Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 2 Review
It seems as though Star Trek is always at its best when its main characters are as off guard as its audience when it comes to just what exactly is going on. Perhaps that's why the first two episodes of Star Trek: Picard Season 2 have been so very good so far. They have in fact, been quite a bit better than the series' premiere season. While Season 1 was supposed to be set up as kind of a heist show, it never really found its feet as it also had to introduce several characters the audience didn't know and never really got filled out in the case of a few of them.
Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 2, titled «Penance» benefits greatly from the fact that the audience knows all the players. The show also managed to fill a few of the characters out by using the old trope of «this is what they've been up to between seasons.» That has saved the series time where the showrunners didn't have to waste time «getting the band back together» in either of the first two episodes and it could jump right into the action. There's also something to be said for the way the show has jumped into the action. While Picard is taking its time getting to the part that everyone really wants to see, which is the crew going back in time, it hasn't been unnecessarily stalling or having «side quests» for no other reason than to waste time. The pacing so far has been impressive in that regard.
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While the best Star Trek plots are when the crew is trying to solve some crazy mystery, a close second for the best episodes come when Jean Luc Picard and company are starring in a «fish out of water» plotline. That's certainly the case in «Penance» when the Stargazer crew all wake up to find themselves in a series of
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