feel like the copy and paste buttons were used a lot while putting this together.

Now while we must acknowledge that there were four distinct versions of the Inquiry class, best identified by the length of the nacelles, that really does seem like a bit of a pointless change. The second season of Picard saw an immediate addressing of this problem. The very first episode, The Star Gazer, introduced the new Sagan-class ship, with ships like the Sovereign and Akira returning, the Luna making its live-action debut, and several ships previously seen in Star Trek Online appearing for the first time.

It was, quite frankly, bloody obvious what they were doing. And considering how the copy and paste scene was received, it was very much appreciated.