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

4. And Seek Out New Life

If Picard never returned for a second season then, without question, its greatest accomplishment would have been the work it did in gradually, subtly, profoundly fleshing out its entire supporting cast. Across just a handful of episodes, it's given us one of the most interesting crews in the show's history.

Rios is a man overlayed with cliches but immensely broken beneath the surface, Raffi is a striking presentation of strength in the face of overwhelming loss, Agnes a far-harder-to-write-than-you'd-think redemptive pillar of the show, Soji a brilliant continuation of Data's quest to discover what it means to be human, and also Elnor was there.

Even the villains were (until their cheap endings) well developed, with Narissa and Narek in particular two of the better and more complex threats in recent Trek history.