Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 3 Review

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Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 3 titled, «Assimilation» takes on the task of balancing one of the all-time best Star Trek themes in having people from the future be fish out of water in the present. However, the show is also taking on some other themes while making a few political statements in a way that only Star Trek can. What seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle a little bit is the main plot of the series so far, which is finding The Watcher and fixing both the crew's past and its present.

While Picard has done a very good job of moving the story along so far, it seems like it started to grind to a halt a bit in the third episode of the season. Part of that could simply be that there are nine episodes in which this story has to be navigated. That might mean there's going to be time to focus on the storyline in 2024, and some of the problems that the crew are already noticing about America and earth. So far, it's been a relatively light touch. However, it also feels as though that light touch might have been setting up what's going to be a much deeper dive into immigration and ICE issues. Those issues have apparently gotten a little bit worse just two years into the future.

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One of the more interesting premises in this particular version of Star Trek's blast into the past is that the assertion is that things go pretty bad for the Federation not long after our own time. The question of course, is how that's going to really work, considering the story of the Federation has always been that the human race went through a period where it was truly a collection of horrible people and then it eventually woke up and decided to form the utopia that Picard and his crew know