Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 7 Review

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Since Star Trek: Picard first aired, one thing has been true about the series. First in Season 1 and now in Season 2, there is a lot of ups and downs when it comes to the plotting and storytelling of this particular Star Trek spinoff. Unfortunately, Star Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 7, “Monsters” might be one of the worst episodes of the series and it’s certainly the worst episode of the season, and one of the most frustrating because of what the previous episode set up and could have led into.

It’s also frustrating because up until now, none of the episodes of Picard could be characterized as “spinning its wheels” but it’s hard to take anything from this particular episode other than something as filler because the story that is unfolding is simply not long enough to fill an entire season. How that’s possible is a question that needs to be asked because there certainly appears to be plenty of stories there to more than fill up the rest of Star Trek: Picard Season 2.

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The episode opens interestingly enough, though with the obvious intention of confusing as Picard is sitting in his “Ready Room” on the Enterprise and is talking to a Starfleet appointed psychologist. The actor who plays this nameless character is an interesting addition since it’s not other than the man who played Gaius Baltar in the reboot of Battlestar Galactica. The two are engaged in a conversation that Picard is definitely not enjoying. The two share some banter back and forth and then the doctor asks Jean Luc to tell him a story. Eventually Picard does exactly that and it turns out that it’s a fantasy story about monsters and he and his mother fleeing from them.

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