Star Trek: Picard - 4 Ups & 5 Downs From Et In Arcadia Ego (Part 1)

1. TOS Vibes

I've no idea if this was deliberate or not, but this week's episode felt like some sort of loving homage to the Original Series of Star Trek. The ship is attacked by giant space flowers, the crew winds up on a big rocky, desert-like world, they come across a near Utopian settlement of not-what-they-seem young men and women (and their older, weaker father-figure), and everyone's just, like, wearing these gauche, revealing outfits.

No? Just me?

Regardless it was, aesthetically, a lovely episode of television. The world where it took place, the backdrop of the settlement, the costumes, the whole thing was a treat for the senses and, deliberate or not, invoked all sorts of memories of Kirk et al.

Between that, the Voyager themes that accompany Seven, and the entire hour spent having Pizzas with the Rikers, we've had more than enough slices of the Star Trek of old in recent weeks. DS9 could maybe have had a bigger nod that just Quark starting an intergalactic Wetherspoons, but you can't have it all I guess.