Star Trek Picard. Season 1.

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Call Number: Blu-ray TV Star Season 1
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

Title from sell sheet.
Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program in 2020.
Wide screen.
Patrick Stewart, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, Harry Treadoway, Jeri Ryan, Jonathan Del Arco.
After the destruction of the Planet Romulus, follow Picard as he tracks down a series of mysteries about his past. Picard sets out on a new adventure against a legion of dangerous foes, with the help of a few returning characters: Data, Riker, and Seven of Nine, and a whole new crew.
Blu-ray, wide screen; requires Blu-ray player.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

A different universe submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on June 15, 2022, 12:37pm For fans of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," this latest series, "Picard" will come as a surprise. It presents a future that is much more gritty, dystopian and depressing than "TNG" did. In "Picard," people can be addicted to drugs and alcohol. People smoke tobacco. People curse, and even drop F-bombs. Individuals, such as Jean-Luc Picard (played by Sir Patrick Stewart), can have incurable diseases and even die from them, as Troy and Riker's son did.
Most significantly, Federation no longer holds onto ideals about helping people, which leads Picard to quit Star Fleet and return to his family's vineyard in France. He had previously served as an ambassador to Romulus, which had just suffered a catastrophic disaster. Picard promised the Federation would help the Romulans, but the Federation did not uphold this promise. After a seeming mutiny by robots in a mining colony on Mars, the Federation has outlawed all research about and building of androids (remember that Data died at the end of the last Star Trek TNG film). The Federation felt after this incident that it could not longer help outsiders, such as the Romulans.
Suddenly, Picard receives a message that sends him on a chase across the galaxy and introduces us to plots, intergalactic politics and lawless areas where people are bought and sold. Along the way, the audience is re-introduced to such previous Star Trek characters as Data, Troy, Riker, and Seven of Nine. We also get to meet Hugh, a former Borg from TNG, who now looks thoroughly human and is helping other Borg to become individuals again.

I couldn't stick with it submitted by apknapp on August 1, 2023, 9:07am I made it through six episodes and had to pull the plug. While I loved Picard himself and quite liked his allies, the Romulans were chewing the scenery a bit too hard for my taste. The story itself was kinda flimsy (Picard gathers a ragtag crew of misfits and goes haring off across the galaxy in search of someone he doesn't know how to find and isn't even sure exists) and there were Highly Emotional Scenes (TM) inserted at regular intervals in an attempt to keep the viewer invested in the nonplot. It all added up to trying too hard with too little.