Star Trek: Picard - 7 Ups & 5 Downs From Season 1

4. Starfleet

It's worth saying at this point that I am absolutely bang-up for a Mandolorian-esque Star Trek show that just takes the usual players out of the equation entirely. Something that sets up a brand new character who zips around the Star Trek universe getting on everyone's bad side on their own personal journey.

But until they do that, Starfleet remains the beating heart of Star Trek, and the problem with Picard was that it could never really make its mind up over how to utilise them. First they try and work with them, then we discover they've been infiltrated by Romulans, then the gang attempt to work around them but, in the end, fall back on them entirely to save the day.

It was a muddled approach and one that'll have been particularly frustrating to fans who really wanted to see what the organisation looked like some decades after their last great voyage. Basically, most of them are spies, everyone who isn't swears, and they only have one class of ship.