Star Trek: Picard - 7 Ups & 2 Downs From Episode 4 'Absolute Candor'

Downs...

2. This Entire Scene

I just want to get this out of the way early so you can get on with enjoying the rest of the article and, indeed, the rest of your life. If there's one thing Patrick Stewart is supposed to bring to anything - let alone Star Trek - it's a level of performance way above what you normally get on Television. This opening scene, set 14 years in the past on the planet Vashti, was hopeless.

I don't know if it was the inclusion of a child actor, the near-Insurrection presentation of a happy settlement or just a by-product of the Way of Absolute Candor, but this was awkward to watch. It's a petty gripe, admittedly, and had it come partway through the episode it might have been as noticeable, but for an opening, it didn't work. At all.

How's that for absolute candor.