Three episodes in and Picard is back in the captains chair. Things start to get interesting.
Picard Episode 3 Review
What Picard has had trouble with in the first two episodes is pacing. It’s quite a slow burn and then suddenly all this information drops on our lap.
Information which for me as a Star Trek noob finds hard to process.
Thankfully episode 3 has less information dumps but the pacing still could do with some work.
Thankfully compared to the previous two episodes we do start picking up a little head of steam.
As Jean Luc investigated what happened to Dahj (Isa Briones) in the first episode we see Picard gathering a true to track down Soji.
Soji is Dahj’s twin sister. She holds the key to this entire plot.
On the hunt for Soji are Romulun Zhas Vash. Don’t worry it’s harder to spell than to understand.
All of this time on earth in the first two episodes we finally get to see Picard back in space. Where he rightly belongs.
During its slow pacing the series should have allowed for character development in the opening episodes. We never got that. In this episode we are finally getting to know secondary characters.
Characters we’re coming to know in quite some detail especially in how they’re related to Picard’s history over the years.
Such characters as Raffi (Michelle Hurd) who was his former first officer on the USS Verity. She’s not a happy bunny as she lost her career when Picard resigned. Naturally, tension is strong between the two.
Various other characters we meet such as Rios (Santiago Cabrera), Dr. Agnes Jurati (Alison Pill) and Hugh (Jonathan Del Arco) are thrown at us during this episode.
Picard Episode 3 Overall
It’s great to see Picard back in space and this episode finally gives us some depth with a quickening of the pace. It all still feels as thou its leading up to something. Something big and impactful.
We still have no idea of motivations from our Romulan hunters. I thought Soji’s character was under developed and up until this point we have no real information on where the story is going.
What the episode makes up for in character depth it forfeits story depth as a result.
Hopefully all of this secondary character build-up will come to fruition in the weeks to come.
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Review by Sean Evans
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