Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 8 Review

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It’s becoming more clear with each passing episode that the biggest problem with this Star Trek program is that the writers had a grand idea for a plot and simply don’t really know what they needed to do in order to get to the end. The same could likely be said of the first season of Star Trek: Picard and the same problems that haunted that installment is giving the writer’s room fits as this year wraps up. At this point, the show is stacking on plot holes and weird character developments on top of one another in order to explain how people who didn’t need to be put into certain situations get out of them.

In fact, at times, the writers have made it so hard for themselves in Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard that they’re almost telling on themselves. At one point a character in Episode 8, titled “Mercy” seems to voice what the audience is likely thinking. He claims that it appears he’s wasted his life and that his chase didn’t have a point. The character, who could have been an interesting addition if he’d come along earlier, seemed entirely pointless. He was a time-waster. This seems odd considering there simply isn’t that much more time to waste in until the Season Finale.

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“Mercy” picks up right where the previous episode of Picard left off. The Captain and Guinan are being detained by some shadow government agency and a man who it turns out has been hunting aliens for quite some time. While they first try to play it off as some sort of sick joke, it becomes obvious that the government agent (whose name is never learned, he’s that unimportant) knows more than they would have liked about their journey to the past, though he believes it’s actually an alien